WD Red 8TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6 Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD80EFZX

I found myself in need of more space for my home media server so I decided to go big and splurged for this 8TB drive. As it turned out, I had to also buy a new external box because the one I had could only support up to 4TB. The drive works as expected, it's nice and quiet and runs relatively cool. I have not tested the speed but I can say that it's plenty fast for streaming HD video. I haven't had it long enough to comment on the long term reliability but I can say that it has been running 24/7 for the better part of a year without a hiccup. Every hard drive manufacture has made a few turds but lately Western Digital has been my go-to and this has not disappointed.

I would never buy drives from a third party (other than Amazon) due to the warranty. Since these are all individual drives for data (no RAID), 5400 RPM is adequate and keeps the power and heat lower than 7200 RPM drives. I have had no errors reported and no noise issues.

I bought two of these hard drives, a 4 tb and a 8tb one. I would like to mention, that amazon could do better on the packaging for these drives. The put air bags to stop it from moving vertically, but they didnt cover the side to side, which still means it could still be banged around. The good new is, drives when they aren't on, a shake here and there won't damage them. It would have to be a pretty damn huge impact, but even then. Anyways these drives have work perfectly. Both have not died, and its been a while. They can operate 24.7 without much heat. Needless to say I will purchase more in the future.

I had a couple of these drives for my NAS. After 2 years of working smoothly I wanted to go with these drives again. Ordered three of them however I didn't need them right away. Instead I have installed these hard disk drives into my computer and until I need more space they will be mining Burst coin for me. Which means making free money as long as the pc is on...At the current difficulty one of these drives should mine 300 Burst Coin. It makes 6 dollars worth of Burst. It may not sound much, but you would know that the whole market is down if you follow crypto coins. So 3 months ago it was making 18 USD for one month. At the current price it will pay itself in 4 years. If market was not down, roi would be 1.5 years. Or you may use these drives for one year and consider your earnings as discount. Or you just hold your coins as investment and sell at a higher price. It's up to you. I just wanted to let you know that you can make use of available free space. It's better than just sitting, let your disk work! ;)But average Joe should stay away from Seagate hard disk drives. It takes long time to prepare your drive for mining.

purchased on 4/8/2017, for qnap NAS. (today 8/28/2023). Lasted 6 years. But here is the problem. I had 1 of these drives go bad around 8-9 months ago. I shutdown my NAS completely and stopped using it. I turned my NAS on once since this shutdown (around 4 months ago) and when I tuned it on, after around 30 minutes another of these drives started to not respond. Shutdown my NAS completely again until I could afford 4 new 20TB drives. With 2 drives down I was unable to swap out these drives 1 by 1 to replace this pool (pool 2). So I replaced my pool #1 with the 20TB drives hoping I could copy from pool 2 to pool 1 all my data (mostly movies). During my disc swap on pool #1 the other 2 drives stopped working, complete fail. It's almost like an engineered failure.

Just added three of these to the NAS Media server bringing the total connected storage to 72Tb. Finally I've got enough storage capacity to put all the music, photos, movies and media without worrying about future expansion...at least for the time being. These drives are not the fastest on the planet but they are specifically designed for NAS systems. They just work and have been running PLEX without even the slightest hiccup 24/7.

Put two 8TB WD Red drives in a Symbology DS216 NAS chassis. They fit perfectly and were installed in minutes. Set it up in my bedroom so I could keep an eye on it while it backed up the many terabytes of data spread across several computers all over my 4 story house. They have been under constant load for 2 days now. That isn't long enough to know how these drives will hold up over the next few years, but the specs are good and from what I read, they seem to be widely recommended for home/semi-pro use (I have a recording studio in my house, so I'm not strictly just a "home" user). I can say that they are very quiet and seem to stay pretty cool, even after 2 days of constant write load. So far, so good. Very happy with the price, shipping and product quality.

About 18 months ago I bought 5 of the 3TB models to use in a Synology DS1515+. This volume was configured as SHR2 (similar to RAID 6 as it has a 2 disk parity). This has basically been running 24/7 since (approx. 11,500 hours uptime) and serves as data storage and backup for about 6 PC's (it's about 60% filled) and it's performed great over that time. They hardly ever cross 40°C and that's with my Synology's fan set to quietHowever there's been a steady increase of bad sectors in two drives over the past couple months in addition to frequent disconnects. They were occurring more frequently over the last couple days (they both crossed 1000 bad sectors just yesterday). Luckily I bought two 4TB Red drives recently to upgrade the NAS so I swapped them in and the Volume was able to rebuild successfully.It's disappointing that 2 out of the 5 drives I initially bought began giving trouble so soon (I plugged one of them into a HDD dock and I actually began hearing grinding noises so it's safe to assume that one's properly failing) but of course that's just luck sometimes and I won't hesitate to purchase more of these Red drives. I'd like to set up some IP cameras for surveillance soon so I hope the 6TB drops in price in a couple of months.