Western Digital 8TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5 - WD80EFBX

This is my third one of these to fail in my Synology NAS. Do not buy this drive. Ive replaced it with Seagate (ST8000VNZ04/N004) and have had no issues.

I have always liked Western Digital drives. The only drives I had fail before were Seagate ones. So I bought an 8TB WDC drive to be my parity drive in my Unraid server. I am very disappointed with this drive. It is running 10 degrees hotter than the Toshiba data drives in the same enclosure and this is before I even mount and use it while the Toshiba drives are busy saving data. It continually hit high temp errors when I pre-cleared it and I know it will do the same when I actually try to use it for parity. It is also getting UDMA CRC errors. I also bought and external WDC drive and that is also running hot and hitting the high temp error so I have no faith in WDC drives anymore. Unfortunately I just missed my return period by one day so I am stuck with a drive that I dont think I can count on and generate heat that negatively impacts the heat levels of the other drives.

Needed to upgrade from my 3TB Western Digital Red (WD30EFRX) that was quite long in the tooth and getting full. Used Acronis to clone the drive and transfer roughly 3TB of data. Hottest it got during that 6 hour period was 51°C. Average normal use is 43°C so does not run hot at all despite being in the lower chamber of my Fractal Design Define C case with no direct air cooling. Completely silent even during intense writing and reading. Someone else noted screw holes not being standard but I did not find this at all on the 8TB model. Has all standard screw holes, two on each side and 6 on the bottom.

I have close to 100 hard drives. 90% are WD, the others are Seagate. The few failures have been well outside the warranty window, so I havent had the pleasure of dealing with WD on a drive that failed under warranty. Recently, I had an 8TB Red drive fail. I checked WDs site and found that the warranty had a couple months remaining. I doubled-checked a couple more times before I finally contacted WD. When I gave them the serial number, they said the warranty expired 5 months ago. What? I told them I had checked several times and got a different result. I then checked their online system again that day and it said the warranty expired 5 months ago! So, by contacting their warranty support, the expiration magically changed back several months. Unfortunately, I hadnt printed the page so I couldnt prove that it moved. When I buy a drive, I usually check the serial number with WDs warranty checker to verify that the drive is valid for sale in the USA and that the warranty is still valid. I then write the warranty expiration date on the drive itself. I do NOT register the drives with WD because their registration procedure is not pleasant. Another suggestion, if youre buying WD drives from Amazon, make sure it says Sold by and Shipped by Amazon. Dont take a chance on 3rd party sales because WD may not honor the warranty from some sellers. They may send you back to the original seller for the warranty replacement (OEM drives) or tell you that the drive was not valid for sale in the USA so there is no warranty at all in the USA. Im not slamming all 3rd party sellers on Amazon, but for HDDs (and USB thumb drives) there are just too many fly-by-night sellers out there and its just too risky. Buy WD hard drives direct from Amazon (or direct from WD). Just my $.02. Bottom line: As long as you dont ever need any support from WD and dont mind their deceptive marketing (i.e., the way they slipped SMR drives into the Red lineup), these drives run cool, are relatively quiet, are mostly reliable and are competitively priced. I usually avoid Seagate drives because my prior experience with them is they run hotter and are slightly noisier but maybe its time to re-visit Ironwolf drives since WD really doesnt care about their customers.

Great drive so far. I didnt realize this NAS Plus drive runs at 7200 rpm. It may be slightly louder than the 5400 rpm drives but if it is its not very noticeable unless youre right next to the PC. Transfer rate drive to drive and over the network is great. After transferring large files over a few hours the temperature range stayed between 90 degrees F at idle to 110 degrees F (after moving 2TB of video). Im using this drive in a standard HTPC enclosure without any extra cooling fans with an intel 775 motherboard, quad core CPU running Linux. More details for nerds: I was planning on setting this up in a separate NAS box but decided instead to just add this drive to the HTPC and set up a shared network folder on it. Works great. If you are looking for NAS storage plus an HTPC, I would suggest that you only one device, the HTPC. Boot it from a small SSD with a second large NAS hard drive configured in the fstab file with a mount point in a network share folder. Linux allows you to set a mount point for any size partition as a virtual file system within a shared folder on the boot drive. Note that the partition will only auto mount when specified in the fstab file and it would only be shareable if mounted in a folder on the boot drive due to OS file security.

Mass Storage for Nas Server works without any issues.

Ive been using WD drives exclusively forever. I bought 3 of these so far to replace my 4 years old 2x6tb and 2x3tb drives in my Qnap ts-451. I needed more space. I still have to buy one more to complete the set. Ive installed these drives with no problem. They are pretty quiet and work well. My older WD drives are still functioning well. A full format and scan showed no problems with the drives. So I bought the qnap TR-004 expansion chassis to house my older drives and use them to back my more important data. Im not worried about loosing my data by using older drives. I do multiple backups on multiple drives so if one fails, i still will have my data. What are the chances that 3 drives fail at the same time?

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I purchased this drive as a replacement drive on a Western Digital My Cloud NAS, so keeping it in the same manufacturer ecosystem, not that it should matter. The original drive were shucked drives that WD denied warranty, on even though it was purchased within the 2-year warranty.... Shame on me for not taking the hint. After installing the drive, immediately I noticed it ran a little hotter than the other 3 (older) drives. No big deal, its a different build and this drive is tailored for NAS usage, right? Well, unfortunately it only took around 5 months before the there were reported errors. Drive failures happen, and I figured this would quickly be sorted out with an RMA since (retail drive, well within warranty, supported ecosystem.) First, I was disturbed to find that Western Digital charges $25 for advance replacement RMA service, plus the cost of the shipping label on top of it. Begrudgingly, I ponied up for the cost because it kept the RAID volume together until I would have a replacement to rebuild the volume. After waiting over a week without any confirmation from WD, I logged in and say the RMA was pending return. Their support system is totally overwhelmed, and I was never able to get anyone on the phone. After waiting a long while on a support chat, I was told that I should be more patient and the warehouse was unable to ship out any advance replacement drives the past week(?!) On that support chat, I was also required to take screenshots of the failing drive, at which point I noticed a second drive reporting bad sectors; the age of which is about 4.5 years. Enough fooling around. I drove myself to the local shop, paid a premium for replacement drives to have in hand same-day, and get the RAID volume secured. After doing so, I called in to cancel the advance replacement (which they STILL havent managed to refund) and mail this drive in for standard RMA; I guess to keep around as a spare the next time? I have very little faith that something wont go wrong with the standard RMA, or that it will be quick or efficient. I see the writing on the wall with Western Digital support, and its not good!

super fast shipping and as advertised product