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

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 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.

Reasonable cost for this 8TB drive, and its nice and fast. Item was well packed for shipment, and delivery was quick.

Good

If you are storing your media for home theater this is beyond what you need. Excellent read/write speeds even under a semi heavy user load. I will be buying more of these

Installed on a WD PR4100 NAS. Hard drive works great and seems a tad faster than other WD red drives I own @ 5400 RPM. Tends to run 10-15 degrees warmer.

This WD Red Plus 8TB HDD (bought used-acceptable from Amazon Warehouse) is fine, although it seems to run hotter than other WD Red drives; it is within range at 100-104 (F). However, all 7 of my other WD Red Plus drives all run at about 90-100 (F). I have purchased 4 new WD Red hard drives on Amazon, and another 4 used from Amazon Warehouse. All were 12-14TB, except for one 8TB HDD. The drives all live in Synology desktop NAS boxes. No issues with the new drives. But, I will probably be returning one 14TB HDD, bc it had 5500+ hours on it. While this is within Amazon Warehouse terms, there was no need to keep it, as the other used drives had only 50, 300, & 400 hrs on them. No drives had bad sectors (although one drive had 15 failed reconnect attempts; reconnects are not good, but I kept it bc the reconnects have not occurred during my ownership). I am a happy with the WD Red drives, just make sure not to get the SMR drives, which WD is guilty as charged. The used drives from Amazon Warehouse are a really great purchase.

In read and write tests using AJA and Blackmagic this WD Red 8TB hard drive is about 10-13% slower than a Seagate Skyhawk 8 TB drive. I was disappointed in this WDs performance so I returned it. I thought all 7200 RPM drives would perform similarly but thats not the case. I dont see any advantage of this WD Red hard drive compared to Seagate Skyhawk. The price is only slightly less $10 at most.

I took the wrong direction recently and tried a 8TB Seagate Barracuda first... mistake... Lasted less than 24 hours.... Sure it was cheaper.... just goes to show.... So went back to WD Red Drives which Ive always found excellent. Bought the 8TB Red Pro and installed in a Rosewill USB enclosure with fan and temp control (bought from Amazon also). Perfect match. The WD Red Pro is a CMR. I was stunned to see that WD is now supplying Red drives (not Pro models) which are SMR. All my old Red drives are CMR so I will only buy Pro drives moving forward now I know. Red Pro drive is excellent. My NAS and Media Center are full of the CMRs and Im impressed with their performance and longevity.

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.