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

Have an older model (WD80EFZX) of the same capacity for more than 3 years of almost 24/7 use. No problems. Purchased this to add extra storage space. Packaging is excellent. Did a surface error scan after installation to check for bad sectors and if the drive is faulty (took about 12-16 hours which is normal for this size) and so far been working fine. Will update again if there are problems with this.

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!

Great hard drive. Unfortunately, upon unboxing, an overwhelming stench of cheap perfume inundated my entire living room. Amazon is using a perfumed sanitizer on ALL products shipped to my house (books, hard drives, SSDs, you name it). It gets on everything and lingers for weeks. I have chemical allergies, so Ill be returning each and every product until this inane practice stops.

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.

Avoid this seller like the plague. They sold me a 8TB HDD in a none OEM static free bag, with the HDD label on the outside of the bag. The Serial number did not have a valid Western Digital Warranty. I have bought unknown amounts of WD HDDs through Amazon, and this is unacceptable. This worthless item was returned. Shame on you Seller!

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.