Western Digital 6TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5640 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 128 MB Cache, 3.5" -WD60EFZX

I bought a pair of 10 TB drives and have used them in my NAS for more than 3 years now. Touch wood it is been a great experience.

It is a hard drive. It stores data. I use it in a NAS and it writes as fast as I can send data to it. Not really much can be said about it except it does as advertised.

I received the item and installed it into my nas and from the start the drive was making a loud noise as if the disk is rubbing while spinning. Just ordered a replacement. Will update once received. Update: Item received and is working much better than the previous model. Will be changing my rating to 4 stars for the refund and replacement.

On setting up it has 9.1TB. That’s a loss of 900GB right from the start , which isn’t a small size , by any measure for the price that I paid for a 10TB drive.

Out of 2 Qty's of 4tb Purchased. One is damaged.

I bought it because I trusted the brand & amazon as a seller, but it didn't work, Hard drive arrived dead, package was not the same as the original. When connected to WD NAS and PC had severe vibration and knocking.

I ordered 2 HDD first is not detected and second is making too much noise and after scanning its show a lots of bad sector.

Good to have it

Like most PC gamers I made the swap to SSD/NVME some years back, and considered HDDs to be an obsolete technology. It was only when I decided to digitise my media library that I needed to go beyond the 4tb in flash I had installed. I spent a very long time looking at the 20-24tb drives such as the Exos/WD Gold/Toshiba 11 ranges but was put off by reports of noise. I remember the constant chatter of the drives of yore with some weariness so I researched the most quiet option instead. That led me here. The WD Red Plus (NOT the Red Pro,) specifically the 12tb model, is the perfect sound sweet spot. At 12tb WD fills the drives with helium instead of air and it has less spinning drive platters inside. The 14tb model is only marginally louder but is more expensive for if you want to double up in the future. I mounted in directly in my PC on a rubber mounted bracket and it is SILENT. When I say silent I really mean it. The PC is liquid cooled so it is whisper quiet. I can hear the TINIEST chatter (nothing like the 20/40gb models of the previous century) if I press my ear against the PC case during huge transfers, but I didn't even bother to setup a spin-down timer once I realised how silent it is. The speed? Almost irrelevant. This is for long term media storage, so the slow write times annoy you rarely, and the read times are instant for media files and laugh at even UHD bitrates with no lag. My main drives are Samsung 9100 NVMEs running PCI5 (fastest commercial drives on the market at time of review) and the WD Red hangs with them with no shame. The stats say they are less than 10% the speed of the NVMEs, but who's buying this as a boot drive? It's either going in a NAS or as a cold storage (long term, infrequent access) drive to compliment a faster boot drive. I almost knocked a star off because it is not the best value, but being as niche as it is (most people aren't buying spinning rust anymore) I can forgive that.

This one has just replaced an old one which has been used constantly in my home media server since 2017. Nothing more than a confirmation of longevity of the old unit. I would expect the same from this one.

Je possède 14 wd red, de 3TB à 6TB. Depuis 2015, zéro panne. C'est un sans faute. Mais c'est un succès relatif peut-être pour vous, en fonction de votre utilisation par ex dans un NAS qui tourne 24/24. Mon utilisation est la suivante, je stock mes films dans les wd red pour les visionner sur ma Dune Solo 4K, donc ils n'ont pas un nombre d'heures de vol élevé.

Compared to the WD blues, the reds are quiet and faster. The blues make "grinding" noise when reading and writing data, which the reds don't. Had it for about 4 months now, so far, no issues. Keep in mind, reds are hotter than regular blues. They spin faster. My WD blues run at around 32c to 34c, while the red run at 36c to 41c. It's not a problem since those drives can go up to 55c within safe range. But thought I'd mention it. As long as the device you're putting them in have a fan, you'll be more than fine.

I have been using WD Red for quite some time now. They are a bit pricey but so far not faced any issue. Earlier I had used 4 TB drives only. This is the first time I am trying 10 TB for my NAS. Nothing to complain so far. I feel that it’s money well spent.