Western Digital 4TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" -WD40EFPX

The drive is not working, and I am unable to initialize the disk. I bought two 4TB WD Red Plus NAS Hard Drives, neither of which is working. I bought them from Amazon UAE, and they came from Amazon UK. I cannot contact the seller!

Noise comes out of the desk. This is very risky to loose the full data

Good

I have always used the WD Red drives in my servers and NAS units since they brought them out...this is going all the way back to the WHS 2011. They are good drives, economically priced and last for ever in the right conditions. I recently migrated over from a WHS box to a WD server, and these were the natural choice for it. They were recognized immediately and set up quickly in the WD server. As I monitor the health, there have been no critical issues for the drives in the 7 months they've been in the WD server. I recently added two more 4TB drives in the Raid 1 function, which now gives me 8TB of secure and stable storage. This matches the level of performance that my original 4- 1TB Red drives I had in my WHS 2011 server, which to this day, is still showing as healthy in the pooled drive array as reported in the SMART monitoring.

Arrive well and fast. Performance wise is also is typically of WD quality.

Was soll ich sagen, ist ins NAS eingebaut und läuft.

I have been purchasing HDDs for many decades now and I am sticking to the Western Digital brand because I trust WD to reliably store my data (all personal, including many TB of family video). Some HDDs are on 24/7 with constant access and can get hot, especially when the ambient temperature is high during summer, and I choose WD Red for these more demanding uses. As a personal user, I carefully pick the size and style (e.g. Green Blue Black Red, Red Plus, Red Pro) to give the best price per TB and performance for intended usage. I am paranoid about preserving data and have a rigorous strategy of redundant usage and multiple backups which I have had to prove on occasions due to human error. I do not expect HDDs, from any brand, to last forever though some are still going strong after 20 years with no hint of degradation. In my experience, a few % of HDDs start to show signs of problems after 5 years, and I constantly monitor the raw read error count. These WD HDDs keep going reliably with 100% data integrity for years after the first signs of problems, allowing me time to choose how to retire/replace. I have never had a WD HDD fail catastrophically, it is always a graceful degradation, hence why I trust WD to look after my data.