Western Digital 2TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 64 MB Cache, 3.5" -WD20EFPX

This is an excellent NAS hard drive with 8 TB of storage, specifically designed for home or small business NAS systems. Its stable performance, low noise level, and good energy efficiency make it ideal for backups, multimedia storage, or RAID configurations. Many users highlight its reliability and ample capacity for large amounts of data. Some mention that it can be a bit noisy during intense data transfers, but overall, it offers great value for money and reliable 24/7 operation.

I use this in an external hard drive caddy - one of the things that looks like a toaster an connects to the computer by USB 3. It works well and is as fast as can be expected for a drive of this specification in an extern caddy. The thing about hard drives is that your chances of getting a good one that will work well for years are huge. There is a trifling small chance you will get a dud that will fail after not much use. Happily, in this case I got a good one.

As someone who uses my NAS daily, I know how important it is to have a stable and reliable option for storage. I have been using these for years without issue. Great options for storage sizes and relatively quiet for a hard drive

When I received the item the seal on the box was cut open. The plastic package that the drive is in, inside the box, was also slit open. I did not receive a new item. When I plugged the drive in the disk did not spin up and the drive was not recognized. I have another WD Red Plus that is 8TB and my computer has no problem recognizing that drive as soon as I plug it into my drive reader. I can also hear the disk spinning in the 8TB where as in the 6TB I don't hear anything. It's a defective item that was probably returned prior and they just sent it to me claiming it was brand new. The photo is a picture of the item as soon as I pulled it out of the box before I even tried to see if it would work.

I hate to review components like these until I've had them a long time, but now is probably the time for harddrive buying in general. First of all, to those who are wondering, no the 5640 RPM is not a typo. The official specs sheet says that's what it runs at. I think this helps it find a better balance between 5400 RPM power efficiency and 7200 RPM responsiveness. It claims to run cool and it does seem to do so. One lucky surprise is that it's quiet. A lot of larger harddrives intended for NAS or other RAID systems don't really try to be that quiet. According to the spec sheet it's officially 24dBA idle, 28dBA access. That's insane. I can't measure it with digital precision, but I can say it's one of the least annoying sounding drives I have used in a long time. Even many 5400 RPM 2.5" harddrives bother my ears these days (SSDs have spoiled me!) It doesn't seem to have quite the same "whoosh" sound of the actual platters spinning that normally bothers me if a drive is at all close enough to hear. (How did I survive harddrives in the 90s??? I don't know!) This thing is almost whisper quiet and putting my ear right up to it can still make it hard to hear. I think maybe the 5640 RPM contributes to this — likely it strikes a better balance in regards to sonic properties. My best guess is vibrations don't interfere with each other as much or something to that effect. And even the "grinding" when it's accessing data is quieter than most. I went ahead and wrote this review now in part because I just really want to emphasize how much quieter this drive is compared to most. As another piece of good news, this entire series is made with CMR — that is classic magnetic recording — rather than SMR (shingled magnetic recording.) A lot of larger drives in this sort of range use SMR because it's cheaper, but it also is significantly slower on any writes bigger than the cache size — which is probably going to be any decent sized transfers at all. I also see a lot of claims that SMR drives last significantly less actual usage hours (which might make sense since they must rewrite every single block that changes for even a small write.) Right now I have more confidence in a CMR drive to hold up past the 1.5 year mark that seems to come up a lot in reviews and complaints for SMR drives. Speeds did dip down to something like 160MB/s for the final average (instead of the 215MB/s in the specs) for a huge transfer operation, but all in all this drive strikes a lot of great balances. Only time will tell on reliability, but this is a good line.

I'm a long-time Western Digital fan of their blue and black label drives, so I decided to purchase two of these drives for my new NAS to use in a RAID1 array. One drive was DOA, and would not spin up. I work in IT. It happens. Put in an RMA on the 19th of July. Paid for their two day shipping. Tracking says they received it on the 24th (this is going from East Coast USA to West Coast (California). Great. Checked back on the RMA status on the 29th and it still said "Pending Return". Reached out to support. Got a responsive reply saying that they in fact did receive it on the 24th. Awesome. 1 hour later, I received an email saying they got my return. Odd, but fine. August 2nd, I finally got an email saying my drive was shipped (no tracking information). Today is the 13th of August, and I literally just received the drive after reaching out to support for tracking. It was in fact delivered via UPS, so I'm not sure what the delay was. It's a good thing I didn't need this drive for anything super critical. I'll update if I have issues with the drives themselves.

Using a pair of these in a RAID 1 array in a direct attached storage device. Seem solid so far after a few months of use.

Upon opening the box, I ran SMART extended drive test using Linux GParted. SMART reported no errors. I then formatted with NTFS 64kB with whole-drive Bitlocker. Then I ran another extended drive test. Then 6TB of backup data was transferred to the drive and a hash manifest was generated for each directory. At this point, the drive had been operating continuously for days, sweeping the entire surface multiple times with tests, reads, and writes. No errors (yet). This will be a cold storage drive in a ruggedized USB-C enclosure, accessed only a few times per year.

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.

وصل بغلافه الخاص بعكس ما ذكر انه بدون غلاف

Ho acquistato questo hard disk per archiviare film e giochi. Certo non è veloce come un SSD, ma rispetto agli altri dischi meccanici ha 256MB di cache che lo velocizza parecchio. Il rumore è contenuto e non scalda. Western Digital è una marca seria e affidabile. Anche se l'uso consigliato è come elemento di unità RAID, quindi situazioni dove c'è una lettura/scrittura continua, io preferisco usarlo per effettuare miei backup e per parcheggiare collezioni di dischi audio, film, concerti, insomma come memorizzazione dati a lungo termine. Quello che mi ha fatto scegliere questo disco? La possibilità di avere in un'unica unità tutto quello che mi serve a un prezzo per Giga molto conveniente. Ricordatevi che UN SOLO disco non e' un backup, dovrete avere almeno DUE copie di quello che non volete assolutamente perdere (e possibilmente non nello stesso posto fisico). Ne comprerò presto un altro. PRO: GRANDISSIMO, NON C'E' (ANCORA) UN SSD COSI' GRANDE, NON E' TROPPO LENTO, E' CONVENIENTE CONTRO: NON E' UN SSD, COME DISCO PRINCIPALE CONVIENE USARE UN PIU' PICCOLO SSD

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.

Product delivered is not a working piece Kindly give the number of the customer service so that i can contact for warranty claims