Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars with 179 reviews
4.7- Reliability (54)
- Storage (22)
- Noise Level (17)
- Price (16)
- Ease of use (12)
- Heat (4)
- Warranty (3)
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- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Drive!
I have multiple WD Red drives and they have been very reliable. I am very satisfied with performance.
Posted by moneV
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great for NAS
I got a new synology ds220+ and put both of these in for shr-1 raid. Works like a charm.
Posted by Starlord
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Best Buy is not called "Best Buy" for nothing!
Excellent price for excellent HD's. These hard drives are great and I replaced 2 TB hard drives with them in a RAID and quadrupled my capacity. I purchased 8 in total. These things just run and run and run!
Posted by PhilS
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
So Good, So Far!
I've had it for some time, and I haven't had any issues. Funny story - I actually bought this one because I was having a file corruption problem with my other one. I sent my first one to Western Digital to have it serviced, and it took so long that I did some research and found out that they sometimes can take up to a month. So, I decided to buy a new drive. Ironically, it turned out that the first drive was fine, the noises I heard are normal for the WD Red drives, and the file corruption was caused by a software bug.
Posted by Faber
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
20/20 24/7, 3 yrs. commercial use, 0 failures! :-)
I bought 20 of these almost 3 years ago for 2 different Linux-based NAS builds. (Ubuntu RAID 6 and TrueNas RAID-Z3) They're in my business running 24/7 so that is a testament to the quality of these drives. The last batch of drives that failed in 2020 were Seagate, and the WD Reds from back then never even failed. I changed them out before they reached 5 years, as I always do on good drives rather than take the risk. Hopefully the next batch I buy are as reliable.
Posted by WalkingTalkingBaby