WD Red Plus drives are designed to handle workloads of power users and small to medium business NAS environments. WD Red Plus drives deliver the speed and capacity required to store, protect and share growing amounts of data in mid-sized RAID-optimized NAS systems with increased power efficiency.
Q: What are the dimensions of the hard drive?
A: The hard drive has a height of 1.028 inches, a width of 4 inches, and a form factor of 3.5 inches.
Q: What is the maximum read speed of the hard drive?
A: The maximum read speed of this hard drive is 215 megabytes per second.
Q: What is the rotational speed of the hard drive?
A: The rotational speed of the hard drive is 5640 revolutions per minute.
Q: Does the hard drive have a cache buffer?
A: This hard drive does have a cache buffer, and its size is 256 megabytes.
Q: What is the weight of the hard drive?
A: The product weight is 1.58 ounces.
Q: What is the storage capacity of the hard drive?
A: The storage capacity is 8000 gigabytes.
Q: What is the warranty period for the hard drive?
A: The manufacturer's warranty for both parts and labor on this hard drive is 3 years.
Q: Is this a CMR or SMR drive?
A: Red Plus are CMR, Standard Red are now SMR.

WD Red Plus drives are designed to handle workloads of power users and small to medium business NAS environments. WD Red Plus drives deliver the speed and capacity required to store, protect and share growing amounts of data in mid-sized RAID-optimized NAS systems with increased power efficiency.

WD Red Plus drives are designed to handle workloads of power users and small to medium business NAS environments. WD Red Plus drives deliver the speed and capacity required to store, protect and share growing amounts of data in mid-sized RAID-optimized NAS systems with increased power efficiency.

WD Red Plus NAS internal hard drives are designed with CMR technology for RAID-optimized NAS systems with up to eight bays. Perfect for handling increased workloads associated with small- to medium-sized business environments, including expanded OS compatibility and ZFS.

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| Storage Capacity, Noise Level, Overall Performance, Speed | There were no pros for this product— | Reliability, Storage Capacity, Price, Ease of use, NAS | Reliability, Storage Capacity, Noise Level, Price, Hard Drive |
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| There were no cons for this product— | There were no cons for this product— | Noise Level | There were no cons for this product— |
Customers praise the Red Plus 8TB NAS Internal Hard Drive for its reliability and substantial storage capacity, frequently citing consistent performance and the ability to hold large amounts of data. The drive's quiet operation is also a frequently mentioned positive attribute. There were no negative customer comments reported.
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Ordered these 8th WD Red Plus drives for my home security cameras. I upgraded my system to 16 channels from 8 channels. The 8 channel NVR had (2) 4tb WD Red Plus drives I previously purchased, for well over a year with no issues. Did a full scan on them and no bad sectors or issues running 24/7. Looking forward to the 8th drives to produce the same expectations as the 4tb drives did.
Posted by DeadHeadVT13
Good performance in raid 1 is a Synology DS220+. They are at least 15dB louder than my old 4tb wd reds that they replaced so they can no longer be in the office, which I deducted 2 stars for.
Posted by Andrew
I purchased two of these for my WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra, which I have set up to mirror across two drives with RAID. The EX2 Ultra came with 4TB disks, which I managed to break one of when I dropped the EX2 Ultra (powered on) while moving newly assembled furniture into place. I took the "good" drive, and extracted data off it on a desktop PC with a recovery tool (RecaimMe File Recovery Ultimate), and used these drives (which were twice the storage space) which were easy enough to set up and initialize in the EX2 Ultra Web Console. I copied the recovered files over the net to the cloud drive (after setting up the same shares and users I had), and for the most part, a month later things are working better than they were before. I'm now, for a change, successfully able to use the MyCloud drive with Time Machine (Mac Backups) for example, which I had a problem doing earlier. I store decades of family photos and videos (even converted videos from VHS) on the cloud drive, so having extra space makes me feel like I can more freely use it. It feels faster than it was with these drives, whether or not it is. The original drives were WD Red, and these are WD Red Plus which seemed like a step up (I gather Red Pro or something like that was the best).
Posted by RobWilkensLevittownNY