Customer Ratings & Reviews

Purchased this to replace a failing drive in a NAS set in a Raid array. Has been working flawlessly since I installed it. Most likely will purchase another to make them matching.

I bought two of these for an upgrade to a home server. WD has always performed well and I expect these will also.

An incredible little drive for a home NAS. Works as advertised on the box. Easy to install and configure.

Excellent Hard Drive. Works like a charm and very reliable.

I bought two of these drives for a new NAS. They were simple and easy to install, and they are behaving just as expected.

I bought two of these, one was Dead On Arrival. The first installed with no problem, I Installed the second one but got an error message that the disk was uninitialized and to first initialize it. First time I'd ever seen this error. Looked up the error information on the internet and it explained how to use the windows (Win 10 in my case) CONTROL PANEL -> ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS -> COMPUTER MANAGEMENT -> DISK MANAGEMENT menu string to get to a screen that listed all my hard drives, including the new one which came up with the status of UNINITIALIZED and a message to click on the INITIALIZE option to fix it. As soon as I clicked on INITIALIZE I received another error message -> THIS REQUEST FAILED DUE TO A FATAL DEVICE HARDWARE ERROR. Searching the web for this error message basically indicated there was no way to recover from this and it should be returned to the manufacturer. The next day I took it back to Best Buy and they took it back as defective. They didn't have any more in stock at the store but they ordered a replacement one for me and it arrived at my house in two days. This one started up as expected and has been running fine now. My thanks to BestBuy for its return policy and help in getting a rapid replacement. The 3 rating was for getting a new, out of the box, defective hard drive, not BestBuys fault, BestBuy gets a 5 for the handling of the return process.

Western Digital has always been a leader in the HDD market. And lately since they have been branding their hard drives with "colors" it makes it a bit easier to choose according to your intended usage. Ours is used in a Unifi network with a Protect (Surveillance) module on the network. Our NVR has the purple drives specialized for surveillance.

After several months of use I can say this HDD is fast and reliable with Low noise. Will buy again.

I've had a good experience buying these disks. WD was really good to replace the one faulty disk I've ever gotten and I have one 4TB WD disk that has lasted for I really don't know how many years now. I'll add to that, I use these reds in NAS setups so they get a lot of daily use. Quality products from a quality company and that's hard to find these days.

Perfect for any home server needs. Havent had any issues.

Great NAS drive. Used it with my casaOS server at home.

Setting up an new NAS, and these drives work like a champ, and the price is right for what I needed for this NAS system.

Very stable and no issues installing this in my machine

Works great. Provides piece of mind for document and picture storage.

Workhorse Drive for data storage...designed to run all the time and last...Proven performance...

I'm still a fan of WD drives. I use this for my NAS. I've never had a problem w/WD HDD/SSD drives. I hope WD keeps up the quality control.

Bought three of these 1 out of three didn’t work the other 2 work well.

Pretty good price. Easy install and got the job done.

Works perfectly, is quick yet silent. Would strongly recommend for your NAS.

Bought this as a replacment boot drive for my company's fileserver. I've always been a big fan of Western Digital and this drive did not disappoint. The trickiest part was cloning the drive from an SSD. It took two tries to get the clone right, but now it's chugging along and I expect not to have to replace this drive for years to come.