Customer Ratings & Reviews

So far so good. What more is there to say, they’re hard drives. I’ll update this if they ever fail.

Great for my nas. Own multiple for a few years no issues. Got another to expand storage

Reliable and cost efficient. Have been using it for about six months in and still doing great!

It's a WD Red drive. They're great. Been working in a NAS for a few months with no problem.

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

Good drive. Nothing exceptional, decent hard drive. I have been using a hard drive for a while now and I must say that it's a decent one. Although it's not that fast, it's reliable and gets the job done. It's not an enterprise-class hard drive, but for the money, it's not a bad choice. Overall, I'm satisfied with my purchase."

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

WD Red drives work well. They last a long time and have solid performance. Years of worry free service. Easy to install.

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

This is my umpteenth purchase of a WD drive. Never had a problem with any of them. This was an upgrade for a raid drive, same brand WD Red, which I purchased almost 7-8 years ago. Those drives are still running perfectly, however, they were only 2TB. I will use the old drives until they die, however I wont keep critical files on them. Maybe use as a back up of a back up of a back up. I do tend to be a digital hoarder, and maybe putting files i dont really need on aging equipment my give me the pust to let go once the device fails :). But i do follow the 3-2-1 rule for backing up my systems. I also do a "hardware refresher" every 5-7 years, just to take advantage of the new technology and refresh the lifecycle of my hardware especially those that store my data.

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

Had to populate my 6 bay NAS. Had to order but had no issues with the process, even got 'em at a sale price. Associate was very helpful. The drives themselves all worked out of the box, a bit slow but solid and stable. Have been running them for about a month and disk doctor shows all green. Would by again especially at sale pr ice good bang for buck.

Bought this to replace a WD Enterprise drive that didn't even last 1 year. My NAS originally had WD Red drives and I got 5 years out of that drive so I went back to the WD Red after the WD Enterprise drive failing so soon. Since I was running the NAS in RAID 1 it immediately recognized the drive and started mirroring the data over to the new drive. I got 5 years out of the previous WD Red drive so I hope to get at least 5 years out of the WD Red Plus drive.

Works well right out of the box. This drive has proven to be reliable for my Apple Time Machine backups!

Does What I need to do for media storage. Could be faster but for the price its a workhorse drive.

These are robust HDDs for NAS's. I already 2x of these which I bought almost 9 years ago, and running S.M.A.R.T tools on them yields around 50% life even after so many years of 24x7 usage as a NAS. The system I used it in was a Thecus Windows Storage Server, and two drives were configured in a mirror RAID configuration. A few years ago, Microsoft stopped support for WSS2012 so I migrated to Ubuntu server (using mdadm as a RAID mirror) and used that as a NAS. Around 2-3 years ago, I migrated that server's OS to FreeBSD (using zfs as the RAIDZ mirror) as it's been the most robust. This machine is still running with the 9'ish year old 4TB WD Reds. A few months ago (Holidays 2024), I bought another server class machine and built it using 3x of these new 4TB Reds. This machine is running RAIDZ1 zfs with Ubuntu, and has ~8TB capacity with one drive used for parity. One thing is for certain - RAIDZ almost doubles the read speed with these drives, and my bottleneck is the the 1Gbps LAN. I'm saturating the LAN with file transfers and I'm sure it would be faster if I change my cabling (currently CAT5e). Time will tell, and I'm hoping that these new 4TBs last as long as my almost 9 year old ones.

These are awesome drives. Solid performance, great reliability so far (been almost 2 years with no issues on all three that I bought), and good value (if you can get them on sale). I just use them in my PC, and they're surprisingly quiet. I highly recommend doing regular backups regardless of how good a drive seems on paper. But other than that I highly recommend these drives.

It's a hard drive! I use these in an external USB drive toaster. I've had these for years, they're reliable. I wait to buy these when they're on sale.

Installed very easy. Format went without a hitch. I set two up as a Raid 1 array. Dumped my old HD 1 Tb on it and did a system repair and a OS clone for safe keeping. So far all working just fine.

As described EXCELLENT quality, easy to use ,best Quality