Customer Ratings & Reviews

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."

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.

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.

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

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

The WD Red Plus 4TB drive has been rock-solid in my setup. It runs quietly, stays cool under load, and performs exactly the way a NAS-class drive should. Read/write speeds are consistent, and it handles continuous operation without any issues. For storage, backups, or a RAID array, it’s proven to be dependable and responsive. Overall, a great value for anyone needing a reliable 4TB HDD that just works.

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.

I use these as a RAID10 DAS. They work great for a PC backup. The peace of mind is well worth the cost. Best Buy also matched a price of a competitor as advertised. This is why I buy these things from Best Buy.

These 4tb WD Red Plus NAS drives are a solid option for a budget friendly beginner NAS. This purchase makes four total in my current UnRAID NAS system, and they've been running flawlessly thus far.

As described EXCELLENT quality, easy to use ,best Quality

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.

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.

Replacement drive for my Synology NAS. I swapped out a 3TB WD RED drive that failed(was installed in 2016) so I hope to get the same performance if not better on this!

I've been running these drives for the past 2 years no issues there not the fastest but there very reliable

Instructions were easy to follow. It also comes with software to copy my older hard drive.

I have ordered nearly 100 of these drives over the last 5 years and they are always reliable and offer great performance in the NAS systems we put them in.

Purchased as a backup for a small simple 1-person NAS. * arrived promptly in good condition * is not a system bottleneck * works fine so far I didn't really check the performance, and cannot say anything about reliability yet.

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.

I have had good luck with these drive. They last well beyond their expected lifetime, really reliable and dependable. I am using 4 of these in a 4 drive redundant cluster and they hold up really well.

Reliable storage for media collections not reliant on high access speed, Movie, Pictures, music, etc,