Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

The drive is fairly quiet and I haven't noticed them running hot in my Synology NAS. I had no problems about them being recognized and formatted either. I bought the larger size because it guaranteed that it would be CMR rather than SMR.

I am using the WD Red Plus 8TB NAS Internal Hard Drive in my home lab, and I’m genuinely impressed with its performance. The drive delivers consistent reliability and speed, making it an excellent choice for home lab setups and NAS environments. While operating, it is mostly silent, with only occasional mild sounds, which are not disruptive. Overall, it strikes a great balance between performance, capacity, and noise levels. Highly recommended for anyone looking to build or expand a home lab or NAS system.

The WD Red Plus 8TB NAS Internal Hard Drive is a top choice for network-attached storage, delivering reliable performance and significant storage capacity ideal for small to medium-sized businesses. Its 5400 RPM speed ensures smooth data access, and its compatibility with a variety of NAS systems offers versatile use. The drive's enhanced durability and error recovery controls also make it a dependable option for continuous operation in RAID environments.

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).

I am loving the generous storage I have now for use with my Synology NAS 224+. It functions well and doesn't make too much noise. Delivery was fast and well-packed too. I received it after a day of snowy weather. Recommended brand and recommended retailer - Best Buy

Have found WD Red to be more reliable than most other brands in 24/7 server environments. The larger ones tend to be Hitachi’s helium-filled types and I usually opt for more smaller ones instead of fewer larger capacity drives so that rebuild times aren’t terribly long.

Bought a pair of these for my 2 bay NAS. They're in RAID 1 and havent had any problems. Stuffed to the max with skin flix, movies, music ,and tv shows to watch on the fly with plex.

The 8tb was on sale at a very competitive price so I bought 4 for a NAS that I hadn’t yet put into service. They are reasonably quiet but definitely not silent. The proof is whether they last 3 to 5 years with no issues.

I've always had good experience with WD hard drives. This is my first 8 TB drive. The real review will be many years from today since longevity and reliability are really what I'm looking for. This rating is for initial impressions. I've already filled the drive more than 50% full and now it'll go off-site for long term backup.

These works great, they are replacing two older red SMR drives that were starting to fail in a MyCloud NAS. The extra capacity is plus too. These are CMR drives.

Better than the 2TB I replaced it with for speeds. Great to have this much room for storage. This is for the 256mb cache version.

It's still great I own one already for my nas and was expanding the capacity.

Quiet and works as intended. I installed it into my diy nas and had no issues getting it to work with my existing drives.

Just works. Using it for home NAS. This is a great product and well built.

This was purchased to replace a failed WD drive in my NAS. Hopefully this one last longer than a year. WD is replacing the failed drive under warranty so I will have a shelf spare now.

Zero setup or installation issues in a WD 2-bay NAS

Wd drives last. only type of spinny drive ill buy.

Western Digital Drives are the best around! They have a longer life span than other brands of the same type.

This hard drive was a replacement for one in my NAS that died after 8 years (also a western digital). The transition between drives and the rebuild of my raid went very smoothly. The drive is running cool.