Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have an OWC ThunderBay 4 RAID unit running RAID 10 (1+0), and it uses SoftRAID to manage it. I previously had 4 Toshiba 3 TB NAS/Enterprise drives installed but I needed more space. I ordered 4 of these and then used SoftRAID to verify and certify them. 2 of the 4 drives had reallocated sectors indicating the potential for premature drive failure. According to SoftRAID drives with bad sectors are 40 times more likely to fail than those without. Anyways, I took the defective drives back to Best Buy and exchanged them for new ones (which had to be reordered, obviously). Now I have 4 perfect drives that all work great, but given that it took 6 drives to get 4 good ones, doesn’t reflect very good quality control on Western Digital’s part. The other thing is that these run significantly louder than my old drives. I am honestly disappointed, and in hindsight wish I would’ve gone with another brand or option. I’ve only had these running for a couple weeks now, and everything’s finally working, so that’s good. The thing I will say is Best Buy’s customer service was excellent in handling this. Hopefully these last a while, like they are supposed to. I wouldn’t recommend buying these, but I would recommend getting something else from Best Buy as they are great and stand behind the products they sell, and will make it right if you have problems.

Warranty rated for 5 years, 7200 rpm and purpose-built for NAS with vibration reduction. Great drive.

I use it’s in my ReadyNas and it works like a charm.

This is a great price point for this drive. Especially for this capacity. Recommend!

Works as advertised and got a hard to pass it up deal at Best Buy...