Western Digital 6TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" -WD60EFPX

I hate to review components like these until I've had them a long time, but now is probably the time for harddrive buying in general. First of all, to those who are wondering, no the 5640 RPM is not a typo. The official specs sheet says that's what it runs at. I think this helps it find a better balance between 5400 RPM power efficiency and 7200 RPM responsiveness. It claims to run cool and it does seem to do so. One lucky surprise is that it's quiet. A lot of larger harddrives intended for NAS or other RAID systems don't really try to be that quiet. According to the spec sheet it's officially 24dBA idle, 28dBA access. That's insane. I can't measure it with digital precision, but I can say it's one of the least annoying sounding drives I have used in a long time. Even many 5400 RPM 2.5" harddrives bother my ears these days (SSDs have spoiled me!) It doesn't seem to have quite the same "whoosh" sound of the actual platters spinning that normally bothers me if a drive is at all close enough to hear. (How did I survive harddrives in the 90s??? I don't know!) This thing is almost whisper quiet and putting my ear right up to it can still make it hard to hear. I think maybe the 5640 RPM contributes to this — likely it strikes a better balance in regards to sonic properties. My best guess is vibrations don't interfere with each other as much or something to that effect. And even the "grinding" when it's accessing data is quieter than most. I went ahead and wrote this review now in part because I just really want to emphasize how much quieter this drive is compared to most. As another piece of good news, this entire series is made with CMR — that is classic magnetic recording — rather than SMR (shingled magnetic recording.) A lot of larger drives in this sort of range use SMR because it's cheaper, but it also is significantly slower on any writes bigger than the cache size — which is probably going to be any decent sized transfers at all. I also see a lot of claims that SMR drives last significantly less actual usage hours (which might make sense since they must rewrite every single block that changes for even a small write.) Right now I have more confidence in a CMR drive to hold up past the 1.5 year mark that seems to come up a lot in reviews and complaints for SMR drives. Speeds did dip down to something like 160MB/s for the final average (instead of the 215MB/s in the specs) for a huge transfer operation, but all in all this drive strikes a lot of great balances. Only time will tell on reliability, but this is a good line.

Solid, reliable hard drives for a NAS or PC, easy installation just plug it in, format and use!

Drives arrived earlier than first indicated at checkout which was great. Testing on arrival showed that the drives had excellent health. Very happy with this purchase.

It was disappointing for a big fan of WD Black drives for enterprise applications and WD Red for NAS applications to discover a redesigned WD Red with a unpardonably flimsy SATA data connector. The thin strip of plastic that supports the seven gold plated SATA contacts on the drive simply broke off inside the SATA cable connector. This was on a *brand new* 10 TB WD Red drive (Model WD101EFBXSP) drive. Unfortunately this was a few hours before the client needed the 4x10TB FreeNAS server I was building. I had no choice but to scalp a SATA cable's connector and solder the cable pins directly to the exposed pins on the drive and then support this whole kludge by casting a fiberglass & epoxy strain relief to keep the data cable from snapping off. It's not pretty, but it works -- until someone unaware of the kludge tries to maintain the machine... Clearly, Western Digital has a good argument that my emergency repair voids any warranty. In fact, Western Digital also could argue I'd been hamfisted when installing the SATA cable. What bugs me is that I've been building up at least one multi-drive NAS or Windows system per week for years. Nothing like this ever happened before -- AND-- it falls on the heels of Western Digital adopting the new SNIA SFF-8301 physical standards for 3.5" hard drives (see "\specifications" at the eponymous SNIA organization site for details). You may have noticed that 3.5" to 5.25" drive mounting adapters don't fit the current Western Digital Red 3.5" drives -- that's a consequence of the new SNIA standard that replaces the three tapped mounting holes (0", 1.75" & 3.0") on each side of the drive with only two 6-32 tapped mounting holes spaced four inches apart. I can't help but wonder if a byproduct of this mechanical redesign is also a less robust plastic component that integrates the SATA & power connectors. Sadly, it seems prudent to avoid the Western Digital Red 3.5" drives regardless of the deservedly fine reputation of earlier designs.

I bought two of these to install in my DAS enclosure. One worked great and the other was DOA. I've bought 3 Blacks, 1 Purple in the past and now these 2 Reds and of the 6 total only 1 was DOA. Amazon's return is the best and having a Whole Foods near by makes it is easy to send things back. I wanted a DAS to save important files and needed two drives to mirror everything. I always go with Western Digital when it comes to mechanical drives and they work great if not DOA. They sit silent in my DAS until I accesses a file on them and I can hear them spin up. I have used this brand for many years and I am confident they will last a long time.

I'm a long-time Western Digital fan of their blue and black label drives, so I decided to purchase two of these drives for my new NAS to use in a RAID1 array. One drive was DOA, and would not spin up. I work in IT. It happens. Put in an RMA on the 19th of July. Paid for their two day shipping. Tracking says they received it on the 24th (this is going from East Coast USA to West Coast (California). Great. Checked back on the RMA status on the 29th and it still said "Pending Return". Reached out to support. Got a responsive reply saying that they in fact did receive it on the 24th. Awesome. 1 hour later, I received an email saying they got my return. Odd, but fine. August 2nd, I finally got an email saying my drive was shipped (no tracking information). Today is the 13th of August, and I literally just received the drive after reaching out to support for tracking. It was in fact delivered via UPS, so I'm not sure what the delay was. It's a good thing I didn't need this drive for anything super critical. I'll update if I have issues with the drives themselves.

I had an old (2011) 2 TB HDD in a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and wanted to upgrade it. I did so using a new NAS with several 2 TB NvME chips (SSDs). I was very pleased with this until I read that HDDs are superior to SSDs for long-term storage. HDDs write magnetic impressions to discs while SSDs store small electrical charges to record data. Those charges can fade and even disappear over time, though regularly running current through them helps with their longevity. So I bought this 8 TB HDD as a backup to my new NAS. Of course I will not have a real read on the longevity of the files on it for years but I am sleeping more soundly with my old files stored both ways.

Delivered in original packaging and working good in a raid 1. Best in this price.

I bought a pair of 10 TB drives and have used them in my NAS for more than 3 years now. Touch wood it is been a great experience.

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Ho acquistato questo hard disk per archiviare film e giochi. Certo non è veloce come un SSD, ma rispetto agli altri dischi meccanici ha 256MB di cache che lo velocizza parecchio. Il rumore è contenuto e non scalda. Western Digital è una marca seria e affidabile. Anche se l'uso consigliato è come elemento di unità RAID, quindi situazioni dove c'è una lettura/scrittura continua, io preferisco usarlo per effettuare miei backup e per parcheggiare collezioni di dischi audio, film, concerti, insomma come memorizzazione dati a lungo termine. Quello che mi ha fatto scegliere questo disco? La possibilità di avere in un'unica unità tutto quello che mi serve a un prezzo per Giga molto conveniente. Ricordatevi che UN SOLO disco non e' un backup, dovrete avere almeno DUE copie di quello che non volete assolutamente perdere (e possibilmente non nello stesso posto fisico). Ne comprerò presto un altro. PRO: GRANDISSIMO, NON C'E' (ANCORA) UN SSD COSI' GRANDE, NON E' TROPPO LENTO, E' CONVENIENTE CONTRO: NON E' UN SSD, COME DISCO PRINCIPALE CONVIENE USARE UN PIU' PICCOLO SSD

Like most PC gamers I made the swap to SSD/NVME some years back, and considered HDDs to be an obsolete technology. It was only when I decided to digitise my media library that I needed to go beyond the 4tb in flash I had installed. I spent a very long time looking at the 20-24tb drives such as the Exos/WD Gold/Toshiba 11 ranges but was put off by reports of noise. I remember the constant chatter of the drives of yore with some weariness so I researched the most quiet option instead. That led me here. The WD Red Plus (NOT the Red Pro,) specifically the 12tb model, is the perfect sound sweet spot. At 12tb WD fills the drives with helium instead of air and it has less spinning drive platters inside. The 14tb model is only marginally louder but is more expensive for if you want to double up in the future. I mounted in directly in my PC on a rubber mounted bracket and it is SILENT. When I say silent I really mean it. The PC is liquid cooled so it is whisper quiet. I can hear the TINIEST chatter (nothing like the 20/40gb models of the previous century) if I press my ear against the PC case during huge transfers, but I didn't even bother to setup a spin-down timer once I realised how silent it is. The speed? Almost irrelevant. This is for long term media storage, so the slow write times annoy you rarely, and the read times are instant for media files and laugh at even UHD bitrates with no lag. My main drives are Samsung 9100 NVMEs running PCI5 (fastest commercial drives on the market at time of review) and the WD Red hangs with them with no shame. The stats say they are less than 10% the speed of the NVMEs, but who's buying this as a boot drive? It's either going in a NAS or as a cold storage (long term, infrequent access) drive to compliment a faster boot drive. I almost knocked a star off because it is not the best value, but being as niche as it is (most people aren't buying spinning rust anymore) I can forgive that.

Product delivered is not a working piece Kindly give the number of the customer service so that i can contact for warranty claims