Western Digital 8TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5 - WD80EFBX

Good

Reasonable cost for this 8TB drive, and its nice and fast. Item was well packed for shipment, and delivery was quick.

I upgraded my QNAP drive by swapping out older 3tb drives with new 8tb nas drives. Its been a month since and no issues so far. Cant comment on performance as the throughput of the drive is often constrained by the net speeds. Have to see how long they stay-on.

WD Red HDD are great, this was not an issue with the product itself, but packaging and shipping ! This HDD drive was sent just in the shielding envelope and an Amazon bag. It had obvious signs of impact on all the corners including holes in the shielding envelope. I did not even open to install: everyone with IT background knows you do not throw HDDs around, it needed the original box with end padding and bubble wrap ! I ordered a replacement.

In read and write tests using AJA and Blackmagic this WD Red 8TB hard drive is about 10-13% slower than a Seagate Skyhawk 8 TB drive. I was disappointed in this WDs performance so I returned it. I thought all 7200 RPM drives would perform similarly but thats not the case. I dont see any advantage of this WD Red hard drive compared to Seagate Skyhawk. The price is only slightly less $10 at most.

Have an older model (WD80EFZX) of the same capacity for more than 3 years of almost 24/7 use. No problems. Purchased this to add extra storage space. Packaging is excellent. Did a surface error scan after installation to check for bad sectors and if the drive is faulty (took about 12-16 hours which is normal for this size) and so far been working fine. Will update again if there are problems with this.

Installed on a WD PR4100 NAS. Hard drive works great and seems a tad faster than other WD red drives I own @ 5400 RPM. Tends to run 10-15 degrees warmer.

Arrived on time, exactly what I needed. WIll buy from this company again.

The product is of high quality, the delivery is fast, the packaging is good, I managed to buy it for $ 218, now it is on sale for $ 250, which, in my opinion, is too expensive.

This is my third one of these to fail in my Synology NAS. Do not buy this drive. Ive replaced it with Seagate (ST8000VNZ04/N004) and have had no issues.