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

super fast shipping and as advertised product

Avoid this seller like the plague. They sold me a 8TB HDD in a none OEM static free bag, with the HDD label on the outside of the bag. The Serial number did not have a valid Western Digital Warranty. I have bought unknown amounts of WD HDDs through Amazon, and this is unacceptable. This worthless item was returned. Shame on you Seller!

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

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

This drive was to be an archive to move files from older hard drives to this one. This drive just failed on 9/11/2021. It performs endless spinning and clicking whenever it is powered up now.

Great hard drive. Unfortunately, upon unboxing, an overwhelming stench of cheap perfume inundated my entire living room. Amazon is using a perfumed sanitizer on ALL products shipped to my house (books, hard drives, SSDs, you name it). It gets on everything and lingers for weeks. I have chemical allergies, so Ill be returning each and every product until this inane practice stops.

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.

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 WD Red Plus 8TB HDD (bought used-acceptable from Amazon Warehouse) is fine, although it seems to run hotter than other WD Red drives; it is within range at 100-104 (F). However, all 7 of my other WD Red Plus drives all run at about 90-100 (F). I have purchased 4 new WD Red hard drives on Amazon, and another 4 used from Amazon Warehouse. All were 12-14TB, except for one 8TB HDD. The drives all live in Synology desktop NAS boxes. No issues with the new drives. But, I will probably be returning one 14TB HDD, bc it had 5500+ hours on it. While this is within Amazon Warehouse terms, there was no need to keep it, as the other used drives had only 50, 300, & 400 hrs on them. No drives had bad sectors (although one drive had 15 failed reconnect attempts; reconnects are not good, but I kept it bc the reconnects have not occurred during my ownership). I am a happy with the WD Red drives, just make sure not to get the SMR drives, which WD is guilty as charged. The used drives from Amazon Warehouse are a really great purchase.

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.