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

Needed to upgrade from my 3TB Western Digital Red (WD30EFRX) that was quite long in the tooth and getting full. Used Acronis to clone the drive and transfer roughly 3TB of data. Hottest it got during that 6 hour period was 51°C. Average normal use is 43°C so does not run hot at all despite being in the lower chamber of my Fractal Design Define C case with no direct air cooling. Completely silent even during intense writing and reading. Someone else noted screw holes not being standard but I did not find this at all on the 8TB model. Has all standard screw holes, two on each side and 6 on the bottom.

super fast shipping and as advertised product

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.

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

Good

If you are storing your media for home theater this is beyond what you need. Excellent read/write speeds even under a semi heavy user load. I will be buying more of these

I have close to 100 hard drives. 90% are WD, the others are Seagate. The few failures have been well outside the warranty window, so I havent had the pleasure of dealing with WD on a drive that failed under warranty. Recently, I had an 8TB Red drive fail. I checked WDs site and found that the warranty had a couple months remaining. I doubled-checked a couple more times before I finally contacted WD. When I gave them the serial number, they said the warranty expired 5 months ago. What? I told them I had checked several times and got a different result. I then checked their online system again that day and it said the warranty expired 5 months ago! So, by contacting their warranty support, the expiration magically changed back several months. Unfortunately, I hadnt printed the page so I couldnt prove that it moved. When I buy a drive, I usually check the serial number with WDs warranty checker to verify that the drive is valid for sale in the USA and that the warranty is still valid. I then write the warranty expiration date on the drive itself. I do NOT register the drives with WD because their registration procedure is not pleasant. Another suggestion, if youre buying WD drives from Amazon, make sure it says Sold by and Shipped by Amazon. Dont take a chance on 3rd party sales because WD may not honor the warranty from some sellers. They may send you back to the original seller for the warranty replacement (OEM drives) or tell you that the drive was not valid for sale in the USA so there is no warranty at all in the USA. Im not slamming all 3rd party sellers on Amazon, but for HDDs (and USB thumb drives) there are just too many fly-by-night sellers out there and its just too risky. Buy WD hard drives direct from Amazon (or direct from WD). Just my $.02. Bottom line: As long as you dont ever need any support from WD and dont mind their deceptive marketing (i.e., the way they slipped SMR drives into the Red lineup), these drives run cool, are relatively quiet, are mostly reliable and are competitively priced. I usually avoid Seagate drives because my prior experience with them is they run hotter and are slightly noisier but maybe its time to re-visit Ironwolf drives since WD really doesnt care about their customers.

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.

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.

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