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

Ive been using WD drives exclusively forever. I bought 3 of these so far to replace my 4 years old 2x6tb and 2x3tb drives in my Qnap ts-451. I needed more space. I still have to buy one more to complete the set. Ive installed these drives with no problem. They are pretty quiet and work well. My older WD drives are still functioning well. A full format and scan showed no problems with the drives. So I bought the qnap TR-004 expansion chassis to house my older drives and use them to back my more important data. Im not worried about loosing my data by using older drives. I do multiple backups on multiple drives so if one fails, i still will have my data. What are the chances that 3 drives fail at the same time?

I purchased this drive to add as a second drive to a NAS enclosure to run a RAID 1 configuration for redundancy. Setup couldnt have been easier: I opened the case, slid in the drive, and it was instantly recognized. For the price, you cant beat it. There was a time that a 200MB drive would have cost more than this. I went with this WD Red Plus drive because Ive been using them for years and theyve been extremely reliable. I have two other NAS devices using pairs of Red drives, the oldest has been running flawlessly since 2012, and the other since 2015. Reliability is important, and I have been able to trust these drives.

I took the wrong direction recently and tried a 8TB Seagate Barracuda first... mistake... Lasted less than 24 hours.... Sure it was cheaper.... just goes to show.... So went back to WD Red Drives which Ive always found excellent. Bought the 8TB Red Pro and installed in a Rosewill USB enclosure with fan and temp control (bought from Amazon also). Perfect match. The WD Red Pro is a CMR. I was stunned to see that WD is now supplying Red drives (not Pro models) which are SMR. All my old Red drives are CMR so I will only buy Pro drives moving forward now I know. Red Pro drive is excellent. My NAS and Media Center are full of the CMRs and Im impressed with their performance and longevity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.