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

Mass Storage for Nas Server works without any issues.

So far the drives have been find. Time will tell if they are reliable for years.

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 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.

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.

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.

super fast shipping and as advertised product

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.

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 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.