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

I have always liked Western Digital drives. The only drives I had fail before were Seagate ones. So I bought an 8TB WDC drive to be my parity drive in my Unraid server. I am very disappointed with this drive. It is running 10 degrees hotter than the Toshiba data drives in the same enclosure and this is before I even mount and use it while the Toshiba drives are busy saving data. It continually hit high temp errors when I pre-cleared it and I know it will do the same when I actually try to use it for parity. It is also getting UDMA CRC errors. I also bought and external WDC drive and that is also running hot and hitting the high temp error so I have no faith in WDC drives anymore. Unfortunately I just missed my return period by one day so I am stuck with a drive that I dont think I can count on and generate heat that negatively impacts the heat levels of the other drives.

Great drive so far. I didnt realize this NAS Plus drive runs at 7200 rpm. It may be slightly louder than the 5400 rpm drives but if it is its not very noticeable unless youre right next to the PC. Transfer rate drive to drive and over the network is great. After transferring large files over a few hours the temperature range stayed between 90 degrees F at idle to 110 degrees F (after moving 2TB of video). Im using this drive in a standard HTPC enclosure without any extra cooling fans with an intel 775 motherboard, quad core CPU running Linux. More details for nerds: I was planning on setting this up in a separate NAS box but decided instead to just add this drive to the HTPC and set up a shared network folder on it. Works great. If you are looking for NAS storage plus an HTPC, I would suggest that you only one device, the HTPC. Boot it from a small SSD with a second large NAS hard drive configured in the fstab file with a mount point in a network share folder. Linux allows you to set a mount point for any size partition as a virtual file system within a shared folder on the boot drive. Note that the partition will only auto mount when specified in the fstab file and it would only be shareable if mounted in a folder on the boot drive due to OS file security.

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

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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.

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.