Western Digital 16TB WD Red Pro NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5 - WD161KFGX

Ordered four of the 18tb drives. Two arrived in opened retaped Newegg boxes with the drives loosely in the boxes and two arrived in what appears to be from WD. See pic…. Hope the two from Newegg don’t have problems in the future from be banged around…. I know there was just an issue with Newegg reselling returned/defective merchandise. These look as if they qualify……

I bought two of WD Red PRO 18TB in October when they were on sale to replace the current disks in my Home Backup NAS. I bought 2 because I need two identical drives for the NAS. Disk 1 arrived a few days later and disk 2 arrived a few days later. And now the problems begun: Disk 2 which was sent to me wasnt an 18TB drive, it was only 6TB! A harmless mistake? Fraud? Who knows... Very annoying anyways... Now I tried to get disk 2 exchanged, but Amazon could only offer a refund, because the drives were out of stock with unknown restock date. Too bad because I didnt want a refund, since I got the drives for a good price and now they were more than 25% more expensive... So I had to wait about 3 weeks for the disk to be back in stock and be able to have it exchanged instead of just getting a refund. Today the exchanged drive finally arrived. This time it was as ordered 18TB. I installed both drives in my NAS. One drive was GOOD the other was recognized as BAD during the drive self test. The temperature reading was off and caused a S.M.A.R.T error. In fact there was no temperature reading at all for 1 drive. So I let the drive warm up for a few hours and tried it again. Same thing. SMART could no be read and there was no temperature shown for 1 of the 2 drives. I took both drives out of the NAS and tried to see whats going on by installing them in a Windows PC. One drive is fine. SMART is OK. No errors. The other drives just makes a weird repetitive noise and doesnt spin up. Its not recognized by windows. Its DOA (Dead On Arrival)! I checked which drive it was and it was the 2nd drive. The one I received as replacement today! So after the long wait and the whole odyssey of exchanging the drive the drive arrived DOA. Was it bad luck? Maybe. Do I trust these drives? No, not anymore. Never had a drive DOA. This was by far my worst experience buying Western Digital drives on Amazon! And I have quite a lot of them (in total probably about 16 different WD Elements and MyBooks). Since these 2 drives were supposed to be used in a NAS which should hold the backups of my personal and work PCs I thought Id buy the more expensive real WD Red Pro drives, which are designed for 24/7 operation, but what did I get? Just a way too long frustrating experience overall. Maybe I was just unlucky in this case, but I never had a problem with a shucked drive. So back to shucking external drives... I CANNOT recommend the WD Red Pro 18TB drives at this point. PS: the HDD came in the original Western Digital box which then was packed in one of the thin Amazon air bubble envelopes. Maybe its an issue that the drives arent shipped better protected? Not sure. The delivery driver dropped it off quite carefully, though. No idea what happened to the drive in between...

The performance of the drive is great -- fast, efficient and no delays. The read/write operations are very noisy. Youll want your NAS in another room or it will drive you crazy. Also, the drive does a heartbeat head noise every few seconds ALL DAY LONG. With the noise of the drive, this will also drive you crazy. I tried another brand (T*****a) and they are nice and quiet with no heartbeat.

I bought it for my NAS. Great service, easy to install and works well!

Recently an old raid system failed me and one drive went with it. Decided to replace it all with these new variant Red Pros in 4TB model. I received drives all dated late January 2023.. it is only March so they are minty fresh. My previous 4TB red drives from 2014 would write at around 145MB/s. These new pro versions write at around 245-250MB/s (larger video files). Massive improvement for archive and backup purposes. Drives are also SILENT. I have a test unit running next to me and I cant even hear it while it writes, in an open docking station. So far, very impressed.

Does its job fine, good performance, good value, appropriate warranty. One *major* issue: The firmware on this drive is quite eager to park the heads. If youre using this on a smaller home server, the frequency of head loading/unloading can be high enough to void the warranty well before 5 years. Please carefully monitor SMART attribute #192 (Power-Off_Retract_Count). If this value is rising at a significant rate (more than 20 per day), I *strongly* recommend disabling APM as otherwise youve got a decent chance of an early device failure.

As an IT professional, I have replaced my share of hard drives and I was impressed to say that of all the drives I have replaced over a 20 year period of bring in IT, I only have replaced 3-4 failed Western Digital drives. And all of these were 5-11 years old. They ran a good life. Today for the first time ever, I received a DOA WD drive. The worst part is that it was one of their professional top of the line drives, a WD Red Pro! What a let down this was. I have lost a lot of confidence on WD after this experience and can no longer blindly recommend them. Its now worth looking at the competition before making a decision. I still have more bad than good experiences with WD, but getting a DOA Pro drive is not ok.

I have fifteen of these drives installed in three separate NAS devices. I purchased two of these 8 TB drives to upgrade my memory capacity in one of my Digital Robotics (Drobo) NAS devices. These two drive units have been in use for about three weeks. As I understand it WD began offering these RED PRO drives specifically for a RAID application (my Drobos are) From the WD information - Since your NAS system is always on, a reliable drive is essential. With an MTBF of up to 1 million hours, the WD Red Pro drive is engineered to tackle 24/7 environments. I am a small tax practitioner and need reliability for all of my backed up files. I do have one important consideration. WD warrants these drives for five years. Unless their warranty policy has changed, a customer would be expected to return a defective drive to WD for testing and evaluation to confirm that the failure was within their warranty clauses. However, I am NOT going to send in one of my drives with some extremely sensitive tax client information just to have it replaced under warranty. However, I did have had one fail several years ago. I contacted Western Digital Customer Service and explained the situation. I was provided with a Confidentiality Waiver to complete. I submitted it to WD and the drive was replaced under warranty.

Chose these drives because of reviews and recommendations by chassis manufacturer. Have been on-line 24/7 for home LAN usage (backup server ... not file-serving) and pleased so far (5 days). Using them in linux filesystem (btrfs) software RAID1 configuration.

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