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

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.

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

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?

Good

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.

Installed on a WD PR4100 NAS. Hard drive works great and seems a tad faster than other WD red drives I own @ 5400 RPM. Tends to run 10-15 degrees warmer.

super fast shipping and as advertised product

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.

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.

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