Power Your NAS with WD Red There's a WD Red drive for every compatible NAS system to help fulfill your data storage needs. Built for single-bay to 8-bay NAS systems, WD Red packs the power to store your precious data in one powerhouse unit. With WD Red, you're ready for what's next. WD Red for Personal or Home Office Stream, backup, share, and organize your digital content at home with a NAS and WD Red drives designed to effortlessly share content with the devices in your personal or home office environments. NASware 3.0 technology increases your drives' compatibility with your existing network and devices, TV, stereo, and more. Live in a connected world. Exclusive NASware 3.0 Not just any drive will do. Get up to 48TB of capacity in your 8-bay system and with WD's exclusive NASware 3.0 technology, you can optimize each and every drive. Built into every WD Red hard drive, NASware 3.0's advanced technology improves your system's storage performance by increasing compatibility, integration, upgradeability, and reliability.
Power Your NAS with WD Red There's a WD Red drive for every compatible NAS system to help fulfill your data storage needs. Built for single-bay to 8-bay NAS systems, WD Red packs the power to store your precious data in one powerhouse unit. With WD Red, you're ready for what's next. WD Red for Personal or Home Office Stream, backup, share, and organize your digital content at home with a NAS and WD Red drives designed to effortlessly share content with the devices in your personal or home office environments. NASware 3.0 technology increases your drives' compatibility with your existing network and devices, TV, stereo, and more. Live in a connected world. Exclusive NASware 3.0 Not just any drive will do. Get up to 48TB of capacity in your 8-bay system and with WD's exclusive NASware 3.0 technology, you can optimize each and every drive. Built into every WD Red hard drive, NASware 3.0's advanced technology improves your system's storage performance by increasing compatibility, integration, upgradeability, and reliability.
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Power Your NAS with WD Red There's a WD Red drive for every compatible NAS system to help fulfill your data storage needs. Built for single-bay to 8-bay NAS systems, WD Red packs the power to store your precious data in one powerhouse unit. With WD Red, you're ready for what's next. WD Red for Personal or Home Office Stream, backup, share, and organize your digital content at home with a NAS and WD Red drives designed to effortlessly share content with the devices in your personal or home office environments. NASware 3.0 technology increases your drives' compatibility with your existing network and devices, TV, stereo, and more. Live in a connected world. Exclusive NASware 3.0 Not just any drive will do. Get up to 48TB of capacity in your 8-bay system and with WD's exclusive NASware 3.0 technology, you can optimize each and every drive. Built into every WD Red hard drive, NASware 3.0's advanced technology improves your system's storage performance by increasing compatibility, integration, upgradeability, and reliability.
Power Your NAS with WD Red There's a WD Red drive for every compatible NAS system to help fulfill your data storage needs. Built for single-bay to 8-bay NAS systems, WD Red packs the power to store your precious data in one powerhouse unit. With WD Red, you're ready for what's next. WD Red for Personal or Home Office Stream, backup, share, and organize your digital content at home with a NAS and WD Red drives designed to effortlessly share content with the devices in your personal or home office environments. NASware 3.0 technology increases your drives' compatibility with your existing network and devices, TV, stereo, and more. Live in a connected world. Exclusive NASware 3.0 Not just any drive will do. Get up to 48TB of capacity in your 8-bay system and with WD's exclusive NASware 3.0 technology, you can optimize each and every drive. Built into every WD Red hard drive, NASware 3.0's advanced technology improves your system's storage performance by increasing compatibility, integration, upgradeability, and reliability.
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Although these drive are labeled NASware 3.0 I found out after I received the drives that they use SMR technology. I intended to use the drives to increase the storage on my ReadyNAS. but in speaking to a Netgear representative he recommended against using SMR technology because they had found them troublesome for writing large files or many files continuously, and especially on RAID sync, scrub, and balance. I researched the drives further and found this was indeed the case. By this time I had already hot swapped one of the drives I'd purchased in anticipation of increasing the storage and upgrading the OS. As part of the upgrade the raid did a resync. The resync took 5 days to complete. This is exactly one of the situations I'd been cautioned about and had seen ... MoreAlthough these drive are labeled NASware 3.0 I found out after I received the drives that they use SMR technology. I intended to use the drives to increase the storage on my ReadyNAS. but in speaking to a Netgear representative he recommended against using SMR technology because they had found them troublesome for writing large files or many files continuously, and especially on RAID sync, scrub, and balance. I researched the drives further and found this was indeed the case. By this time I had already hot swapped one of the drives I'd purchased in anticipation of increasing the storage and upgrading the OS. As part of the upgrade the raid did a resync. The resync took 5 days to complete. This is exactly one of the situations I'd been cautioned about and had seen reported on the internet. In the past my resyncs have completed overnight so I find 5 days unacceptable. In short I don't have confidence in the reliability of SMR drives for my NAS. I requested an RMA be generated to exchange the drives I purchased for the CMR drives I thought I was getting but it's been 2 weeks and I'm still waiting.
originally posted on adorama.com
Drive seems fine, but EXTREMELY disappointed to get drives from 7/2018 for my order from 11/2019. I ordered drives from several different stores, and all the other ones I got were late 2019 manufactured dates. The model numbers are also subtly different than the other drives I ordered, all by searching for “WD Red 8tb” on different sites, and the anti-static bags were noticeably less thick. Don’t know if that is just a packaging change during the intervening year or if I got a lower quality drive. Time will tell. If you want the most current version, definitely do not buy it here. For the price, I would have expected to get drives at least made this year since it wasn’t a super bargain or anything.The two I bought seem to work find and don’t have any issues out of ... MoreDrive seems fine, but EXTREMELY disappointed to get drives from 7/2018 for my order from 11/2019. I ordered drives from several different stores, and all the other ones I got were late 2019 manufactured dates. The model numbers are also subtly different than the other drives I ordered, all by searching for “WD Red 8tb” on different sites, and the anti-static bags were noticeably less thick. Don’t know if that is just a packaging change during the intervening year or if I got a lower quality drive. Time will tell. If you want the most current version, definitely do not buy it here. For the price, I would have expected to get drives at least made this year since it wasn’t a super bargain or anything.The two I bought seem to work find and don’t have any issues out of the box, but no idea if being so old will impact my ability to get warranty coverage later or if the older revisions have problems that haven’t been fixed.
originally posted on newegg.com
I upgraded our home file server (finally) to 2x WD80EFAX in RAID 1 from 2x 750GB WD Green in RAID 1 and a 2TB WD red for non-critical data. The greens were going strong since 2007ish but were seriously stuffed, the 2TB red has been going strong as well. Went with the 8TB EFAX to avoid SMR shenanigans; granted not likely to really be an issue in my application unless and until a drive does fail and the array needs a rebuild. More storage than needed, but the extra capacity was great and would have lasted a long time. 1/2 drives started reporting bad sectors within a few days. There are a lot of bits, so sure - at the claimed error rate, maybe it's normal to have a few. The quick onset in what's supposed to be a high-reliability consumer drive was concerning though, ... MoreI upgraded our home file server (finally) to 2x WD80EFAX in RAID 1 from 2x 750GB WD Green in RAID 1 and a 2TB WD red for non-critical data. The greens were going strong since 2007ish but were seriously stuffed, the 2TB red has been going strong as well. Went with the 8TB EFAX to avoid SMR shenanigans; granted not likely to really be an issue in my application unless and until a drive does fail and the array needs a rebuild. More storage than needed, but the extra capacity was great and would have lasted a long time. 1/2 drives started reporting bad sectors within a few days. There are a lot of bits, so sure - at the claimed error rate, maybe it's normal to have a few. The quick onset in what's supposed to be a high-reliability consumer drive was concerning though, taken together with the high idle temperatures decided to send these back and go with a set of WD60EFRX ("Red Plus" 6TB) instead. So far those are performing closer to what I'm used to from the WD20EFRX drive I got years ago (but also run hotter, more platters whizzing around in there I guess). I did also try two 8TB ST8000VN004 IronWolfs, but they did even worse right out of the (Sea-)Gate (ha!). They ran just as hot as the WD EFAX and both showed bad sectors within a few days. Newegg's customer service was good throughout.
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| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 2 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
Western Digital Red 2TB NAS Hard Drive, 2000, 3.5, WD20EFAX
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Although these drive are labeled NASware 3.0 I found out after I received the drives that they use SMR technology. I intended to use the drives to increase the storage on my ReadyNAS. but in speaking to a Netgear representative he recommended against using SMR technology because they had found them troublesome for writing large files or many files continuously, and especially on RAID sync, scrub, and balance. I researched the drives further and found this was indeed the case. By this time I had already hot swapped one of the drives I'd purchased in anticipation of increasing the storage and upgrading the OS. As part of the upgrade the raid did a resync. The resync took 5 days to complete. This is exactly one of the situations I'd been cautioned about and had seen ... MoreAlthough these drive are labeled NASware 3.0 I found out after I received the drives that they use SMR technology. I intended to use the drives to increase the storage on my ReadyNAS. but in speaking to a Netgear representative he recommended against using SMR technology because they had found them troublesome for writing large files or many files continuously, and especially on RAID sync, scrub, and balance. I researched the drives further and found this was indeed the case. By this time I had already hot swapped one of the drives I'd purchased in anticipation of increasing the storage and upgrading the OS. As part of the upgrade the raid did a resync. The resync took 5 days to complete. This is exactly one of the situations I'd been cautioned about and had seen reported on the internet. In the past my resyncs have completed overnight so I find 5 days unacceptable. In short I don't have confidence in the reliability of SMR drives for my NAS. I requested an RMA be generated to exchange the drives I purchased for the CMR drives I thought I was getting but it's been 2 weeks and I'm still waiting.
Drive seems fine, but EXTREMELY disappointed to get drives from 7/2018 for my order from 11/2019. I ordered drives from several different stores, and all the other ones I got were late 2019 manufactured dates. The model numbers are also subtly different than the other drives I ordered, all by searching for “WD Red 8tb” on different sites, and the anti-static bags were noticeably less thick. Don’t know if that is just a packaging change during the intervening year or if I got a lower quality drive. Time will tell. If you want the most current version, definitely do not buy it here. For the price, I would have expected to get drives at least made this year since it wasn’t a super bargain or anything.The two I bought seem to work find and don’t have any issues out of ... MoreDrive seems fine, but EXTREMELY disappointed to get drives from 7/2018 for my order from 11/2019. I ordered drives from several different stores, and all the other ones I got were late 2019 manufactured dates. The model numbers are also subtly different than the other drives I ordered, all by searching for “WD Red 8tb” on different sites, and the anti-static bags were noticeably less thick. Don’t know if that is just a packaging change during the intervening year or if I got a lower quality drive. Time will tell. If you want the most current version, definitely do not buy it here. For the price, I would have expected to get drives at least made this year since it wasn’t a super bargain or anything.The two I bought seem to work find and don’t have any issues out of the box, but no idea if being so old will impact my ability to get warranty coverage later or if the older revisions have problems that haven’t been fixed.
I upgraded our home file server (finally) to 2x WD80EFAX in RAID 1 from 2x 750GB WD Green in RAID 1 and a 2TB WD red for non-critical data. The greens were going strong since 2007ish but were seriously stuffed, the 2TB red has been going strong as well. Went with the 8TB EFAX to avoid SMR shenanigans; granted not likely to really be an issue in my application unless and until a drive does fail and the array needs a rebuild. More storage than needed, but the extra capacity was great and would have lasted a long time. 1/2 drives started reporting bad sectors within a few days. There are a lot of bits, so sure - at the claimed error rate, maybe it's normal to have a few. The quick onset in what's supposed to be a high-reliability consumer drive was concerning though, ... MoreI upgraded our home file server (finally) to 2x WD80EFAX in RAID 1 from 2x 750GB WD Green in RAID 1 and a 2TB WD red for non-critical data. The greens were going strong since 2007ish but were seriously stuffed, the 2TB red has been going strong as well. Went with the 8TB EFAX to avoid SMR shenanigans; granted not likely to really be an issue in my application unless and until a drive does fail and the array needs a rebuild. More storage than needed, but the extra capacity was great and would have lasted a long time. 1/2 drives started reporting bad sectors within a few days. There are a lot of bits, so sure - at the claimed error rate, maybe it's normal to have a few. The quick onset in what's supposed to be a high-reliability consumer drive was concerning though, taken together with the high idle temperatures decided to send these back and go with a set of WD60EFRX ("Red Plus" 6TB) instead. So far those are performing closer to what I'm used to from the WD20EFRX drive I got years ago (but also run hotter, more platters whizzing around in there I guess). I did also try two 8TB ST8000VN004 IronWolfs, but they did even worse right out of the (Sea-)Gate (ha!). They ran just as hot as the WD EFAX and both showed bad sectors within a few days. Newegg's customer service was good throughout.
All 3 of these drives that I have purchased (within 2 years) have failed. The last "operating" drive only reads at about 5 MB/s, which is sad. They all make a "chirping" sound at random, which is the motor powering up and down. Not buying another one of these drives. Not worth it. 3 of 3 basically bad hard drives. I would only rate these as fair because the motors have not completely given up, but the chirping and slow reads are only getting worse with time.
I used these three WD Red Plus 14TB drives to replace three WD Red 4TB drives in my home QNAP 4-bay NAS that were just about full. Both are in a RAID 5 configuration. The process to replace these drives went fine and I lost no data and now I have a bunch more space. The new drives are faster and have more cache. About 2-weeks in and I have had no problems. A few months ago, I saw the 10TB drives on sale, but was unable to complete and order on the web site, but this time the order went just fine. Shipping across country took about a week.
I use(d) WD for a very long time and relied on the fact I never had issues with any of these drives. Until I purchased WD Red 6T for a NAS. I learned WD is very unclear about the fact this drive should not even be used for a NAS (unless maybe single drive but one cannot call that a real NAS). Anyone who has some experience with NAS will put those in RAID mode and this drive is a nightmare when used in RAID.
I had purchased two of these drives and set them up as RAID 1 backups in a WD NAS (4 bay EX-4100) so when one of them failed, I wasn't too worried but then within a matter of days, the other drive failed too essentially defeating the purpose of having a backup setup like this. Now I still have two other 4 Tb drives in the other 2 bays that are functioning perfectly fine so don't think it's the NAS itself. With that, unfortunately can't say much positive about the 8Tb drive. That two rives failed within a matter of days of each other within 3 months of purchase is disappointing to say the least. The RMA process with WD is a bit of a hassle too (especially since I could easily drive to the location to drop off the drives) and while I've shipped off both drives to get ... MoreI had purchased two of these drives and set them up as RAID 1 backups in a WD NAS (4 bay EX-4100) so when one of them failed, I wasn't too worried but then within a matter of days, the other drive failed too essentially defeating the purpose of having a backup setup like this. Now I still have two other 4 Tb drives in the other 2 bays that are functioning perfectly fine so don't think it's the NAS itself. With that, unfortunately can't say much positive about the 8Tb drive. That two rives failed within a matter of days of each other within 3 months of purchase is disappointing to say the least. The RMA process with WD is a bit of a hassle too (especially since I could easily drive to the location to drop off the drives) and while I've shipped off both drives to get replaced, I'm not too enthusiastic about how well the replacement drives will work for the function I intend.
Purchased a My Cloud EX2 Ultra with two 4 TB Red Drives in August 2019; Drive 1 degraded in June 2020, replaced with a new 4 TB Red Drive, connected to an UPS; upgraded to OS5; in September, 2021, the power led of my My Cloud EX2 Ultra turned red and Dashboard showed that my disk degraded, replaced Drive 1 with the RMA replacement received in 2020; in 3 weeks, the Disk 1 led of my My Cloud EX2 Ultra turned red and Dashboard showed that Disk 1 was bad. Don't know if the enclosure caused the problem.
I purchased the Red 6TB drive as a replacement drive for by 5-bay Drobo connected to our home Mac server, and used for storing Time Machine backups for our 5 computers. The Drobo has only WD Red drives purchased over the past years, gradually swapping in larger Red drives as old ones fail or I needed increased storage space. This is probably at least the 10th Red drive I have swapped in to our Drobo. As soon as I swapped in this drive I noticed it wasn't as usual. The Drobo would unmount and re-mount repeatedly during the RAID rebuild phase. When it was done rebuilding I tested it out by running a Time Machine backup, which should do an incremental change to a sparse bundle file. I noticed that the entire sparsebundle file (1.7TB) was reduced to zero bytes and the ... MoreI purchased the Red 6TB drive as a replacement drive for by 5-bay Drobo connected to our home Mac server, and used for storing Time Machine backups for our 5 computers. The Drobo has only WD Red drives purchased over the past years, gradually swapping in larger Red drives as old ones fail or I needed increased storage space. This is probably at least the 10th Red drive I have swapped in to our Drobo. As soon as I swapped in this drive I noticed it wasn't as usual. The Drobo would unmount and re-mount repeatedly during the RAID rebuild phase. When it was done rebuilding I tested it out by running a Time Machine backup, which should do an incremental change to a sparse bundle file. I noticed that the entire sparsebundle file (1.7TB) was reduced to zero bytes and the backup software prompted to perform a "first backup", i.e. the historical changes were lost. I then noticed that this was the case also for all backup sets for the four other computers in our home. I now realize that the Red drive I purchased uses SMR instead of CMR and that these new Red drives don't appear to be suitable at all for our purpose. I can see that this information is on the website but how can WD make such a significant change to a product line and keep its name? Apparently, the Red is now named Red Plus but that was not obvious at all. I cannot believe how the good people at WD could allow this to happen. This is probably a decent standalone drive but it should not have been allowed to drag the Red (NAS/RAID) product line in the dirt. I am devastated, sad and angry with myself for trusting the product name so deeply that I didn't do research. And I am angry with WD for betraying that trust.
WD40EFAX drive is a great drive for 24x7 operation in NAS systems. I have owned a WD MyCloud EX4100 (4-bay) NAS for about 5 years now and have only had one drive degrade to the point I needed to replace one disk. After replacing the faulty drive the NAS rebuilt the RAID configuration and I never lost any data. I subsequently purchased a spare WD40EFAX drive in case of another failure.I highly recommend these drive. They are extremely reliable in constant operations.
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 2 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
