Western Digital 8TB WD Red Pro NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD8005FFBX

Very Reliable and suits NAS use perfectly

I received the item and installed it into my nas and from the start the drive was making a loud noise as if the disk is rubbing while spinning. Just ordered a replacement. Will update once received. Update: Item received and is working much better than the previous model. Will be changing my rating to 4 stars for the refund and replacement.

I bought it because I trusted the brand & amazon as a seller, but it didn't work, Hard drive arrived dead, package was not the same as the original. When connected to WD NAS and PC had severe vibration and knocking.

Out of 2 Qty's of 4tb Purchased. One is damaged.

I ordered 2 HDD first is not detected and second is making too much noise and after scanning its show a lots of bad sector.

Fast delivery and well packaged. HDD working well in NAS

Like most PC gamers I made the swap to SSD/NVME some years back, and considered HDDs to be an obsolete technology. It was only when I decided to digitise my media library that I needed to go beyond the 4tb in flash I had installed. I spent a very long time looking at the 20-24tb drives such as the Exos/WD Gold/Toshiba 11 ranges but was put off by reports of noise. I remember the constant chatter of the drives of yore with some weariness so I researched the most quiet option instead. That led me here. The WD Red Plus (NOT the Red Pro,) specifically the 12tb model, is the perfect sound sweet spot. At 12tb WD fills the drives with helium instead of air and it has less spinning drive platters inside. The 14tb model is only marginally louder but is more expensive for if you want to double up in the future. I mounted in directly in my PC on a rubber mounted bracket and it is SILENT. When I say silent I really mean it. The PC is liquid cooled so it is whisper quiet. I can hear the TINIEST chatter (nothing like the 20/40gb models of the previous century) if I press my ear against the PC case during huge transfers, but I didn't even bother to setup a spin-down timer once I realised how silent it is. The speed? Almost irrelevant. This is for long term media storage, so the slow write times annoy you rarely, and the read times are instant for media files and laugh at even UHD bitrates with no lag. My main drives are Samsung 9100 NVMEs running PCI5 (fastest commercial drives on the market at time of review) and the WD Red hangs with them with no shame. The stats say they are less than 10% the speed of the NVMEs, but who's buying this as a boot drive? It's either going in a NAS or as a cold storage (long term, infrequent access) drive to compliment a faster boot drive. I almost knocked a star off because it is not the best value, but being as niche as it is (most people aren't buying spinning rust anymore) I can forgive that.

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No issues after one week.

J'avais commandé deux pièces et je les ai reçues très rapidement. Elles étaient bien emballées chacune dans une boîte d'origine de vente au détail. Je recommande ce produit pour installer dans un système RAID (NAS ou ordinateur avec un contrôleur RAID).