Built for power users and medium-sized businesses struggling to manage rapidly growing amounts of data, WD Red Pro drives are specifically designed for NAS systems with up to 24 bays. Engineered to handle high-intensity workloads in 24×7 environments, WD Red Pro is ideal for archiving, protecting, and sharing data with a large number of users or multiple data-hungry applications. These drives add value to your business by enabling your employees to quickly share files, back up folders, and access data quickly and reliably in your NAS system.
Available in capacities ranging from 2 to 22TB(1) | (1) 1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB = 1 trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.
For RAID-optimized NAS systems with unlimited number of bays
Rated for 550TB/yr workload rate(2) | (2) Annualized Workload Rate = TB transferred x (8760 / recorded power-on hours). The maximum rated workload is specified for operating at typical temperature of 40C. Workload Rate will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurations.
Designed to handle the demands of high-intensity 24×7 multi-user NAS environments
Western Digital partners with a wide range of NAS system vendors for extensive testing to ensure compatibility with most NAS enclosures
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10 reviews for Western Digital 14TB WD Red Pro NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 512 MB Cache, 3.5″ -WD142KFGX
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Dave Wright –
It’s a Hard Drive. It’s Big. That’s Pretty Much It.
So, here it is: the Western Digital 18TB WD Red Pro NAS Internal Hard Drive — aka the “Big Boy” of data storage. What can I say? It’s a hard drive. It’s quite big. Like, “I could bench press this if I really wanted to” big. But please don’t — it’s expensive.18 terabytes of space means I could theoretically store every embarrassing photo, weird Spotify playlist, and downloaded PDF I’ve ever made. The digital equivalent of a hoarder’s dream garage.Installation was straightforward: slot it in, screw it down, pray to the tech gods it spins up on the first try. Spoiler alert: it did. No strange noises, no smoke, just pure, reliable mechanical magic.Pros:So much space, I could hoard cat videos for decades.Designed for NAS, which means it’s the responsible adult of hard drives — steady, dependable, and ready to work overtime.Quiet enough that I almost forget it’s humming away, plotting how to store my entire digital life.Cons:It’s heavy. Not “drop on your foot” heavy, but “maybe I should use two hands” heavy.No flashy lights or cool holograms, just good old-fashioned spinning platters.Does not come with a personal assistant to organize your files or delete your bad decisions.Final Verdict:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – 5 stars.It stores data. It’s big. It doesn’t complain. Honestly, what more do you want from a hard drive?
Rich H. –
Fast and quiet, does the job
Good: Fast and quiet. 5-year warranty is a plus. Good price considering specs and warranty.Bad: One of the two I ordered was DOA; either was not recognized at all or came up as 0.0 GB available. But, Amazon came through as usual with a prompt exchange, and the replacement is working well. Both drives needed several attempts to come online in my USB test harness, which is something I’ve never seen before and did not see with the Seagates I tested immediately afterward. However, they came online promptly in my NAS server and have been OK ever since.Bottom line: WD is my go-to brand for NAS drives; I was quite surprised when one of the pair I bought came up DOA. But, these things happen, Amazon exchanged it quickly and painlessly, and the replacement drive is good. No worries. Five stars.
Ray –
A must for homelabs
Great product using it constantly no issues and great price
Amazon Customer for a really long time –
4 month and drive errors galore.
————————————————-Original post 8/13/2025————————————————-Worked fine for 4 months, then started getting drive errors. Unraid refuses to use the drive now leaving it inactive. Not happy with WD lately. The Drive reports itself to me 3 months 30 days 17 hours old and we already have relocated sector errors. What is going on WD? You used to make good drives. This from a RED PLUS Drive? 4 months? No issues with my Seagate Ironwolf drives… I have a old WD Blue in the server (and I mean really old, like 4 or 5 years old – When WD made decent drives), that seems to be working just fine. But a new WD RED PLUS can’t go 4 months.————————————————-Update 9/6/2025————————————————-Had to RMA the drive. Now, if you have ever RMA’ed a drive with WD it starts with calling the phone number Amazon gives you which is the wrong number. The person you waited to speak with after you pressed a bunch of buttons will kindly inform you that you have called the SSD/San Disk Flash Drive division and you need to call the WD HHD division…. which is weird because they are all Indian and probably sitting in close proximity to each other. Ok, whatever, so you call the new phone number and the guy will ask you to go through a ton of stuff as if you have a mental deficiency and have no idea when a hard drive is bad. Regardless, you explain the drive is bad… it has hundred of sector errors piling up and growing fast. Your server rejects the drive. You even formatted it to trick the server and it last about 1 hour in the server before the server said, ‘No way Jose!’. Why? Because it has a ton of bad sectors and they are being reallocated like 20 a minutes. And yes, you tried swapping out cables, and even tried it on a Windows 11 PC and guess what? The PC says it is piling up bad sectors as well… how strange! It must be a bad hard drive. At some point the guy in India might give in and take your information and verify the serial number and give you an RMA code. He will then eventually send you an email once some other department has reviewed the case and approved it. So, like two days later you get an email with a ton of info on how to mail a drive back and if you do not do it exactly their way they will not accept your drive.Ok, so you have to find your old box or something suitable, and an anti-static bag (because everyone has loads of those laying around) and place the drive in the anti-static bag then in a suitable box, and seal it, then place that in a shipping box with padding to prevent farther damage to your already damaged drive and go to a post office and mail it, yes at your cost (yeah no credit or anything even though they sold you a rubbish drive), to some place in Calexico, California. Calexico? Really? Ok, whatever, so the drive gets mailed off and about 2 to 4 weeks later they will let you know they received it. And if you won the WD lotto they will replace it with another drive and mail it back to you slow boat from Calexico.Why slow boat? Well, I literally live about 100 miles from Calexico and it would be faster for me to pick it up on a bicycle. They must use the cheapest, slowest mailing tier possible. Like delivered by Mexican Coyote human smuggler tier or something. If you lived next door to the WD place, it would take at least a week to get your new drive. You could probably mail a postcard to the UK faster.Anyway, so now I am waiting on my new drive arriving. I am looking for the Coyote to drop it off at my front door. I will update once I have it.
Only Three Cents –
Great for security cam setup
My Three Cents:I got this Western Digital 18TB WD Red Pro and it is a rock solid hard drive for my security setup. This things capacity is huge, 18TB is perfect for my cameras, i can store weeks of footage and I dont have to worry about it overwriting critical clips. The 7200 speed is real noticeable, it gives me fast access to my videos with no stutter. Its made for 24/7 operation so its reliability gives me good peace of mind, knowing my security datas always being recorded safe.
CS.Sardesai –
I bought a pair of 10 TB drives and have used them in my NAS for more than 3 years now. Touch wood it is been a great experience.
Abdullah –
وصل بغلافه الخاص بعكس ما ذكر انه بدون غلاف
Luis Daniel Conejo Huerta –
Excelente duración, poco ruido .
ganesh Pandi –
Good
Pcdan –
Ho acquistato questo hard disk per archiviare film e giochi. Certo non è veloce come un SSD,ma rispetto agli altri dischi meccanici ha 256MB di cache che lo velocizza parecchio.Il rumore è contenuto e non scalda. Western Digital è una marca seria e affidabile.Anche se l’uso consigliato è come elemento di unità RAID, quindi situazioni dove c’è unalettura/scrittura continua, io preferisco usarlo per effettuare miei backup e per parcheggiarecollezioni di dischi audio, film, concerti, insomma come memorizzazione dati a lungo termine.Quello che mi ha fatto scegliere questo disco?La possibilità di avere in un’unica unità tutto quello che mi serve a un prezzo per Giga molto conveniente.Ricordatevi che UN SOLO disco non e’ un backup, dovrete avere almeno DUE copie di quello che non volete assolutamente perdere (e possibilmente non nello stesso posto fisico).Ne comprerò presto un altro.PRO:GRANDISSIMO, NON C’E’ (ANCORA) UN SSD COSI’ GRANDE, NON E’ TROPPO LENTO, E’ CONVENIENTECONTRO:NON E’ UN SSD, COME DISCO PRINCIPALE CONVIENE USARE UN PIU’ PICCOLO SSD