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

8TB Red Plus NAS manufactured January 2021
Great drive so far. I didn’t realize this NAS Plus drive runs at 7200 rpm. It may be slightly louder than the 5400 rpm drives but if it is it’s not very noticeable unless you’re 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). I’m 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.

Great value, especially bought ‘Used’ from Amazon Warehouse…
This WD Red Plus 8TB HDD (bought used-acceptable from Amazon Warehouse) is fine, although it seems to run hotter than other WD Red drives; it is within range at 100-104 (F). However, all 7 of my other WD Red Plus drives all run at about 90-100 (F).I have purchased 4 new WD Red hard drives on Amazon, and another 4 used from Amazon Warehouse. All were 12-14TB, except for one 8TB HDD. The drives all live in Synology desktop NAS boxes. No issues with the new drives. But, I will probably be returning one 14TB HDD, bc it had 5500+ hours on it.While this is within Amazon Warehouse terms, there was no need to keep it, as the other used drives had only 50, 300, & 400 hrs on them. No drives had bad sectors (although one drive had 15 failed reconnect attempts; ‘reconnects’ are not good, but I kept it bc the reconnects have not occurred during my ownership).I am a happy with the WD Red drives, just make sure not to get the SMR drives, which WD is guilty as charged. The used drives from Amazon Warehouse are a really great purchase.

Not my first WD Drive
I’ve 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. I’ve 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. I’m 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?

Great Drive
Have an older model (WD80EFZX) of the same capacity for more than 3 years of almost 24/7 use. No problems. Purchased this to add extra storage space. Packaging is excellent. Did a surface error scan after installation to check for bad sectors and if the drive is faulty (took about 12-16 hours which is normal for this size) and so far been working fine. Will update again if there are problems with this.

It wasn’t a red plus hard disk as described, just a red disk – there is a difference! Well done everyone involved.

2 Stück verbaut in Synology DS920+. Gehört zu den zertifizierten Laufwerken für das NAS. Laufen rund, keinerlei Probleme, keine fehlerhafte Sektoren. Mal sehen, wie es auf lange Sicht aussieht, aber meine beiden Vorgängerplatten (ebenfalls WD Red) sind jetzt ohne Murren 7 Jahre am Stück gelaufen, und wären sie nicht zu klein geworden, hätte ich sie auch noch weiter genutzt.