Western Digital 8TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 5640 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5″ – WD80EFPX

I’ve been a long time fan of Western Digital hard drives and have never really had any luck with seagate drives. I ordered 4 of these to replace my 8 year old Western digital 4TB NAS drives to expand my exploding digital footprint. They are still running in perfect working order. I must commend amazon on the packaging and delivery. I was a bit concerned after reading some older reviews. As you can see from the pictures, they were securely packaged up well.

The drives themselves have passed extensive read/write tests without so much as a hiccup. One thing to note however, is that this hard drive tends to be a little nosier. More than likely due to additional platters compared to the 4TB variant. Also important to clarify that this review is for the CMR version.

This drives me nuts at night. Apparently this is a feature called preventive wear leveling. If you are using this in your room, or bedroom, you might want to reconsider.

It’s fine if you are leaving it somewhere enclosed or faraway from you and family.

I've owned all the brands of hard drives. Used a lot of the red, purple, and black Western Digitals, too. You can't lose with WD. Has always been, and remains, a quality product.

My level with servers is that of an absolute amateur. I don't need instantaneous speed, high uptime, or needing to handle high loads during a peak time. I use my NAS as a repository to stream movies on plex occasionally, store home photos and videos, and back up phone data across my family.

While I cannot speak for those with more nuanced intricacies, I can highly recommend this for those at my level - to those who dabble in storing family data. The high storage capacity is perfect for RAID arrays, which has already helped once when an older drive failed due to other hardware difficulties. The rebuild was flawless. In addition, even when bulk information goes through the drives, the drives are never that loud. It's great for home use and is barely even noticeable.

5/5 for surviving consistent uptime, good data storage for the price, and being low volume.

I actually have several of these and am using them in a server farm. They work well and give very few problems.