📁 Western Digital 14TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - High Capacity Data Storage Solution with 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR and 512 MB Cache - Reliable 3.5" WD140EFFX Drive Review

Its pros: At the time of purchase (~ 1.5 years ago) it had the largest volume (out of 14 TB, 12.7 are available) Productive - films of 80 + GB are perfectly reproduced from it, there are no delays when rewinding at all. Series on for highly loaded network servers, still works flawlessly. Got cons: Terribly cracking under load close to 90%. It is simply impossible to listen to such a crack for a long time. Even at 50%, the crack is already very noticeable and interferes with work, even despite t

Bought 2 of these discs. One failed after less than 2 years within the advertised 3 year warranty period. First, the RMA website was terribly broken. Eventually I gave up trying to send an RMA online and switched to phone support. Over the phone, Western Digital refused to return the disc, even though it was purchased directly from Revain. They mistakenly sold the drive as a device (like a NAS kit I think). It doesn't make much sense anyway since WD still made the drive, but it was still wrong.

I recently went crazy building a new NAS and settled on 8TB IronWolf drives. I was seduced by the marketing and the cool name. That choice was a mistake. The rattling and clattering of IronWolf discs during resync threatened to throw me out of the room. After returning to the WD 8TB Reds, the buzz was welcome. Yes, I can hardly hear them, but at least in the next room with the door closed I don't hear them. They were a little more expensive than the IronWolf, but they were worth it. These…

I had some experience with WD hard drives before, some worked fine, others failed - nothing special so after reading many reviews I decided to buy four WD Red 4 -TB drives for my new Synology NAS from a third party and Revain supplied Prime. After receiving the drives, I installed and formatted them with no problems. Sixteen months later, one of the drives failed, showing multiple I/O errors and bad sectors. Well I thought it would happen, on the WD website you can see my hard drive is covered…

Update: WD has been exposed for misleading consumers with both SMRs and fake RPMs. Where is the zero score? I have installed a few dozen of these drives for NAS and other purposes. I have come to the conclusion that I will not buy it again. The first problem is the number of failures. I was expecting 1 or 2 failures, but I had 5. That's actually more than any other product I've had, even Seagate's infamous 1.5TB. The next question is the price. I don't feel like I'm getting anything special for

I run a design studio that works with MANY media. From group shots to full HD video editing, I need plenty of reliable storage. I started with an EX4 Western Digital NAS loaded with 4 Western Digital Red drives. 4 drives of 4TB each, total 16TB of storage. A year later I upgraded the Ex4 to a PR4100 as it was MUCH faster than the EX4. I ended up moving 4 drives from the Ex4 to the PR4100 and worked with it for another year; and they reside in a NAS appliance that runs 24/7 without activating…

Excellent discs. Having used a variety of WD Red, Green, and Seagate Archive drives for almost several years, I thought I could give you some helpful tips on what to look for when buying new drives and determining infant mortality. .The first thing you need to pay attention to is the packaging that the disk comes in. Consistent with industry practice, one or more drives will be shipped in boxes ideally suited for that drive. Inside the box, the drive should be hung on two plastic brackets…