Red Plus 8TB NAS 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - 5640 RPM Class, SATA 6Gb/s, CMR, 128MB Cache

Works perfectly and is quiet. I use it in my raid storage and which has four 6tb each some the storage capacity is great. It just slots straight in to the raid so is easy to install. The price is great as they seem to last longer the other makes of hard drives

I recently picked up this Hard drive to go into my Ugreen NAS, and it has been great. I bought it specifically to host my Plex media server and also to keep all my private files safely stored away. I'm really happy with this purchase as it's doing exactly what I needed and I feel it was good value for money. The first one I received was actually faulty and my NAS didn't recognise it at all, but the seller was brilliant and replaced it straight away without any fuss, which was a huge relief. When it comes to how the drive performs, it’s reliable and the speeds are decent for what I use it for—it handles streaming from the Plex server with no issues. Even though I had a slight snag with the first one being faulty, the quick replacement service means I still highly recommend this Hard drive to anyone looking for one.

I have been purchasing HDDs for many decades now and I am sticking to the Western Digital brand because I trust WD to reliably store my data (all personal, including many TB of family video). Some HDDs are on 24/7 with constant access and can get hot, especially when the ambient temperature is high during summer, and I choose WD Red for these more demanding uses. As a personal user, I carefully pick the size and style (e.g. Green Blue Black Red, Red Plus, Red Pro) to give the best price per TB and performance for intended usage. I am paranoid about preserving data and have a rigorous strategy of redundant usage and multiple backups which I have had to prove on occasions due to human error. I do not expect HDDs, from any brand, to last forever though some are still going strong after 20 years with no hint of degradation. In my experience, a few % of HDDs start to show signs of problems after 5 years, and I constantly monitor the raw read error count. These WD HDDs keep going reliably with 100% data integrity for years after the first signs of problems, allowing me time to choose how to retire/replace. I have never had a WD HDD fail catastrophically, it is always a graceful degradation, hence why I trust WD to look after my data.

This revieww is for the Western Digital Red Plus 12Tb, model ID: WDC120WD120EFGX-68CPHN0 Well, I've had quite a few hard drives over the years. About five years back, I was a firm Western Digital advocate, having four 4Tb WD Red's in my old NAS. They were rock-solid, reliable drives, so no complaints from me. Then, I upgraded my 11 year old NAS and needed more storage. I wanted to add another WD drive of the same model number as the four I was using already, but WD appeared to have moved on, replacing it with a newer model. Now, that in itself shouldn't be a problem, but my OCD likes to run arrays of drives which are identical. So, I replaced them all with new, and significantly cheaper(20% less)) 4Tb Seagate Ironwolf drives. Times have moved on, and despite my uncertainty about shifting to Seagate from my trusty WD (I'd had bad experiences of Seagate way back in the 90s) I found the Ironwolf’s to be solid, reliable and quite a bit cheaper than their WD equivalents, especially when ultimately purchasing six of them. Fast forward to today, and, yet again, I was running short of space. So, I looked around several online retailers, seeing how the current AI-bubble that's sucking storage devices from the consumer market had significantly pushed RAM and HDD/SSD prices up. However, all the higher capacity drives I was looking at were much more expensive (up to £100 more than they were a few months prior) until I came across the WD Red Plus 12Tb here on Amazon.co.uk. £233 was pre-AI-bubble pricing! Better still, these were WD's, my old go-to, though I'd become manufacturer agnostic by now. Checking for other 12Tb drives elsewhere, I would, as mentioned, be set to spend another £100 per drive, and I needed three of them. Blast! Amazon was doing its thing of restricting accounts to one drive. I had to involve relatives to get the three I needed to replace my existing six 4Tb Ironwolfs with three WD Red Plus's. In addition. the AI madness meant that the lead time for my new drives could be up to seven months! As it happened, I "only" had to wait a month for an item that usually ships in 24 hours. Anyway, this isn't why you're reading this review, but I thought I'd provide some context. So, I installed the three drives into other machines in order to run, as I always do when prior to using any new drive in my NAS, an extended S.M.A.R.T test. BTW, this is something I recommend everyone do with a drive that has been transported halfway around the world before entrusting your data to it. Alas, most people won’t, as in this case, the test took 16 hours per drive. OK, so here's the thing. These drives aren't currently ready for use, the last of the three is undergoing said test before I tear down my old storage pool and rebuild using the new drives. However, benchmarking on a NAS shows a read throughput of 260Mb/sec and almost the same for writes, though this is likely helped by the generous cache. So, all's good, right? Hmm ... not quite. These drives are noisey. What I mean by that is that their spin sound is the issue. Yes, they're 7,200rpm drives, so tend to be a tad noisier when idle than 5,400rpm, lower capacity drives. However, these new WD's are worse than that. Right now, I have the last of them running the aforementioned extended S.M.A.R.T test in my backup NAS, a 4-bay unit with 3 x 16Tb Enterprise Toshiba MG-08 series drives and the new 12Tb WD Red Plus. All drives are running the test, and the WDs ambient spin noise can be heard over the other three drives. The sound reminds me of standing near a gas fire, where you can hear a low, but constant mid-tone sort of white noise. it’s not quite a hiss, it's not as high frequency as that, but close to it. Now, I'm unusual in that I run three NAS devices: a 2-bay, 4-bay and an 8-bay. I had one of the new drives in each NAS which had a spare drive bay in order to run the test as concurrently as I could to save time. My big, metal case 8-bay sits on the carpeted floor beneath a desk and the new drive cannot really be heard above the other six. When I installed one of the new WD's in my 2-bay unit sat on a shelf under the TV, the constant swish of the drive was noticeable from several feet away in a quiet room. Usually, this NAS with a single 6Tb, 5,400rpm HDD is silent, with only the drives occasional seek sound ever being heard. The one in the 4-bay behind me as I write can be heard over the other three drives as mentioned. My hearing is pretty good, and I would say I'm quite sensitive to noise. However, a word of warning to those looking to save a few quid on getting one or more of these. If you're looking to have them running in a quiet environment, like a bedroom or living room, you may want to choose another model or make. I suspect the issue is that WD have saved money by not having this particular model being helium filled. Helium, being a lighter gas than air, reduces platter friction in the spinning drives and thus also reduces produced heat and noise. The aforementioned 16Tb Toshiba's are helium filled, and operate when spinning almost silently. So, I think WD is trying to cut a corner here. I'm wondering how these will sound when all three are running in my 8-bay, I hope I can learn to ignore the sound if obtrusive. So, you have my scenario, and so should be able to judge how my observations on the only downside of this new WD drive, its rotational noise, may affect you. If you're not sensitive to noise, or intend using these drives in an environment where drive noise isn't an issue, then I'm certain these drives, especially at this price-point, will be an excellent choice. However, either opt for a lower capacity, 5,400rpm drive, or look for one helium filled if needing more capacity if you can stretch to the higher price.

Have used this brand for years in my 2 NAS devices.

The part number received on all three drives I ordered is WD40EFPX-68C6CN0, written on the sticker and in the firmware. The part number on the box, and on the Amazon listing is WD49EFPX-SPC6CN0. The drives work fine but the WD website is refusing to register the warranty for the drives. I raised a support ticket the day after delivery. 10 days later they replied saying they will not register the warranty because the drives "correspond to a different region." I've called Citizens Advice and they have advised under the Citizens Rights Act 2015 I am entitled to a refund under two different bits of legislation. This is going to be a massive pain because they are already in use with data on them. Massive hassle so far, definitely avoid. I'll update if WD change their mind. UPDATE: Western Digital support have done a 180 and have manually registered my drives for warranty. The review remains 1* due to the product bought not being the product received, and the inconvenience to me that has caused. There's been no interest from Amazon nor WD to fix the item listing so this will happen to everyone else too.

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Good

Disco rigido di buona qualità adatto ai sistemi NAS

Sono andato poi a ricontrollare il product brief dei 12tb e state attenti che il modello con cache da 512mb non e' da 20/29db ma 34/39 e sospetto nella realta' anche di piu'. Nel mio caso sono inutili, ho i modelli da 8TB al momento che sono silenziosissimi.

Nach 15 Betriebsstunden ist die Platte total ausgefallen wegen I/O Fehler. Das hätte ich von so einem Produkt nicht erwartet. Außerdem ist Amazon nicht in der Lage die Platte für den gleichen Preis (114€) umzutauschen. Wenn man dringend eine Platte braucht muss man die teureren Varianten wählen. Bin sehr enttäuscht, deshalb nur ein Stern. Was mir noch aufgefallen ist, die Platte wird mit einem Cache von 256 MB angepriesen, geliefert wird aber laut Aufdruck nur eine Platte mit 128 MB Cache.