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

This is an excellent NAS hard drive with 8 TB of storage, specifically designed for home or small business NAS systems. Its stable performance, low noise level, and good energy efficiency make it ideal for backups, multimedia storage, or RAID configurations. Many users highlight its reliability and ample capacity for large amounts of data. Some mention that it can be a bit noisy during intense data transfers, but overall, it offers great value for money and reliable 24/7 operation.

I hate to review components like these until I've had them a long time, but now is probably the time for harddrive buying in general. First of all, to those who are wondering, no the 5640 RPM is not a typo. The official specs sheet says that's what it runs at. I think this helps it find a better balance between 5400 RPM power efficiency and 7200 RPM responsiveness. It claims to run cool and it does seem to do so. One lucky surprise is that it's quiet. A lot of larger harddrives intended for NAS or other RAID systems don't really try to be that quiet. According to the spec sheet it's officially 24dBA idle, 28dBA access. That's insane. I can't measure it with digital precision, but I can say it's one of the least annoying sounding drives I have used in a long time. Even many 5400 RPM 2.5" harddrives bother my ears these days (SSDs have spoiled me!) It doesn't seem to have quite the same "whoosh" sound of the actual platters spinning that normally bothers me if a drive is at all close enough to hear. (How did I survive harddrives in the 90s??? I don't know!) This thing is almost whisper quiet and putting my ear right up to it can still make it hard to hear. I think maybe the 5640 RPM contributes to this — likely it strikes a better balance in regards to sonic properties. My best guess is vibrations don't interfere with each other as much or something to that effect. And even the "grinding" when it's accessing data is quieter than most. I went ahead and wrote this review now in part because I just really want to emphasize how much quieter this drive is compared to most. As another piece of good news, this entire series is made with CMR — that is classic magnetic recording — rather than SMR (shingled magnetic recording.) A lot of larger drives in this sort of range use SMR because it's cheaper, but it also is significantly slower on any writes bigger than the cache size — which is probably going to be any decent sized transfers at all. I also see a lot of claims that SMR drives last significantly less actual usage hours (which might make sense since they must rewrite every single block that changes for even a small write.) Right now I have more confidence in a CMR drive to hold up past the 1.5 year mark that seems to come up a lot in reviews and complaints for SMR drives. Speeds did dip down to something like 160MB/s for the final average (instead of the 215MB/s in the specs) for a huge transfer operation, but all in all this drive strikes a lot of great balances. Only time will tell on reliability, but this is a good line.

Purschased 2 HD's. Easy setup, RAID 1 configuration on my Synology NAS.

Ships in a state where most NAS units think it's dead Newer batches of this drive ship from the factory with PUIS (Power-Up In Standby) enabled. The drive won't spin up on its own when it gets power. It just sits there waiting for a command most NAS enclosures never send, so your NAS reports it as a failed drive with blank model and serial info. I got two from the same batch (this one plus one from another retailer) and both did the exact same thing in every bay of my Ubiquiti UNAS Pro. An older drive of the same model works fine in the same bays, so this is something WD changed recently. The normal fix is disabling PUIS with hdparm on Linux, but you can't do it over USB. I tried three different USB docks and the bridge chips in all of them block the command. You need a desktop with a real SATA port, which a lot of NAS owners don't have. I wasted many hours figuring all this out before returning it. The drive itself is probably fine. But selling a NAS drive configured so that actual NAS units call it dead, with no reasonable way for a normal person to fix it, is ridiculous. Buy a different model until WD sorts this out.

I've bought over 20 of WD's NAS storage drives. I do aloooot of video and editing, I added up a while ago and it's more now, I have almost 46 TB of content - some are 10 yrs old and still going strong. Anyone who just read this and gasped, I also have online service with all this backed up too. "-)

I do not review drives until they have had time to prove themselves and this one has been running in my NAS for over a year without a single issue. Quiet operation, consistent performance, and no errors in the logs. The Red Plus line is designed for NAS use and it shows in the reliability. Good drive at a fair price for the capacity.

New purchases Aug 2026 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I purchased 2 more of these 8TB WD Red drives. One works perfectly. The other was DOA. Over the years I've bought numerous amounts of these WD Red drives and this was my very first DOA. However, giving Western Digital credit where it's due... I called Support yday. Got to speak to someone within about 60 seconds. Asian lady was very helpful and after explaining I'd tried the drive on 3 different systems (2 x Windows, 1 x Linux) and I could tell the drive was not even spinning up, she agreed the drive was defective and offered a Standard or Upgrade replacement. Standard... You return it, once received, a replacement is sent out within 7-10 business days Upgrade... You pay $25 (non-refundable) and they send you a new one immediately. They also keep your credit card on file and if you don't return the defect, they charge you accordingly. I opted for Standard as I'm in no immediate hurry so why pay $25. Within 10 minutes I received various emails noting my case number, registering the warranty, and finally she sent me a prepaid UPS label to return. The replacement is a certified (not new) drive. However its warranty starts now, meaning it has a 3 yr full warranty just like the NIB I purchased. At first I was kind of miffed about it but the more I thought about it, who cares... Drives generally either fail within a short space of time or they run for years. Having built many computers (personal and working for companies) and also having worked in the support side myself for manufacturers for years, I stand by my own past experiences. I should get a replacement drive back in about 2 weeks max. If there's a problem with that one, I'll update my review but I have always been pleased with WD drives. They have a much less failure rate than Seagates I've had experience with over the decades. So sticking at 5 stars, even though I have a DOA, because their support is outstanding. Try that with Seagate.... Original Update ~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have a number of these drives in a server as well as in a NAS. I use them directly in a server for storage for a Media Center system. In the NAS they're powered up 24x7 whereas in the server they get powered up and down each day. I've not had any problems with them. The only reasons I keep buying them is because I'm upgrading from smaller capacity WD Red drives not because any of them have ever failed. This purchase was to create a USB backup device but I'm actually using it to replace a smaller 6TB drive instead. What made this even a better deal was buying it during the Amazon Prime Day and got a great discount on it. None the less, these NAS drives are solid and I now added them to other servers as Data drives (using SSD's for boot devices). Highly recommend them.

Llegó muy bien siendo un producto delicado. Cumple todo según su descripción. Muy recomendable y a precio justo. Voy a encargar otro.

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.

Matériel de très bonne qualité

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 una lettura/scrittura continua, io preferisco usarlo per effettuare miei backup e per parcheggiare collezioni 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' CONVENIENTE CONTRO: NON E' UN SSD, COME DISCO PRINCIPALE CONVIENE USARE UN PIU' PICCOLO SSD

Like most PC gamers I made the swap to SSD/NVME some years back, and considered HDDs to be an obsolete technology. It was only when I decided to digitise my media library that I needed to go beyond the 4tb in flash I had installed. I spent a very long time looking at the 20-24tb drives such as the Exos/WD Gold/Toshiba 11 ranges but was put off by reports of noise. I remember the constant chatter of the drives of yore with some weariness so I researched the most quiet option instead. That led me here. The WD Red Plus (NOT the Red Pro,) specifically the 12tb model, is the perfect sound sweet spot. At 12tb WD fills the drives with helium instead of air and it has less spinning drive platters inside. The 14tb model is only marginally louder but is more expensive for if you want to double up in the future. I mounted in directly in my PC on a rubber mounted bracket and it is SILENT. When I say silent I really mean it. The PC is liquid cooled so it is whisper quiet. I can hear the TINIEST chatter (nothing like the 20/40gb models of the previous century) if I press my ear against the PC case during huge transfers, but I didn't even bother to setup a spin-down timer once I realised how silent it is. The speed? Almost irrelevant. This is for long term media storage, so the slow write times annoy you rarely, and the read times are instant for media files and laugh at even UHD bitrates with no lag. My main drives are Samsung 9100 NVMEs running PCI5 (fastest commercial drives on the market at time of review) and the WD Red hangs with them with no shame. The stats say they are less than 10% the speed of the NVMEs, but who's buying this as a boot drive? It's either going in a NAS or as a cold storage (long term, infrequent access) drive to compliment a faster boot drive. I almost knocked a star off because it is not the best value, but being as niche as it is (most people aren't buying spinning rust anymore) I can forgive that.

Product delivered is not a working piece Kindly give the number of the customer service so that i can contact for warranty claims