What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
The drives are used daily for photography and graphic design work. This is my 4th wd red drive and they all work great, oldest 2 drives are 3. I recommend this as it is with a better price and same performance to its competitors.
Some reviews say the seagate iron wolf drives are faster but they are also more expensive. They are very quiet which makes them a nice option for an htpc, media server or nas storage. Read and write speeds are fast. A little noisy the first day.
Cons
Western digital nas hdd products are not very reliable. First of all, there is zero packing material and only the anti-static bag to protect the drive. And firstly, it's likely i got a bad unit, so your mileage may vary.
Highlights
Quality
I wish amazon sold the 12tb hard drives too but for the price and capacity i can't complain.
Easy to do with the help of qnap .
Wd is know for making cheap drives (cheap in price and sometimes in quality), this one is no different.
Replaced my 6 year old 4 tb nas storage drives with the newer 6tb faster nas storage drive , as started getting data errors .
Price
Price was good and capacity was sufficient for the need.
Good price, gave me cheap upgrade to get more storage out of my nas
Maybe a bigger size if the price is good !
Shipping
Nice fast harddrive, shipped fast and works great.
Packaging/appearance
Not a wd fault, the industry should put both claimed and estimated actual storage in their packaging to avoid confusion.
Competitiveness
I bought a couple of these as part of a new synology nas purchase almost two years ago.
I've installed 4 of them in a synology ds920+ and they've been blazing fast.
The bearings were humming quite a lot more than 3x 8tb seagate drives combined together!
The 4tb wd red drives are the most reliable and have the greatest longevity of all this series.
Overview
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 78.8% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 7,818 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 24 2023.
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Don’t use it for gaming though
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That’s not what it’s made for
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Will update this review if drive ever fails
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Its just like what others think
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Wd is know for making cheap drives cheap in price and sometimes in quality this one is no different
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It has a good price point for what it offers but by no means it is a pro nas device
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Not the fastest drive out there
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Spent the next half hour following the step by step nas setup to create a static raid 5
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