Bought 2 of the drive 3 days ago to upgrade my D-Link DNS323 server. It's like a breeze to replace two old 500 Seagate 500GB drives, and works right away. Noise level is much lower than previous Seagate drives. The new drives work quietly. After 3 days continuous work, it looks to be quite reliable.

I never would have imagined these drives would not arrive in working condition. I've always had good luck with WD drives. These came making a loud clicking noise and couldn't be recognized for formatting.

Purchased 8 drives for two Sagate Black Armor NAS 400. One drive failed immediately and I sent it for replacement. Within a week, second died (just trying to spin on for few seconds after restart and that's it). Tryed to hook it up to three different system just to run S.M.A.R.T.

Works well in the Raid5 Drobo it's set-up in. This one is actually a spare on the shelf. Have five others running in the Drobo without any issues.

I didnt buy these drives for performance, I bought them for massive storage. I ripped all my dvds to my server so they would be available to my network. when I set this up originally I started with 500 gig drives, over the years adding dvds and other data I had to keep expanding, I now have 12 hard...

huge capacity; high mtbf; configurable tler (impressive!); extremely quiet; 3 year warranty

slow rotation speed; engineering is all about give and take I guess

The WD Red is a new range of hard disks optimised for consumer and small business NAS drives.

WD's Red series of hard drives is designed to be used with network attached storage (NAS) devices, rather than in desktop computers. The drives are new additions to the company's already colourful internal drive line up, which includes the Blue series (for everyday computing), the Green series (for...

Three-year warranty; Good performance; Efficient performance; High data density

Specific spin speed not stated

Bought 4 Red's all have been working well so far.

I am a novice in IT. I have had four 2-TB Red HDDs in my Synology 411j for the past three or four years. Knock on wood, I have never had a problem. Two months ago, I bought a new Synology 216+ii and put two 3-TB Red HDDs. So far they are working perfectly and I am quite happy.

Bought 4 Red's all have been working well so far.