Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Western Digital Red WD10EFRX 1TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Western Digital Red WD20EFRX 2TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Pros: i love the hardive
working with any kind of problems

Cons: if you are looking for an hardive this is one for you

Pros: - Lots of space for the price.
- Decent warranty
- WD has a fast turn-around for RMAs

Cons: I just had ANOTHER drive fail the SMART test.

I have had 5 out of 6 of these drives FAIL. YES, you read that correctly. WD says this isn't normal. I'm pretty sure that the statistics of my situation would say otherwise.

BE VERY WARY of this drive. Be sure to consistently run SMART tests on it.

Other Thoughts: This is a continuation of my previous review. The only reason that I am not dropping to 1 egg is because of WD's excellent turn-around for RMAs.

Hopefully I just happened to get a bad batch.

Pros: This is a follow up to my previous review see in other section:

As I stated before these drives are cool and fast, they work great in my Synology DS413 and my Vantec Raid Enclosure. The two in my Vantec came from another retailer in California over a year ago and no issues at all.

The drives are great when they work!!!

Cons: High DOA rate!!! Physical Damage (Dents)

The batch I bought from Newegg was a different case. After getting 3 DOA drives out of 7 I finally decided to order the drive elsewhere.

I had issues with the RMA of the first DOA drive, got blamed for damage that I did not cause, however working with Google I was able to get a store credit for the price I paid for the drive instead of losing my $$$.

My 3rd DOA drive should be delivered to Newegg tomorrow, I made sure to document the damage the drive came with prior to RMA shipment.

Other Thoughts: I suggest that everyone sign up for the Google Trusted option it definitely works! Got the issue resolved in 1 day, especially after I sent them the photos of the damaged drive I got.

Take photos and make an unpacking video if you order this drive, to protect yourself. Make sure to include when you are actually opening the box and have something with current date and time in the picture or video.

I received a drive from another popular on-line retailer, did an unpacking video and scrutinized the drive for physical damage. The drive was is in superb condition and was packaged correctly utilizing the black plastic holders that ship with single drives. Its now in my NAS running like a charm!

In the end its just one of those days, so protect yourself use your camera and Google Trusted Stores!!

Previous Review:----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Pros: The drives are excellent when you get one that actually works, they are silent fast and run very cool.

Cons: RMA rates on these drives are exceptionally high!!!

Bought 4 2 weeks ago, all were from the same batch, one was DOA!

Sent that back, and bought a replacement, that one arrived DOA! I shipped it out immediately. I ordered a 3rd drive and now I am in the process of RMAing the drive for the very same issue!

BAD SECTORS - upon closer examination, I have noticed that the drives have dents in them. It is clear to me that Newegg is not correctly handling the drives prior to shipment to the customer or during storage, and upon RMA makes it seem as if the end-user damaged the product.

Dents, on new hard drive, popped open my 3rd packed at 4am and noticed that the corners of the drive had dents.

Either Newegg is not handling the products with care or WDs quality has tanked seriously!

Other Thoughts: I suggest that anyone purchasing these drives upon arrival of you package grab you camera and make an unpacking video and analyze the drive for damage prior to even testing the drive for bad sectors etc!

From now on that is exactly what I shall be doing.

Pros: I bought this hardive
I am very please with it

Cons: bought this hardive
I am very please with it

Other Thoughts: this is best hardive
if you are looking for replacement hardive
give this one a chance thanks

Pros: NON!

Cons: Had it one week in my system and its not working now. Windows 8 would not boot when this drive went out because it kept trying to read. Man I spent 4 hours trying to figure out why windows would not boot. Disabled the drive and POOF up it came. DO NOT BUY! You have been warned.

Pros: Used 8 of these. (I ordered from a competitor because limit was 5 on NE. One egg off for that.) Installed in a Synology 1812+ Diskstation. All drives came online and worked without a glitch. Speed is good and drives are quiet. Only 1 week in but so far so good.

Cons: Not 4TB. Still can't make my coffee.

Other Thoughts: Seems the DOA issue might be due to over zealous deliverers and sub standard packing.

Pros: 3 of my drives came and are working... so far. I wrote a previous review stating that they were excellent. Now I'm not sure how long they will last.

Cons: 4th drive came DOA. NewEgg/WD still have not solved whatever the problem is with these drives. So many owners getting bad drives. Now both NewEgg and WD want me to pay to get the working drive I paid for in the first place.

Stay away from these drives, just don't even chance it. I want to get rid of my other ones now because I can't trust them.

Goodbye Western Digital, you have lost my trust.

Other Thoughts: Just don't. Look at other drives with better owner reviews.

Pros: Great size and speed for the price amazingly well built and extremely low running temp.

Cons: Ok so this is supposed to be a 3tb right my operating system was only able to partition out 2 tb of it in the initial setup and everytime i go to try to partition out the other TB is says data type not supported...or some weird error like that. Also after long idle times the HD had a slow read speed till it spools up again. and for a media server thats not always a good thing.

Pros: None that I can list....have not been able to use the product...returned under RMA. Getting shafted by newegg apparently. Normally, I would rate WD drives a 5. I've never had a DOA before, and I've owned over 20 WD drives. My low rating is based on the poor RMA process.

Cons: I received this product, and, rather promptly attempted to partition and format the drive. Drive exibited no apparent "physical damage", but, formatting in Ubuntu failed. I also tried Windows, but, Windows disc manager would not even see the drive. So, I promply submitted for an RMA. Newegg is telling me the drive is "physically damaged", and "not covered" under their "Standard Warranty Policy"... Well, what does "physically damaged" mean to you when talking about hard drives? To me, I shoudl be able to "see" "physical damage"...not have my OS tell me something is wrong. Apparently, the way newegg is translating this, it looks like "physical damage" is going to apply to ALL hard drive problems. I've been using, installing, formatting hard drives in excess of 20 years. This drive had no physical damage, it was defective, and newegg is calling it something else. I'm out the ~$13 for shipping the product back to newegg, going to be 2+ weeks of time, and now I have to pay another ~$15 (yet to be determined) to have the product replaced by Western Digital directly - if they will even do it.

Other Thoughts: Time to find a new online technology retailer. Previously, I've returned a motherboard, and a RAM module...over my years dealing with newegg, and both RMAs were resolved satisfactorily - either exchanged product, or refund...there process now is flawed...go somewhere else, or, pray you don't have to RMA.

Pros: Nice sequential data rate thanks to high density platters and decent rotation speed.
Low operating Temps.

Cons: First one I got was DOA, or near enough as it could barely initialize and failed shortly after quick format that took 30x longer than it should have. I'm seriously questioning the QA department of these manufacturers nowadays. Cost me extra for RMA.

Other Thoughts: I've done extensive tests with no negative signs so far. I'll update if anything changes.