
Great capacity. Fast speed. Run a bit hot so get a fan.

Ordered two on the 4th of Mar (Friday) and received both on the 7th (Monday 3/7/2022). Ran all of Sea Tools diagnostics on them and they passed all tests. (Note: the Long Generic test takes ~14 Hrs.). I purchased a D-Link DNS-320 NAS in 2011. It was slow and their 2.05 firmware only supported up to 3 TB hard drives. I found freeware firmware called Alt-F that can be loaded on the DNS-320 and supports the 8 TB hard drives. I loaded the Alt-F firmware and it formatted the ST8000VN004s using Ext 4 in a RAID 1 configuration resulting in a swap file and 7.2 TB of usable storage. I copied almost 4 TB of data to the old NAS, breathing new life into a previously pretty limited 2-bay NAS server.

Able to store my entire family's library of movies, photos, videos, files, you name it. Drives have worked well under load, are fast for our needs and have been reliable.

Great value for money, reliable, huge storage

- It is a hard drive - it instals like any normal hard drive - it is as loud or quite as any drive

space price per TB at time of purchase

Came quick, was priced right, plugged into NAS and worked.


First impression after starting it on a dock this morning is: What a speedy beast! My fist 8088 PC had a seagate 20MB doing 125 kB/s from an MFM controller. Took 2.5 hours for low-level then DOS format The WD takes less than a day to fill. Wonder what The SAS version does. And got 2 with a 5 year warranty for less than twice the price per TB of 12 unwarrantied 3TB HGST K4000 being auctioned today. Conditional to lasting performance this is a Super Deal! At room temperature they runs the 220 MB/s R/W test at 45 C cool! Since they are 7200 RPM they will probably be OK as spares for my 8*18 TB raid array.

-Not much to say other than it works as intended

Installed in a As1104T NAS. Installation was simple and the drive has performed well. Its quiet in Operations and, so far, has had no problems in use across the network. Newegg has been a recent "go to" for my network storage needs.

Everything , works, fast, quiet

Standard SATA connection means this was perfectly easy to attach, drives recognized by the OS and ready to go after a quick format. I purchased two and am using the second as essentially a redundant copy when one or the other fails, in addition to off-site backup. They're big and relatively affordable, and WD's provided warranty was painless to register, providing a dedicated ticket to register later support cases if needed.

Good size for a NAS

Arrived quickly, worked out of the box.

Three of these in Raid 1 work out of the box in my newly built NAS system. It took quite a while for the Drive setup step to complete, though, with 3 of these 16 TB drives churning for over 1 day.

Reliable drives. Good performance. Great price.

This SATA drive is priced at an excellent cost. Installation was easy. Shipping was quick. I have always had excellent experiences in doing purchasing products at Newegg. They are awesome!


Great for my NAS configuration, and I figured out that the drive industry sizing gaff is kind of fixed with this model since 22TB (decimal) = ~20TiB (proper binary).