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Quiet, fast, cheap per gigabyte

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.

Keeping in line with Western Digital’s other newer drives, this one is a lot quieter in terms of vibration. Speeds are pretty decent overall and on par with what I would expect (see other for speeds). Cheaper than the Red drives with most of the benefits. These drives don’t appear to experience the same slow spin-up that some full on NAS drives do. 1TB drives are extremely cheap these days so you can buy a bucket load of them compared to even a few years ago.

perfect for NAS. I don't really need the AI function in the drives they sit in a UNIFI protect set up. I have the 24TB one in my home protect set up and initially it was loud, but it has become more quite since it finished it originally set up. I have 8 of the 8TB drives with no issues. 2 are cold spares. when they go in I'll order 2 more. I take the drives that are out of warranty and typically put them in our 3rd tier backup NAS systems and they seem to live forever. Technically out of "service life" but that doesn't mean I take them offline, I stick them into a lower use environment to live out their days storing old accounting stuff. Nothing as exciting as VIDEO

Good capacity and pretty quite even under load.

- Got six. Created RAID 5 and RAID initialized successfully. This is sort of a first test for the drives. Copied a few TB of backups on it which went without a hitch. - Performance. A hair better than HGST 6TB NAS drives that I own as well. 212 MB/sec sequential Read and Write on the outer most track and (half of that) 100 MB/sec on the innermost track. 170 MB/sec AVG sequential read. - Enterprise. For the price I had a choice, go with the proven HGST 6TB NAS, get IronWolf Pro 6TB or these. I figured, I'm going to give an Enterprise drive a try and see if it is in fact better than consumer/NAS drives. Now I have to wait 5-6 years until I can reach a conclusion. - July 2016 manufacture date with August 2021 warranty expiration. For a drive that came out in middle of 2014 I was worried that the stock will consist of old drives and that I would lose a year of warranty as a result. Mid 2016 is acceptable. - Noticeably quieter than my HGST 6TB NAS drives under load/seek. Quiet random seek - this usually is the loudest operation. This measure is always subjective, but I think many will find these to be very quiet. For the past two weeks I've been moving data between RAID sets which equated to a lot of TBs written to and read from these drives in total. I'm very happy with them, just wish they had ISE.

Going 7 years with zero issues.

Good performance, 5 year warranty from WD

8tb hard drive that works

- Capacity - Speed - Buffer size - Reliability

- A little faster than a 5400 RPM drive - Quiet, reliable and cool running - Lots of storage space (I use these drives for video storage and backups) - Economical (especially if you catch it on a deep sale) - about 0.015 cent cost per gigabyte - Shipping was fast - it arrived a day early! - I now have 3 of this model and will probably get at least one more in the future. - MOST IMPORTANTLY - It is a CMR (NOT SMR) drive

Well packaged by Newegg, easy to install and from the start, works well.

These work wonderfully with my Synology NAS!

Does what it's supposed to do. Simple Installation.

16 of these in production at present in a large file storage cluster. So far they've performed well.

So far it's a great drive, I installed it and it worked fine, very quiet and cool. Only time will tell if it can handle the load

Speed...Having owned 50+ other dives I would have thought that this was a 10,000 rpm drive. Plug-n-play at its finest. Price... got it at a NewEgg Black Friday Deal (read steal!)