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Pros: Love the durability.
Cons: Better price. Looking forward to when they are cheaper.
Overall Review: Only WD in the Plex server. The other brands have been a disappointment.
Pros:
- High Capacity
- Quiet
- CMR
- Price (Bought on NewEgg Flash Sale)
Cons: - None
Overall Review:
Very happy with the drives, I bought two to mirror in RAID to keep all of my family pictures, videos and some other things safe, and I've been very happy with WD. Still never had a failure with them (knock on wood) and feel my digital belongings are safe.
I wrote approx 3TB of data in 30 minutes and another 1TB in another 20 or so... these were many many small files, I'm sure it would have been faster if I was moving blu-ray movies or something but we're talking pictures, songs etc that no drive really moves incredibly fast. Oh, and I transferred the files via USB 3.0 and an external 3.5" drive dock prior to installing them in my computer. Anyway, I'm very happy with the read speeds, after being spoiled by SSD/M.2 for so long I was afraid I would be feeling the lag, but I'm happy. The 256MB Cache seems to be a big improvement over my old drives which had only 64MB as well.
Overall Review:
I planned to purchase 6TB drives, but the issue with SMR vs. CMR and Newegg had a great promo deal. Populated my new QNAP NAS with two WD Red 8TB. One disk was immediately recognized, and the other appeared to be DOA. One drive gets a 5 and the other gets a 0, so I am averaging out to 2.5 eggs.
I opened an RMA and shipped back the next day. It has been 6 days, and still no replacement has been shipped from Newegg. Why the delay? Maybe I should have gone with the Seagate Ironwolf drives as originally planned
Pros: Good read & write speeds. (160-170 from one to another)
Cons:
Extremely loud, makes random ticking sounds. Never experienced this with WD before.
Very unnerving. Does not inspire confidence.
Overall Review: Meh.
Pros: cheap
Cons:
SMR write technology!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO NOT USE IN A NAS UNIT!!!!
Overall Review:
I wish I could return all of my newer WD Red EFAX drives in exchange for older EFRX drives with CMR write. I will never buy a SMR type drive ever again. SLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm adding my name to the Western Digital Class action law suit, They hid that fact that they switched to SMR and still called it a NAS drive .
Pros: Might be a good paperweight, that's about it.
Cons: This is not a NAS drive and is being sold as a NAS drive.
Overall Review: I bought this WD Red 6TB back in 12/2019 to go in my Synology DS412+ to replace an existing WD Red 3TB that is 4 years old. WD is now putting out documentation that these drives are actually not NAS rated drives. How could a reputable company let this happen. The whole purpose in buying a NAS rated drive is to put in a NAS system. This drive is barely acceptable for an archival system where you are only doing straight backups with no updates to the data already archived. Stay away at all cost if you want your RAID to stay intact and performing at peak performance. Google class action lawsuit against WD because of this issue. My drive is still in it's original sealed package and I refuse to put it anywhere near my RAID.
Cons:
- When I purchased this drive, it was not labeled as an SMR drive. I replaced some conventional drives with two of these drives about 6 months ago. It took a LONG time to rebuild the array, which seemed normal enough and I was glad to have the extra space. However, it has been an incredibly slow drive ever since as I have a lot of large files that take forever to sync between by two NAS's.
- Because of the slow speed of the shingled magnetic recording, the syncing seems to timeout, then it loses track of changes and I end up with duplicate files. I have done everything I can to troubleshoot this and have come to the conclusion that the only thing it can be is the drive itself.
- There is currently a class action lawsuit against WD for the misrepresentation of these drives as suitable for use in NAS's.
- Don't buy if you want to use in any kind of critical or responsive system.
Overall Review: Would not recommend.
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Pros: Worked for 6 months
Overall Review: I bought a pair of these drives that were NAS "approved" then WD revealed they were SMR drives instead of CMR. Within a few months of use, they were slowing down. In the 7th month, they developed file system errors crashing the NAS. Stay away from.