Western Digital has expanded their Red line to include an 8TB model, increasing the maximum capacity of 8-bay NAS units to 64TB so that SOHO users can get even more out of their initial server investment.

Lower energy usage than a traditional drive; Optimized for NAS use; Good performance overall

Trailed slightly behind compeititve drive in most tests

Prior to the month or so I have had these drives, I had never had the opportunity to test helium technology. With the launch of the 8TB Red, WD has seemingly stabilized the platform enough to trust it out in the wild with consumers and in introducing this with the NASware 3.0 platform, consumers do...

Welcome to a brave new world, one with two very distinct storage mediums which, in some ways, are no longer actually competing for the same buyers. On one hand we have the SSD, an ultra fast storage format which has no problem featuring titanic throughput numbers but has historically struggled to...

I run two WHS2011 servers each with 17GB onboard and progressively upgrading storage space. Currently have one of these drives in each server and they have been great. Fully intend to replace smaller drives with these over time.

Better, reliable and good speed. Longer warranty period.

Faster than Seagate 8TB Archive HDD Helium filled; for lower work temperatures Good for NAS and Desktop use Hitachi Quality! (HGST

If it crashed then difficult restore data from it

As time progresses, sometimes I wonder how far we have come. For me personally, I still remember when I was still in high school, wondering what I should study in university just like it was yesterday.

Works well in a synology NAS. I have 3 western digital red drives of various sizes in NASes. I like to have a mix of drives and drive manufacturers, and these REDs keep running for years without issues.

I bought 3 of these to put into an external USB 3.0 enclosure to run Windows Storage Spaces in parity mode. Installation & operation has been effortless. Before loading files I ran WD's comprehensive surface test...no flaws. I'm storing media files..

Plug & play

Wish they were cheaper

Paired it with a DiskStation DS216+II, makes 30-50 mbps on gigabit ethernet. You will trade speed for energy consumption and less sound than a 7200 rpm drive.

Bought a pair of these to upgrade my RAID array from 2TB. They are only 5400 RPM so the transfer speeds aren't that impressive (only a pain when moving data to the array) but they run cool and quiet.

-Runs cool and quiet; -Decent performance; -Fast RAID rebuild time

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