One of the two drives I ordered was dead out of the box. The other worked fine. Called B&H and then sent a new one out immediately. A bit of a hassle in that the quickest way to get it is for them to charge it as a new purchase on your credit card and then reimburse you when you send the faulty...

I'm currently using these drives in my NAS and my Server. They run beautifully, without over heating and transfers are very fast and reliable. I have an personal VM server running with these drives in a raid config! Love love love it!

These came recommended by a friend to use for a NAS System. I bought also the Qnap TVS663 (6 bay system) and they are working great in a Raid 5 scenerio. I'm tired of having o spend 1000.00 to have a drive restored. The average cheap store drive I will never buy again.

I didn't use the drive as a main drive, just for backing things up. Slowly my PC started taking longer and longer to boot up. Then the drive disappeared. Windows scanned it a few times and sometimes it would come back. It only has a month return policy. AVOID.

Can't find my original reviews, so figured I'd do a new one. Brief setup of NAS (all are WD Reds): 1 set of 5 2TB jbod (not on all of the time), 2 raid 10s with 4x4TB drives each (on 24/7). The jbod was set up first and a year or so later the raid 10s were added. Finally, a drive went bad.

reliable - lots o' space -quiet

- one finally went bad

I wanted to expand my NAS storage for multimedia purposes. Paired with Synology 218 i run 4k UHD HDR videos in my network without breaking a sweat. Raid 0 as i need more space not security of the files. I am happy with the result.

These hard drives are made for 24hr use in a Network Hard Drive systems. Well manufactured to stand the rugged environment of 24/7 abuse. Highly recommended.

Have 2 of these running in a Synology DS213J. Average temps around 27 degrees and silent. Very happy with them.

Capacity; price; designed for NAS environments

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Have two of these paired with an older Seagate, solid performance in the NAS so far, considerably cooler than the old Seagate solution, hopefully work well for the years to come.

I purchased these drives for a NAS. They perform well and provide ample storage with great performance. I will be back for more when I need to increase my storage.