Swapped out an old 3tb green drive for this. Western Digital has the best reputation and the drives are affordable.

Don't skimp on your NAS drives. These are worth the extra cash.

Disc arrived for the ReadyNas Nas storrage and have worked without and problems since install - 3 weeks ago So no early life failures.

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The WD Red 4TB is specifically developed with the use in NAS devices in mind, so you shouldn't use it in a desktop PC. Western Digital claims that the disks have been optimised for a usage scenario of 24 hours a day, 365 days a year thanks to the NASWare firmware.

Western Digital's RED series is quite unique since it was from the ground up for home-use RAID environments and to compliment WD's other NAS-centric products like the SE and RE . This is very much a middle-of-the road type product which hopes to bring mass storage to a desktop environment for those...

Mechanical hard disk drives have been around for decades now but it wasn't until the introduction of the first NAS (network attached storage) and digital NVR (network video recorder) models that the need for different models was even considered by manufacturers.

- Build Quality (MTBF Of 1.000.000 Hours; - Good Read/Write Performance; - NASware 3.0 Features; - Low Temperatures; Noise Levels & Power Consumption; - 24/7 Support & 5 Years Warranty

- Overall Performance & Price (Compared To the Competition

WD's Red 4TB HDD expands on the company's current offering with 33% more raw storage capacity than previously available in the same 3.5" form factor with a 6Gb/s SATA interface. The WD Red line also features 1TB, 2TB, and 3TB models, but now consumers and small businesses with one- to five-bay NAS...

At 4TB; this is now the largest hard drive available from WD that is tuned for NAS applications; Performs better than the Seagate NAS 4TB and the WD Red 3TB in single-drive benchmarks; Ranks very well in a multi-drive RAID5 setting in our Synology NAS environment

Slipped behind the 4TB Seagate NAS HDD in multi-drive small block sequential transfer speeds