Every time I use an a different brand drive it fails. I use it in a server, and as the case was, the other brand (seagate) failed.

Purchased 4 disks a year and a half ago for my QNAP TS-412-US and has worked flawlessly. The storage is set up as a RAID 5 configuration, and the theory is I can handle 1 hard drive failure, so I just purchased a spare one as cheap insurance.

I just needed more archive space, and picked up two of these. They perform as expected (and maybe a bit better), but they are only 5400 RPM. They're very quiet. For the price, it's about as good as you'll get.

Quiet Run cool Really good value

Speed (to be expected at 5400 RPM

Quiet drive. Smooth installation. No worries

Replaced my old green drive when 10's of power cuts eventually cause the old thing to die, also purchased from Novatech.

All good

This is the –1TB Platter version of the WD30EFRX that is reviewed earlier. To re-quote my 30EFRX Red drive's review:

WD advertizes the Red-series explicitly for the 24x7-operation in small and medium-sized enterprises and at home in small NAS-/RAID-setups. Precisely because the drives have to run jammed together in confined spaces, solid performance and preferably low temperatures are vital.