-Definitely recommend the Red drives. I have heard mixed reviews about the higher tier RE drives, but these 'NAS' designed drives have a good reputation, and so far, like all the other WD drives I have owned they are working excellently.

-What you would expect from a WD product; solid drive; excellent speeds

-None at this point

I purchased this drive for use with a Synology NAS. I started having issues with boot sector errors after a 6 months, the drive finally crashed after 9 months. Now I'm having to RMA a replacement and spend hours rebuilding the array. This will be the last Western Digital hard drive I purchase.

Bought some Reds for my NAS about 3 months ago from OcUK. They are in a raidz pool (zfs filesystem) and perform very well. I get ~110 MB/s reading and writing across my network. These are designed for home NAS usage, so their real test will be with time. 3 yr warranty is nice.

Using two of these in a Raid 1 configuration. Plan to buy a couple more for a Raid 1E setup since my LSI card supports it. So far so good. No problems. Haven't tested them for speed but I'm using them for storage only, so I don't need fast drvies.

Western Digital's Red series is definitely a success. It is superior to its predecessor in those parameters we could measure in our tests such as speed, power consumption and temperature.

Bought 4 of these for a FreeNAS setup. After 2 days of thoroughly testing each drive they were installed and have been very quietly humming way in the background... I have always used WD drive's and yet to have a single one ever fail on me, including the one that is in my CarPC. Just good luck?

So far so good with these drives. I currently own 7 of the 2TB version and all work as expected. 6 are setup in a RAIDZ configuration using FreeNAS while the other is a standalone drive. The drives are quiet enough that I cannot hear them sitting only a few feet away.

As like with many other western digital products, with any significant amount of use, the product beings to die within two years. Its only redeaming factor is that the product out lives WD:Blue drives by a measly year.

Western Digital provides the best industry leading Hard Drives available on the Market. Easy to use for our NAS system, and never a doubt as to whether the drive will fail. Installed this in my NAS system, and now have 2 TB of data to ease my comfort.

It's been working well for me over the past month. HD Tune turned up clean and healthy. Good performance and great for storage. I haven't put it through a rigorous enough test but it should perform adequately for most uses.