I purchased two of these 1TB Red drives 5.5 years ago (Oct 2013). They're installed in a Synology NAS that's up almost 24/7. After 47437 hours of power-on time, one of the drives is finally showing degraded status (thresholded read error rate, sector reallocations, and long spin-up time).

This hard is fast and quite.

I got these to populate a ReadyNAS Duo, network attached storage. I inserted a drive and rebuilt the RAID, then repeated to rebuild the mirror side. No loss of data all.

No issues

I bought 4 of these 2 years ago... if they last another 2 years, I'll be very satisfied. 5 years, and I'll probably have upgraded them before then... and re-purposed for a small server or a couple mirror/stripe set on a workstation. then maybe they'll even last 10+ years. That's the ultimate test.

not one dropped out of my RAID array yet

always better than Seagate

It is a really silent. I don't notice it is work . I hope this product we work for least five years .

I have used several of the WD NAS or quot;Redquot; drives in my home PCs for several years now. They have been up 24/7 with no issue. The room they sit in is not that cool during summer so I wanted a more reliable drive. I expect to use more of these drives in the future.

Great lil hard drive. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Not the fastest hard drive out there, but great for the price. If you want speed,get a ssd. Very simple to set up and install os

It works perfect as a NAS drive as it should. I like the variable speed 54k thru 72K which helps with performance when you need it and energy savings when you don't. I do think it's just a bit pricy for a 1TB. but then again, not by much.

Western Digital's new line of Red drives has been specifically engineered to work with NAS devices. These 3.5-in SATA drives can be installed in most of the common NAS devices on the market including those from the likes of Synology, D-Link and Drobo.

Specially engineered for NAS; Three models from 1TB to 3TB; Improves NAS read and write speeds; Balance Plus tech may boost reliability

The drives demand a small premium; Maybe not for SMBs with light NAS use