Ran a few tests the day I got it and everything seemed fine. Went to use my pc today (8-18) and the drive wouldnt work. All tests I ran failed within the first few hundred megabytes. Fails to delete my data off the drive.

Decent write speeds; About what I expected for a 5400rpm drive

Died after only a few months

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).

Western Digital has launched a new series of hard disks meant for NAS devices. How do they perform?

This hard is fast and quite.

I needed a replacement HDD drive for NAS at work. Over the past few years I have chosen these drives as replacement HDD for servers and NAS due to the claims made by the manufacturer on reliability. The RED's are still in operation and I haven't had any issues or hardware alerts.

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.

Introduction and Testbed Setup Western Digital (WD) introduced hard drives specifically targeted towards NAS systems under the Red branding last month. Jason had some initial coverage at launch time.

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

No issues

Excellent storage drive for storage photos, videos and other files in a NAS or Attached storage array.