WD Red 3TB NAS Desktop Hard Disk Drive - Intellipower SATA 6 Gbs 64MB Cache 35 Inch - WD30EFRX

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WD Red 3TB NAS Desktop Hard Disk Drive - Intellipower SATA 6 Gbs 64MB Cache 35 Inch - WD30EFRX

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Quality

I went with the red plus as it is the proven tested drive by synology and it is not that expensive.

Positive Review

Typically i'm a seagate guy but for the price and quality this was a great deal.

Positive Review

These drives perform very well - on a par with the 4's i removed.

Neutral Review

Then do the same with the other drive.

Neutral Review

Price

Got this on amazon prime day for a pretty good price.

Positive Review

Packaging/appearance

Easy to replace and synology was able to repair without issue.

Positive Review

I bought two of the 12tb drives to extend my windows storage pool.

Neutral Review

My synology was getting full and it was time to upgrade.

Neutral Review

Competitiveness

I have three synology nas that i use these drives in and have been very happy.

Positive Review

Drive works great, its pretty fast and works well in my synology 720+ without any issues.

Positive Review

Bought two 4tb drives and put them in raid 1 aka mirrored so if one dies i don't loose any data.

Negative Review

25 inch bay adapter, with at least a 80cm cooling fan.

Neutral Review

I'm running a 60gb ssd that holds my windows 10 pro os, and then i have several other much larger internal drives that i store ... Read More

Neutral Review

Overview

How are reviewers describing this item?
red, two, great, new and plus.

Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.

Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 1657.

Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.

This product had a total of 21,587 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 24 2020.

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Most positive review

been using it for close to 2 years no issues at all

Least positive review

Drive is fine. Beware Amazon’s packaging. Drive was in foil bag and had single layer of bubble wrap over that. Then placed i... Read More

Most authentic review

I'm an HTPC enthusiast, and I'm using this 10TB red drive in my Windows HTPC. I'm running a 60GB SSD that holds my Windows 10 P... Read More

I'm an HTPC enthusiast, and I'm using this 10TB red drive in my Windows HTPC. I'm running a 60GB SSD that holds my Windows 10 Pro OS, and then I have several other much larger internal drives that I store my audio/video files on. I would not recommend installing your operating system on a hard drive this large. I can only imagine the problems you'd run into. I have been running these red drives as extra storage for awhile now, and they work extremely well for the intended purpose. I've been replacing my smaller green drives as they have aged, and it's sad that WD doesnt make the green drives in these larger sizes. I've only found the blue drives in sizes up to 6TB, so these larger red drives really fit the bill. They are the only 5200rpm WD drives I can find this large. If I run out of space in the main hard drive bay, I always install them in a 5.25 inch bay adapter, with at least a 80cm cooling fan. The main drive bay has a bigger fan of it's own. Make sure you have a fan blowing on these large drives. Without proper cooling they can reach temps of 50C+ really quick, and that can mean a loss of your precious files. I've been collecting stuff for 25+ years and I cant risk a loss. So, I always do a full format on my new drives from the start. Its a great way to test a new drive before you start moving those files over to the new drive. A full format on a 10TB hard drive will take around 12.5 hours, so just let it run overnight. Your fully formatted size will be 9314GB under the Windows OS. If you dont understand that then search the internet, it's everywhere as to why. This drive was sold as a Plus drive, but I didnt see it printed anywhere on the drive as you can see. It doesnt matter to me though, because I will not being using it in a NAS system. I wasnt real happy about the manufactured date because it was almost a year ago. Would've preferred a drive with a more recent date. Other than those 2 things, I havent run into any issues with these red drives. They function really well for extra storage in my HTPC, and I'm going to buy more as the size increase. I sure do wish WD would make green or blue drives in these sizes, not sure why they dont. Read Less

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