
plugged in, has worked for the past two weeks. No overt warnings about excessive bad sectors

Name Brand, only 1 drive has failed in the last 4 years out of 150-200 drives installed. Def recommend.

fast and lots of cache

I chose WD for they have never failed me as other drives have failed. I hope to update this review in a couple of years and report on the status of this drive.

Friendly on the wallet if it can last the warranty duration!

Very Fast. At 8 TB it is just the right size for me to not grow out of for a while.


Solid product and shipped fast.

Speed 250 MBytes + per sec. Reliable just as WD Black HDD are. So far so good after 1 month.

I rely on these drives for my work PCs, and have trusted WD black going back to the Velociraptor days 20 years back. Only issue I had on latest purchase, was defective drive that had been cut open and repackaged to look like a new return but was defective with "cyclic redundancy error." Luckily Newegg shipped me a fast replacement and that worked first try, as per usual. Whew!


Working great after about a week. Sure seems like it's faster than my old one.

Quiet. Large capacity. No annoying seek clatter or spinning. These replaced some old Seagate Barracudas 7200.8 HDDs and I am impressed.

Price per TB


Used to expand my NAS, arrived promptly and was well packaged. No complaints.

For Synology NAS users, the Synology brand drives means easier adoption, less headaches and fewer notifications. The extra small pennies/gb price per GB over other enterprise drives with worth it. No need to worry about compatibility with many features of DSM 7.1

Keeping in line with Western Digital’s other newer drives, this one is a lot quieter in terms of vibration. Speeds are pretty decent overall and on par with what I would expect (see other for speeds). Cheaper than the Red drives with most of the benefits. These drives don’t appear to experience the same slow spin-up that some full on NAS drives do. 1TB drives are extremely cheap these days so you can buy a bucket load of them compared to even a few years ago.

- Capacity - Speed - Buffer size - Reliability

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