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First I would not hesitate to recommend this as a primary drive or in PC drive to anyone who would be serving files from the drive to other devices. IMO it performs amazingly, is quiet, cool and has a low power consumption. Corsair choose this drive as the drive of choice in there ultimate HTPC computers over Black drives. When I asked them WHY... they said being it will likely be in a HTPC they wanted something that performed very well and was very quiet. Coming from a huge computer company designed a no compromise system that says a lot. As for my own experience with this drive: I don't know where to start... I bought into this drive because of what the guy who had a lot to do with designing the corsair flagship HTPC said to me about the drive and the reason they decided to go with it. The drive is quiet which coming from a newer velociraptor (extremely quiet) I had some high expectations. It is also very fast and it seems that it handles requests from multiple devices very well. I often see throughput of ~100MB/s even when 3-5 devices are streaming from the drive. To me that is just amazing! The aureal density from it being a 1TB probably plays into it's tremendous speed even when multiple sources are streaming from it. I believe it works better as a NAS drive then my velociraptor which at 1TB and only 2.5" the velociraptor had a great aureal density as well. I run my NAS in a real PC with a good PSU tons a fair amount of memory and CPU power (FOR A NAS). I am guessing if I had run this thing in an enclosure the temperature would play into things and it does run a few C lower than my other drives (except the velociraptor) when they are all idle. I am sure a few degrees in a well vented case is a going to add up to a lot more in a small HD enclosure or NAS enclosure.

Good price

More space than I can ever use. I've said this before, but this time I mean it.

These work wonderfully with my Synology NAS!

Easy to install. Works great. Decent Price.

Non so far

Works as expected in my Synology two drive NAS using RAID 1 (Mirrored) solution. I cannot complain, my previous drive died after 8 yrs so I am going again with WD RED solution.

Works great, had a dead drive, but the three others I got were great. Trouble free replacement on the bad drive. Glad I bought from a reputable source.

Good size, good stuff, good good, skurrttt

Installed two of them without problem in my Synology NAS. The WD80EFBX is in the approved list from Synology. Of course, I cannot comment on long term usage yet.

Good performance under stress

- Formatted cleanly and no errors on extended drive test. - Added to existing array cleanly. - Have been consistently getting 6+ years out of IronWolf drives in 24x7 RAID environment for media server.

Big Best bang for buck value Quiet. I've read reviews whining about noisy hard drives in NAS boxes. My NAS is currently on my desk. I can hear the drive working but they are not loud.

- CMR drive

I've been using Seagate drives for a number of years, but with Seagate exiting the low power drive market and WD entering with a specific NAS drive, I gave them a shot. Was building a Windows Home Server 2011 project and wanted to use them for storage in combination with Stablebit DrivePool. They run pretty cool and quit. The real test is how long the run!

No Problem with these drives. Plug them in, initialize, format and you're off and running. Great 5 year warranty and high duty cycle are the draws here.

The IronWolf is rated as an NAS drive. I used them in an attached external drive in Raid1 for important video content I couldnt afford to lose. I cant speak to longevity but Im confident they will meet and exceed my expectations.

Good performance for 7200 RPM drives Mostly silent operation Running 24/7 in RAID 1 without issues Good value at 350USD each (you may find a different price) CMR technology, 5-year warranty

Has the capacity to hold all of my data. Was easy to install and partition the way I needed. Very quiet operation. I always check user ratings before I purchase; I read the pros and cons and also view other sites where the product is sold. Made the right decision for storage!!!

I am a life long Western Digital fan, sure they have made some mistakes here and there, CRM vs SMR, but every company does. "Knock on wood" I have in 30 years or so of DIY , never had a western Digital HDD drive die on me, had maxtors and seagates. They are plenty speedy enough to server 4k over the LAN for Jellyfin clients.