WD - Red Plus 8TB Internal SATA NAS Hard Drive for Desktops

My previous 6TB (WD60EFRX) hard drive failed in my DS718+ 2 hard drive NAS. After quite a bit of research, i found that this particular one was an acceptable replacement for the failed drive. I had no issues testing it, installing it, or using it and it has worked great. I've had it for about 1 month now. I have since ordered a 2nd one to have it available in case of abother hard drive failure. This one replaced a WD60EFRX- 68L0BN1

Drive arrived dead. Would not replace the drive without them receiving the defective one back first.

Drive works but only after an RMA and weeks of back and forth. I also hear tell the drives will throw smart errors after 3 years of continuous use regardless of actual health.

WD Red Plus 14TB was sold as bundle of two 14TB, which is exactly what I needed for upgrading my two bay WD MyCloud PR-2100 device (had two 4TB disks). Having a previous bad experience with no backup, I decided to run a RAID 1 configuration (mirrored disks) with an external USB backup. The upgrade took some time (more than a few hours); however, had not complications and running a 14TB mirrored configuration (RAID 1) instead of 28TB (RAID X). The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that the disks are much nosier than the 4 TBs I had. The noise is periodic and so far no performance issues.

After Western Digital helped us order the exact right drives, they have worked flawlessly in our new Synology NAS! Before contacting Western Digital, we had ordered two other sets of drives the were the incorrect drives for our use.