Western Digital 16TB WD Red Pro NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5 - WD161KFGX

Seems lists of neg reviews due to warranty “issues” ie, 30 days, 3 mo, 1 yr, and etc. online WD states “in warranty” and their tech support (24/7) stated 5 yr. Amz, Cust service also confirmed. The 14TB Pro drives are amazing. What an upgrade from 2TB/5200/64MB units! They’re also sound the same as my 2TB so no worries there either. Put 5 drives into older Drobo and no issues. Dual redundancy in 30 min. What more to say? Drobo firmware at factory reset, 3.6.1 Dashboard, perfect. Updated firmware and all apps. Oh, 24/7 real person support when I called, no delays and very helpful. Very few products are 100% perfect, this is one. Price was excellent on Prime Day as well.

Drives are fine as long as they are consistently running, but they get noisy going from sleep mode and back. I am using in a personal raid 1 archive and they work great, but these drives are made more for a server array.

Bought four to add to my Synology NAS. Its only rated up to 14TB, but these worked just fine. No issues so far, but its been less than a week.

So far works like a dream, I know it was built for businesses but I am using it for large video files, video games, etc. Hasnt failed on me and its been about 2 months since install. Was hoping to transfer my O.S. onto it but I just ended up wiping the original hard drive and then reinstalling all my games on this one.

I have some WD drives from 2009 that are still running (WD Cavier Black) with little to no bad sectors. Other drives I have since 2016 are performing similarly. This unit has better performance characteristics due to the cache size. If it last as well as my previous units, I will be very happy with the purchase.

read and write speed is big improvement compared to wd red plus. put it in my wd mybook duo 2017, raid 1 mode/mirrored.

I bought it for my NAS. Great service, easy to install and works well!

The drives turned up and are running very happily in my NAS.

Im not going to write a lot of prose here. If, for whatever reason, you need an 18TB hard drive, a one of these will be your best bet. Even if its not for a NAS system (And my use case wasnt), NAS drives do have increased durability and resistance to problems, and at this size, even if you could possibly recover from losing that much space easily, you dont want to unless you have to.

Affordable Price