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

My older hard drive and external enclosure failed (it was time for sure). This was a solid replacement to use for Time Machine backup. I partitioned into two for additional file storage for movies. Plus you can hardly hear this drive spinning.

I have been trying to replace this device for my NAS the software it comes with was only good to wipe the drive but could never duplicate my Seagate NAS OS as every time I tried duplicating it failed. Finally after I bought a off cloning drive and cloned it boom turned on. I would like to replace this drive with another new one because of times I had to wipe it and replace, during the process the drive got super hot, it had some personal info copied scared to send it back and get a replacement.

no instruction, no warranty papers, etc. now I am not sure if that item is new or a returned repackage item. I have not decided to keep it or return it . I have never received an electronic/computer part or device that did not contain those documents. Also no instructions on how and where to register the HDD. I will update this when and if I decide to keep or return it.

Over the past 2 years I have bought 8 of the WD Red Pro and 4 of the WD purple drives off Amazon. Of the 12 in total only one has been DOD. Checking my cameras the one that was dead on delivery was found to have been chucked 10ft across my porch to the door by the Amazon driver. My advice to you, make sure you can be home to greet the driver and you will have some great drives.

My laptop didt find the HDD. Went to Disk management and did some adjustments later laptop detected

If you own a WD NAS I strongly suggest you get the WD red pros not the Seagate IronWolf series due to potential formatting and pin voltage issues. Great hard drive and great reliability for the price if you live that long that is.

Used this to replace a failed drive in my NAS. Installed smoothly, and its storing information. The most important feature of any hard drive by *far* is longevity, and I wont know that for quite a while. But initial impression is it works just fine.

These took under a minute each to install into my Synology DS920+ NAS. Since it was all new gear, I let it do a through drive check as part of initializing which took a long time. I think it may ave been about two days. In theory, I could have used it during this time, but I just started it and ignored it. During installation, the 920 whines about any accessories (memory, drives) that arent Synologys own and that included these. On the 922, they change from whining to much more obnoxious contrived incompatibilities, but this combination was chosen because exactly once, during insteallation, it warns you that its not a supported combination and thats that. Probably if there were a support issue involving data loss, theyd remind you of that oath you took to not complain, but in reality this is a very common combination that works quite well. Fan and normal noise is quite minimal. There was a noticeable clunk during a head seek. I reduced this by offlining the unit so I could remove power then applying the fuzzy half of a hook-and-loop fastener to the bottom of the bottom rail. That gave it support and a little bit of padding so the metal cage didnt serve as a drum skin for the oh-so-tiny motion that got amplified when transferred to the sheet metal. Im looking forward to getting many, many years from these drives, like I did from the 4TB WD these are replacing. Those drives have no reading errors. Size grows and no drives are infallible, so I opted to replace them on my schedule (OK, and on Amazon Day special. :-) ) instead of letting the drive pick its own replacement day, taking my data with it.

Bought two of these for a mirrored data partition setup in a server. Within maybe 15 minutes they were running noticeably warm and within an hour they were both running hot enough that it was painful to try to keep your hand up against the side of them for more than maybe 10-15 seconds. Shipped and sold by Amazon btw - just cause others had mentioned issues with drives sold by third party sellers. My only other experience with Western Digital 10TB drives was with an external drive (not sure if it was a red drive inside it but....) that failed a little under a year so Im not optimistic about these but they were what was available when we needed them. 4 stars because even though theyre working now, I think that at some point were going to have to swap these drives out even if they dont fail just because of the fact that the whole rig is running that much hotter because of these little branding irons. Thats going to be a pain and take hours of downtime to transfer the data - all of which I wouldnt have to deal with if these ran cooler like they shouldve out of the box. Not sure if they just arent made to handle RAID 1. Ill update the review when/if something fails. Fingers crossed.

Excellent, and got these at a great price too.