both dead on arrival

I must be lucky in that I've never experienced a new hdd being doa before, now I have 2 sitting here on my desk. There aren't a lot of reviews here on ME for this drive, but some other sites seem to be getting a near 50/50 positive to negative review on these wd red drives, which is unfortunate, I've always trusted western digital drives, maybe I need to rethink that. I guess I wait and see what my options are, if I get a satisfactory resolution I will make sure to update my rating

Decent speeds; ~150 MB/s sustained reads and writes. Inaudible during operation.

None. It's unfair to compare its performance to that of an SSD.

Works as advertised, quick sustained read and writes, good choice for a backup drive. Recommended.

1 of the 3 drives I bought for my NAS failed within 2 years of purchase. These drives are advertised to have an extremely low failure rate but 1 in 3 seems pretty high to me.

Have been very reliable, quiet

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I have three of these drives in my Synology 418play, I will be purchasing the 4th drive soon

-fast -reliable -good price

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I bought three for my NAS a year or so ago and they have been silent, fast and reliable since then (this has not always been my experience with other drives). Planning on picking up another if I get low on space.

Capacity, price, designed for NAS environments.

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Have 2 of these running in a Synology DS213J. Average temps around 27 degrees and silent. Very happy with them.