
-Very Fast Very happy about this drive

The drive was delivered very promptly, within two days. It was a new drive, still unopened, and passed all tests. Note that these are not the latest production run, mine was dated 2013, but this is no problem in my view. These are quality drives with no prior usage.

Simply works and has a lower failure rate (for me) compared to Seagate's purple/surveillance drives. I use around 30 of these at work for >50 HD IP cameras and two NAS racks and the most commonly replaced ones are Seagate and WD Red drives. For some reason the purple WD's last longer and appear to run cooler. These have no issues replacing 4TB reds in a RAID 6 or RAID 10 array.

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.



-1TB Storage -Cheap and affordable

Packaged well. Works like a charm. SMART data looks great. Suggests this is a brand new drive.

Name Brand, only 1 drive has failed in the last 4 years out of 150-200 drives installed. Def recommend.

Ran 4 of these in a storage array for a few years. They replaced a similar array built on smaller SATA drives. Needless to say, they're muuuuch faster than the SATA drives.

I am upgrading from 3tb hdd to 6tb hdd in my server and am having zero issues. The 3tb hdd's performed well but I need more space.

I'm using this drive in a Synology NAS housing (DS118) and so far, I'm very impressed. It's much faster and responsive than whatever was inside my old Western Digital MyCloud Home NAS. Copying is much quicker and I'm also able to use it to run TimeMachine for my Macbook Pro laptop, which didn't really work well on the WD. My experience in the past with external portable drives was that Seagate drives are much more sturdy and reliable. Hopefully, this Iron Wolf from Seagate will also prove to be durable.

These WD HDD's are for my security system servers and they usually last five to eight years. I prefer to buy from Newegg because I still remember they were the first company to really step up the game, and send my stuff the very next day as promised. Way before am zon, who is just out to put the other guy out of business. Newegg never has sent me junk parts, and has always been my PC parts shipper choice.

No problems in 2 years and 1000 hours of use.


Good price 12gb interface Works well so far in my Adaptec raid 5

Its big enough to hold tons of data great packaging it came well protected and works like a charm

Great HD 2TB of space.

The 6 TB version seemed like the best balance between price, size, performance and noise / heat. This is going in a 4 bay NVR which is in a very quiet environment. So far, these drives seem much quieter than the 7200rpm version (during seek) which are being swapped out 1 at a time to allow the RAID rebuilds to catch up. Temps are 10C lower than the 7200 pro version. (37C vs. 47-49C per SMART data.)

Does not throttle under heavy load or copying large file.