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| Brand | Western Digital |
|---|---|
| Series | WD Red Plus HDD |
| Item model number | WD80EFPX |
| Item Weight | 1.58 pounds |
| Product Dimensions | 11.81 x 11.81 x 11.81 inches |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 11.81 x 11.81 x 11.81 inches |
| Color | Red |
| Flash Memory Size | 8 TB |
| Hard Drive Interface | Serial ATA-600 |
| Manufacturer | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. |
| Language | English |
| ASIN | B0CMQ6SK7W |
| Date First Available | November 22, 2023 |
Western Digital 8TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 5640 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5″ – WD80EFPX
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4.6 out of 5 stars |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #16 in Internal Hard Drives #281 in Computer Internal Components |
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Specification: Western Digital 8TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 5640 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5″ – WD80EFPX
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Western Digital 8TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 5640 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5″ – WD80EFPX
$173.36
Jeffery Jelinski –
EFBX drives are quiet, reliable, and pretty fast. This was a good generation for Western Digital. These are CMR drives with large caches and perform pretty decently. I run a pair of QNAP TR-004 enclosures, one with 4 x 8TB and one with 4 x 10TB, all WD Red Plus EFBX. Both in RAID 5 for a total of 24TB and 30TB respectively. They make for reasonably fast, responsive protected storage for media streaming, emulation, big media projects, and long-term archival. If I were really serious about protecting my data I’d do the same thing with SSDs or keep an offsite backup. However for this computer nerd of a few decades, it’s nice to just have a big blob of storage to keep all my files on. Spinning disks keep things cheap enough for now, and RAID 5 provides just enough security to sleep at night. As spinning disks start to go the way of the dodo, it’s going to get increasingly difficult to buy good ones without compromises in the normal consumer space. These are part of a dying breed of hardware. SSDs will overtake them in value and it won’t be soon enough.
Raltar –
Pros:Time Limited Error Recovery (TLER) for NAS/RAID usage.Price premium much lower/insignificant compared to what it used to be for NAS/RAID drives.Low power/Low temp.Cons:Warranty only 3 years (What happened to the 5-year warranties, WD?)I’ve seen failures in many drives from Seagate, WD, and other vendors in the past. Hard drives fail. Even SSDs fail sometimes. That’s why RAID configurations are so popular. All versions of RAID configuration (except for RAID 0) introduce redundancy, such that if any single drive fails, no data need be lost. Full redundancy can be regained by rebuilding the array with a replacement drive, theoretically keeping your data safe from single single points of hardware failure indefinitely.These NAS drives go one step further in that their behavior is optimized for a RAID environment. In particular, Time Limited Error Recovery (TLER) allows them to rely on the redundancy built into the RAID controller and the overall array to handle the sorts of errors which will inevitably pop up at some point. This reduces risks to data that can be caused by the behaviors of regular desktop disks, whose designers optimized them for environments where there is no RAID array backup. I have been running RAID arrays regularly with desktop drives for over 6 years now, and it’s been a pretty frequent occurrence where a drive would suddenly have to be rebuilt for no apparent reason. In all likelihood, the reason was just a few bad sectors on the disk, which happens all the time. The total failure rate of drives in a RAID has been a little above normal, but the total rebuild rate without total failure has been very high. Read up on TLER, and you’ll understand why that is expected behavior with desktop drives but not with NAS drives. The total drive rebuild process is actually fairly risky to the integrity of the data, considering that in most configurations there is no redundancy while this is happening. Therefore, making sure that a total rebuild doesn’t happen unless necessary is a pretty good idea if you want to protect your data. That’s why I am upgrading my RAID arrays with these drives.In response to the reviewer who complained that the WDIDLE3 issue affects these drives:I just bought 4 of these drives in the 1TB version from Amazon. (July 2015) All are model WD10EFRX. I ran WDIDLE3 /R to read the current value of the timer on all four of them before connecting them to my RAID controller. All four came set to 300 seconds (5 minutes.)This is a very reasonable value for most NAS/RAID usage, and certainly not as problematic as the 8 second timer that caused the well-known problems on some previous WD drives. If you’re using these to mount an OS drive or a drive in Windows, that 5 minute timer will probably never be invoked. If you’re using these on a 24/7 NAS or for non-OS storage in Linux like I do, that timer could lead to considerable power savings and reduced average temperatures, the latter of which will probably extend the life of the drive, not shorten it.The only way I could see the 300 second idle timer being a problem is if you’re running a script that causes disk access every 6 minutes (or 10 or 15.) i.e. if there’s something that regularly forces spin-up right after the disk idle has gone into effect. In that case, WDIDLE3 is included on the ultimate boot CD version 5.3.5 and can be used to disable the timer. An idle timeout of 300 seconds is a pretty good feature in most cases, though.P.S. I have four more 3TB versions of this drive in transit for my NAS (the 1TBs were for my linux desktop) I will check the default WDIDLE3 values on them as well and post here if they prove to be different.
Jeff N –
Jan 7, 2023: I was able to install it without much difficulty and it’s been working well for about 2 weeks now. Since it’s larger than 4TB, a different formatting procedure was required than I was used to; to be able to access the full capacity of the drive. It has a distinctive sound from my other drives, but it’s not unreasonably noisy. Hopefully it will be reliable.It was packaged with adequate insulation and factory sealed. This one was made in Thailand on Nov 4, 2023, ordered on Nov 23 and received on Nov 29, 2023; so freshly produced. 5 stars for now.
mysteriousplayer –
Replace an SSD and a SATA drive with this one and I gotta say it’s pretty good. I can’t really say anything about noise since my office has a few systems with audible fans which I wouldn’t say are loud but definitely not completely quiet. Transferring big files like zip or iso are really fast and big groups seems fast as well. Happy with the price and performance so far.Update… Was making a sound but I noticed it stopped when I held down my PC. So it seems like the drives rotates really fast and if parts in your case are just a little loose you will hear some noise. I opened up my case made sure everything around the drive was secured and so far no loud noise.
S. Demirjian –
I’m using this in an external drive bay for my computer backup. This has enough capacity to store several full backups. Drive is fast, and quiet. I’ve had very good luck with WD NAS drives, six smaller capacity units in my NAS now well over six years on 24/7.
PhoebusXS –
I bought 4 of the 12TB version of these (exact model: WD120EFBX).I was using 4 of Ironwolf 4TB before switching to these, and those 4TB ones had *significantly* louder noise than these 12TB ones (subjectively, it feels like 5x-10x the noise in the same setup).If I have my ear directly in contact with the NAS case, I can hear the periodic PWL noise, but from anywhere above 10cm away, there’s no noise at all during idle. That was my biggest concern before purchasing, but seems it’s not even remotely an issue. Just make sure you have some sound and vibration dampening.During load there’s barely any noise at all as well. For my old drives, I needed to move the movies to my SSD drive before streaming them on my TV to not get disrupted. With these, I can just access the files whenever I want without even noticing.They run so quietly, I am genuinely impressed. I’m *extremely* sensitive to all kind of noises and these are no issues at all.A bit more detail on my setup for your reference: I’m using these inside of a QNAP NAS (TS-466C) which came with vibration absorption mounting brackets, and I use 4 spring loaded anti-vibration feet underneath the NAS case. This is then set on the wooden TV console in the open.Hopefully this help with more people choosing a quiet drive for smaller setups.
fuel98rider –
I have always used the WD Red drives in my servers and NAS units since they brought them out…this is going all the way back to the WHS 2011. They are good drives, economically priced and last for ever in the right conditions. I recently migrated over from a WHS box to a WD server, and these were the natural choice for it. They were recognized immediately and set up quickly in the WD server. As I monitor the health, there have been no critical issues for the drives in the 7 months they’ve been in the WD server. I recently added two more 4TB drives in the Raid 1 function, which now gives me 8TB of secure and stable storage. This matches the level of performance that my original 4- 1TB Red drives I had in my WHS 2011 server, which to this day, is still showing as healthy in the pooled drive array as reported in the SMART monitoring.
Alfred –
I have a Western Digital MyCloud 2 Ex Ultra NAS on my home system. I got it with two 4Tb hard drives which were not enough capacity for my growing needs. I needed to upgrade this storage.I ordered these two 10Tb Red NAS drives which were delivered in a couple of weeks. I’d not done a NAS upgrade before so I was a bit nervous. However the process went extremely simply. Following the WD directions downloaded from their website I first opened the dashboard software and advanced to the point where it enabled upgrading the NAS. Then I opened the access door on the MyCloud 2, unscrewed the retaining bracket, and pulled the 4Tb drive #1 out of the NAS. I did NOT power off per the instructions. Dashboard detected this and asked me to wait for a couple of minutes. Soon it was ready for the new drive so I moved two screws and a handle from the 4Tb to the new 10Tb. The new drive dropped into the NAS and the rebuild process started without me doing anything. It took a few minutes for the Dashboard to update the progress indicator. It took about 9 hours to build the first 10Tb drive. When progress got to 50% the dashboard asked for the second 10Tb drive and the drive #2 spot on the NAS glowed red. It was a simple matter to pull the #2 4Tb drive, move the handle to the 10Tb, and insert the 10Tb into the NAS #2 slot. The rebuild started right up. In the morning when I woke up, the process had been completed and all 10Tb were on line. There was nothing else that I needed to do! I was amazed that the process went this simply. Kudos to Western Digital!!!
Michael S. Stark –
Great price. Arrived a day earlier than promised. Well packaged. Best of all… my Nas is now fully sync’ed so my data is protected and that darn alarm is no longer going off…. thanks guys. Will definitely use you again!!!
attila74attila74 –
I have a few external hard drives with Final Cut Pro video editing projects, and my MacBook Pro internal SSD, which 1TB. Altogether about 8 TB of data. Took about 20 hours to initially back up all of that with time machine. It works great.