Western DigitalHDD Gold 12 TB SATA 256 MB 3.5 Inch

A little noisier than WD reds but they’re in a NAS in the server room (aka cupboard under the stairs) so not an issue at all.5yr warranty and got them at the same price as reds so very happy.

Normally I buy WD red pro drives for my NAS, but this l drive is currently priced cheaper for reasons I don’t understand.Not complaining! It’s a solid, high spec enterprise grade drive with a no quibbles 5 year extended warranty. I had zero issues registering the drive.Used this drive to switch out a 10 year old 3TB WD Red in my Synology NAS. The SHR RAID rebuilt itself with no issues, and it is happily whirring away.I was concerned it might be a lot noisier than the REDs, but I haven’t noticed any real difference from the larger capacity RED Pro drives that I already have.10TB seems to be the cost/capacity sweet-spot right now. I’d definitely buy again next time I need to replace a drive

Great drive, WD know their stuff - much like the rest of the world, I went off Seagate a long time ago (they're probably decent enough now) but I've stuck with WD for years and, hopefully without jinxing it, they've been wonderfully reliable in my Unraid NAS setup 👍WD Golds have been somewhat good value for money - anything <=£200 for an 8TB unit is a steal in my opinion. Enterprise grade reliability and not too loud either - they're a little on the warm side but adequate cooling sorts that out.Highly recommended! I'm running a mixture of WD Reds & Golds in 3-8TB capacities and they're brilliant.

I'm a Mac user who does a lot of sound and video work, requiring fast, robust external hard drives that can handle constant data reads and writes, hour after hour, month after month.A couple of my 10-15-yr old La Cie "d2" drives were making odd little sceeches, throwing up bad blocks, requiring Disc Repair... the tell-tale signs of impending physical failure. I balked at the cost of new d2s, especially when my issue was with the old hard discs inside the enclosures. Furthermore, the old d2s were integrated into my production set-up, and I didn't want to replace all my long data leads, hubs, etc., right now, just because LaCie now favour different transfer protocols on all their pro drives.A bit of research suggested that the hard discs within the d2 enclosures were probably no better than good Western Digital or Seagate ones, so I bought two WD Gold hard discs for the less than the price of a single new d2 drive of equivalent capacity.I'm competent at tech repairs, but not a computer engineer. The d2 enclosures are solid metal, everything is screwed together (no plastic, sticky gunk or double-sided tape), and the boards and connection ports in mine were still in good condition. Swapping out two drives was a doddle, taking about 10-mins per unit, requiring nothing more complicated than a couple of slightly esoteric screwdriver heads.After two months of sound/music production the most-used WD Gold drive has been completely reliable inside the old LaCie enclosure: the whole thing is just like a brand new d2, in fact.

I ordered two 8TB sold and dispatchedform amazon when they were temporarily unavailable. They arrived after about a month and a half new and adequately packaged. Registered warranty with WD no problem. Working fine in Synology DS920.

Delivered in a thin cardboard package that was dropped through my letter box onto a tiled floor with a thud. Has a low thudding noise and runs super hot - and I mean so hot it's hard to touch. Is this normal?

First off these drives aren't cheap and probably not suitable for general users... They aren't even the fastest or quietest drives out there, but I do find them highly reliable and therefore in my use case top choice. I've gone through more hard drives then I can remember, but all my Western Digital Golds are still going strong and in some cases have move through three different computers. I don't even notices as many errors creeping in after three years as with other drives... From personal experience I find I'm pretty lucky if other makes/models of mechanical hard drives are still useable after three years.

Relatively fast, reliable, as described and not made by Seagate!A bit noisy though - with audible clonking noises - not advised for where that might matter.Ignore the poor review on here from the guy that doesn't understand the difference between raw and formatted capacity. For reference 14TB manufacturer raw measurement = 12.73TB formatted without any file system overhead.