WD Red Plus 6TB NAS 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive – 5400 RPM
WD Red Plus 6TB NAS 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive – 5400 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 64MB Cache
For Small or Medium Businesses
Stream, backup, share, and organise your digital content with a NAS and WD Red Plus drives designed to effortlessly share content with the devices at your home or business. NASware 3.0 technology increases your drives’ compatibility with your existing network and devices. For larger businesses with up to 24-bays, count on WD Red Pro drives to deliver exceptional performance.
24/7 Environment
Since your NAS system is always on, a reliable drive is essential. With an MTBF of up to 1 million hours, the WD Red Plus drive is engineered to tackle 24/7 environments.
3D Active Balance Plus
Helps ensure your data is protected from excessive vibration and noise in a NAS or RAID environment. This dual-plane balance control reduces the degradation of your drive over time.
Cooler operations and enhanced reliability
By reducing power consumption, the operating temperature of your NAS stays cool. With a lower temperature in your system, you can create a more reliable solution for your NAS.
Upgrade to WD Red Pro
Upgrade to WD Red Pro for up to 24-bay support.
The Power of Red comes to SSD
Boost your NAS system’s performance and responsiveness with the WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD. Unlike standard SSDs, WD Red NAS SATA SSDs are purpose built for endurance and efficient caching.
Step up to enterprise-class performance
Specifically designed for use in enterprise-class storage systems and data centers, the WD Gold Enterprise Class HDD delivers the world-class performance you expect from Western Digital hard drives.
HDD
Technology
HDD
Up to 8 Bay systems
NAS Bay Support
Up to 8 Bay systems
5400
RPM Class
5400
up to 14TB
Capacity
up to 6TB
RAID Support
1M hours
MTBF
1M hours
SATA 6 Gb/s
Interface
SATA 6 Gb/s
HDD
Technology
HDD
Up to 8 Bay systems
NAS Bay Support
Up to 24 Bay systems
5400
RPM Class
7200
up to 14TB
Capacity
up to 20TB
RAID Support
1M hours
MTBF
1M hours
SATA 6 Gb/s
Interface
SATA 6 Gb/s
- WD Red
- WD Red Pro
| Weight: | 844 g |
| Dimensions: | 19.05 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm; 844 Grams |
| Brand: | Western Digital |
| Model: | WDBAVV0060HNC-WRSN |
| Manufacture: | Western Digital |
| Dimensions: | 19.05 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm; 844 Grams |
I bought this to replace a broken drive in my ReadyNas 204. It works well and without excess noise.
purchased couples of these to replace the fautly 6TB Red drive. I found it pain to restore 6TB data at once so I decided to replace it with couple smaller drives instead. all drives working well on the synology nas DS920+ for couple months already and I never turn the nas off.
The drive is perfectly fine, it’s silent and doesn’t get too hot.
I’m using it with a Raspberry Pi 3B+ as a local media storage box for movies, music, backups etc.
However, for a better price, at around 90, you can get the model with 256MB of cache (WD40EFPX) directly from WD UK.
Also, this model is incorrectly labelled on Amazon, it’s the 128MB cache version, not 64MB, model number WD40EFZX.
It definitely seems to sound louder than an identical WD Pro 18tb I purchased 3 weeks ago for some reason.
There is a noticeable rattle sound when the drive is in read/write operation, whereas the other drive is silent. Installed in a PC case it is not so audible.
However, it is operating perfectly, and I am not expecting any reliability issues in the future.
Use these on our NAS drives and they are extremely reliable. They run constantly and rarely fail.
I’ve had the drive for a few weeks now and it is absolutely performing to expectations.
It is in a Synology DS720 NAS with an equivalent Seagate 4GB drive to mirror content.
So far I have been able to backup the files from my older NAS without any issue and additional files from my network. The NAS reports the drives as operational and working effectively.
Hopefully this will continue – I will edit if any problems occur.
Time will tell, the last one of these lasted about five years in my NAS.
Purchased to extend storage on a Synology NAS – appear to be working perfectly. Time will tell I guess. They appear to be at least as performant as my previous pair of NAS drives (one of which finally started to fail after many years of constant service).
I have been using WD Red Pro drives since 2013, running in continuous 24/7 operation I have experienced no problems whatsoever.
I will continue to use them as my preferred storage drive
These are very reliable drives. I’ve got 5 of them and 4 are 7 years old and still healthy & running.
Bought this for my NAS and works like a dream. Very expensive and you lose over 1TB of space due to how WD calculate data space. They use 1000mb and should be using 1024.
I really like WD drives for my QNap, really easy to install slide old one out put new one in and away it goes and rebuilds itself.
That said the reason for my 4 stars is that one of my drives recently failed on me after 2 years. I would have expected them to last longer however such is life.
The little added cost of getting Red Plus outweighs the problems of regular Red drives. Its not a,Red Pro but much better than plain Red
It’s not the quietest but its not bad
Using this is a raid with an existing 3tb setup meant buying a higher capacity drive pointless.
Three months in. No issues. Read write speeds and what they should be.
I bought this hard drive as I’ve had good experience with Western Digital spinning drives before. It is used in a normal computer setup, not a NAS, as the computer is on 24/7, so the hard drive is better build to stay on 24/7 compared to a regular hard drives. It sounds quiet, the seek is barely audible and only then if the case of your computer cover is open. As for heat, when I copied over my few TB of data to the new drive, the drive was warm, but not burning hot to the touch. The 5400 spin rate is enough for my needs, as it’s mostly to behave like a desktop drive (not for the operating system), not something where access speed is critical – but it’s not a slow drive!
And so far, they work as a RAID array flawlessly.
The four I have are installed in a Silverstone four drive hot-swap bay at the front of my computer and I can barely hear them.
I was so impressed with them that I have just purchased another four of them to expand my RAID array even further.
UPDATE. I bought another four of these drives (as mentioned above) and one of them was Dead on Arrival. The system can see it, but it is reported as being 0GB in size with 0GB free space. I have tried this faulty drive on two separate hard drive controllers and get the same result. This isn’t the first time I have had a drive turn up dead on arrival but it is very rare.
I’ve got mine in a DS120j by Synology and am using it as a remote backup for our main NAS at home.
Detected as soon as the DS120j booted up and performing great.
Nice to have a little offsite peace of mind backing up the most important files with HyperBackup on our main NAS.
Drive works as expected, but produces a constant high pitched whistle (like an old tv) which can be heard all the time and very annoying! Might have to return as it’s unbearable late at night..
Hope it lasts longer than the one it replaced.
The previous wd red disc lasted 3 years and 2 months. Yes, 2 months outside of warranty.
I bought the WD Red Pro 6TB NAS 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive as a replacement for my
Seagate Barracuda XT drive, the drive has a decent capacity but its noisier than the
Seagate Barracuda XT, would not use the WD Red Pro 6TB NAS 3.5 in a NAS.
As for the drive it was registered with WD straight away so I could confirm it was in region. I was worried about this after reading other reviews on here, but this has checked out ok. One word of warning to future buyers – make sure you know or check if you need. CMR or SMH drive. For my NAS I definitely needed a CMR drive and the correct item was shipped. 4 Tb resync completed in about 11 hours. So far so good.
These will work in a NAS if matched with the same in a RAID 1 or 2 array. Personally I would not use them.
WD RED PLUS are CMR conventional tracks, these are the better drives for a rock solid NAS. I have had 2 WD RED CMR older drives in a 2 Bay NAS for over 6 years, quiet and faultless. These have now been transferred to a QNAP 4 BAY NAS along with the 2 new WD RED PLUS drives I have just purchased. As you can see from the photos, the drives are new in original well packaged WD Boxes with suspended holders, silica gel and fixing screws. Once installed you can see from the photos and the SMART info, they are EFRX (CMR) drives with only the 2 hours use they have been in the NAS. All in all very pleased with Amazon and the purchase.
This disk drive was everything I was expecting ! I unpacked it from it’s manufactures box and hot swapped it in my Synology DS418Play and it is now rebuilding as it should.
Thank you excellent service.
Well my old WD MyCloud slowed to the point of being useless so I took it to bits and paired the drive in there with this, its twin in a Netgear NAS housing, all working perfectly now!
Very quiet, efficient drives and perfect for NAS or PC storage.
The model I was shipped is not SHINGLED!!! YAY!!
it’s working perfectly on my Synology, and it wasn’t kicked out when rebuilding the array. Very happy with this, it’s a shame I didn’t buy 3 more for spares when I purchased this one as all the new WD Red under 6TB are now Shingled 🙁
I’ve have 8 of these in a Synology 3612 as a raid 6 array (they’ve been in there since the reds came out, previously was running RE’s which were bullet proof but these are a lot cheaper). On average I need to replace at least one per annum. The earliest I’ve had one fail is at about 17000 hours, so now I’m scrapping them at about 20000 if they’re still running.
Been using this since November – it is being used as part of a Linux Home Server – it has had no downtime yet, and is still quiet as ever.
Can pick up in noise when the room DB drops, but that is to be expected.
Perceptibly quieter than the backup drive it replaced in a 2 drive caddy – not NAS just a normal caddy. Read write almost silent, speed seems good. Was dubious about using an NAS spec drive for normal backup but it copied 200GB from previous drive quickly and with no apparent errors. Day to day all performing well. I hope to benefit from the longer MTBF of NAS drives but only time will tell.
This is exactly what to expect from a nas drive. It was easy to install. As simple as pluging it in to the relevant cable in your computer. It was detected by windows and didnt need any complicated installation. It was surprisingly fast for a hdd. And can’t hear it at all when the computer is on. I got this on offer and think it is excellent value for around 100
I still dislike the fact that 2 TB actually equals 1.86 TB due to the different calculation used for marketing purposes but this will probably not change anytime soon.
Waiting for the right time and price, I got a pair of these 6TB NAS WDs to fit, and they are great.
Of course, I checked 100% compatible for my NAS and I suggest you do the same.
Very quiet, storage is resonable, I didn’t need massive amounts. WD REDs are perfect for most NAS systems.
Bought to replace old WD RED which is faulty now and according to my NAS S.M.A.R.T status it last 5 years and 8 months of non stop use 24/7 of streaming, downloading, backup and web hosting. Which in my opinion is not bad. Have to mention that first HDD I received was dead on arrival and Amazon send quick replacement.
I had to bite at the price of only 64.99 for 3 Tb of a solid hard drive. I realised that I could not partition the drive easily using windows 10 so I decided to leave it as one big hard drive and just transfer the folders I wanted onto there.
I do not turn my computer off much anyway as I might be downloading over night so this was a really no brainer to me especially now as it has went back up to 107.99
This is an excellent hard drive I already have 5 others and it can survive the post when you get retail packaging as mine got thrown into the porch, seconds after the doorbell rang. As I had to check to see if it is still functional before I could make a claim to Amazon, the drive turned out to be perfect after an extensive testing writing and reading 18 hours.
Already use WD Red in another NAS and have experienced 100% reliability 4 years on from the install. These new ones are for my new QNAP NAS and were as expected easy to install and set-up with no errors detected. This is just an initial review but fully expect long use. These WD Red drives are simply a bargain when purchased via Amazon Warehouse!
I have always gone for the WD option when choosing a HDD and have yet to be disappointed.
Bought the retail option deliberately. No arguments over warranty then (a possibility with OEM). Bought 4 drives @ 3tb each to use in a qnap nas. Well protected and quick to install. I have had no problems so far and the drives perform well. Only longer term use will prove the reliability but no reason to think they should do well. Worth the little extra for peace of mind. All registered on the WD support website with full warranty.
The warranty allows you to send back the unit to WD and get a replacement but everything is tied to a serial number and the serial number must be within a region of warranty. You have to register this disk drive with WD but once registered, you get full disk support like replacements.
So ask before you buy because it is the warranty support that makes this a valuable drive.
I love WD products- their hard drives have never failed on me and that is why I invested in their Red series for my Synology NAS to back up my precious documents.
The read/write speeds are decent enough that it would not impact your performance. I get around 50MB/s to 100MB/s depending on the files transferred, and they don’t make much noise unless you write a lot of data to it instantly.
I tend to purchase the Retail Kit box if I can (price dependent compared to the OEM box), as the Retail Kit box comes with a 3 year warranty, whereas the OEM box only comes with a 12 month warranty.
You can check the warranty period on your drive, just do an internet search for “WD warranty status” and find the page from Western Digital that allows you to check the status by simply inserting the drive serial number into their status checker box.
All the drives I have purchased have come with the correct warranty period.
Overall I’m very pleased with this drive for my needs, I shall continue without hesitation to purchase more as and when I need them.
I figured the Red 6TB NAS hard disk was best for price vs. storage size. I opted for the retail box over the OEM, as the retail packaging would give more protection over the OEM (though hard drive packaging has improved over the years). Wasn’t a lot more expensive.
It’s currently taking up one bay in a TerraMaster F2-220 2-Bay NAS Drive Enclosure. It and the WD Red are performing perfectly, no lag, no heat or noise issues. It has replaced and consolidated data spread over three Samsung 2TB and one Seagate 4TB drive, all of which are working perfectly, yet none of which had been backed up.
Now all I need to do is save up for another 6TB, ‘cos that’s an awful lot of eggs in one basket at the moment.
The drives arrived well-packaged.
[Edit July 2020]: The first drive failed in October 2019, the second last night – July 2020. Both failures are of the ‘ticking on start up’ variety so there’s no chance of recovering any data (which fortunately is already backed up). I bought a replacement in October 2019 which turned out to be an EFAX type (SMR) so I’ve got that issue also to contend with. The drives were used in a QNAP NAS in an office environment and not (AFAIK) highly stressed. Very disappointing (circa 133 per year they’ve cost me) but what’s the alternative? I’ve had very poor longevity with Seagate drives, so won’t touch them. At least they didn’t fail at the same time and I could rebuild my RAID 1 without data loss or interruption.
Again, I was apprehensive when registering the HDD on the WD website, but I found this simple and the process took a couple of minutes.
I will update this review should I find any issue with the drive in the future.
As a final point, note this drive does not come with any SATA cables. I had several spare, so this wasn’t an issue.
Very quiet and fast ish.
First 1tb can do over 100mb/s at all times. If you are using this to put games on like me I’d adivce to split this into 2 parts 1tb and 2tb. Store you music and docutments on the slightly slower 2tb parts and commonly played games on the 1tb part.
Other than that it’s very nice. The packaging could be a lot better since there is no foam or air to pad it out, just the box and some carboard inside to hold it up.
A bit noisier than Id expected, but It’ll be inside a NAS in the loft eventually so not really an issue for me, but if you sleep in the same room as this, you better be OK with that distinctive hard drive crunching sound.
Seems nice and fast access and low heat.
Although OEM, the drives arrived properly packed and in sealed anti-static bags. Installation was a breeze, the DS215j did all the work and had them up and running in moments. So far I’ve not had a problem with these drives. They’re reliable, no temperature issues and practically silent in operation. In terms of speed, they wake up from sleep in about 2-3 secs, and transfer data fast enough for my needs which is mainly archiving RAW files. I’m very happy with them and chances are you will be too.
I bought these along with a new Synology NAS which I was upgrading as I was running out of space. My older NAS used the 3Tb version of these and has been running error free for 3.5 years. They come well packaged and worked as expected.
I checked the warranty status online when they arrived and they come with a WD 3 year warranty. Note that I bought the retailed box version as it was less than 1 more expensive than the non retail box version.
Installing the new drives was simple and straightforward and went through with no hitches. The drives have a three year warranty which I don’t expect to have to call upon. Nobody can predict how long a hard drive is going to last, but the previous pair have been going for over three years now with no issues whatsoever and the new ones run as quietly and as cool as their predecessors. I had no issues with registering them on Western Digital’s website, perhaps because I chose the retail package, not the OEM one.
Update 23 April 2020
I have 8x 6GB versions of the drive and 4x 4GB versions of the drive
Each of the drives is now out of warranty. At this point I have had no failures. Each of the drives is either being used in an 8 bay NAS or as active drives on my PC or as Backup drives on my PC. The PC drives are used daily for between 12 -16 hours a day, but are not the system drives. All other drives are used in mirrored pairs in a rotation of 16 hours each 3 weeks. I’ve clarified this because I am not in a position to identify the potential for use 24×7.
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Date of original review 6 March 2016
The drive information on Amazon the drives are described as only tested for NAS with 1-5 drive bays. However, on a support page it clarifies that the Red series are tested for 1-8 bay NAS and there is also a link to a NAS compatibility list [Amazon won’t allow this link].
To find it search for “Compatibility list for the WD Red NAS Hard Drive id=9758” in Google without the quote marks.
This appears to have been tested for the latest drives with NASWare 3.0 although I have been using 4 mirrored pairs of NASWare 2.0 drives without any issues. In NAS systems with 24×7 operation vibration is a factor in terms of reliability which is why NASWare 2.0 drives were recommended for drive enclosures of no more than 5 drives. NASWare 3.0 drives improved on the ability to manage the effect of vibration on the drives and this is why they increased rated these newer drives for up 8 drives per NAS enclosure.
I had the opportunity to purchase the retail drive at the same price as the OEM drive so I was able t compare what you get in comparison to buying the OEM version of the drive. Looking at reviews of the OEM version of this drive there has been some confusion about whether the extra cost is worth it.
To clarify what the differences were I rang Western Digital support. They told me that different countries have different warranty periods. Red series drives in the USA have a 12-month warranty and then you pay a little extra to add the extra warranty. I have bought more than 10 of the Red series of various sizes 3TB, 4TB and 6TB OEM. Each of these drives have registered for 3-year warranties.
WD support suggested that Amazon sourced their OEM drives from different countries and that about 50% of them would register as OEM and only have 12 month’s warranty. Amazon identifies that the drives only come with a 12-month warranty so if you register one and it only gives you a 12 -month warranty you have no grounds to complain.
So in summary spending the extra 14.00 for the retail version gives you the peace of mind of knowing that you definitely have a three-year warranty. It also comes with drive screws and standard retail packaging. The OEM drives generally come with plastic mounts, on either end, to isolate them from damage to the containing boxes. The retail version plastic support mounts are on the side running the full length of the drive see photos.
I think whether you purchase this retail version or opt for the OEM version depends on whether you need a set of screws to mount the drive and more importantly whether you are willing to take the risk that you may end up with a drive which only registers a 12-month warranty. I would suggest that buying OEM drives directly from Amazon, as opposed to buying from a Market Place seller, might increase the chance of getting a three-year warranty and a safely packaged drive.
In terms of performance these drives run quietly and quickly. They have a variable speed between 5,400-5,900rpm. So these are not the fastest drives, which are the black series, but seem to perform quickly in everyday use for Desktop (Windows 10 & 8.1), and NAS (Network Attached Storage).