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2X 10TB WD Red Plus NAS Hard Drive 3.5-Inch / 256MB Cache / SATA / 7200 RPM up to 215MB/s

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2X 10TB WD Red Plus NAS Hard Drive 3.5-Inch / 256MB Cache / SATA / 7200 RPM up to 215MB/s

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Update 1 20th Jul

Price drop alert! £341.59 now from £387.18 That's a decent ~10% drop!

You can save a bit here if you need 2 of these.

For Small or Medium Businesses
Stream, backup, share, and organize 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™ 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.

Exclusive NASware
Not just any drive will do. Get up to 112TB of capacity in your 8-bay NAS system and with Western Digital's exclusive NASware technology, you can optimize each and every drive. Built into every WD Red™ hard drive, NASware advanced technology improves storage performance by increasing compatibility, integration, upgradeability, and reliability.

Built for Optimum NAS Compatibility
WD Red™ Plus drives with NASware™ technology takes the guesswork out of selecting a drive. Optimized for NAS systems, our unique algorithm balances performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. Simply put, a WD Red™ Plus drive is one of the most compatible drives available for NAS enclosures. But don’t take our word for it. WD Red™ Plus drives are a reflection of extensive NAS partner technology engagement and compatibility-testing.

WD Red™ Pro for Big Business
If you’re looking for heavy-duty performance for NAS, WD Red™ Pro NAS hard drives deliver exceptional performance for medium to large business customers with extreme demands. For NAS environments with 9 to 24 bays, WD Red™ Pro drives deliver uncompromising performance and unwavering assurance backed by a 5-year limited warranty.

3D Active Balance Plus
Our enhanced dual-plane balance control technology significantly improves the overall drive performance and reliability. Hard drives that are not properly balanced may cause excessive vibration and noise in a multi-drive system, reduce the hard drive life span, and degrade the performance over time.

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 24x7 environments.

Premium Support and a 3-year Limited Warranty
Confidently upgrade your NAS performance with the assurance of a 3-year limited warranty, coupled with world-class support services included with every WD Red™ Plus drive.

Desktop Drives vs. WD Red™ Plus
Do right by your NAS and choose the drive purpose-built for NAS with an array of features to help preserve your data and maintain optimum performance. Take the following into consideration when choosing a hard drive for your NAS:

Compatibility: Unlike desktop drives, these 3.5” HDDs are specifically tested for compatibility with NAS systems for optimum performance.
Reliability: The always-on environment of a NAS or RAID is a hot one, and desktop drives aren’t typically designed and tested under those conditions like WD Red™ Plus drives are.
Error Recovery Controls: WD Red™ Plus NAS hard drives are specifically designed with RAID error recovery control to help reduce failures within the NAS system.
Noise and Vibration Protection: Designed to operate solo, desktop drives typically offer little or no protection from the noise and vibration present in a multi-drive system. WD Red™ Plus drives are designed to thrive in multi-bay NAS system environments.

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14th Jul
These are CMR so yes, they can be used in a raid.
16th Jul
Warning - while cmr, the 10TB red plus is air filled (rather than helium like the 12TB and up red plus) and so runs warm and loud compared to the higher capacity ones. Possibly why they’re clearing stock of these? Hot nonetheless, but be careful buying these if you’re concerned about noise. Other WD red plus are nice and quiet
14th Jul
Hard drives are becoming extinct
14th Jul
Ignorance, however, is alive and well, it seems.
14th Jul
6% TCB
15th Jul
Which showed as tracked on my account within hours
14th Jul
Are these as reliable as ironwolf ?
14th Jul
9 years here and all 3 still working when we removed them, running Ubuntu server and Plex 24/7
14th Jul
CMR or SMR? As in could these be used in a raid?
15th Jul
Red - SMR
Red Plus - CMR
Red PRO - CMR
15th Jul
Hilarious seeing idiots try to argue HDDs are 'better' in any way than flash. The dribblers who claim HDDs are "more reliable" have the same IQ as current Hollywood 'writers'.

HDDs have (had) one advantage, price. And when the same fools who claim HDDs are 'reliable' RAID them in pairs, losing a ton of storage capacity, even today flash is CHEAPER per TB.

The only issue with flash today is conveniently getting capacities over 4TB- obviously one can inconveniently stick a lot of flash devices in a lot of USB ports- but better ways are needed. The read life of flash is indefinite. The read life of a consumer HDD of any class is around 3 years of continuous powered use, regardless of read load- and getting worse.
15th Jul
Agree with almost everything you've said but the end point is completely fabricated.

I've got a variety of hdd's running that have close to 10 years power on time, and 1pb+ of reads. still going strong and so do many others.

within the first 3 months and then after 5 years is when things start to break in hdd generalities but loads of us still have many of them going strong a decade later.
14th Jul
These or Toshiba N300?
14th Jul
I have only used N300 and touch wood 🪵 no issues.
15th Jul
These are as reliable as HDDs get if they are used as desktop drives and never moved.

I only use SSDs for transporting files.

I have a couple of white label ones as well as red label ones where the enclosures failed but the drives work fine in a disk duplicator..

The only problem is how expensive they are.

Any important data I copy to an SSD and use the HDDS for data that can be easily re-downloaded
20th Jul
Heated for price but think 10TB a bit small these days and not great forward thinking. WD know this and likely offloading. Personally prefer the Gold drives or data centre ones found in external WD enclosures. Better value IMO.
20th Jul
Spenny, juat grab a white label 20tb elements when they're on offer for a single 20tb red plus/Pro white label drive what my last few were, cost me 250
20th Jul
Where did you get 20tb white labels for 250?
20th Jul
Just had one go pop after 3 years today
and yet the 14TB non-red one I bought a year earlier is still going. Yes, Anecdotal.
20th Jul
I've a pair of WD Reds in my Synology NAS which are ten years old and have never missed a beat.
20th Jul
On back order with eta of 1-2 weeks but can't resist at this price.
21st Jul
10 TB lots louder than 12 / 14 TB due to not being helium filled as others have mentioned.

10 TB
Acoustics (dBA)
Idle 34
Seek (average) 38

12 / 14 TB
Acoustics (dBA)
Idle 20
Seek (average) 29

Is a good price though if noise isn't a problem for you.

Also check out the reports on WD drives being marked as 'warning' in WDDA after 3 years of usage. If you're using them in a Synology unit you can switch this off but it's very poor practice by WD. (edited)