Customers say
Customers find the hard drive works well with home security systems, is incredibly fast, and offers good value for money. The storage capacity receives positive feedback, with one customer noting it’s the largest desktop hard drive. The drive’s reliability and noise level receive mixed reviews – while some find it rock solid and super quiet, others report it failing after 6 months and making random loud noises. The warranty also receives criticism, with customers noting the warranty is less than 5 years.
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A quick rundown of this product’s key features:
Industry’s highest capacity nearline drive – WD RE SATA hard drives are available in capacities ranging from 2 TB to 4 TB to suit even the most demanding storage needs
Highest performance for business-critical applications – WD RE delivers 6 Gb/s transfer rates, sustained sequential data rates of 171 MB/s and high random I/O rates
Designed for quality and reliability – With a field-tested 1.2 million hour MTBF, this high performance drive delivers the highest level of reliability for 24×7 operation in up to 100% duty cycle applications
Dual processor – Twice the processing power to maximize performance
Vibration Protection – Enhanced RAFF technology includes sophisticated electronics to monitor the drive and correct both linear and rotational vibration in real time. The result is a significant performance improvement in high vibration environments over the previous generation of drives.
5 year limited warranty
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: Tenderfoot56
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Appears as NEW old OEM Stock Manufactured March 2015… Who will provide the 5 Year Warranty ?????
Review: CAUTION: I purchased this drive to do a full image backup of my system before updating it to the latest Linux OS. It is a WD Black 7200 RPM Drive with a MANUFACTURE DATE OF MARCH 2, 2015. The drive is advertised as being NEW and the ad also claims the drive has a 5 YEAR WARRANTY. I’m not sure who will be providing the warranty, but as long as it works for a week or two I’ll be satisfied with it. The drive arrived in what appeared to be a factory static bag that was sealed with a big sticker warning about static discharge and potentially damaging the drive. The bag also had a 2nd sticker designed to be applied to a computer that shows the drive Part Number, Description and Serial Number as well as a bar code. The drive and static bag were placed into a blown plastic shock absorbing molded plastic packing material and installed at each end of the drive, then placed into a really heavy duty cardboard box with a label on the end showing the Part number, serial number and the word NEW in all Caps. The shipping label was affixed to this really heavy duty box and sent to me. The box arrived in great shape, and the drive also appeared new. I placed it into an external enclosure and connected it to my Linux system via USB 3 connector and was able to put a partition on it, format it and copy about 100GB of data to it a few times without any issues. The drive is super quiet and clean. For the price, it appears to be a bargain at this point and as long as it makes it through the first 30-90 days past the infant mortality range of time, I think it will be a long lasting drive. My only question is who is providing the warranty on the drive since it is already 8 years old and probably just old NEW OEM stock. Time will tell , but for the moment I ‘m satisfied with my purchase.
Reviewer: A.B.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Works!
Review: I have bought this hard drive as a replacement for identical one that failed after almost exactly five years of continuous work. The drive was a part of three-drive RAID5 array with a hot spare, so I have ordered a replacement after it failed, and replaced the failed drive once it arrived. Spare drive was in use for three days and went back to its spare state after the controller copied the data to the new drive.That was the only failure among those four drives in five years.Update: Some people reported getting old drives instead of new ones. I have just checked, and the drive was not in use before I got it. This is what SMART reports now, after four days of runtime:Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always – 03 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 253 021 Pre-fail Always – 04 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always – 25 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always – 07 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always – 09 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always – 10510 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always – 011 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always – 012 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always – 2183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always – 0192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always – 1193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always – 0194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 112 104 000 Old_age Always – 40196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always – 0197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always – 0198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline – 0199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always – 0200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline – 0
Reviewer: Steve
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Failed hard at 2yr 10mo
Review: Update Feb 2016 – I received a new RMA replacement drive from WD today. I plan to use it to store downloaded video and other junk – I would not trust it with anything important.Update Jan 2016 – this drive has had a sudden and total failure – it no longer undetectable by any PC. The drive reported no SMART errors and provided no other indication of a pending failure. I was better off with the Green drives, at least they gave an indication of failure and I was able to copy the data to another drive. With this drive my data is gone, gone, gone, never to be seen again. WD lists it as still under warranty so with any luck I’ll get it replaced with a similar low quality piece of hardware.– original review –I purchased 2 WD Green drives thinking they’d be great for my network-attached photo collection which needs to be available but has relatively infrequent read/write activity. Within 2 years both began reporting SMART errors. So 20 months ago I replaced both with these WD RE drives – one 1TB and one 2TB. So far there has not been one issue and now I plan to purchase two more of these drives.It is difficult or impossible to get a true measurement of hard drive reliability. The URE rate is a useful, although non-holistic representation of drive reliability. WD rates their Green and Black drives the same at 10^14, yet Amazon.com review comments suggest Green drives are less reliable than Black. Amazon reviews are some of the best data we have, given due scrutiny. Since WD indicates the reliability of the Black drive is just as bad as that of the Green (WD would have phrased this differently), I decided to steer away from the consumer line all together.This WD RE drive has a URE rate at 10^16, two orders of magnitude better than the Black. At first glance these numbers seem too large to be meaningful, but analysis can be found online using real-world models to illustrate the significant difference of even going up one level of magnitude in URE.
Reviewer: David L Wick
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great replacement drive
Review: These are a smaller drive that are not in great demand anymore due to there size of 2TB. I am using 12 of these in a Synology rack station and this was a replacement drive. These drives are no louder than any other drives, Western Digital makes a great hard drive now that is reliable, and they stand by their warranty.
Reviewer: joyluck98
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Older Version Works
Review: Works well.
Reviewer: Sergii Vovk
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Ich kaufte eine Western Digita WD2000FYYZ RE 2TB interne Festplatte als die zu dem Preis von etwa 26 € verkauft wurde. Das Geräusch ist hinnehmbar oder besser, weil die Platte als Dateienlager funktioniert. Die Kapazität von zwei GB ist nicht groß. Solch ein Preis aber rechtfertigt ja mit allen Fürs und Widern den Kauf.
Reviewer: Werner
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Alles gut
Reviewer: Francesco Boccaletti
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Ottimo prodotto. Consegna veloce (prima del previsto) e imballaggio a regola d’arte per preservare gli oggetti
Reviewer: xonic
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: produit conforme et livraison rapide
Reviewer: Francesco
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Ho acquistato questo disco per montarlo dentro ad un Synology DS115J (è tra i dischi considerati compatibili dal costruttiore). La sceltra era tra questo ed un WD serie RED. Ho alla fine scelto questo della serie RE per i 5 anni di garanzia e per l’affidabilità essendo progettato per carichi maggiori.Per ora la scelta credo sia stata quella giusta: molto veloce e tempi di accesso ridottissimi. Montato dentro il NAS devo dire che in lettura non è silenziosissimo, quando legge e scrive si sente di più rispetto ad altri dischi ma è comunque accetabile. Niente da dire nemmeno sull’imballaggio per la spedizione: ben protetto e scatola adeguata come si può vedere dalla foto.
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