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WD Red Plus 10TB

WD Red Plus is WD's line for home NAS boxes of up to 8 bays, which covers any 2- or 4-bay unit you're likely to put in the house.

Capacity
10 TB
Recording
CMR
Speed
7,200 rpm
Warranty
3 years
Workload
180 TB/yr
Rated for
Up to 8 bays
Failure rate
No failure data

Good for

  • A 2- to 8-bay NAS in a cupboard
  • RAID, SHR and ZFS rebuilds

Not for

  • Boxes with more than 8 bays
  • A desk or bedroom (7,200 rpm is the louder class)
  • Heavy daily writes (180 TB a year rating)

Updated 27 Oct 2026 · Method 2.0

Is the WD Red Plus 10 TB right for you?

For a 2- to 8-bay box that lives in a cupboard it's a good fit, and 7,200 rpm gives it a bit more pace than the slower NAS drives. It's CMR, which is what you want anywhere near a RAID or ZFS rebuild.

Watch out for

Bigger box than that? Look at a pro or data-centre line instead. You get three years' cover and a 180 TB a year workload rating, both on the light side if the pool's busy every day.

Backblaze doesn't run enough of these for a failure rate we'd publish. On paper it makes 34 dB at idle and 39 dB seeking. WD lists 6.1 W at idle and 8.8 W working, which comes to 53 kWh a year for a drive that idles around the clock. Put four in RAID 5 and you'll have 30 TB to fill (Windows will call it 27.3 TB).

Specifications

Each value links to the Western Digital page or datasheet it came from.

WD Red Plus 10TB specifications
Drive type NAS source for Drive type (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Capacity 10 TB source for Capacity (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Spindle speed 7,200 rpm source for Spindle speed (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Recording technology CMR source for Recording technology (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Cache 512 MB source for Cache (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Interface SATA 6Gb/s source for Interface (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Form factor 3.5in source for Form factor (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Max sustained transfer 260 MB/s source for Max sustained transfer (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Workload rating 180 TB/yr source for Workload rating (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
MTBF / MTTF 1,000,000 hours source for MTBF / MTTF (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Rated for NAS bays (max) 8 bays source for Rated for NAS bays (max) (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Warranty 3 years source for Warranty (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Power at idle 6.1 W source for Power at idle (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Power in use 8.8 W source for Power in use (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Noise at idle 34 dB source for Noise at idle (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Noise when seeking 39 dB source for Noise when seeking (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)

Sources: documents.westerndigital.com