WD Red Plus 8TB
8TB
Model WD80EFPX
- rpm
- 5,640
- MB cache
- 256
- TB/yr
- 180
- yr warranty
- 3
WD Red Plus range, also in 4 TB, 6 TB, 12 TB
Is the WD Red Plus 8 TB right for you?
If the NAS lives in the lounge or a bedroom, this is the kind of drive you want, because 5,640 rpm is the slower and quieter class and a gigabit network runs out of puff long before the drive does. CMR, thankfully. SMR and parity rebuilds don't get on.
Watch out for
Treat that bay rating as a hard limit. Anything larger wants a pro or data-centre drive. 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.
No Backblaze failure rate for this one, as they don't run it in big enough numbers. Four of them in SHR or RAID 5 give 24 TB usable, or 21.8 TB once Windows has done its binary maths on it.
Specifications
Each value links to the Western Digital page or datasheet it came from, and "Not published" means the maker doesn't list it there.
| Capacity | 8 TB | source for Capacity (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab) |
|---|---|---|
| Spindle speed | 5,640 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 | 256 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) |
| 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) |
Sources: documents.westerndigital.com
Failure rate
There's no Backblaze figure for this one. We only publish a rate with at least 60 drives and 50 drive-years behind it, because below that the error bars are too wide to tell you anything. The reliability page has every model that clears the bar.
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