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WD Red Pro 10TB

A pro NAS drive that WD rates for any number of bays, whether that's a 4-bay desktop unit or a 12-bay rack.

Capacity
10 TB
Recording
CMR
Speed
7,200 rpm
Warranty
5 years
Workload
550 TB/yr
Rated for
Any bay count
Failure rate
No failure data

Good for

  • Any size of NAS
  • Busy arrays (550 TB a year)
  • RAID, SHR and ZFS rebuilds
  • 5 years' warranty

Not for

  • A desk or bedroom (7,200 rpm is the louder class)

Updated 27 Oct 2026 · Method 2.0

Should you buy the WD Red Pro 10 TB?

Go for it if you're building something bigger than a 4-bay box. It also earns its keep on a busy pool where scrubs and rebuilds never let up, because the 550 TB a year workload rating is there for exactly that. You also get five years' warranty, two more than the cheapest NAS lines. Recording is CMR, the right kind for RAID and ZFS.

Watch out for

At 7,200 rpm it's from the louder, warmer class. Fine in a cupboard, less fun on a desk.

No Backblaze failure rate for this one. They don't run enough of them, if any, for a figure worth quoting. WD's datasheet puts it at 34 dB idle and 39 dB seeking. Power draw is 6.1 W idle and 8.8 W working on WD's figures, or 53 kWh a year if it spends the whole year idling. Four of them in SHR or RAID 5 give 30 TB usable, or 27.3 TB once Windows has done its binary maths on it.

Specifications

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

WD Red Pro 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 267 MB/s source for Max sustained transfer (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Workload rating 550 TB/yr source for Workload rating (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
MTBF / MTTF 2,000,000 hours source for MTBF / MTTF (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Rated for any number of NAS bays Yes source for Rated for any number of NAS bays (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab)
Warranty 5 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