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WD Red Pro 8TB

The pro end of WD's NAS range, with no limit on bay count and a 550 TB a year workload rating.

Capacity
8 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

Who the WD Red Pro 8 TB is for

This is the one to look at once you're past eight bays or the array's busy all day, because WD rates it for 550 TB a year and doesn't care how big the box is. Five years of warranty is the other draw, and on a drive you'll leave spinning for most of a decade that's worth having. It's CMR, which is what you want anywhere near a RAID or ZFS rebuild.

Watch out for

Being 7,200 rpm, it's in the noisier, warmer class of drive, and you'll want it somewhere you don't sit.

Backblaze doesn't run enough of these for a failure rate we'd publish. A 4-bay box full of these gives 24 TB after one drive's worth of parity.