Quiet enough for the lounge · updated 27 Oct 2026 · prices coming soon
Quietest NAS hard drive
Our pick
WD Red Plus 8 TB
If the box sits where you can hear it, this is the biggest of the quieter 5,400 rpm-class NAS drives we list.
- CMR
- 5,640 rpm
- 3-year warranty
- 180 TB/yr
- Up to 8 bays
- No failure data
Why the WD Red Plus 8 TB
If the NAS lives in the lounge or a bedroom, spindle speed matters more than anything on the spec sheet, and the 5,640 rpm WD Red Plus sits in the quieter class. It's the biggest of the four quiet-class NAS drives we list, at 8 TB. WD rates it for boxes of up to 8 bays, which covers any 2- or 4-bay box. You give up a bit of speed, though a gigabit network runs out of puff first.
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How we pick this one
Until prices land, it's the biggest CMR NAS drive in the 5,400 rpm class. We go on spindle speed because we don't hold noise figures for every drive yet. Right now four drives qualify, and the list re-ranks every time prices or Backblaze's figures update.