WD Red Pro 6TB NAS 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - 7200 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR Recording Technology, 256MB Cache

If NVMe speed is not the driving factor rather a reliable backup is then these are a good alternative I run 2 of these in a RAID 0 set giving me 32TB of backup space and they are very good, Performance is surprisingly fast and as its just two disks after 4 years I'll mothball these as a backup of that day and pop in two new ones (in 4 years time that's more likely to be SSD). Today though with an inexpensive Enclosure its an inexpensive and reliable backup solution when you need high volume backups. I use these as a fast tertiary backup so Raid 0 is fine. I would never recommend Raid 0 as your only backup option.

So far they work great without any problem with a Synology diskstation.

As expected

Package arrived in a small plain cardboard box. No fragile label and no outer box with foam packing. Clearly split from a much better-packaged and protected job lot case and cheaped out on transit protection.It was an urgent order, so I didn't have the time to refuse delivery for inadequate packaging or fully test and RMA it.My preferred supplier Scan UK only stocked up to 18TB Red Pros at the time these 20TB drives were the highest capacity and now that 24TB Red Pro drives have been out for months only stock up to 22TB.I wish I had refused delivery or returned.Within a week there were a few bad sectors.Health in HD Sentinel has now in 2024 (T+2yrs) deteriorated to CRITICAL 10% Health with 854 BAD SECTORS during self test.40 WEAK SECTORSS.M.A.R.T.5,Reallocated Sectors Count,1,100,100,OK,000000000001,0,Enabled196,Reallocation Event Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000000001,0,Enabled197,Current Pending Sector Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000000028,0,Enabled198,Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000000356,0,EnabledA 10TB WD Red Pro installed in the same machine June 2019 is still perfect with no bad or weak sectors.I expect better packaging, particularly when Amazon overpackage robust items.

This is a HDD shipped loose in an unsealed cardboard box (see pic). It appears to be working as a HDD should. But I won’t buy from them again. Not sure if it’s a genuine WD Red HDD. The box certainly isn’t.

Bought this as an urgent replacement for a failing NAS drive in critical state!!Reasonable price for this (if it worked) quite quick delivery.BUT arrived with a dent (which I didnt notice initially) then died 14hrs into being initialised in a NAS.THEN complete confusion on who dealt with the returns, Amazon said the supplier, the supplier said Amazon... long story short it was Amazon!NOW, several messages to the supplier with no reply as to the status of refund/replacement meawhile my NAS is in critical state, thanks a bunch<a href="/gp/help/seller/at-a-glance.html/ref=dp_merchant_link?ie=UTF8&seller=ADKRY8JZ8U8BJ&asin=B09TBF6GHJ&ref_=dp_merchant_link" >Wonderman Tools</a>

The product arrived with a damaged box and the plastic containing the drive was opened and just taped closed. The drive itself was damaged and the user had to get it repaired