Best NAS drive, period.
348610
Best drives you can get for a NAS that don't cost an arm and a leg. We use these drives in all of our custom-built NAS appliances. Long lasting. These things run 24/7/365 without a hiccup.
1624082
Ok, so I have no fancy graphs or charts. I have no data transfer rate statistics or anything of the likes. So why would I justify a 5 Star rating you might ask? Well quite simply because I have had two of these 3TB Reds running in my NAS in a RAID 0 for over two years, almost a solid two years at that. The only breaks they received was the occasional power outage (usually lasting < 1 hour), and once a year I took down my network for maintenance (typically for less than a day). They have also had to endure a few random hard reboots, and did so without error.

The load I put on these drives certainly cannot be the heaviest of work loads as most of the time the drives are only accessed by multiple raspberry Pis for media playback. My Buffalo NAS is the heart of my home media network, it is not the only NAS on the network but it is the most frequently accessed one and by far has been the most reliable and user friendly data storage system I have had the pleasure of working with.

Nothing quite as nice as "fire and forget". I simply set it all up, set it up, and left it alone to do it's thing (99% of the time that is).
2615199
I bought this for my home NAS and it runs like a champ.  I did not know at the time when I bought my WD Caviar drives that they are meant for use for low energy so they shut off often.  I was able to transfer my data to a backup drive, replace my drives in my Drobo with these WD Red NAS drives and reload my data.  Extremely pleased with my purchase and I highly recommend to anyone in the market for a good consumer brand NAS drive.
2431496
One bad ass drive!
Made my wife's old core i3 really burn digital rubber. I am hooked no other drives for me except in my NAS.
651059
So much more than a NAS.  Awesome little home server.
4358308
You really cannot go wrong with this drive.  I have never seen a bad review and personally, I have owned four.  The previous units were the 1TB version and now with expansion, a 2TB.  I've had them run individually, run daisy-chained, run mirrored, basically any configuration reasonable and they just work flawlessly.  I've had running my Apple backup for ages and it works great.  I had tired a cheaper, inexpensive USB only 1 TB and it just cannot handle the constant use well.
1544199
I've grown very suspicious of trusting mechanical hard drives.  WD Black have the best warranty.  So far so good.  I use it for my main data drive which I back up to a raid 1 NAS.
3520775
I have been an IT professional for 33 years. I built PCs for a living in the 80's and early 90's. I've built enterprise-class servers in collocation facilities in Silicon Valley (and elsewhere). After having bought countless hundreds of hard drives in my career, this Hitachi Desktar SATA III 7200 NAS is currently the only hard drive I will purchase. I have 16 of these in my home PC from which I am writing this review residing on an Areca 1882-16i conroller in a RAID 6 configuration (totaling 56TB). Unless you are willing to pay twice the price to jump up to Hitachi's Ultrastar class and put up with much louder drives, I don't think you will find a better drive than this one.
2093423
This NAS has been a real boon so far, the options are great, the speed is good and power consumption is excellent (instead of a dedicated file server). Longevity will be my only concern but sofar so good
3179221
The synology drive is performing fantastically.  The software is the best in class as far as I've seen.

I've owned 3 WD drives, and 2 readynas drives.  This one beats the pants off of them.

First and foremost - it syncs with Google Drive - which is fantastic.  Then, in addition, its extremely easy to cause all of my other drives to sync to this one - without requiring my laptop to broker the data exchange.  It provided a great interface for discovering the drives and really made the process simple.
3135074
A perfect mate for the ADS NAS drive.

The 750 GB version exceeds the limit of the NAS Drive, though Seagate kindly advises that the ADS NAS drive could probably take a 600 GB or maybe even a 640 GB HDD, but not a 750.

Mine works very well.
283735
Samsung SD drives are my favorite.  Reliable and fast.  Although they should update their Windows application for higher resolutions. But other than that, the drive itself is flawless.
903635
I've used Western Digital drives almost exclusively for years.  I've only ever had one fail in that time and it was a 1TB drive, WD replaced that failed drive with a 2TB drive.  The point is they stand behind their products and while they may not be the cheapest, or even always the fastest the fact you can reach a human and get your broken drive replaced is a huge plus.  One you can't really put a price on.

That being said, this drive is fast.  It's performed beautiful for me since installing it and is plenty big enough. The fact it's a 7200 rpm drive is important.  I've used slower spin rate drives and they just don't cut it.  7200rpm seems to be a sweet spot without having to cross over to the 10,000 and up RPM drives.  Also I've found the drive to be quiet, but I admit my tower isn't the questest to begin with.  But I haven't noticed that my computer has gotten any louder either.  So take that however you will.

Overall WD gets huge thumbs up and continues to be my go to for all my physical spinning hard drives. Conistant top performance and amazing warantee is hard to beat.
3466683
This is probably the best NAS for the money in my opinion.  I have 2 of these, a 1512+ and a 411+ and all of them work great.  I'm super happy with how fast and how many features are packed in the 413.
2844655
Love this massive nas drive it also runs plex no problem over the net.
960878
I've used a lot of WD drives.  I have 3 of these 6TB drives in a Windows parity array.  Seem to be doing well so far.
4264570
Synology NAS's are light years ahead of the competition, not sure why anyone would buy anything else and this device is no exception - very happy with the purchase!