WD Red Plus WD20EFRX - hard drive - 2 TB - SATA 6Gb/s
Mfg # WD20EFRX
CDW # 2764463
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Tackle Intensity with WD Red Plus
Packed with power to handle the small- to medium-sized business NAS environments and increased workloads for SOHO customers, WD Red Plus is ideal for archiving and sharing, as well as RAID array rebuilding
on systems using ZFS and other file systems. Built and tested for up to 8-bay NAS systems, these drives give you the flexibility, versatility, and confidence in storing and sharing your precious home and work files.
For Small or Medium Businesses
Stream, backup, share, and organize your digital content with a NAS and WD Red Plus drives designed to effortlessly share content with the devices at your home or business. NASware 3.0 technology increases your drives'
compatibility with your existing network and devices. For larger businesses with up to 24 bays, count on WD Red Pro drives to deliver exceptional performance.
Exclusive NASware 3.0
Not just any drive will do. Get up to 112TB of capacity in your 8-bay NAS system and with Western Digital's exclusive NASware 3.0 technology, you can optimize each and every drive. Built into every WD Red Plus hard drive,
NASware 3.0's advanced technology improves storage performance by increasing compatibility, integration, upgradeability, and reliability.
Built for Optimum NAS Compatibility
WD Red Plus drives with NASware technology takes the guesswork out of selecting a drive. Optimized for NAS systems, our unique algorithm balances performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. Simply put,
a WD Red Plus drive is one of the most compatible drives available for NAS enclosures. But don't take our word for it. WD Red Plus drives are a reflection of extensive NAS partner technology engagement and compatibility-testing.
WD Red Pro for Big Business
If you're looking for heavy duty performance for NAS, WD Red Pro drives deliver exceptional performance for the medium to large business customer with extreme demands. For NAS environments with 9 to 24 bays,
WD Red Pro drives deliver uncompromising performance and unwavering assurance backed by a 5-year limited warranty.
3D Active Balance Plus
Our enhanced dual-plane balance control technology significantly improves the overall drive performance and reliability. Hard drives that are not properly balanced may cause excessive vibration and noise
in a multi-drive system, reduce the hard drive life span, and degrade the performance over time.
24/7 Environment
Since your NAS system is always on, a reliable drive is essential. With an MTBF of up to 1 million hours, the WD Red Plus drive is engineered to tackle 24x7 environments.
Premium Support and a 3-year Limited Warranty
Confidently upgrade your NAS performance with the assurance of a 3-year limited warranty, coupled with world-class support services included with every WD Red Plus drive.
Desktop Drives vs. WD Red Plus
Do right by your NAS and choose the drive purpose-built for NAS with an array of features to help preserve your data and maintain optimum performance. Take the following into consideration when choosing a hard drive for your NAS:
Compatibility: Unlike desktop drives, these drives are specifically tested for compatibility with NAS systems for optimum performance.
Reliability: The always-on environment of a NAS or RAID is a hot one, and desktop drives aren't typically designed and tested under those conditions like WD Red Plus drives are.
Error Recovery Controls: WD Red Plus NAS hard drives are specifically designed with RAID error recovery control to help reduce failures within the NAS system.
Noise and Vibration Protection: Designed to operate solo, desktop drives typically offer little or no protection from the noise and vibration present in a multi-drive system. WD Red Plus drives are designed to thrive in multi-bay NAS system environments.
Packed with power to handle the small- to medium-sized business NAS environments and increased workloads for SOHO customers, WD Red Plus is ideal for archiving and sharing, as well as RAID array rebuilding
on systems using ZFS and other file systems. Built and tested for up to 8-bay NAS systems, these drives give you the flexibility, versatility, and confidence in storing and sharing your precious home and work files.
For Small or Medium Businesses
Stream, backup, share, and organize your digital content with a NAS and WD Red Plus drives designed to effortlessly share content with the devices at your home or business. NASware 3.0 technology increases your drives'
compatibility with your existing network and devices. For larger businesses with up to 24 bays, count on WD Red Pro drives to deliver exceptional performance.
Exclusive NASware 3.0
Not just any drive will do. Get up to 112TB of capacity in your 8-bay NAS system and with Western Digital's exclusive NASware 3.0 technology, you can optimize each and every drive. Built into every WD Red Plus hard drive,
NASware 3.0's advanced technology improves storage performance by increasing compatibility, integration, upgradeability, and reliability.
Built for Optimum NAS Compatibility
WD Red Plus drives with NASware technology takes the guesswork out of selecting a drive. Optimized for NAS systems, our unique algorithm balances performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. Simply put,
a WD Red Plus drive is one of the most compatible drives available for NAS enclosures. But don't take our word for it. WD Red Plus drives are a reflection of extensive NAS partner technology engagement and compatibility-testing.
WD Red Pro for Big Business
If you're looking for heavy duty performance for NAS, WD Red Pro drives deliver exceptional performance for the medium to large business customer with extreme demands. For NAS environments with 9 to 24 bays,
WD Red Pro drives deliver uncompromising performance and unwavering assurance backed by a 5-year limited warranty.
3D Active Balance Plus
Our enhanced dual-plane balance control technology significantly improves the overall drive performance and reliability. Hard drives that are not properly balanced may cause excessive vibration and noise
in a multi-drive system, reduce the hard drive life span, and degrade the performance over time.
24/7 Environment
Since your NAS system is always on, a reliable drive is essential. With an MTBF of up to 1 million hours, the WD Red Plus drive is engineered to tackle 24x7 environments.
Premium Support and a 3-year Limited Warranty
Confidently upgrade your NAS performance with the assurance of a 3-year limited warranty, coupled with world-class support services included with every WD Red Plus drive.
Desktop Drives vs. WD Red Plus
Do right by your NAS and choose the drive purpose-built for NAS with an array of features to help preserve your data and maintain optimum performance. Take the following into consideration when choosing a hard drive for your NAS:
Compatibility: Unlike desktop drives, these drives are specifically tested for compatibility with NAS systems for optimum performance.
Reliability: The always-on environment of a NAS or RAID is a hot one, and desktop drives aren't typically designed and tested under those conditions like WD Red Plus drives are.
Error Recovery Controls: WD Red Plus NAS hard drives are specifically designed with RAID error recovery control to help reduce failures within the NAS system.
Noise and Vibration Protection: Designed to operate solo, desktop drives typically offer little or no protection from the noise and vibration present in a multi-drive system. WD Red Plus drives are designed to thrive in multi-bay NAS system environments.
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WD Red Plus NAS Hard Drive WD20EFRX - hard drive - 2 TB - SATA 6Gb/s is rated
4.56 out of
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Rated 5 out of
5 by
Phil from
Great for backing up mutliple drives.
Great product. Highly recommend. We use it to backup highly important project documents.
Date published: 2013-06-05T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
JonH from
Solid Server Class Drive
After losing several WD green drives in a heavy read/write situation, I switched to the Red drive and have had no problems at all. I have 50+ of these in varying sizes in service. I ordered several from another retailer and 3 came DOA. I've never had that problem from CDW. Every drive has been fine.
Yes, the Red server class drives are more expensive, but they are worth the little expense in reliability.
Date published: 2013-06-05T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
carswelldist from
Simple and effective workhorse
Solid drive - fast access and not to much heat. We ordered a batch of 12 got one doa. Fast replacement and they have been cracking ever since!
Date published: 2013-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
CabbagePatch from
Good Drives
So far to date I haven't had any problems with these drives right out of the box. They've outlasted my hardware I installed them in and enjoyed the performance.
Date published: 2014-07-16T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
john601 from
Using these in QNAP NAS
I ordered 8 of these drives for some QNAP NASes and did not have any problems out of them. They are definitely better quality than the Green and Blue WD drives.
Date published: 2013-06-05T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
EricH from
Great for my NAS
I have a bunch of these in two NAS units. They have never let me down. Great Product at a great price.
Date published: 2015-09-16T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Gatorguy from
Degraded after 13 months
I have four of these drives total (two drives in two different NAS). Two of the four degraded at 13 months of use. This specific NAS with the failed drives is only used to backup at night, once a day. They other NAS is used to backup onsite every hour. Very disappointed that they didn't last any longer.
Date published: 2018-08-21T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Mike from
Excellent product
Excellent product, I expect it to be very reliable as has the other Western Digital Hard Drives I have.
Date published: 2017-10-24T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
gortiz from
So far so good...
I've started replacing all of my current NAS HD's w/ WD Red's and to date all continue to run with no issues.
Date published: 2014-09-03T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Mike007 from
This product is great
I am very happy with this product. I would certainly buy it again.
Date published: 2014-10-29T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
tsperry from
Great
Using these for a NAS Server so we needed drives made for this purpose.
Date published: 2018-03-21T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
allison from
I bought 4 of these WD drives
I bought 4 of these drives to put in a Buffalo NAS to rebuild a RAID5 brand new and so far everything seems ok. I usually don't buy Western Digital anymore because I have had bad experiences with them going bad really quick but so far they are ok. I will update this in 6 months to tell everyone if any failed yet.
Date published: 2017-01-26T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
pbatlanta from
Good average NAS drive
When you don't want to spend too much on higher end, high availibility drives, nor too little on desktop drives, this is a great alternative.
Works as expected. Too early to tell reliability on my recent batch. My older batch has been working fine since day 1.
Date published: 2015-03-26T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Steve64 from
Excellent Drive for NAS
I recently increased the capacity of our RAID 5 NAS system and installed the WD Red drives. They are much faster than the old drives and have worked flawlessly since the upgrade. It's helpful to have the choice of a drive designed for this purpose in the WD Red product line.
Date published: 2014-05-14T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Nitroz from
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Have two of these for my MicroServer - no issues at all. Low power consumption while idle and seem to work well with ESXi.
Date published: 2013-01-27T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
PenguinWrangler from
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I love the WD Red line. I have used all sizes, 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, 6TB in various NAS units. They all have held up well and I would recommend them at any time.
Date published: 2015-06-17T00:00:00-04:00