WD Red Plus 6TB
6TB
Model WD60EFPX
- rpm
- 5,400
- MB cache
- 256
- TB/yr
- 180
- yr warranty
- 3
WD Red Plus range, also in 4 TB, 8 TB, 12 TB
Should you buy the WD Red Plus 6 TB?
Quiet beats fast for most home boxes, and at 5,400 rpm it's in the quieter class while still keeping a 1GbE link busy. It's CMR, which is what you want anywhere near a RAID or ZFS rebuild.
Watch out for
Treat that bay rating as a hard limit. Anything larger wants a pro or data-centre drive. Warranty's three years and the workload rating is 180 TB a year. At 6 TB that's 30 full passes of the drive a year, and a monthly scrub uses twelve of them before you've written anything.
There's no Backblaze data worth quoting here. Put four in RAID 5 and you'll have 18 TB to fill (Windows will call it 16.4 TB).
Specifications
Each value links to the Western Digital page or datasheet it came from, and "Not published" means the maker doesn't list it there.
| Capacity | 6 TB | source for Capacity (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab) |
|---|---|---|
| Spindle speed | 5,400 rpm | source for Spindle speed (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab) |
| Recording technology | CMR | source for Recording technology (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab) |
| Cache | 256 MB | source for Cache (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab) |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s | source for Interface (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab) |
| Form factor | 3.5in | source for Form factor (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab) |
| Workload rating | 180 TB/yr | source for Workload rating (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab) |
| MTBF / MTTF | 1,000,000 hours | source for MTBF / MTTF (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab) |
| Rated for NAS bays (max) | 8 bays | source for Rated for NAS bays (max) (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab) |
| Warranty | 3 years | source for Warranty (documents.westerndigital.com, opens in new tab) |
Sources: documents.westerndigital.com
Failure rate
There's no Backblaze figure for this one. We only publish a rate with at least 60 drives and 50 drive-years behind it, because below that the error bars are too wide to tell you anything. The reliability page has every model that clears the bar.
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