
Best selling Hard drives from WD
On this page you'll find a ranking of the best WD products in this category. To give you a quick overview, we've already ranked the most important information about the products for you.
1. WD Red Plus
High-performance hard drives designed for performance, reliability, and energy efficiency in small to medium NAS environments. WD Red Plus drives are ideal for power user workloads and NAS environments in small to medium-sized businesses. They provide the necessary speed and capacity to efficiently store, protect, and share growing amounts of data in mid-sized RAID-optimized NAS systems.
The exclusive Western Digital NASware technology optimizes drive parameters for NAS system workloads to enhance performance and reliability.
Your NAS system runs around the clock. Therefore, highly reliable storage is essential. WD Red Plus drives are designed for continuous operation, giving users the assurance that they can reliably access their data.
Western Digital collaborates with various NAS system manufacturers to conduct extensive testing and ensure compatibility with most NAS enclosures.
WD Red Plus drives consume less power than previous models and run cooler, reducing operating costs and minimizing heat in hard-to-cool NAS enclosures.
Although they consume less power, the drives have a significant bandwidth to meet the mixed performance demands of multi-drive NAS systems.
Drives without proper mass balancing can cause excessive vibrations and noise in multi-drive systems, which can shorten the lifespan of the drives and lead to performance degradation over time.

2. WD Red Plus
High-performance hard drives designed for performance, reliability, and energy efficiency in small to medium NAS environments.
WD Red Plus hard drives are ideal for power user workloads and NAS environments in small to medium-sized businesses. They provide the necessary speed and capacity to store, protect, and share growing amounts of data in mid-sized RAID-optimized NAS systems in an energy-efficient manner.
Optimized for NAS with NASware
The exclusive Western Digital NASware technology optimizes the hard drive parameters for NAS system workloads to enhance performance and reliability.
Designed for continuous operation
Your NAS system runs around the clock. Therefore, highly reliable storage is essential. WD Red Plus hard drives are designed for always-on systems, giving users the confidence that they can reliably access their data.
Tested for reliable compatibility
Western Digital collaborates with various NAS system manufacturers to conduct extensive testing and ensure compatibility with most NAS enclosures.
Optimized for lower total cost of ownership
WD Red Plus hard drives consume less power than previous models and operate cooler, reducing operating costs and minimizing heat in hard-to-cool NAS enclosures.
Less power consumption, strong performance
Despite consuming less power, the hard drives have a tremendous bandwidth to meet the mixed performance demands of multi-drive NAS systems.
Balanced for increased reliability
Hard drives without proper mass balancing can cause excessive vibrations and noise in multi-drive systems, which can reduce the lifespan of the drives and lead to performance degradation over time.

3. WD Red Pro
The WD Red Pro hard drives have been specially developed for medium-sized or large business customers and are available for NAS systems with up to 24 drive bays. Designed for high-intensity workloads in 24x7 environments, the WD Red Pro family is ideal for archiving and sharing content as well as building RAID arrays in advanced operating systems such as ZFS and other file systems. These hard drives increase efficiency by enabling your employees to quickly share files and reliably back up folders in your NAS solution. Designed for optimal NAS compatibility - WD Red Pro drives with NASware technology simplify drive selection. This unique algorithm is optimised for NAS systems and provides the right balance of performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. In short: WD Red Pro is the hard drive with the highest compatibility for NAS enclosures.

4. WD Purple
Uncompromising Video Surveillance Storage
WD Purple hard drives are designed to meet the challenges of continuous video surveillance. They are specifically developed for surveillance systems to withstand the increased heat and vibrations that can occur in NVR devices. Common desktop hard drives are designed for short-term operation, but not for the harsh conditions of a 24/7 HD surveillance system. With WD Purple hard drives, you get reliable video surveillance storage that has been tested for compatibility with numerous video surveillance systems. The exclusive AllFrame technology reduces frame loss and enhances video playback.
Industry-leading storage. Surveillance solutions you can trust
Western Digital has been providing storage solutions for video surveillance for over ten years. With WD Purple hard drives, you receive storage for video surveillance that is designed for continuous operation in surveillance systems and high temperatures, ensuring high-quality video playback at all times.
Western Digital's exclusive AllFrame technology
All WD Purple hard drives feature AllFrame technology, which reduces image loss and improves video recording and playback.
Higher workload rate
WD Purple hard drives offer a workload rate of up to 180 TB/year. This is three times more than our desktop hard drives, making them well-suited for the high demands of modern DVR and NVR video surveillance systems.
Multiple cameras, multiple streams
Modern recorders now support multiple video streams per camera. WD Purple hard drives support up to 64 single-stream HD cameras. With this versatility, you can easily expand your security system at any time.

5. WD Red Pro
Help your customers choose the right drive to protect valuable data on their NAS system. WD Red offers integrators a hard drive specifically designed for small NAS systems with 1 to 8 drive bays; WD Red Pro is suitable for NAS systems with 8-16 drive bays. Your customers will benefit from WD RED, which has been extensively tested for reliability and compatibility.

6. WD Blue
The higher standard in storage
Expand your PC with WD Blue drives, available in various storage capacities specifically designed for desktop and all-in-one PCs.
Boost PC performance
Give your PC a new boost by combining a WD Blue hard drive with an SSD. This way, you achieve maximum access speed while enjoying up to 6 TB of storage capacity.
Planning for the future
Enhanced technologies have increased storage demands. Digital cameras that record Ultra HD videos at a resolution of 4K and 30 frames per second require a lot of storage space. With a 6 TB hard drive, managing these data volumes is a breeze.
Trust WD
The legendary reliable WD Blue drives are designed, built, and tested for a long hard drive life.
Easy data backup, quick upgrade
The software "Acronis True Image WD Edition," available as a free download, can clone drives and back up your operating system, applications, settings, and data.
Technology to protect your data
NoTouch ramp load technology parks the read/write head in a safe position away from the drive's surface to protect your data.
Technical specifications
- Capacity: 4 TB
- Form factor: 3.5-inch
- Connection: SATA
- Interface: SATA
- Transfer speed: up to 185 MB/s
- Disk speed (RPM): 5400 RPM
- Recording technology: CMR
- Cache size: 256 MB
- Dimensions (L x W x H): 147 mm x 101.6 mm x 26.1 mm
- Weight: 570 g
- Model number: WD40EZAX
- Operating temperature: 0 °C to 60 °C
- Non-operating temperature: -40 °C to 70 °C
- Certifications: BSMI, ICES-003/NMB-003, CE, FCC, KC, Maghreb, RCM, UKCA, VCCI, CB-Scheme, TUV, UL.

7. WD blue mobile
Because they meet WD's high standards of quality and reliability, WD Blue notebook hard drives offer exactly the features needed for daily, mobile work.
A modern classic
Designed and built with the technology found in WD's original, award-winning desktop and notebook hard drives.
Every hard disk has its task
Available with a wide range of entry capacities, cache sizes, designs and interfaces.
Tested for compatibility in our laboratory
We test hundreds of systems, configurations and a variety of platforms so our customers can trust our drives.

8. WD Purple Pro
WD Purple Pro hard drives are designed for innovative, AI-enabled recorders, video analytics servers and deep learning solutions that require additional capacity, performance and resilience. Designed with advanced functions needed for high-end intelligent video solutions
High performance, reliability and resilience for innovative AI-enabled recorders, video analytics appliances, deep learning servers and cloud-based storage, including RAID and JBOD configurations.
Designed for a new generation of high-end AI-enabled recorders, video analytics appliances, deep learning servers and cloud solutions, WD Purple Pro hard drives offer high-performance, high-capacity storage solutions with increased resilience. WD Purple Pro hard drives are equipped with AllFrame AI technology, which articles to reduce frame loss and optimise video playback. It enables the recording of multiple streams per camera and supports up to 32 AI streams per drive for deep learning analysis within the system. WD Purple Pro drives are characterised by enterprise-class performance, data integrity and reliability - especially in larger systems and enclosures with operational vibration.

9. WD Blue
Internal WD Blue hard drives offer reliability for office and web applications. They are ideal for use as primary drives in desktop PCs and for office tasks. With a range of capacities and cache sizes, there is an internal WD Blue hard drive that is just right for you.
The recording head never comes into contact with the disks, ensuring significantly less wear on the recording head and disks, as well as better protection of the drive during transport. State-of-the-art search algorithms and advanced power management features ensure low power consumption.

10. WD Digital Purple 3.5 8000 GB Serial
The Western Digital WD Purple 3.5" hard drive with a storage capacity of 8000 GB is specifically designed for use in surveillance systems. It provides a reliable and powerful solution for storing video surveillance data. With the SATA III interface, this hard drive ensures fast data transfer and high efficiency in processing large amounts of data. The 3.5" form factor allows for easy integration into common enclosures and systems. The WD Purple hard drive is designed for continuous operation and offers high reliability, which is essential for use in security-critical applications.
- Optimized for use in surveillance systems
- High reliability for continuous operation
- Fast data transfer via SATA III interface.

WD Digital Purple 3.5 8000 GB Serial
8 TB, 3.5"