Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

First the good news, these drives are really quiet and run relatively cool. They are also one of the least expensive 3 TB drives currently availble certified for use in some NAS models. At least with my shipment, Amazon seems to have (finally!) improved their shipping packaging for hard drives. Mine came double boxed. But the bad news is Western Digital quality control seems to either be nearly non-existant or they simply have cut too many corners with their latest large drives. I purchased four and one failed after only a month. You don't have to search very far on the web to learn many people are having problems with the 3TB Red drives. There are reports of people using these in NAS and other RAID arrays and, while they're waiting for one failed drive to be replaced, another drive fails which means they lose all the data in the entire array. Ouch! There are now only a few companies left making hard drives. It seems with little competition quality is no longer a priority. This is really sad considering how catestrophic data loss can be. I suggest doing lots of research before buying any Red drives. Check the reviews on Newegg for example and look for verfified purchases. WD seems to be rather active in "managing" reviews. It's too bad they don't put a similar effort into making better drives.