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After 11 months of use, it suddenly failed while writing data. Although the claim was approved about five minutes after sending it for assessment and dropping it off at an AlzaBox, instead of the requested exchange for a new unit, I was given a refund – less than half the price of a new one in 08/2026 (the notification cheerfully states, "Great news! We're refunding your money.", while the current price of the HDD is ironically labelled with a massive "Price Bomb" banner). Support claims that an exchange for a new or equivalent replacement is not possible.
The drive originally arrived at the AlzaBox wrapped only in an anti-static foil, but the instructions for returning it for a claim required at least three layers of bubble wrap. It's hard to judge where the actual cause of the fault lies, but the result is that the customer doesn't have their product, has lost their data, their time, and with the refunded money, can only buy a product that's not even half the size – Alza, after years of satisfaction, my user experience has changed diametrically on this day.
Next time, at least wrap it properly so the customer doesn't have to have doubts.
Price/capacity ratio in 09/2025
It's a bit noisy, but I expected that.
It failed during a random write after 11 months.
Price/capacity ratio as of 08/2026
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Ota, Nučice
Rated 29/07/2025, variant WD Gold 8TB
Verified purchase
I have 2 and both are noisy when working (I also have 2 Seagate IronWolf Pro 16TB and they are not noisy at all)
of the two I bought, one was immediately defective
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Marek, Pardubice
Rated 02/05/2025, variant WD Gold 8TB
Verified purchase
When he's not recording, he's quiet. Otherwise, quiet too - for its speed.
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Josef, Ostrava-Poruba
Rated 03/04/2025, variant WD Gold 8TB
Verified purchase - review from a price comparison website
Objections to noise are unfounded. Subjectively, I don't see any problem in this regard. Otherwise, so far everything works. The disc can be objectively evaluated after 5 years of use, if it lives up to it.
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Milan, Jílové u Děčína
Rated 09/02/2025, variant WD Gold 8TB
Verified purchase - review from a price comparison website
It's hard to give this disc any number of stars. When I was choosing it, I looked first and foremost at reliability, which this drive seems to have really good. For use in a server or NAS stored in a remote location, probably ok. Although in the latter case, because of the consumption, probably also not much.
However, I definitely cannot recommend this drive for a PC because of the noise level. It is so high that I returned it and purchased a WD red plus instead and I am happy with it. The difference in this respect between Gold and Red plus is huge.
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Noise
Consumption
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Marek, Žitenice
Rated 07/02/2025, variant WD Gold 8TB
Verified purchase
worth every penny
silent
rycly
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Martin, Praha 1
Rated 05/01/2025, variant WD Gold 8TB
Verified purchase - review from a price comparison website
perfect
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Jaroslav, České Budějovice 11
Rated 17/09/2024, variant WD Gold 8TB
Verified purchase
quiet and fast. I have it as a backup.
When loading it is sometimes audible but this is normal
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Tomáš, Ostrava
Rated 22/05/2026, variant WD Gold 18TB
Verified purchase - review from a price comparison website
quick
noisy when cutting
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Miroslav, Jinočany
Rated 08/04/2026, variant WD Gold 10TB
Verified purchase - review from a price comparison website
High write and read speeds
Unexpectedly quiet even when working with small files
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