Western Digital WD Red Plus

Brand: Western Digital
Model: WD Red Plus
UPC: 0718037884387

$81–$90estimated range · from catalog price Sep 2, 2026

WD Red Plus 3TB (WD30EFZX) is a 5400 RPM CMR NAS HDD for 1–8 bay systems—budget-tier mass storage with 128 MB cache, SATA 6 Gb/s, and 24×7 rating.

Storage performance rankTop 63% of storage drives

TierBudget?

ReleasedFeb 2021

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Capacity3 TB

TypeHDD

InterfaceSATA

Read speed180 MB/s

Form factor3.5

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Product overview

Western Digital’s WD Red Plus 3TB (WD30EFZX) debuted on February 9, 2021, as part of the CMR‑based WD Red Plus NAS HDD family. It’s built for 1–8‑bay NAS with NASware firmware on a 3.5-inch SATA 6 Gb/s platform, 5400 RPM and a 128 MB cache.

Positioning: budget-tier storage—prioritizing reliable, cool, 24×7 operation over raw throughput. It exists to offer dependable mass capacity for home and small‑business arrays. Good for NAS mass storage and backups, home servers, or a budget desktop upgrade and cold game library. WD rates it for 180 TB/year workload with a 1M‑hour MTBF. Not discontinued as of July 2026. Notable: uses CMR (non‑SMR) recording, avoiding the write‑slowdown behavior SMR can show in NAS use.

Best for

mass storage
budget upgrade
game library

Official product specifications

Specifications

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Capacity3 TB