Among the panels I can by giving only short-term experience, as I previously had Seagate and this is my first WD. The temperature is about 4 ° C lower than with comparable Seagate drives (for NAS) and also the board is very quiet.
After 33 hours of operation, I may have the following - provide very technical, but very guten- data available, which were read out with the tool "smartctl" (Linux):
ID # ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST TYPE THRESH UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 253 021 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200.2 million Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 33
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 9
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 130 122 000 Old_age Always - 20
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0