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Western Digital WD Red 3 TB NAS Hard Drive - $139.99 - WD30EFRX - Amazon.com

Great price. Great reviews. seems to be a winner to me.

If only I have need for the space and not have to pay tax or else this would be instant-buy.
 
Why is it specified as a NAS drive? I don't see an enclosure?

Oh, I see it has WD NAS software installed in the firmware.
 
Screw Amazon and their 20 minute pricing and fake inventory charades!

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Wyndru said:
Why is it specified as a NAS drive? I don't see an enclosure?

Oh, I see it has WD NAS software installed in the firmware.
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It's effectively a variant on the Greens, with the differences being based around optimizing it for NAS use. The differences are roughly as follows:

1) Time Limited Error Recovery (TLER) is controllable and enabled by default. TLER is useful for RAID use as it causes the drive to give up on reading a bad sector sooner, so that the drive doesn't drop out of the array.

2) Longer warranty. 3 years vs. 1 year

3) It has some additional stabilization mechanisms, ostensibly intended for keeping the drive head stable amidst the vibrations from other drives.

Really it's a premium consumer 5400RPM hard drive. WD has it fairly well targetted: with the small price difference between a Red and a Green, the TLER and warranty differences usually make the Red a better candidate for NAS use than the Greens.
 
Xponential said:
After perusing through Newegg ratings, reliability seems shaky.
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People think that brandX is unreliable because they've had a drive or two die. NewEgg's hard drive shipping has historically been bad, so don't rely on any DoA information from them.

I've had eight of the WD Red drives in my server since November. They're quiet, fast, and so far haven't given me any issues (as they should/shouldn't). I'd definitely get some more at $139 if I needed them.
 
ViRGE said:
It's effectively a variant on the Greens, with the differences being based around optimizing it for NAS use. The differences are roughly as follows:

1) Time Limited Error Recovery (TLER) is controllable and enabled by default. TLER is useful for RAID use as it causes the drive to give up on reading a bad sector sooner, so that the drive doesn't drop out of the array.

2) Longer warranty. 3 years vs. 1 year

3) It has some additional stabilization mechanisms, ostensibly intended for keeping the drive head stable amidst the vibrations from other drives.

Really it's a premium consumer 5400RPM hard drive. WD has it fairly well targetted: with the small price difference between a Red and a Green, the TLER and warranty differences usually make the Red a better candidate for NAS use than the Greens.
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Wait, are these Red drives 5400RPM or 7200RPM?
 
Red drives are 5400RPM. The equivalent 7200RPM drives would be the uber expensive RE drives.
 
cbunn said:
I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here, but it bears repeating. Newegg can't ship hard drives properly most of the time and thus the reviews are skewed for any model.
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Exactly.

FWIW, I bought 8 of these drives (from Amazon) for my server in the January/February timeframe and have not had a single issue. They've been running 24/7 for about a month now in a RAID6 array.
 
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ViRGE said:
It's effectively a variant on the Greens, with the differences being based around optimizing it for NAS use. The differences are roughly as follows:

1) Time Limited Error Recovery (TLER) is controllable and enabled by default. TLER is useful for RAID use as it causes the drive to give up on reading a bad sector sooner, so that the drive doesn't drop out of the array.

2) Longer warranty. 3 years vs. 1 year

3) It has some additional stabilization mechanisms, ostensibly intended for keeping the drive head stable amidst the vibrations from other drives.

Really it's a premium consumer 5400RPM hard drive. WD has it fairly well targetted: with the small price difference between a Red and a Green, the TLER and warranty differences usually make the Red a better candidate for NAS use than the Greens.
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They also use less power than the Green series and seem to have better performance. I'll never buy another Green again.
 
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