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6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM for $88.18

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Amazon has 6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM for $88.18
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Model: Western Digital Red 6TB 3.5" SATA NAS Internal Hard Drive (WD60EFAX)

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06-12-2022 at 07:09 PM.

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06-12-2022 at 07:09 PM.
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06-12-2022 at 07:10 PM.
06-12-2022 at 07:10 PM.
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Is that good or bad?
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06-12-2022 at 07:25 PM.
06-12-2022 at 07:25 PM.
It's SMR you want CMR
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HappyTree742
06-12-2022 at 07:35 PM.
06-12-2022 at 07:35 PM.
Not good for NAS (despite the name)
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Limian
06-12-2022 at 09:10 PM.
06-12-2022 at 09:10 PM.
Why is this Smr? Can they even be used for nas?
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SkillfulPiranha7944
06-12-2022 at 09:48 PM.
06-12-2022 at 09:48 PM.
Just a few days ago, they had a much better deal. A 16tb WD Red NAS drive for $200 -- and it was 7200rpm. Sold out quickly.
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06-12-2022 at 11:05 PM.
06-12-2022 at 11:05 PM.
Cheap drive for plex server
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psyctto
06-13-2022 at 05:13 AM.
06-13-2022 at 05:13 AM.
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Shingled magnetic recording
Quote from tommykavounidis :
It's SMR you want CMR
Quote from HappyTree742 :
Not good for NAS (despite the name)
because... reasons?
if you're not continuously writing to it and the SMR drive has ample idle time to reorganize itself, who cares? if i'm incorrect or missing something important, please let me know.


to compare apples to apples...
cheapest i've seen the 6TB Red Plus is 100$, so sure for 12$ more why not. but if you're buying multiples and wanna save 50$ and SMR fits your use case... i don't see a reason not to.
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Krfligzeniben
06-13-2022 at 09:29 AM.
06-13-2022 at 09:29 AM.
I've got a few Red NAS Pro 7200 RPM in my Synology Media server, and one of them broke down this past year from within the 5 year warranty period.

After I filed for a replacement, they literally took 6 months to send me a new one. In that time I found an 8TB Ironwolf Pro for cheaper and it runs at a lower temperature and has special features the Synology utilizes.

WD has become a trash fire in recent years. I wouldn't recommend buying them anymore unless you don't care about losing your data or getting a replacement within a reasonable amount of time.
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bavm
06-13-2022 at 10:43 AM.
06-13-2022 at 10:43 AM.
Quote from psyctto :
because... reasons?
if you're not continuously writing to it and the SMR drive has ample idle time to reorganize itself, who cares? if i'm incorrect or missing something important, please let me know.


to compare apples to apples...
cheapest i've seen the 6TB Red Plus is 100$, so sure for 12$ more why not. but if you're buying multiples and wanna save 50$ and SMR fits your use case... i don't see a reason not to.
The issue is that these are marketed as NAS drives. Some NAS systems like freenas/truenas based on the ZFS file systems run into a lot of issues with these kind drives. There's a couple articles and tests people have run where resilver times on SMR takes 20x longer than CMR drives and sometimes even fails to rebuild an array. Definitely not good if you are storing important data. If not then it's okay, such as installing games to it or downloading movies.
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06-13-2022 at 10:47 AM.
06-13-2022 at 10:47 AM.
Quote from Limian :
Why is this Smr? Can they even be used for nas?
SMR falls on its face with RAID. So if you connected a single 6TB drive (for a plex server, perhaps) you would do fine. Of course if you didn't want plex (but wanted a single ~6TB drive for media pushing) I'd see if raspberry pies (and competition) were available (and look for external drives. Cheap, and you can directly connect to the Pi). Such tiny computers would be ideal for non-RAID smallish (for NAS) storage, but not so good for plex's love for transcoding.

NOTE: it is worse than "falls on its face". Everything works well until you lose a drive and have to rebuild (the whole point of having RAID), and then it simply takes forever. Possibly literally 'forever' in that you simply can't leave it plugged in long enough to complete.
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wateristasty
06-13-2022 at 10:55 AM.
06-13-2022 at 10:55 AM.
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Oh so Happy great Internet opinion. WD Red is their flagship NAS drive if you would do a little research before you hit reply. Granted WD isn't everyone's favorite brand since their manufacturing facilities in Thailand were wipe out by a tsunami, but many people still stand by them.
This is a good price for an industrial quality NAS HD, possibly overkill for a home-based NAS. Red Plus is more for the home/small business user.
You're confused kid. Plain Red is bottom of the barrel, junk drives with a red sticker, might as well buy Blue. Red Plus is superior to Red. Red Pro is the top of the red line. If you use these plain Red drives in industry and ever have to go through a RAID rebuild, you'll be looking for a new job.
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steph280
06-13-2022 at 01:02 PM.
06-13-2022 at 01:02 PM.
Dead. Back to $119 now.
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