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wolf1111
New Member
posted: Nov. 28, 2012 @ 10:53p
wait 4 under 140，it is possibile before 2013
g0dMAn
Addicted Member
posted: Nov. 28, 2012 @ 11:03p
wolf1111 said: wait 4 under 140，it is possibile before 2013 Just as long as there are no more unpredictable natural disasters. Come on... If someone needs a drive the this is a good buy.
robv
Nerdy Member
posted: Nov. 28, 2012 @ 11:22p
Vs those predictable natural disasters...can't believe we don't see those coming
g0dMAn said: wolf1111 said: wait 4 under 140，it is possibile before 2013 Just as long as there are no more unpredictable natural disasters. Come on... If someone needs a drive the this is a good buy.
Has anyone read any articles that say this drive us worth the $50 premium over a $89 3TB With a 2 year warranty? From the way I understand it is the red was a response to the green not working well in a NAS environement. Put a regular HDD in a NAS for $89 with a 2 year plus a $9 square trade warranty or this?
aero1
Ancient Member
posted: Dec. 1, 2012 @ 9:49p
warranties dont help with lost data. the red is especially tuned to mass storage environments. many of the $89 drives will not behave properly (not to mention will cost more in electrical use over five years 24/7 which is about the typcial expectation in a nas for any drive.) it isnt simply drive parking, which can be modified but the modification is beyond 95% or more of most nas adn home server of users. There are other factors as well.
gordon6971
Thrifty Member
posted: Dec. 12, 2012 @ 4:39p
Newegg has the Synology 2 bay NAS box that takes these red HD's. $30 off the box & 2TB HD, making it $290 for the combo. linky
Raistlin1
Member
posted: Dec. 12, 2012 @ 7:48p
I thought I read that even these Red drives are not very NAS friendly because they have varying RPMs like the Green drives. Because of this if they are in a RAID setup it can mess up the RAID, someone much more knowledgeable than me please chime in here if I am wrong.
ganjagadget said: Has anyone read any articles that say this drive us worth the $50 premium over a $89 3TB With a 2 year warranty? From the way I understand it is the red was a response to the green not working well in a NAS environement. Put a regular HDD in a NAS for $89 with a 2 year plus a $9 square trade warranty or this?
Can you currently get an 89 dollar 3TB drive though? I haven't seen one available for awhile
HappyScrappyHeroPup
Thrifty Member
posted: Dec. 12, 2012 @ 8:02p
Raistlin1 said: I thought I read that even these Red drives are not very NAS friendly because they have varying RPMs like the Green drives. Because of this if they are in a RAID setup it can mess up the RAID, someone much more knowledgeable than me please chime in here if I am wrong.
No Green or Red drive has varying spindle speed. I know W-D's marketing made it seem like the green would vary spindle speed on the fly, but it isn't true. They have two speeds, on and off.
Also, the stuff about TLER and greens messing up RAIDs is also wrong for many RAIDs.
'The responses I received from Synology, QNAP, NETGEAR and Buffalo all indicated that their NAS RAID controllers don't depend on or even listen to TLER, CCTL, ERC or any other similar error recovery signal from their drives. Instead, their software RAID controllers have their own criteria for drive timeouts, retries and when a drive is finally marked bad.'
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