2TB Western Digital Red IntelliPower SATA 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (WD20EFRX) $99 + Free Shipping

Those are enterprise drives, in an enterprise enclosure. These reds aren't meant to be compared to those.

Aw man, Just bought two of these on amazon for $109.99 on Tuesday.

From what I was reading, the reds were considered enterprise as well. That's the impression I have been under.

No, reds are definitely consumer drives, but are certified to run well in NAS configurations.

Your google must be broken, so here's what comes up when you type in wd red: wd red page [wdc.com]. A direct quote: "No other drive is designed specifically for home and small office NAS systems and PCs with RAID."

Heres the dumbest question ever on slickdeals:

I put 2 drives of 3tb each in my synology nas (DS213+).

I can't tell if they are mirroring each other and only 2.7tb available OR if 1 drive is in fact bad.

I hate that I don't have the time at night to spend on it to look into it but everywhere I look online it confuses me even more.

That and my damn FIOS modem has every damn port blocked that I can't access the nas remotely - wtf is the point of it if Verizon locks me out. I'm SO close to switching internet providers for the SOLE reason of the modem. All the youtube, walk throughs tell you to open the port but my router doesn't have an "add" button in the port settings.

Sorry, not the place to vent.. but other than my driveS showing only 2.7tb available they run fine. I haven't had any issue accessing them in my home or streaming from the nas to my laptop onto my big screen. So in that case the drives are great so far (only been 2 months). I bought the 3tb at Microcenter for $134.99 each.

Verizon won't lock you out of your own device... You need to configure the port settings on your firewall to allow FTP access. That or port forwarding to that NAS device... Nothing to do with an ISP.

Problem is there are like dozens of ports that you have to forward and the Verizon Router (Actiontec) doesn't give you enough spaces to open all of them.

There was a bunch of forums on how people got around it but it's all so effing technical.

The new firmware on the Verizon/Actiontec router took away the "add" option in port forwarding - now it's extremely technical and I found a few forums where people said they just went and bought their own actiontec router giving verizon the mac id and setting it up that way.

I don't know, don't have time to screw around with it. When I set the box up at my office - it was literally up in 10 minutes .. but when I took it home.. no dice. Pogoplug was the same crap trying to get set up on fios.

Damnit I can't decide if I want to pull the plug or not.