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Newbie question. Can you raid your NAS if my NAS has 2 ports for hard drives?
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At least they let him have two. I ordered five and they cancelled my entire order.
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The comparison shows the Seagate is competitive with WD Greens as far as temps while having an edge in transfer rates.
*Business Critical RAID Environments – WD Caviar Green Hard Drives are not...
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If anyone is interested in what Synology says about compatibility, here's a link to their DB.
Just choose the number of drive bays and a model, and you'll get their test results. Not a lot of...
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Yeah ill be using my NAS as a back up and want to back it up Haha if that made sense. I've had my external fail before and lost everything so with the nasty as my back up I want to make sure it is...
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Hey I'm with you there. The Greens were good if you could find the models made with WD Black parts, but I had a few "green" drives kick the bucket on me, and it just wasn't worth the hassle of...
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In for 2 to replace 2 WD green drives in my NAS that have errors. Stupid Cisco shipping a NAS with drives not recommended for a NAS.
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Note quite... notice under Reliability/Data Integrity, the "Power on hours" is only 2400 for this drive. That's about 100 days of 24/7 usage even in a home NAS.
See:...
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Update:
Amazon.com has price matched NCIX at @ $164.16 after I had submitted the price request. :)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008JJLW4M/
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http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/29/hard-drives-thailand-floods-recover-record/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr
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Oos !!!
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Your other post is a much better deal. (Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Internal Hard Drive $132 ($44/TB) shipped free.)
Unless you're beholden to WD, $53.33/TB really is a...
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Darn! I just bought it Mon from CTI for $185!!
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They're an authorized dealer. Their headquarters is in Canada, which is why people should be aware if they purchase from NCIX with their credit cards. Some credit cards will charge an international...
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While I've always been a WD fan, their green drives make me very nervous, and these Red drives seem like they're just "fixed" green/blue drives to work in a NAS, all while charging an artificial...
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Yes, you pay CA sales tax. I've bought from them before. Good retailer.
I was considering the REDs from WD, if they ever come down to reasonable pricing.
Btw, Seagate has 1 TB platter drives with...
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These work great for an HTPC, that's what I'm using them for.
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Still avail. Just added to cart.
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the MTBF on these are 750,000 hours
I doubt the drive will die after 100 days but clearly it won't last 84 years either :)
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Newegg is currently 229.00 very few places have this drive listed for 179, let alone IN STOCK!
1 year non 24/7 drives running at a VERY HOT 7200 RPM do no bare well for NAS application.
These...
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Out of stock.
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Umm , am i missing somethign ? What's different about these WD "Red"s and why is this a good buy?
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Update: 11/3/12
Price now dropped to $158.20 which makes it only $29.19 more than the 2TB version.
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Red-Hard-Drive/dp/B008JJLW4M/
Should I get it or wait...
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I am wondering the same thing.. the price is not 'the BEST" but it's certainly attractive enough for me to get it. but BF is just around the corner....
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Thanks! ordered for my Synology.
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RE: CA Sales Tax -- Yes, it does apply ... So add another $11 or so ...
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May be you should try clicking on "Print This Article" button. I always go to anandtech for that reason.
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That's not what I said, you can scroll up, I quoted their "power on time." That's the time that they stay on, even idle! So a home NAS running 24/7 would hit that time in 100 days. Note I'm not...
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You can still place orders but they are backordered.
"Availability:
Back Order
This product is available but currently we do not have stock. Order it today and we will ship when it's...
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I'm running 2 of them in a Synology box, 39-40 degrees Celsius consistently.
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EDIT: Ok I see them in the authorized list for Canada
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I need to replace the 2TB SAMSUNG HD203WI drives in my Netgear ReadyNAS Duo, but is this a good deal with only $9.99 off from their regular price? (Going rate at Newegg and other etailers seems to...
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They do have a big office near Irvine, CA.
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Good deal for NAS optimized drives. Read up more here.
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Yes - glad to see I'm not the only one who noticed...
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since they have an office in Calif, do we need to pay CA sales tax?
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Not sure what you're referring to with that link - can you tell me specifically? The one thing I see in the review is that it competes with a different class of drives and uses a ton of power -...
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The Seagate will prob do better than the Greens given a true NAS environment given better response times and fewer load/unload issues info, plus unconfirmed in NCIX reviews they actually have a 2-yr...
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people really shouldn't buy into the Red marketing unless you're running 24/'7 backups. WD Green's biggest problem is continual access times as it likes to go to sleep, but if all you're doing is...
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the 2TB one is now for $109.99. limit 2 per customer
http://us.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=74268&promoid=1061
Note that you need to pay $3.3 insurance, CA tax, and foreign currency...
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