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B&H Photo Video has 4TB WD Red Plus 3.5" 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s NAS Internal Hard Drive (WDBAVV0040HNC-WRSN) for $89.99. Shipping is free.

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Newegg has 4TB WD Red Plus 3.5" 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s NAS Internal Hard Drive (WD40EFRX) for $89.99. Shipping is free.
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BH Photo Video [bhphotovideo.com] has 4TB WD Red SATA III 3.5" Internal NAS Hard Drive (WDBAVV0040HNC-WRSN) on sale for $89.99. Shipping is free.

Good for those who do not want to spend $150+ on 6TB or larger size NAS drives. CMR technology and is being renamed "WD Red Plus" to distinguish it from the current "WD Red" product, which uses SMR technology.

Similar price at Newegg [newegg.com].

This is also $5 cheaper than the previous FP deal of $94.99.
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I think the Red are SMR and the Red Plus are CMR.
It matters more for data being frequently written than it does for data at rest, so yes. For a very short explanation of the differences, see here: https://blag.nullteilerfrei.de/20...-a-hdd-mr/

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dimpleguy
11-28-2020 at 06:37 PM.
11-28-2020 at 06:37 PM.
Go for 14TB, bad price for 4TB
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davenian
11-28-2020 at 06:40 PM.
11-28-2020 at 06:40 PM.
Amazon has same price. I ordered 2 yesterday. Deliver estimate on 10
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Wek
11-28-2020 at 07:11 PM.
11-28-2020 at 07:11 PM.
These drives are optimized for NAS use but can I throw these into an regular enclosure and use for storage? Or are there better/cheaper alternatives (blues)?
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blueposeidon
11-28-2020 at 07:18 PM.
11-28-2020 at 07:18 PM.
Hey guys, 5200rpm hdd isn't enough to got FP imo.
Why so many thumbs up here?
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Ducman69
11-28-2020 at 07:42 PM.
11-28-2020 at 07:42 PM.
4TB drive in almost 2021? OK. And here I am practically throwing away my old 6TB drives on local listings.
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SeikenDensetsu
11-28-2020 at 08:12 PM.
11-28-2020 at 08:12 PM.
Quote from blunt_eastwood :
Thanks for the detailed response. It's very helpful. I use a 256 GB SSD for Windows and a few applications, and I have a 1 TB HDD that I save games on.

I want more space to save more games and also some gameplay that I want to record to use as video, so I wanted to get another HDD for that.

Would this [newegg.com]be a good choice in your opinion give what you've said about speeds? It's 5900 RPM.

This [amazon.com] page shows the full specs.

My friend you need to use an SSD for video games, not an HDD

SSD is cheaper than HDD and provides significant faster loading times

Use HDD for storage is ok but at this point in time there is no reason to put on HDD
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TravisHardiman
11-28-2020 at 08:53 PM.
11-28-2020 at 08:53 PM.
(Oops, put my comment in the wrong box!)

The non-plus Red are only $80 + free shipping at WD's site:
https://shop.westerndigital.com/p...d#WD40EFAX
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deathalo
11-28-2020 at 08:56 PM.
11-28-2020 at 08:56 PM.
Awesome, got this for 79.99 at Newegg after using a $10 email coupon they had sent me last week.
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megablank
11-28-2020 at 08:59 PM.
11-28-2020 at 08:59 PM.
Quote from Ducman69 :
4TB drive in almost 2021? OK. And here I am practically throwing away my old 6TB drives on local listings.
Yea pretty tragic they still make these.

They should be $60 at this point, as the lowest tier drive.
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11-28-2020 at 09:00 PM.
11-28-2020 at 09:00 PM.
Quote from TravisHardiman :
(Oops, put my comment in the wrong box!)

The non-plus Red are only $80 + free shipping at WD's site:
https://shop.westerndigital.com/p...d#WD40EFAX
Everyone wants the plus here
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seywhut
11-28-2020 at 09:07 PM.
11-28-2020 at 09:07 PM.
Quote from SeikenDensetsu :
My friend you need to use an SSD for video games, not an HDD

SSD is cheaper than HDD and provides significant faster loading times

Use HDD for storage is ok but at this point in time there is no reason to put on HDD

Not really. As far as price more or less, a 1TB SSD = 4TB HDD. Not all people are the same as far as games. Sure SSD for serious gamers, maybe even NVME in R0. Some people don't play high end games & I'm sure that guy who's using a 1TB HDD for games doesn't.
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hottie
11-28-2020 at 09:19 PM.
11-28-2020 at 09:19 PM.
Seagate Ironwolf was same price but went up by 5$

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/pr...ernal.html
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Madman999
11-28-2020 at 09:47 PM.
11-28-2020 at 09:47 PM.
Quote from Wek :
These drives are optimized for NAS use but can I throw these into an regular enclosure and use for storage? Or are there better/cheaper alternatives (blues)?

You can use these like any other drive but they will be slow. These drives are meant for nas and raid units for archiving data or used in file servers like the qnap or synology. They can achieve better io and performance in those applications when grouped with several drives.... Well actually the network speed would be the bottleneck.

The characteristics of these drives are low rotation speed, low cost per gigabyte which equates to low power consumption, heat generation and ultimately, reliability and long life. These old-style spinning hard-drives still have some usefulness. 5400-5900 rpm drives have replace 7200 rpm drives at capacities greater than 4tb probably for reliability and cost reasons.

If you want best performance in a desktop setting, go with an ssd. Ssds work great as desktop drives because read performance is better. Ssds have a finite write performance life span though so they are not best suited for heavy file writing.
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NatePuppy
11-28-2020 at 09:47 PM.
11-28-2020 at 09:47 PM.
I can't recommend any HDD these days except in special cases.

They're orders of magnitude slower than SSDs for random read-writes, and they break much sooner than anything than the lowest tier of SSDs.
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Wek
11-28-2020 at 10:15 PM.
11-28-2020 at 10:15 PM.
Quote from Madman999 :
You can use these like any other drive but they will be slow. These drives are meant for nas and raid units for archiving data or used in file servers like the qnap or synology. They can achieve better io and performance in those applications when grouped with several drives.... Well actually the network speed would be the bottleneck.

The characteristics of these drives are low rotation speed, low cost per gigabyte which equates to low power consumption, heat generation and ultimately, reliability and long life. These old-style spinning hard-drives still have some usefulness. 5400-5900 rpm drives have replace 7200 rpm drives at capacities greater than 4tb probably for reliability and cost reasons.

If you want best performance in a desktop setting, go with an ssd. Ssds work great as desktop drives because read performance is better. Ssds have a finite write performance life span though so they are not best suited for heavy file writing.
Thanks for the explanation. I would be using these drives for mid/long-term storage like a NAS but in an regular enclosure connected via USB (don't have a NAS setup).
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