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Newegg.com has 4TB WD Red Plus NAS 5400 RPM 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (WD40EFZX) for $104.49 - $15.50 w/ promo code NEGGHDD77 = $88.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community members sr71 & frett for finding this deal.

About this item:
  • Supports up to 180 TB/yr workload rate* * Workload Rate is defined as the amount of user data transferred to or from the hard drive. Workload Rate is annualized (TB transferred ✕ (8760 / recorded power-on hours)). Workload Rate will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurations.
  • NASware firmware for compatibility
  • Small or medium business NAS systems in a 24x7 environment
  • 3-year limited warranty

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With Promo Code: EMCEAHB53 update NEGGHDD77 for $89AC

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Model: Western Digital Red Plus WD40EFZX 4 TB Hard Drive - 3.5" Internal - SATA (SATA/600) - Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) Method - Storage System De

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You need to include the capacity, OP.

For anyone reading, it's 4TB.

And if you use code NEGGHDD77, it's $89 instead of $90.

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08-19-2021 at 02:34 AM.
08-19-2021 at 02:34 AM.
You need to include the capacity, OP.

For anyone reading, it's 4TB.

And if you use code NEGGHDD77, it's $89 instead of $90.
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cundallini
08-19-2021 at 05:19 AM.
08-19-2021 at 05:19 AM.
lol, need larger drive, so i though of checking via this deal, maybe larger drives are discounted too. 10tb and 12tb are 498$. lol. repped btw. nice deal if you need 4tb.
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PowerNachos
08-20-2021 at 09:11 AM.
08-20-2021 at 09:11 AM.
I have 6 in a Drobo and have had 3 fail in the last year. Hard pass.
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08-20-2021 at 06:18 PM.
08-20-2021 at 06:18 PM.
Quote from PowerNachos :
I have 6 in a Drobo and have had 3 fail in the last year. Hard pass.
Maybe the Drobo is bad.
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Caffeineman
08-20-2021 at 06:36 PM.
08-20-2021 at 06:36 PM.
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Maybe the Drobo is bad.

The drobo is ruining the drives or just reporting them as bad?
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OrangeLlama391
08-20-2021 at 06:51 PM.
08-20-2021 at 06:51 PM.
Can you use these NAS drives in regular computers for an extra drive to store personal files, photos, videos etc? If so, what are the disadvantages of using these vs regular HDD's that are meant for computer storage?
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08-20-2021 at 07:24 PM.
08-20-2021 at 07:24 PM.
Quote from OrangeLlama391 :
Can you use these NAS drives in regular computers for an extra drive to store personal files, photos, videos etc? If so, what are the disadvantages of using these vs regular HDD's that are meant for computer storage?
yes you can. the red drives are meant for 24/7 operation like in a server. they have slower read speeds than most other drives but if you are just looking to store files it will be fine.
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08-20-2021 at 08:14 PM.
08-20-2021 at 08:14 PM.
Deals on WD Purple seem harder to come by these days. Anyway good deal if you need these nod.
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08-20-2021 at 09:55 PM.
08-20-2021 at 09:55 PM.
Quote from OrangeLlama391 :
Can you use these NAS drives in regular computers for an extra drive to store personal files, photos, videos etc? If so, what are the disadvantages of using these vs regular HDD's that are meant for computer storage?

Yes. They're just more geared for NAS. Like the difference between a bmx and mountain bike.
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08-20-2021 at 10:03 PM.
08-20-2021 at 10:03 PM.
I paid a lot of money for my WD PR4100 32 TB NAS so imagine my disappointment when they forced an upgrade to OS5 on me. Buggiest release ever. My drives indexed for over a month. Literally. All but shredding them. I had thermal shutoff after thermal shutoff the whole time. Lost quite a bit of my photo side-hustle business' products. The response from WD Support? Pretty much, Gee that's too bad. I could have my drives replaced with refurbs. Like I want to put my data on someone else's rejected drives?

WD seriously bungled the whole OS5 things and left a lot of people hanging. Me included. The )S5 fiasco is well documented in their own forums and on Reddit.

They've lost my business forever. Not just my personal business. I work for a tech company in Silicon Valley and I will never trust my company's data on WD ever again. They do NOT stand behind their products.
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WingsOfF
08-20-2021 at 10:04 PM.
08-20-2021 at 10:04 PM.
Quote from OrangeLlama391 :
Can you use these NAS drives in regular computers for an extra drive to store personal files, photos, videos etc? If so, what are the disadvantages of using these vs regular HDD's that are meant for computer storage?
These drives trade off read and write speeds for noise and power for use in multi-drive NAS. NAS drives compensate somewhat with parallel access when so configured.

As a single drive in a desktop, they behave like a slow rpm drive (think old 5k drives in laptops). Just for storing media and sequential reading/processing will be fine but can be frustrating if you are using that single drive for simultaneous reads and writes (media processing) or multi-tasked activities. The seek times can make the apps using them slow. As a minor point, they may be firmware tuned to be less aggressive about parking heads, or going to sleep, etc., that might not be optimal for a single desktop. But not a practical concern.

I use them for local longer-term media files storage in a desktop all the time with the above limitations in mind and SSDs for processing. They are built to be reliable for continuous operation.
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08-20-2021 at 10:07 PM.
08-20-2021 at 10:07 PM.
Got 6TB 7200rpm buy1get1free last year, before all this mass inflation of 2021.
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08-20-2021 at 10:13 PM.
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Quote from FlyerFocus :
I paid a lot of money for my WD PR4100 32 TB NAS so imagine my disappointment when they forced an upgrade to OS5 on me. Buggiest release ever. My drives indexed for over a month. Literally. All but shredding them. I had thermal shutoff after thermal shutoff the whole time. Lost quite a bit of my photo side-hustle business' products. The response from WD Support? Pretty much, Gee that's too bad. I could have my drives replaced with refurbs. Like I want to put my data on someone else's rejected drives?

WD seriously bungled the whole OS5 things and left a lot of people hanging. Me included. The )S5 fiasco is well documented in their own forums and on Reddit.

They've lost my business forever. Not just my personal business. I work for a tech company in Silicon Valley and I will never trust my company's data on WD ever again. They do NOT stand behind their products.
I am not sure your experience with their NAS (primarily the problems with their NAS software) is relevant to buying single drives. Their core expertise like Seagate has always been bare drives and the firmware for them. There is not much tech support you need for bare drives other than decent warranty and RMA support. And the firmware within drives are fairly stable although all drive manufacturers blow their firmware once in a while.

Buy known-to-be-good WD or Seagate bare drives and buy a NAS from people who specialize in NAS. Very different software expertise between the two.
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