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WD Red Plus 3.5" SATA Hard Drives(CMR): 8TB $155, 6TB $105, 4TB

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BH Photo Video has select WD Red Plus 3.5" Internal SATA NAS Hard Drives (CMR) on sale below. Shipping is free.

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BH Photo Video has select WD Red Plus 3.5" Internal SATA NAS Hard Drives (CMR) on sale below. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member MuthuMV for posting this deal.

Available Capacities:
Adorama also has select WD Red Plus 3.5" Internal SATA NAS Hard Drives (CMR) on sale below. Shipping is free.

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    • Includes a Limited 3-Year Warranty.

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Btw, I saw 4TB ones for 68.99 in B&H and thought maybe I over paid for these in Newegg. I compared the two and turns out model are different. B&H one is WD40EFRX with 64MB Cache and Newegg one is WD40EFZX with 128MB Cache. I paid $76.99 with $8 coupon. Don't know about you, but $8 more for 64MB more cache sounds not so bad at all.


https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/pr...s_cmr.html
vs
https://www.newegg.com/red-plus-w...005X-001D3
Yes. It's the SMR drives you want to avoid.
Yup........

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Nov 25, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021
ndnguy85
Nov 25, 2021
161 Posts
Quote from BigBoston :
How are the wd red plus vs ironwolf pro of 10tb, 12tb, 14tb? Want to start with 14's but might be out of my price range right now

Going with 4 in a ds920+ from the BH deal.
I think the Ironwolf pro compares to the Red pro, and not the red plus..
Nov 25, 2021
3,810 Posts
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Nov 25, 2021
SeikenDensetsu
Nov 25, 2021
3,810 Posts
Quote from larry.mcintyre70 :
General rule is you stay with same drives.
You can mix and match drives as much as you like if they're not a part of the same raid array.
Nov 25, 2021
206 Posts
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Nov 25, 2021
BigBoston
Nov 25, 2021
206 Posts
Quote from ndnguy85 :
I think the Ironwolf pro compares to the Red pro, and not the red plus..
Oh shit I thought the red plus was the ironwolf pro equivalent. Forgot there was a red pro. I though it was red and red plus. Wold and wolf pro
Nov 25, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021
t3rm1n80r07
Nov 25, 2021
31 Posts
Quote from AnupK :
Btw, I saw 4TB ones for 68.99 in B&H and thought maybe I over paid for these in Newegg. I compared the two and turns out model are different. B&H one is WD40EFRX with 64MB Cache and Newegg one is WD40EFZX with 128MB Cache. I paid $76.99 with $8 coupon. Don't know about you, but $8 more for 64MB more cache sounds not so bad at all.


https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/pr...s_cmr.html
vs
https://www.newegg.com/red-plus-w...005X-001D3
Amazon also has the 128mb cache WD40EFZX for $69 as a deal of the day. Limit 1 per Amazon Account

Deal of the day: Western Digital 4TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 128 MB Cache, 3.5" -WD40EFZX https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VH8C...UTF8&psc=1
Nov 25, 2021
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JohnRambo
Nov 25, 2021
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Hey would love advice if you know Synology... Thinking of two 4tb drives in a 2 bay Synology... For my ladies Christmas present. She is a photographer and her biggest fear is losing her photos, and right now she has three separate USB drives with about 3 TB of data total stored on all of them.

On the other hand I fear it's not a nice enough setup but the budget would add up to go bigger. Reason being I saw on YouTube where a guy had a 4 bay Synology, with twice the storage amount he needed, and his logic was if he only used half the capacity, he could lose two drives in a freak event and still would have the cross-stored safety to salvage half the total capacity of the drives. Not sure how the tech works but that was what I gathered.

Would 2 bay setup be an upgrade or not worth it unless going bigger? Data read write speed would certainly be a plus factor as well as home cloud server stuff I sort of understand that Synology makes possible.
Last edited by JohnRambo November 25, 2021 at 01:36 PM.
Nov 25, 2021
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keo7
Nov 25, 2021
38 Posts
In my opinion, I would suggest going with 4 bays instead of 2 because with 4 drives you can either go for raid 6 which allow 2 hard disk failure(you will have to account for rebuild time for a raid which depends on capacity and it would take 20+ hours and depend on drive capacities)

Personally, I have Synology 8 bays with raid 6. If you go with SHR 2 (doesn't have to be the same size drives) you can get different size drives,but performance suffers a bit when accessing. Please see Synology Raid calculator [synology.com] for sizing.

Quote from JohnRambo :
Hey would love advice if you know Synology... Thinking of two 4tb drives in a 2 bay Synology... For my ladies Christmas present. She is a photographer and her biggest fear is losing her photos, and right now she has three separate USB drives with about 3 TB of data total stored on all of them.

On the other hand I fear it's not a nice enough setup but the budget would add up to go bigger. Reason being I saw on YouTube where a guy had a 4 bay Synology, with twice the storage amount he needed, and his logic was if he only used half the capacity, he could lose two drives in a freak event and still would have the cross-stored safety to salvage half the total capacity of the drives. Not sure how the tech works but that was what I gathered.

Would 2 bay setup be an upgrade or not worth it unless going bigger? Data read write speed would certainly be a plus factor as well as home cloud server stuff I sort of understand that Synology makes possible.
Last edited by keo7 November 25, 2021 at 02:13 PM.
Nov 25, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021
Derekisthematrix
Nov 25, 2021
224 Posts
Quote from JohnRambo :
Hey would love advice if you know Synology... Thinking of two 4tb drives in a 2 bay Synology... For my ladies Christmas present. She is a photographer and her biggest fear is losing her photos, and right now she has three separate USB drives with about 3 TB of data total stored on all of them.

On the other hand I fear it's not a nice enough setup but the budget would add up to go bigger. Reason being I saw on YouTube where a guy had a 4 bay Synology, with twice the storage amount he needed, and his logic was if he only used half the capacity, he could lose two drives in a freak event and still would have the cross-stored safety to salvage half the total capacity of the drives. Not sure how the tech works but that was what I gathered.

Would 2 bay setup be an upgrade or not worth it unless going bigger? Data read write speed would certainly be a plus factor as well as home cloud server stuff I sort of understand that Synology makes possible.
Don't know about Synology but I'll tell ya what: I have 2x4TB drives in my tower for photo storage and I just manually copy from my cameras/phones to each drive the old school way. Is it an elegant solution? No. But it's honestly not a pain and is simple. If one fails, I've got the other one. Actually just bought 2 more 4TB to add to the system (it's a rather large case) at the $69 price. We shoot about 350GB per year between my wife and I so that's quite a while before we fill that up again.

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Nov 25, 2021
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Derekisthematrix
Nov 25, 2021
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Quote from SociableAlpaca2652 :
Western Digital has this price matched with free shipping if you want to purchase direct.
Don't know if it was a fluke but I tried to order 2 through WD site and got errors at the "Place Order" step. Went to B&H and had no trouble...
Nov 25, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021
smithc1080
Nov 25, 2021
60 Posts
I'm in for two 8TBs from Adorama. Both B&H and Adorama say they are backordered, but Adorama will still let you check out with that pricing. I didn't see where I could order an out of stock item at B&H.
Nov 26, 2021
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Nov 26, 2021
ClarkeM
Nov 26, 2021
56 Posts
Quote from PRYCEMYSTEAK :
Why you need so much storage? Just curious. I have a 918+ with 12TB and it's a overkill for my plex server.
I am 7.7TB of 9.9TB in my SHR 412j right now. I will set the new 920+ up and copy everything over. With only 2TB of space left, I figure more is always better.

Storage is cheap and I only upgrade my NAS once every 10 years. First world problems. Set it and forget it...
Nov 26, 2021
25 Posts
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Nov 26, 2021
Draechen
Nov 26, 2021
25 Posts
Quote from sillyrib :
is it ok to mix an smr and cmr drives in a shr raid nas?
You should avoid doing this.
Nov 26, 2021
7 Posts
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Nov 26, 2021
bonustown
Nov 26, 2021
7 Posts
Any recommendations for UPS devices?
Nov 26, 2021
9,148 Posts
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Nov 26, 2021
TodayOnly
Nov 26, 2021
9,148 Posts
Quote from bonustown :
Any recommendations for UPS devices?
for years i have used both the APC and cyberpower 1500 models. they usually go on sale at some time during the holidays. the pure sinewave version is a little more. i dont mess around with the smaller units.
Nov 26, 2021
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Nov 26, 2021
jms209
Nov 26, 2021
1,108 Posts
Quote from sdaddict001 :
What type of files? If it's pics and videos from phones then NAS is the way to go. I use NAS plus external drive that backs up my entire NAS. For pics and videos it's super super convenient to have them backed up automatically. I don't trust my data on external drives only as I was very careful of handling my ext drive and even then it started clicking. Luckily I had my data on the NAS already by that time. Plus are you going to be very diligent on backing up the files to external drive yourself or would you rather just have it done automatically.

All of this depends on how important this files are. If it's just ripped or downloaded movies I could care less if lost. But family pics and videos are not something I'd take risk with and rather spend the money to protect them now than to pay shit load of money for data recovery services.
I have the xbox 8tb gamedrive enclosure(I chucked the drive) , going to put a 8tb in it.
Might eventually get a NAS, but the cost is a bit too high for me right now. I'm fine doing manual backups for now.

It's mostly videos, nothing really important. I backed up music,games, and harder to get stuff already. Only about 10% of my stuff is essential, the videos/games can be re-downloaded.

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Nov 26, 2021
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darkhorse22
Nov 26, 2021
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Hi! Appreciate any input regarding:

Should 8 tb of this vs 1tb from bestbuy that I got. Purpose is for Nas storage. Never have done shocking of drive before so not sure how hard 14tb one will be to shuck.

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