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Newegg has 4TB WD Red Plus NAS 5400 RPM CMR 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (WD40EFZX) on sale for $69.99 after you apply promo code EMCAZ2Z33. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member sr71 for finding this deal.

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  4. Final price will be $69.99 + Free shipping
Specs:
  • Capacity: 1 TB
  • Interface: SATA
  • Cache Size: 64 MB
  • Disk Speed (RPM): 5400rpm
  • Transfer Rate: up to 150MB/s
  • Compatibility: Designed with CMR technology for small or medium-sized businesses in RAID-optimized NAS systems with up to 8 bays. Perfect for handling increased workloads, including expanded OS compatibility and ZFS.
  • Recording Technology: CMR
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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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"Can I use a NAS hard drive as a regular drive? Many people may ask this question. The answer is YES. You can use it as a regular desktop drive, as long as the interface is in accordance. But there is a problem you should pay attention to: NAS HDDs have TLER technology.
TLER technology allows the drive to mark sectors as bad sectors when it can't access the sectors after continuous attempt for 3-5 seconds. This reduced the failure rate of raid array and improved reliability and stability.
However, if you use NAS hard drive as a regular drive, some sectors may be marked as bad sectors incorrectly. Because common desktop drives without TLER technology usually mark sectors as bad sectors when they can't access the sectors after continuous attempt for 30 seconds to 1 minute."​
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Yeah, difference is it's not the Red Plus, which is CMR vs SMR on the Amazon drive.
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aegrotatio
12-18-2021 at 10:42 AM.
12-18-2021 at 10:42 AM.
Quote from Kopite :
Funny I just received this drive 2 hours ago from the order I placed early last week for $75. It took 9 days for UPS/USPS to make a 400 miles journey from Newegg's warehouse.
Yeah, unfortunately the free shipping option from Newegg is very slow. It took over 1.5 weeks for me to get my order of these drives from Newegg.
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Snewpy
12-18-2021 at 10:58 AM.
12-18-2021 at 10:58 AM.
Amazon has matched the price... although I think their stock is limited ATM.

WD Red Plus 4TB [amazon.com]
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cochbr
12-18-2021 at 11:48 AM.
12-18-2021 at 11:48 AM.
Quote from black_schlong :
While you can use a NAS drive on your PC, I don't recommend it under most circumstances. NAS drives, aside from the bad sector marking, are 5400 rpm drives - to save power. (Maybe used as a data drive would be fine.)

I purchased and shucked a WD 14TB drive from BF. I want to use it as an internal desktop drive for data in my XPS. Reading about TLER is kind of concerning me regarding the long term data retention. Am I wrong?
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12-18-2021 at 04:20 PM.

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12-18-2021 at 04:20 PM.
nothing about TLER should concern you in desktop use, it doesn't even come into play unless the controller supports/can interpret it. that's usually in a hardware RAID or NAS situation.

if sectors are being marked bad, they'd be bad regardless since all you'd get would be the ABORT, RETRY sequence you get for any drive. don't let some troll regurgitating stuff from a forum he doesn't comprehend fool you.

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I purchased and shucked a WD 14TB drive from BF. I want to use it as an internal desktop drive for data in my XPS. Reading about TLER is kind of concerning me regarding the long term data retention. Am I wrong?
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cochbr
12-18-2021 at 09:15 PM.
12-18-2021 at 09:15 PM.
Quote from sr71 :
nothing about TLER should concern you in desktop use, it doesn't even come into play unless the controller supports/can interpret it. that's usually in a hardware RAID or NAS situation.

if sectors are being marked bad, they'd be bad regardless since all you'd get would be the ABORT, RETRY sequence you get for any drive. don't let some troll regurgitating stuff from a forum he doesn't comprehend fool you.
Thanks so much for your reply. I have it installed in my desktop and have been migrating data to it... then reading about TLER - and me being unfamiliar with it - got me thinking perhaps I shouldn't be relying on this drive as my primary, but as a secondary. Anyway, appreciate the clarification (and repped)!
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CleverAlpaca963
12-18-2021 at 09:20 PM.
12-18-2021 at 09:20 PM.
Quote from aegrotatio :
As others have stated, the Amazon deal is a SMR drive. It will work fine in a single-drive NAS setup but the conventional wisdom is that SMR technology isn't well-suited for multi-drive NAS systems that use certain RAID types and "hybrid" RAID-like technologies like Synology devices have.
Now, Amazon has the CMR Plus drives for $69.99
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12-19-2021 at 11:50 AM.
12-19-2021 at 11:50 AM.
Quote from Snewpy :
Amazon has matched the price... although I think their stock is limited ATM.

WD Red Plus 4TB [amazon.com]

Yup.
Here's the SD post.
https://slickdeals.net/share/android_app/fp/688312
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kensteele
12-19-2021 at 12:02 PM.
12-19-2021 at 12:02 PM.
qq do all 4 drives have to be same size in my ds920+ or can one of them be a 10tb with three 4s?
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12-19-2021 at 12:21 PM.
12-19-2021 at 12:21 PM.
Quote from kensteele :
qq do all 4 drives have to be same size in my ds920+ or can one of them be a 10tb with three 4s?
Yes, you can mix the sizes, but they will be limited to the smallest one. So, if you did 4+4+4+10, it would only actually use 4+4+4+4 out of that.
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12-19-2021 at 12:29 PM.
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Quote from kensteele :
qq do all 4 drives have to be same size in my ds920+ or can one of them be a 10tb with three 4s?

As Clever Alpaca says, you can. However, you may have more options depending on your NAS. On my QNAP, I can create a RAID with 3 of the drives or use all 4 in a JBOD configuration.
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kensteele
12-19-2021 at 01:35 PM.
12-19-2021 at 01:35 PM.
Quote from CleverAlpaca963 :
Yes, you can mix the sizes, but they will be limited to the smallest one. So, if you did 4+4+4+10, it would only actually use 4+4+4+4 out of that.
Quote from Master.Billy.Quizboy :
As Clever Alpaca says, you can. However, you may have more options depending on your NAS. On my QNAP, I can create a RAID with 3 of the drives or use all 4 in a JBOD configuration.
thanks appreciate it. i will wait until i have all 4s but i'll look into the options.
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Rosco2013
12-19-2021 at 09:11 PM.
12-19-2021 at 09:11 PM.
Thanks for this. I tried buying from Amazon but deal appears dead there. Managed to squeeze in during the final hours to get it here from Newegg.
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12-20-2021 at 10:02 AM.
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imagine blue 4tb for $50, I can dream
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12-20-2021 at 11:19 AM.
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Are there two versions of this red plus with different cache sizes?
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Teaser38
12-20-2021 at 11:38 AM.
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Solid drive, but slow. Best used for data hoarding. I wouldn't run any applications off of this.
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