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expired Posted by SkillfulPencil • Jun 13, 2022
Jun 13, 2022 1:37 AM
6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM for $88.18
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if you're not continuously writing to it and the SMR drive has ample idle time to reorganize itself, who cares? if i'm incorrect or missing something important, please let me know.
to compare apples to apples...
cheapest i've seen the 6TB Red Plus is 100$, so sure for 12$ more why not. but if you're buying multiples and wanna save 50$ and SMR fits your use case... i don't see a reason not to.
After I filed for a replacement, they literally took 6 months to send me a new one. In that time I found an 8TB Ironwolf Pro for cheaper and it runs at a lower temperature and has special features the Synology utilizes.
WD has become a trash fire in recent years. I wouldn't recommend buying them anymore unless you don't care about losing your data or getting a replacement within a reasonable amount of time.
if you're not continuously writing to it and the SMR drive has ample idle time to reorganize itself, who cares? if i'm incorrect or missing something important, please let me know.
to compare apples to apples...
cheapest i've seen the 6TB Red Plus is 100$, so sure for 12$ more why not. but if you're buying multiples and wanna save 50$ and SMR fits your use case... i don't see a reason not to.
NOTE: it is worse than "falls on its face". Everything works well until you lose a drive and have to rebuild (the whole point of having RAID), and then it simply takes forever. Possibly literally 'forever' in that you simply can't leave it plugged in long enough to complete.
This is a good price for an industrial quality NAS HD, possibly overkill for a home-based NAS. Red Plus is more for the home/small business user.