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6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM for $88.18

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Jun 13, 2022 02:09 AM
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milkysunshineJun 13, 2022 02:09 AM
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Jun 13, 2022 02:10 AM
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SuperoceanJun 13, 2022 02:10 AM
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Quote from milkysunshine :
Shingled magnetic recording
Is that good or bad?
Jun 13, 2022 02:25 AM
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tommykavounidisJun 13, 2022 02:25 AM
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It's SMR you want CMR
Jun 13, 2022 02:35 AM
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HappyTree742Jun 13, 2022 02:35 AM
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Not good for NAS (despite the name)
Jun 13, 2022 04:10 AM
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LimianJun 13, 2022 04:10 AM
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Why is this Smr? Can they even be used for nas?
Jun 13, 2022 04:48 AM
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SkillfulPiranha7944Jun 13, 2022 04:48 AM
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Just a few days ago, they had a much better deal. A 16tb WD Red NAS drive for $200 -- and it was 7200rpm. Sold out quickly.
Jun 13, 2022 06:05 AM
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R3DTR1XJun 13, 2022 06:05 AM
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Cheap drive for plex server

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Jun 13, 2022 12:13 PM
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psycttoJun 13, 2022 12:13 PM
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Quote from milkysunshine :
Shingled magnetic recording
Quote from tommykavounidis :
It's SMR you want CMR
Quote from HappyTree742 :
Not good for NAS (despite the name)
because... reasons?
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.
Jun 13, 2022 04:29 PM
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KrfligzenibenJun 13, 2022 04:29 PM
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I've got a few Red NAS Pro 7200 RPM in my Synology Media server, and one of them broke down this past year from within the 5 year warranty period.

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.
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Jun 13, 2022 05:43 PM
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bavmJun 13, 2022 05:43 PM
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Quote from psyctto :
because... reasons?
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.
The issue is that these are marketed as NAS drives. Some NAS systems like freenas/truenas based on the ZFS file systems run into a lot of issues with these kind drives. There's a couple articles and tests people have run where resilver times on SMR takes 20x longer than CMR drives and sometimes even fails to rebuild an array. Definitely not good if you are storing important data. If not then it's okay, such as installing games to it or downloading movies.
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Jun 13, 2022 05:47 PM
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Ya_wumpusJun 13, 2022 05:47 PM
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Quote from Limian :
Why is this Smr? Can they even be used for nas?
SMR falls on its face with RAID. So if you connected a single 6TB drive (for a plex server, perhaps) you would do fine. Of course if you didn't want plex (but wanted a single ~6TB drive for media pushing) I'd see if raspberry pies (and competition) were available (and look for external drives. Cheap, and you can directly connect to the Pi). Such tiny computers would be ideal for non-RAID smallish (for NAS) storage, but not so good for plex's love for transcoding.

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.
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Jun 13, 2022 05:55 PM
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wateristastyJun 13, 2022 05:55 PM
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Quote from ElatedWalrus2609 :
Oh so Happy great Internet opinion. WD Red is their flagship NAS drive if you would do a little research before you hit reply. Granted WD isn't everyone's favorite brand since their manufacturing facilities in Thailand were wipe out by a tsunami, but many people still stand by them.
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.
You're confused kid. Plain Red is bottom of the barrel, junk drives with a red sticker, might as well buy Blue. Red Plus is superior to Red. Red Pro is the top of the red line. If you use these plain Red drives in industry and ever have to go through a RAID rebuild, you'll be looking for a new job.
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Jun 13, 2022 08:02 PM
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steph280Jun 13, 2022 08:02 PM
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Dead. Back to $119 now.

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