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14TB Western Digital WD Red Pro 3.5" 7200 RPM CMR NAS Internal Hard Drive Expired

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Western Digital has 14TB Western Digital WD Red Pro 3.5" 7200 RPM CMR NAS Internal Hard Drive (WD142KFGX) on sale 2 for $439.98 (price in cart when you add 2). Shipping is free.
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Features:
  • Transfer Rate: up to 255MB/s
  • 512MB Cache
  • Recording Technology: CMR
  • Ideal for creative pros, medium to large businesses, and commercial/enterprise NAS systems
  • For RAID-optimized NAS systems with an unlimited number of bays
  • Rated for 550TB/year workloads1 and up to 2.5M hours MTBF
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This is for the PRO not the Plus

https://www.westerndigital.com/pr...WD2002FFSX
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Well there's the spec sheet but honestly I don't know how to read it well enough to give you an answer Stick Out Tongue

https://documents.westerndigital....ro-hdd.pdf

I know if you scroll down to the accoustics/dBA section under the environmental part it says 20 when idel and 36 when seeking.. I don't know enough about dBA to tell you how loud that would be.

There's a reddit thread here

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/...ence_14tb/

where one person says " Red Plus is significantly quieter than Red Pro and also runs cooler. Downside is they are slightly slower than Red Pro, only go up to 14tb and are only recommended for use up to 8 drives."

This is all stuff I just found randomly on the internet hopefully someone with actual experience with Red Pro and Plus can jump in and give you a more definitive answer instead Smilie
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04-16-2024 at 04:44 PM.
04-16-2024 at 04:44 PM.
Quote from Andrepartthree :
My brother in law works in the computer industry and he swears by the Western Digital brand.. but on the other hand my own internet research had a lot of people basically saying " Look all hard drives are alike you just have to buy it and see what happens, you either get a good one or you don't " .. which of course isn't an answer that sits well with me Stick Out Tongue but I have to admit they might have a point... I will say that the only WD drive I've ever start to fail me was.. man I'm trying to remember.. maybe 8, 9 years old ...

On the other hand my Seagate Exos and (surprisingly) my Seagate Firecuda , both 8 TB, are serving me well as file storage drives (I know I know, not their intended use but they were cheap and on sale Smilie ) despite the bad rep Seagate has in some circles. my Seagate SkyHawk 4TB Surveillance Hard Drive got repurposed as a desktop drive (file storage again) once I realized how stupid I was paying Direct TV's monthly fees and switched to streaming.. not it's intended use but still served me well for years and still works great as a drive in an enclosure I back up files onto.

So I've had good experiences with both manufacturers really Smilie ... is the drive constantly on ? (inside your desktop PC, inside an enclosure you always have turned on and connected to the PC?) .. if so I would say better to go with overkill just to be on the safe side Smilie .. I've heard lots of good things about the WD Red drives long as.. and look out I'm about to start up a raging debate here on slickdeals again Stick Out Tongue ... you get a CMR drive... there';s a lot of people that say SMR is fine and it's cheaper so why pay more for CMR? Being the paranoid sort I'd rather opt for CMR even if it's more expensive

https://forums.tomshardware.com/t...d.3748294/

https://www.techpowerup.com/forum...ty.294320/

The SMR vs CMR debate is why my NAS has dual WD Red Plus drives, they've served me well so far. The seagate I currently have is in a USB enclosure, always connected to power but only turns on when my PC turns on. I'm hoping it lasts another 4 years but I don't want to hedge my bets, so I'm proactively looking for a replacement.
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04-16-2024 at 04:50 PM.
04-16-2024 at 04:50 PM.
Quote from Andrepartthree :
My brother in law works in the computer industry and he swears by the Western Digital brand.. but on the other hand my own internet research had a lot of people basically saying " Look all hard drives are alike you just have to buy it and see what happens, you either get a good one or you don't " .. which of course isn't an answer that sits well with me Stick Out Tongue but I have to admit they might have a point... I will say that the only WD drive I've ever start to fail me was.. man I'm trying to remember.. maybe 8, 9 years old ...

On the other hand my Seagate Exos and (surprisingly) my Seagate Firecuda , both 8 TB, are serving me well as file storage drives (I know I know, not their intended use but they were cheap and on sale Smilie ) despite the bad rep Seagate has in some circles. my Seagate SkyHawk 4TB Surveillance Hard Drive got repurposed as a desktop drive (file storage again) once I realized how stupid I was paying Direct TV's monthly fees and switched to streaming.. not it's intended use but still served me well for years and still works great as a drive in an enclosure I back up files onto.

So I've had good experiences with both manufacturers really Smilie ... is the drive constantly on ? (inside your desktop PC, inside an enclosure you always have turned on and connected to the PC?) .. if so I would say better to go with overkill just to be on the safe side Smilie .. I've heard lots of good things about the WD Red drives long as.. and look out I'm about to start up a raging debate here on slickdeals again Stick Out Tongue ... you get a CMR drive... there';s a lot of people that say SMR is fine and it's cheaper so why pay more for CMR? Being the paranoid sort I'd rather opt for CMR even if it's more expensive

https://forums.tomshardware.com/t...d.3748294/

https://www.techpowerup.com/forum...ty.294320/
Seagate got a bad rap when their Thailand factory got flooded in 2011 and didn't want to throw some stuff out so they had bad batches of 8TB and 10TB drives. I think they've recovered since then but it left bad tastes in a lot of mouths. WD had some SMR/CMR issues and giving Synology notices that they should replace their WD red drives after 3 years of being powered on. It's everybody's preference. Like those Audi vs BMW people.
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04-16-2024 at 05:03 PM.
04-16-2024 at 05:03 PM.
This or shucking the Seagate external from Costco?
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04-16-2024 at 05:55 PM.
04-16-2024 at 05:55 PM.
Quote from PurpleNarwhal693 :
This or shucking the Seagate external from Costco?
Definitely this. The Red Pro is rated at 2.5 million MTBF. The only Seagate that I'd pay money for is the Exos.
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04-16-2024 at 06:46 PM.
04-16-2024 at 06:46 PM.
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What's the T-website?

They don't allow to mention the name of those $back website. You need to search for it. The first three letters of the name is "top"
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Erlarson85
04-16-2024 at 08:05 PM.
04-16-2024 at 08:05 PM.
Pros are noisy (er) than Plus but carry 2 more years warranty
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04-17-2024 at 05:02 AM.
04-17-2024 at 05:02 AM.
Does anyone know if the 10% email sign-up coupon stacks with this? It says "limitations apply," but I can't find what they are. It's taking forever to come in, and I don't even know if it's going to work on this if I wait for it.
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04-17-2024 at 05:29 AM.
04-17-2024 at 05:29 AM.
Quote from ElectricCo :
Does anyone know if the 10% email sign-up coupon stacks with this? It says "limitations apply," but I can't find what they are. It's taking forever to come in, and I don't even know if it's going to work on this if I wait for it.

It does not. "**10% discount offer valid only once per customer…This offer may not be combined, used in conjunction with or used in addition to any other promotion or offer."
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Quote from ElectricCo :
Does anyone know if the 10% email sign-up coupon stacks with this? It says "limitations apply," but I can't find what they are. It's taking forever to come in, and I don't even know if it's going to work on this if I wait for it.

I could not get the 10% email sign-up code to stack
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04-17-2024 at 06:38 AM.
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I could not get the 10% email sign-up code to stack
they closed that loop hole a year or so ago. I cant remember how many emails i created and signed up to get those codes.
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04-17-2024 at 07:05 AM.
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How much louder is the Red Pro compared to the Plus? I have a 6-bay NAS running 4 Pluses, and they have been running whisper quiet for a couple of years. I may pull the trigger if the Pros are not much to louder.

Personally I'd go with 5400 rpm drives. I have 4x 7200 rpm drives in my nas (it's not a WD, they're all hgst) and my wife made me move the Nas from my home office (next to our master bedroom) to my furnace room in the basement... Unless you need the extra performance 5400 rpm should be fine for most cases.
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04-17-2024 at 08:50 AM.
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LIMITED TIME: Buy 2 14TB drives for $439.98.
1 drive price currently is 310 + Tax.

https://www.westerndigital.com/pr...=WD142KFGX
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04-17-2024 at 08:56 AM.
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In for a pair to upgrade a 7-year old RAID5 with 3 WD golds to a RAID1 in my desktop PC / photography workstation. Way more space than I actually need at the moment, but I was shooting for 8TB, and this is about as cheap as I've seen for two drives of even that size in a while. Happy to be moving from RAID5 to RAID1, and this setup should at least be 33% quieter and cooler. Stick Out Tongue Maybe a little more since the golds have basically zero noise dampening, and it sounds like these might be in the capacity sweet spot for relatively low heat and noise. Just hope these will be as reliable as the golds have been.
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04-17-2024 at 11:06 AM.
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Aside from the warranty, are these better than WD white label drives 'shucked' from external drives?

You know what you are getting with these. A shucked white label could be junk or quality
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04-17-2024 at 11:34 AM.
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Oof. The Golds are still $320 a pop.

I don't mind the noise as they're in a storage room, but I haven't seen the Golds go on sale in a couple years or so. Do I jump on these rather than wait any longer? They'd be paired with four Golds in RAID 6.
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