14TB Western Digital WD Red Pro 3.5" 7200 RPM CMR NAS Internal Hard Drive
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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
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.
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
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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 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 ) 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 ... 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 .. 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 ... 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
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.
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 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 ) 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 ... 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 .. 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 ... 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
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.
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.
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."
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
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.
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. 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.
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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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
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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 ) 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 ... 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 .. 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 ... 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
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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.
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 ) 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 ... 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 .. 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 ... 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.tomshard
https://www.techpowerup
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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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."
I could not get the 10% email sign-up code to stack
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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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.