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.
Note: Offer valid only for 14TB Model (WD142KFGX). Must add 2 to cart and proceed to cart to see the sale price.
Thanks to Community Member Aelsharawi for finding this deal.
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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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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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.
Got it ..... I wasn't sure if it was a situation where you backed up everything externally every 3 to 6 months or something like that in which case SMR might not be as much of a chance since there's (I'm guessing) less strain on the drive that way.. personally I would go with something reliable like this deal (WD Red ) long as it's CMR since you're using the drive every day.
Total change of subject but does noise from a hard drive bother you? There are some computer users who won't accept anything other than a whisper quiet PC that doesn't make any noise and who cares how expensive it gets ! .. I've got three 140 mm case fans and a rear 120 mm case fan (case is designed so it can only take a 120 mm case fan in the back) plus a thermaltake peerless assassin with two 120 mm fans to cool the CPU so while I wouldn't describe it as obnoxiously loud you can definitely hear when my PC is on ..
I bring this up only because with that fan noise I"m not as likely to notice it anyways but I can still at times hear the mechanical hum and whine of the Seagate exos drive as it powers on and off and the crackling sound (during say the first few seconds of use) of the seagate firecuda ...the firecuda sound spooked the heck out of me at first and online tech support forums had varying opinions as to whether or not it's normal but a year later the firecude is working fine without any problems and some have ventured the opinion that 8 TB drives are just noisy.. as others have mentioned on here the 14 TB drives will probably be noticably louder than say the WD Red Plus drives..
I bring this up only because I wish someone would have warned me so I wasn't freaking out over the sounds my 8 TB drives were making back when I first bought them .. well that and I wasn't sure if you were the kind of person who needs a whisper quiet PC? I think someone on here commented that the noise was so loud his wife forced him to move the offending four hard drives to a different room but of course the noise tolerance of individiuals is going to vary from household to household.
Genuine question, not being pedantic: Why this is a good deal? is the Red Pro a very good hard drive? I'm seeing the Seagate IronWolf Pro 12TB for $130 on amazon and the Seagate Exos X16 14TB for $195 on Amazon as well.
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.
All larger WD Drives are 7200 RPM. Huge stink a few years ago and why you see 5400 RPM "Class" on spec sheets.
Take it for what's its worth but have been involved in the data recovery and data center business.. used to see a lot more Seagate drives than WD drives fail overall. Also our of a hundred thousand failed drives would see maybe 2 WD reds, so the failure rates seem super small.
Is this compatible with QNAP TS-464-8G-US 4 Bay High-Performance Desktop NAS? I see the WD141KFGX in the compatibility list but not SKU:WD142KFGX. Any insight on this? TIA
Ordered! Lowest price this has gone to in the last few years looks like was 259 usd -- this came out to 220 usd per drive. needed to expand the nas perfect timing. Thanks OP!
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
with 34% 1 star reviews on that seller, it would be a risk for me to buy from them. Just reading some of the reviews, people get used or there wrong product at least 1/3 of the time.
Sometimes when something seems too good to be true, there is a reason. If this was sold by Amazon, sure, I would consider it, but a store with 34% 1 star reviews most talking about how the "new" item was really used? No thanks.
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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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Total change of subject but does noise from a hard drive bother you? There are some computer users who won't accept anything other than a whisper quiet PC that doesn't make any noise and who cares how expensive it gets ! .. I've got three 140 mm case fans and a rear 120 mm case fan (case is designed so it can only take a 120 mm case fan in the back) plus a thermaltake peerless assassin with two 120 mm fans to cool the CPU so while I wouldn't describe it as obnoxiously loud you can definitely hear when my PC is on ..
I bring this up only because with that fan noise I"m not as likely to notice it anyways but I can still at times hear the mechanical hum and whine of the Seagate exos drive as it powers on and off and the crackling sound (during say the first few seconds of use) of the seagate firecuda ...the firecuda sound spooked the heck out of me at first and online tech support forums had varying opinions as to whether or not it's normal but a year later the firecude is working fine without any problems and some have ventured the opinion that 8 TB drives are just noisy.. as others have mentioned on here the 14 TB drives will probably be noticably louder than say the WD Red Plus drives..
I bring this up only because I wish someone would have warned me so I wasn't freaking out over the sounds my 8 TB drives were making back when I first bought them .. well that and I wasn't sure if you were the kind of person who needs a whisper quiet PC? I think someone on here commented that the noise was so loud his wife forced him to move the offending four hard drives to a different room but of course the noise tolerance of individiuals is going to vary from household to household.
All larger WD Drives are 7200 RPM. Huge stink a few years ago and why you see 5400 RPM "Class" on spec sheets.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2...-word-rpm/
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May want to check this news on WD NAS disks
https://youtu.be/cLGi8sPLkLY?fea
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
Smr is ok, bur hamr or helium, no...for long term
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Sometimes when something seems too good to be true, there is a reason. If this was sold by Amazon, sure, I would consider it, but a store with 34% 1 star reviews most talking about how the "new" item was really used? No thanks.