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Good lord. Cry me a river. Black and white from you unwilling to see from the perspective of one who lost valuable product at the hands of WD ineptitude. The time I have allotted to this issue has...
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If I were to swear off every company that didn’t treat someone right, I wouldn’t be buying anything. I get you are pissed off about the company. But if you were saying avoid their NAS based on the...
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I'm not sure you'd still have that impression of WD products if you lived through the drama with WD for months, like I did, and lost quite a bit of valuable data. If I can save one person that kind...
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applies to silicon not spinning rust
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yea I used mine on DVR. Purple good for continuous writing
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I need 24/7 write access for a tivo. 4 x 1080 streams written to the HD literally 24/7,as well as the ability to stream off the same drive.
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I got my purple 4tb for the same price from Newegg. You have to wait for their deals to come back
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NAS drives as mentioned are spec'ed for 24/7 use, they'll have better vibration characteristics and run cooler as they're designed for multi-disk, small cabinet environments.
running at 5400 RPM...
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Gordon Moore. Where are ye?
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From Red to Red Plus
The use of SMR technology in Western Digital Red is not going away—but moving forward, "Red" will exclusively mean SMR disks. The existing SMR models—WD 20/30/40/60 EFAX—will...
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I am not sure your experience with their NAS (primarily the problems with their NAS software) is relevant to buying single drives. Their core expertise like Seagate has always been bare drives and...
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Got 6TB 7200rpm buy1get1free last year, before all this mass inflation of 2021.
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These drives trade off read and write speeds for noise and power for use in multi-drive NAS. NAS drives compensate somewhat with parallel access when so configured.
As a single drive in a desktop,...
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I paid a lot of money for my WD PR4100 32 TB NAS so imagine my disappointment when they forced an upgrade to OS5 on me. Buggiest release ever. My drives indexed for over a month. Literally. All...
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Yes. They're just more geared for NAS. Like the difference between a bmx and mountain bike.
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Deals on WD Purple seem harder to come by these days. Anyway good deal if you need these :nod:.
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yes you can. the red drives are meant for 24/7 operation like in a server. they have slower read speeds than most other drives but if you are just looking to store files it will be fine.
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Can you use these NAS drives in regular computers for an extra drive to store personal files, photos, videos etc? If so, what are the disadvantages of using these vs regular HDD's that are meant for...
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The drobo is ruining the drives or just reporting them as bad?
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Maybe the Drobo is bad.
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