Amazon.com: Western Digital 6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD60EFAX : Electronics $104.99
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Thread created 03-06-2022 by jacekwojo
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I read some feedback on their site just now. They ship with no protection. Bad shipping practices. You need protection for OEM bare drives. If you have to RMA any DOAs and want an exchange you will...
Amazon.com: Western Digital 6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD60EFAX : Electronics $104.99
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Western Digital matches the price but I have a 12% cashback from Paypal. Not sure if it works but Paypal Deals has 12% cashback.
Amazon.com: Western Digital 6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD60EFAX : Electronics $104.99
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Yes. And this is one of the best prices in the last 90 days.
Great drives. Quiet and I've had no issues with mine for the past year.
Just make sure it's the CMR drive and not the one linked...
Amazon.com: Western Digital 6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD60EFAX : Electronics $104.99
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I want to put 2 similar drives in a desktop and duplicate each time I upload files.
Is this good enough?
Thanks
Amazon.com: Western Digital 6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD60EFAX : Electronics $104.99
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SMR is cheaper, but otherwise not suited more to anything.
It's not more power efficient. Probably the opposite when used for random writes (because it would be busy longer while writing). But I'd...
Amazon.com: Western Digital 6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD60EFAX : Electronics $104.99
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Good point, did not realize there are two disk writing styles. Quick Google says CMR is better suited for lots of writes like data backups, where as SMR it slightly more power efficient but better...
Amazon.com: Western Digital 6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD60EFAX : Electronics $104.99
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I would get this CMR drive …. Western Digital 6TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5640 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 128 MB Cache, 3.5" -WD60EFZX...
Amazon.com: Western Digital 6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD60EFAX : Electronics $104.99
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lowest price ever according to CCC
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MYL7KVK/