WD Release Red Series NAS Drives

ChessKing · 11th July 2012, 1:57 PM

Interesting to see that WD have decided to release a new series of drives http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810 that are designed for NASes.

I was thinking of getting some Hitachi drive for my QNAP but may look at getting some of these.
It's good to see that WD has done some of their own compatibility testing of these drives with QNAP, Synology NASes etc...

papillon · 11th July 2012, 2:11 PM

Oh great ..a week after I bought 7 WD Greens and built my first NAS...

papillon · 11th July 2012, 2:20 PM

http://www.storagereview.com/western...eview_wd30efrx

for large file transfers they appear to be 50% or so faster than the greens. Now I'm even more pissed grrr........

Radioactiv3 · 11th July 2012, 2:43 PM

Wow... nice product. Finally a hdd to fit that home/nas niche market.

EvilGenius · 11th July 2012, 3:14 PM

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Originally Posted by papillon

http://www.storagereview.com/western...eview_wd30efrx

for large file transfers they appear to be 50% or so faster than the greens. Now I'm even more pissed grrr........

I'd wait to see pricing before getting too upset. If you bought greens it was probably because you wanted cheap drives. These may well be rather expensive...

damox · 11th July 2012, 3:23 PM

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Originally Posted by EvilGenius

I'd wait to see pricing before getting too upset. If you bought greens it was probably because you wanted cheap drives. These may well be rather expensive...

I would be guessing this drive bridges the gap between green and black. From what I gather they are essentially green drives with black features.

papillon · 11th July 2012, 3:43 PM

they're $180 on newegg and in stock. That's what I paid for the Greens 3TB.

Oh well .. just testing my NAS now, single LAN connection was able to max out 1Gbit link (120Mb/s or so) and if the 3Gb trunk I'm about to test does atleast 200Mb/s I won't care about reds anymore

edit: 3 x Gbit trunk did 2.5Gbps or about 270MB/s so I am happy with the greens yay

Kurosaki · 11th July 2012, 4:26 PM

From what I've been let to be believed the smaller capacity drives will be priced somewhere between the Blue and Green drives.

Maybe this will put an end to the whining tight ass (wishful thinking) that complain about green drives that keep shitting themselves in NAS deployment.

Pugs · 11th July 2012, 4:43 PM

when will they release HFS Drives???

papillon · 11th July 2012, 4:44 PM

I think a lot of those issues stem from the excessive head parking ...which if you google it, is rather easy to 'fix'. It took me about 5 minutes to reset the timer form the default 8sec to 120sec on all 7 drives I got

tiro_uspsss · 11th July 2012, 8:12 PM

finally another 3yr warranty hdd to consider!

Rexy · 11th July 2012, 8:19 PM

First person to find them locally pls post here. US$180/3TB on newegg, bodes well for a "reasonable" price locally esp if its under $200/drive.

sreg0r · 12th July 2012, 11:40 AM

I've got 10 WD Greens in my server and once fixed with WDIDLE run great as a NAS drive. I'm not expecting much of a difference between greens and reds in a real-world home NAS situation as speed is largely network limited.

But... if there's only a $10 difference I'd get reds.

Quote:

Originally Posted by papillon

I think a lot of those issues stem from the excessive head parking ...which if you google it, is rather easy to 'fix'. It took me about 5 minutes to reset the timer form the default 8sec to 120sec on all 7 drives I got

papillon · 12th July 2012, 11:55 AM

they're $219 / 3TB but it's early days, when more stores get them in stock I reckon price will go down to about $200

DenDen711 · 12th July 2012, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Rexy

First person to find them locally pls post here. US$180/3TB on newegg, bodes well for a "reasonable" price locally esp if its under $200/drive.

Western Digital Red 3TB NAS HDD at ScorpTec for $219
ETA today

http://www.scorptec.com.au/computer/46681-wd30efrx

Even Amazon & B&H don't have these listed yet!

Cheers

11th July 2012, 1:57 PM	#1
ChessKing Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Brisbane Posts: 26	WD Release Red Series NAS Drives Interesting to see that WD have decided to release a new series of drives http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810 that are designed for NASes. I was thinking of getting some Hitachi drive for my QNAP but may look at getting some of these. It's good to see that WD has done some of their own compatibility testing of these drives with QNAP, Synology NASes etc...

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papillon Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Sydney Posts: 470	they're $180 on newegg and in stock. That's what I paid for the Greens 3TB. Oh well .. just testing my NAS now, single LAN connection was able to max out 1Gbit link (120Mb/s or so) and if the 3Gb trunk I'm about to test does atleast 200Mb/s I won't care about reds anymore edit: 3 x Gbit trunk did 2.5Gbps or about 270MB/s so I am happy with the greens yay Last edited by papillon; 11th July 2012 at 3:57 PM.

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11th July 2012, 2:11 PM	#2
papillon Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Sydney Posts: 470	Oh great ..a week after I bought 7 WD Greens and built my first NAS...

11th July 2012, 2:20 PM	#3
papillon Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Sydney Posts: 470	http://www.storagereview.com/western...eview_wd30efrx for large file transfers they appear to be 50% or so faster than the greens. Now I'm even more pissed grrr........

11th July 2012, 4:26 PM	#8
Kurosaki Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: WA Posts: 3,815	From what I've been let to be believed the smaller capacity drives will be priced somewhere between the Blue and Green drives. Maybe this will put an end to the whining tight ass (wishful thinking) that complain about green drives that keep shitting themselves in NAS deployment.

11th July 2012, 4:44 PM	#10
papillon Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Sydney Posts: 470	I think a lot of those issues stem from the excessive head parking ...which if you google it, is rather easy to 'fix'. It took me about 5 minutes to reset the timer form the default 8sec to 120sec on all 7 drives I got

12th July 2012, 11:55 AM	#14
papillon Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Sydney Posts: 470	they're $219 / 3TB but it's early days, when more stores get them in stock I reckon price will go down to about $200