Need suggestion for NAS had drive.
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Boogieman_WD
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Hey zher4883. So, about your questions for the WD Red and the WD Green drives... Generally I would recommend the WD Red drive as it's main purpose is specifically to be used for NAS and RAID systems as they are designed for that type of usage and are extensively tested for a 24/7 environment. If you are worried about the consumption, both the WD Red and the WD Green drives have IntelliPower which is a fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance, but the WD Green consumes a bit less power than the WD Red drives. So at the end of it all, I guess you could go with the WD Green drives and they'll do the job, although if you want to get the best out of your NAS system, I'd go for the WD Red drives.
Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
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The WD Black drive is a high performance gaming HDD and I wouldn't recommend it for NAS enclosures or RAID systems. It has however gone through Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) which ensures our products consistently meet the highest quality and reliability standards, but its main purpose is gaming. It would still do the job, but the thing is that the different type of drives have specific features which make them good for what they are designed to do, thus the WD Red drive remains the best option among the Western Digital drives for NAS and RAID environments.
What does this marketing pap really mean?
"IntelliPower which is a fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance".
What is "balanced" about "spin speed"?
"IntelliPower which is a fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance".
What is "balanced" about "spin speed"?
LordConrad
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Check the specs of the Buffalo NAS (or call the company) and find out if it uses hardware or software RAID. Software RAID is more forgiving and works perfectly with WD Green drives. Hardware RAID requires hard drives with TLER (Time Limited Error Correction), such as the WD Red drives, for proper operation.
cognus
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I suggest you look at drives for which there is a LOT Of user/owner feedback.
its disheartening in some respects as the drives touted as "NAS" drives for RAID etc tend to have lousy service records in real life.
I like the newer hybrid seagate 1tb's, but YMMV. Smaller, lower-power modern drives generally better
its disheartening in some respects as the drives touted as "NAS" drives for RAID etc tend to have lousy service records in real life.
I like the newer hybrid seagate 1tb's, but YMMV. Smaller, lower-power modern drives generally better
LordConrad
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I think the reason NAS drives tend to get more bad reviews is because some people don't know what they're buying. Some people think a drive rated for RAID use in a server should work awesome in their gaming rig, not realizing that these drives actually perform worse as a single drive because of the TLER built into RAID drives.
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