The WD Green for instance, while the leading low power drive on the market, wasn’t designed for the 24×7 access requirements that NAS systems require. The obvious question may be then, what’s wrong with the WD Greens and other low power drives that have been performing NAS duty to this point? The answer is really about projected use. Western Digital wants Red to be the clear answer for small NAS units – no thought necessary, just buy your NAS enclosure and fill it with WD Reds. Additionally there’s a growing number of NAS systems shipped without drives pre-installed, which raises the question about which drive is best for NAS usage. According to a recent IDC personal storage report, the personal and small business 1-12 bay NAS market is the fastest growing segment of the hard drive storage market. With the increase in adoption of home and small business NAS units, WD’s decision to make a product exclusively for that growing market makes some sense. WD has several features that they’re touting as critical for the NAS user including NASware specialized firmware, Intellipower low power spindle, robust NAS compatibility list, three year warranty and a dedicated WD Red 24×7 customer support line (1-855-55-WDRED if you need them). The Western Digital Red family of hard drives is designed for the 1 to 6 bay SOHO NAS space, which is about as specialized as it gets. It’s an interesting decision – WD is expanding their low-power 3.5" hard drive offerings with a second line at the same time Seagate exits the "green" market, claiming low-power drives aren’t really all that beneficial or quite frankly, special.
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In Windows, try the free Crystal Disk Info for example to monitor a drive's S.M.A.R.T.It’s an interesting decision – WD is expanding their low-power 3.5" hard drive offerings with a second line at the same time Seagate exists the "green" market, claiming low-power drives aren’t really all that beneficial or quite frankly, special. monitoring is also very useful while you are using the drive to detect potential failures early. test on a new drive, perhaps after a few dummy copies of large files. At worst, try the free Parted Magic CD to run the extended S.M.A.R.T. It's important to do initial "burn-in" of a new hard drive before you start using it for anything useful. Sadly, the initial failure rate of new high capacity drives seems high, from all manufacturers. reviews of similar drives and you find the same thing. Even on a 3Gpbs SATA port, it outperforms the WD20EARS by about 15MBps (MegaBYTES per second) on writes.įYI, read the "My WD drive was DOA/failed, don't buy WD drives!" reviews with a grain of salt.
Overall Review: This was a warranty replacement for a WD20EARS (1/3 I own) that started throwing errors after about a year. Pros: Faster than WD20EARS even on 3Gbps connection. Please indicate within the online case creation or with the first support agent you speak with, that you are responding to a Newegg review, so we route you and your information to the correct team members. You may contact us directly at 1 (800) 275-4932, or via our support website at: For this reason, we would appreciate the opportunity to further assist you, and resolve any further concerns you may have with the device and/or your experience. Even if the drive does format to completion, the fact that the drive is defective indicates that it may very well fail at any time. From what you have described, you have a defective drive, as it is not typical to have part of the metal on top of our hard drives actually bent. Our drives are rigorously tested to ensure they are in good working condition before they leave our warehouses. We appreciate your feedback and apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced with the Western Digital, as this is not the typical experience with the product.
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