What is Western Digital Red for?

What is Western Digital Red for?

WD Red™ for Personal or Home Office Stream, backup, share, and organize your digital content at home with a NAS and WD Red™ drives designed to effortlessly share content with the devices in your personal or home office environments.

How long do Western Digital Red drives last?

WD Red (WD60EFRX-68M) life seems to be about 40,000 Hours (What is your experience?)

Is WD Red Pro CMR?

Finally, the Red Pro lineup remains unchanged, with 7200 RPM CMR drives for high performance configurations.

Can you use WD Red in PC?

I put a WD Red in my main home PC, and it’s great. It’s practically as fast as similarly sized drives, but it’s completely silent and cool. There’s nothing that makes in inappropriate for desktop use, particularly if you value silence and already have an SSD boot drive.

Are WD Red Plus CMR?

WD Red Plus is the new name for conventional magnetic recording (CMR)-based NAS drives in the WD Red family, including all capacities from 1TB to 14TB. These will be the choice for those whose applications require more write-intensive SMB workloads such as ZFS.

Is WD Red Plus reliable?

Over the last 10 to 15 years I’ve had far better reliability from WD drives than that other brand that starts with an “S”, and these drives seem very nice so far (albeit they’re only a week old). Be AWARE though, that on the 12 TB model THE ACTUAL CAPACITY IS ONLY 10.91 TB — which surprised me!

How reliable are WD Red drives?

With NAS systems being always on a reliable drive is essential and reliability is a foundation of WD Red NAS hard drives. The drives are designed and tested in 24/7 conditions….WD Red 14TB NAS HDD Specifications:

Is SMR OK for Unraid?

You should not be using a hard drive with SMR (shingled magnetic recording) technology as an Unraid parity drive under any circumstances. The parity drives maximum speed will determine your array’s maximum speed.

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