Western Digital Designs First Hard Drives For SOHO NAS Systems

ERazer · Jul 10, 2012

might grab this for my WHS11

got nothing but good experience with WD

1c3d0g · Jul 10, 2012

And a nice, favorable review of these drives (a must-read, especially for those who are too quick to jump to conclusions about a drive they've never even bought):

http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_red_nas_hard_drive_review_wd30efrx

Solidstate89 · Jul 10, 2012

What perfect timing. I'm in the market for a Synology DS1512+ and my only options for 3TB HDDs were either consumer-oriented drives with 1 year warranties and no TLER or stabilization support. Or to spend upwards of 400 dollars for Enterprise drives.

These slot in quite nicely and they have all the features necessary for a media-centric NAS that utilizes RAID.

theeldest · Jul 11, 2012

I have a strong preference for Western Digital drives but switched to Samsung when I needed 5400rpm that's 'raid capable'.

It'll be nice to switch back to WD as I didn't want to move to Seagate (I have an irrational and unfounded dislike of Seagate).

Frick · Jul 11, 2012

Elmo said:
Hes not really trolling but honestly in terms of rwp there isnt much difference but warranty and alittle extra speed which honestly i cant really feel but yeah thats coz im used to ssd but yep wd/seagate are great for mass storage and we will always need hard drives because its a cheaper solution then flash memory . Many people say in time ssd will take over hdd but hdd are becoming bigger its estimated by 2014 you will see 10-60tb 3.5inch hdd .But im not to sure about their performance because it uses a new material .

Which is why we will use SSD's for OS/programs and HDD's for storage. That one of them improves doesn't mean the other won't.

The Jedi · Jul 13, 2012

riffraffy said:
if not for the flood 1TB would probably be about $75. or less.

Before the flood drives were like $63, or on sale for $50/$60 sometimes shipped. WD 1TB Black drives were $90. USA prices.

wrathchild_67 said:
According to Backblaze, a cloud storage company, Hitachi drives have been the most reliable.

My gripe with Hitachi is that if you need to scan a drive to repair bad sectors their DFT software takes twice as long as with other brands. So that's twice the down time - at least with my experience several years back. Hopefully they fixed that. Backblaze would not likely be using regular consumer drives. They'd use their enterprise tier in order to do RAID.

Disparia · Jul 13, 2012

The Jedi said:
Backblaze would not likely be using regular consumer drives. They'd use their enterprise tier in order to do RAID.

Naw, just some 1.5TB Barracudas for their first gen pods and 3TB Deskstars for second gen. For what they're doing and the scale they're doing it at, standard drives work out better.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/

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Western Digital Designs First Hard Drives For SOHO NAS Systems

ERazer

1c3d0g

Solidstate89

theeldest

Frick

Fishfaced Nincompoop

The Jedi

Disparia