Are Green Drives KILLING Your NAS? WD Red HD Review!

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PCPer.com's Allyn Malventano joins us to talk about Western Digital's new Red NAS Drives, Time Limited Error Recovery, dynamic balancing, scrubbing your RAID and if you should replace your the Green drives in your home server right now! Check out these stories at http://revision3.com/tekzilla/nas-hard-drives : *Comic-Con: Archer Cosplay, Breaking Bad, Pacific Rim and More! *Soundproof My Room So I Can Sleep! *Zombie Apocalypse Store! *Easy Way to Make Cinemagraphs! *Amazing Rubber Band Movie of the Golden Gate Bridge! *Our Basic Backup Strategy! BE SOCIAL! Comment, Like & Share this video on YouTube!: http://youtu.be/xyA1AZdyy6o Subscribe for free! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=tekhd Tekzilla on Revision3 http://www.revision3.com/tekzilla Tekzilla on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/tekzilla Patrick on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/patricknorton Veronica on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/veronica

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  1. I use 2,5" WD Black drives at the moment. I don't care about the color. I still think it's just Marketing Voodo except the drive rotation speed difference which is a no brainer for my a single user media center.
  2. 110,010 views....
  3. Please put your headset correctly!
  4. I wouldn't use a RED or a green for a NAS. I only use WD GOLD HDD's for my NAS. I have also used WD 10K Raptor HDD's.
  5. Nice infomercial guyz!
  6. green drives are total crap. I owned a computer store for years before I took the corp position I am at now and I had green drives come in from oem computers on a daily basis. I only trust black,red,purple drives from wd.
    ALSO my Synology NAS does scrubbing and emails me telling me to do scrubbing once a month.
  7. Hello guys, need help over here.I have a My Book Live Duo and I am wondering if I should use 2 WD Green Hard Drives or 2 WD Red Hard Drives? Or maybe mixed 1 WD Green Hard Drive with 1 WD Red Hard Drive? Which one is more suitable?Thanks!
  8. this is only relevant to something like a Raid 5 or 6. i don't see how TLER matters for a Raid 1 array?
  9. doe normaal man frikandellen gezicht
  10. Raid settups are not reliable enough ,Unless youre dealing with mountains of data you're better off getting A drive for Booting and system and program files and a high capacity drive for various media and just Keep adding drives as needed and once you can't fit any more drives remove the oldest one as an archive, do Raid 1 if redundancy is critical but Id stay away from the other types of raid, they are so prone to error if one little thing is wrong you can lose all of your data, it's a pain but if you dont mind to spend more you can just keep buying external drives and fill those up with whatever, its a little more conveinient.
  11. MTBF doesn't mean much... there was a batch of WD Red drives that was DOA. I personally had three 3TB Red drives die on me within one year. I can't trust them anymore.
  12. Fantastic. Tons of valuable information.
  13. The green drives have 8 second auto head parking (WD calls it "Intellipark"), which can cause issues in a RAID, and shorten drive life by increasing the number of drive cycles. You can Google "WDIDLE3", which is a tool to allow you to disable or increase the auto park interval.
  14. Why are you shouting at your viewers?
  15. I have 3 of WD green 3TB running in my raid 5 arry (5 drives) 24h/7 in 2 year no problem.
  16. How would the Red drives compare to the full on Enterprise drives like the Seagate Constellation ES drives? I will have to purchase 10x drives for my SuperMicro chassis, but the costing of full on enterprise drives is madness. I use the NAS for file storage (video and photos) for a small group of users and I could buy so many more spares if I go green or red...
  17. Oh, I see so this TLER is a (actually THE first) feature of those expensive drives? I understand you don't want the drive dropped completely from the array if it tries too hard to get your data but I see it as a compromise - actually a BIG one. Most users would actually very much LIKE TO GET THEIR DATA, would like the disk to try as hard as possible to do it instead of giving up because something else (specifically here meeting some very short timeout in the raid controller) is more important!

    And this brings us to the second point about "online RAID" on home NASers which is in my opinion wasteful and not what most users actually want. Filesystem errors, accidental deletions, software problems everything that can destroy data logically will destroy it on all your RAID array instantly. Plus you need to spin all your drives when you're touching any of the disks. Some other "non-constantly-writing-parity" solution like snapraid is MUCH better.
  18. In short... DON'T USE DESKTOP CONSUMER DRIVES IN YOUR SERVERS!!!

    I can agree with that... the WD red drives are better optimized for near constant read, writes, higher MTBF, TLER and they also have a balanced spindle with less vibration... oh, did I mention that the drive's platter speeds are dynamic on red drives? According to WD, the maximum speed of a WD Red drive (e.g my WD10EFRX) is 7200 RPM, but they also have caching algorithms and the ability to alter the platter speed on the fly to provide good response in a RAID array with a lower power consumption. Here's WD's explanation of IntelliPower for the WD red and GreenPower drives...

    "IntelliPower is a fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance. Additionally, GreenPower drives consume less current during start up allowing more drives to spin up simultaneously resulting in faster system readiness."
  19. I just built a mini itx FreeNAS box. Used a 2.5" WD Blue 1TB drive by itself. Music, movies, home stuff. Not worried if the drive dies. Its not for work. A hard drive is a hard drive. Fuck the marketing bullshit. Hey buy the one with the red sticker cause red is better. No.