WD Red VS Seagate NAS Drives - with SPANTV

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Lets find out which is better, WD Red or Seagate NAS Drives http://www.span.com/product/Western-Digital-Red-WD40EFRX-SATA-6Gb-4TB-5400-7200~41629 With such a big emphasis on NAS being the answer to all your problems,it is easy to forget that even the best NAS that you can buy is no use to you if you don;t buy the right drives.| The two big leaders in this field are WD and Seagate with their respective WD Red range and Seagate NAS Drives. But which one is better? which one is better for your needs and most importantly of all, which one deserves your data? For more information of the specs, compatibility and where to buy, please check the link below. Enjoy. http://www.span.com/product/Western-Digital-Red-WD40EFRX-SATA-6Gb-4TB-5400-7200~41629 http://www.span.com/product/Seagate-Enterprise-NAS-HDD-ST4000VN0001-SATA-6Gb-4TB-7200rpm~46648 If you liked this video, don't forget that it exists to help people and that can only happen with your support...so click Like and subscribe and then we can continue to keep you up to date with innovations in data storage. Thanks for watching. *Network Attached Storage. Music credit to Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Comments

  1. quite well the Cockney Dialect beside woulde be perfect
  2. I have 4 WD 3TB Red drives and 2 3TB Seagate NAS drives in my NAS. My WD RED drives are older, I think a couple are now over 4 years old now.
  3. I was given 2 WD Red HD for a computer build i started. I see there for NAS. Can i use these for regular use or even a bit of gaming? Not to intense gaming.
  4. The WD Red drives are 5400 RPM.
    IntelliPower is marketing BS.
  5. for home use it would be nice to add a comparison of how much noise the drives make. It might not matter if you have the luxury of a dedicated server closet, but many of us have to locate these devices in non-ideal locations where noise levels are a consideration.
  6. Thanks for the info, there is too much noise in the background though.
  7. Seagates ALWAYS SUCKED. whenever i had seagates always was shit. HOT like shit, slower and slower every month. WD only lowest grade greens have similar performance.
  8. at 2:30, if you pause at the right time
    you will see that the WD Red PRO 4 TB costs not 170+ pounds, but 1,700 pounds!
    also this is why you cant see the plus after the 170 pound and you can see the plus when its 1,700+
  9. It's not 5900 RPM it's 5400 RPM - 15.000 RPM Seagate
  10. Same price - 3TB HGST Deskstar or 4TB Seagate Ironwolf?
  11. According to BackBlaze stats ( and they use A LOT of hard drives HGST drives have the lowest failure rate and I would consider them over Seagate or WD (though WD ownes them now).
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/
  12. Don't care about anything but reliability.
  13. Fix your teeth, my friend ....
  14. Any non-consumer drive: Seagate all the way. Even the WD fanboys are tired of fucking themselves with WD's experimental garbage. They were great from the mid 90s to mid 00s. They had a one-decade heyday, lol... Get over it already! They actually never intended to get into the HDD business. They lucked out with good engineers who designed the infamous Caviars. They got so bad they got rid of the Caviar name.. does that NOT you guys a fucking HINT? LMFAO!!!! Oh and by the way, many Maxtor and Hitachi models from the early 2000s were by FAR more reliable than any Clusterfuck Digiturd.

    Speaking of turds, their 2.5" drives, by the way, are the greatest pieces of shit I've ever seen. 100% the stereotypical "Maxtor" of the 2.5" sector. Highest fail rate, usually out of the blue unlike all the others which almost always develop bad sectors first. Worse than the fail rate of Seagate, Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Samsung, and IBM 2.5" COMBINED. I know, you call my experience with dozens of different models of Hard Drives ANECDOTAL. Well, fuck you and your custom rig and the 5 HDDs you've touched in your life, know-nothing corporate sell out! How much does WD pay you faggots to troll the internet? I openly admit Seagate has their list of fuckups and I also advise AGAINST the series of consumer drives before this new BarraCuda [sic] one. Also, double back up all important data, HDDs are not patently reliable.

    For their 3.5" turds: Green is gone (THANK GOD!). Blue is now a hybrid between the self-mutilating Greens (shitty parking mechanism and connectors) and the "tossup" Caviars. Black is an overpriced version of a REGULAR consumer drive. Red sucks, so now they have purple (more goddamned blue hybridization?) which people use for both NAS and Surveillance and then those fuckers will start failing next year, too. Their enterprise drives are viciously overpriced, so if you don't want Seagate, why not buy Hitachi (although that gives WD the money now) or the remaining Samsung drives?

    Yeah, I hate that it's only Seagate vs WD, but thank the fucked up US gov't for not enforcing Sherman Antitrust on either WD nor Seagate. We should STILL have 6 manufacturers: WD, Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung, Quantum and Maxtor.

    But moral of the story: Cut your brand loyalty for fucks sake.
  15. which best HD red or black for games?
  16. I just buy the regular Seagate drives for my networks. NAS and Red are just overpriced labels. They fail just as much as regular drives. Honestly I have found through the years that regular Seagate and Barracudas are the best longest lasting to use.
  17. i think you missed the most and the only important aspect of any drive. their actual life span. all numbers aside, it will take hours over hours if a hard disk fails. i want to buy a piece of mind as well.
  18. Thankyou so much for this video. Very informative and concise. Although now I feel like I have made huge mistake! : I bought the Areca 8050T2 Raid enclosure ( 8 bays ) and i bought 6 WD Red Pro NAS 6TB/7200rpm Harddrives ( i figured i would use the 6 drives in a RAID 10 setup and use the spare 2 slots for a RAID1 setup using 2 identical drives that are currently in my Mac Pro ) - You mentioned that the WD RED PRO drives are designed for 8+ drive setups - will using 6 of these drives give me any issues I should be aware of before i proceed with the raid? Should i just go buy another 2 WD RED PRO drives and go for a 8 drive RAID setup? Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you
  19. I did watch your video about Plex as well and you recommended qnap and synology for better media servers. would Seagate or WD be close alternatives? if so, which models? thanks! trying to prepare for a legitimate Plex library