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2012-08-28, 09:00
(This post was last modified: 2012-08-28, 09:01 by AaronG85.)
Is one better than the other?
What are people running?
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What makes a drive a NAS drive vs. a Desktop drive?
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Reliability in a 24x7 environment
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2012-08-28, 10:06
(This post was last modified: 2012-08-28, 10:11 by SavellM.)
The RED has vibration dampening called "3D Active Balance Plus" so when running multiple drives in a NAS environment you get greater life.
They run cooler, helping extend life and also keep the NAS itself cool.
They are lower in power.
They work really really well for constant streaming eg a Movie.
And they are designed to be on 24x7 unlike desktop drives.
They are designed to work in a RAID environment, which some drives have issues with and can drop out of the RAID.
Also the Greens have an issue where they park the heads I believe it was every 8seconds of none use.
In a server environment that is going to destroy the drives in no time.
If it was me, and if I was building my NAS now I would 100% get RED's.
And when my drives start to die I will 100% replace with RED's.
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Awesome thanks for the feedback guys im going to spend the extra and get the red drives.
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2012-08-28, 14:16
(This post was last modified: 2012-08-28, 14:26 by Yokozuna.)
I have 4 x WD 3TB Red drives in my QNAP NAS. Love them ! I previously had 4 x 1TB WD Greens.
The vendor claims the reds :
- Have a longer mean time between fail - 1,000,000 hours
- Can operate to a higher temperature than the Green
The Reds also have better stats for Power Dissipation
Read/Write 4.40 Watts
Idle 4.10 Watts
Standby 0.60 Watts
Sleep 0.60 Watts
Green Power Dissipation
Read/Write 6.00 Watts
Idle 5.50 Watts
Standby 0.80 Watts
Sleep 0.80 Watts
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If you are using software raid either is fine.
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Even with software raid it spins down the drives when you aren't using them. So to me I am not going to start using or recommending red drives in this setting unless they are cheaper.