Tom Bishop wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:50 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I see a really good price, and better for quantity, for 3TB drives. Now, I've been down on WD for a couple of years, since I found that they'd protected certain h/d parms from being changed (like TLER). The ones I'm looking at are the Red, which seems to be a new color (at least to me), and one technical review I've read says that they're intended for NAS, etc, and you can adjust those parms. They're *not* supposed to be "enterprise" or server grade, but it sounds like they'd work with RAID.
Anyone know anything about them?
They are made more for the soho environment, not sure I would even use them there. If its critical enough for RAID environment then I would
use the
enterprise class drives WD-RE or the Seagate equiv. IIRC they were not even spinning those at 7200rpm, i just pony up for the good ones, and I'm cheap ;)
Yeah, well, I work for a federal contractor, so this is your and my tax dollars (and when someone starts spouting that all feds spend money like water, I'm going give them a cluex4...).
But, after reading your comments, and looking and seeing a similar comment on Tom's Hardware, I called their support - they even have a tech support 24x7 specifically for red, and the tech, when I asked, didn't even blink when he told me it was 7200 full speed....
And have you looked at the price for server grade anything? They want 2-3 times the base price.
Thanks, though, for such a quick response... and helping push me to call.
mark