NAS device questions

[johnrobert]

It should never be allowed to sell inferior build quality like the blue's I have seen drives fail after a few months lately
I still prefer slower speed of normal red's they should have 5 years for what they cost, I don't think there is much difference in price between red's and black;s

Never seen a WD black 7200 laptop drive last

 

[GTP]

It should never be allowed to sell inferior build quality like the blue's....

What about "WD Greens!" They put these junk things in ext backup boxes where they fail constantly!
I've replaced them in hundreds of cheapo laptops and desktops as well!

 

[HCHTech]

What about "WD Greens!"

Yes - any time you want a file, you click......then wait for the drive to wake up and spin up to speed. They'd be perfect for an application where you didn't actually need to ever access the data....haha.

Edit: I see they don't even mention Green drives on the WDC website - except for the new Green SSD drive, which must be the result of the purchase/merger/whatever with SanDisk. Maybe they finally put the green drive out of it's misery.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

It should never be allowed to sell inferior build quality like the blue's I have seen drives fail after a few months lately

For the past..."quite a few years"...WD Blues have had the highest failure rate by a HUGE margin over other makes/models....couldn't pay me to use Blues.
We joke in our office when a computer comes in with a failed HDD....right away someone will sing out "I got the blues...."

 

[Altster]

right away someone will sing out "I got the blues

...and unfortunately this is oh so true! I've not liked anything other than the Blacks / Yellows WD drives. This is unfortunate because at one time I thought Western Digital made good drives that would last forever!

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

...and unfortunately this is oh so true! I've not liked anything other than the Blacks / Yellows WD drives. This is unfortunate because at one time I thought Western Digital made good drives that would last forever!

Eh, every brand has had their decent models and crummy models. Similar to antivirus software, brands come and go for popularity. I used to be a huge fan of Seagate.....their Barracuda drives, and especially those fast cat SCSI drives...the 15,000 rpm X15 Cheetahs!

 

[brandonkick]

I have a western digital blue WD6400AAKS that I bought back in 2010 when I built
this machine. It's still chugging along today, although I no longer user it as a primary
drive as I have switched over to a samsung 850 evo SSD.... it still is used to house
data.

It's not "important" data, and I do have backups just in case but yeah.... it's still going
strong.


Having said that, I've seen a TON of WD blues die. At one of my jobs, I talked them
into upgrading some really old computers with a fleet of dell optiplex business line.
All of them have WD blues, and a lot of them failed within the first year or so. I also
just recently had to do some more "upgrades" which were really basically swapping
out drives that were about to die for some SSD's. The two iBuyPower machines had
WD blues in them.

As others have said... you get what you pay for.

I'm not sure if the synology NAS I set up for them has regular reds or the pros to be honest.

 

[NJW]

Yes - any time you want a file, you click......then wait for the drive to wake up and spin up to speed.

The head-parking can be switched off (wdidle3 for Windows; idle3-tools for Linux) and then there's no delay.

I see they don't even mention Green drives on the WDC website

They have been absorbed into the Blue range, which now has 5400 rpm-class (old Green) and 7200 rpm-class (traditional Blue) drives.

 

[GTP]

used to be a huge fan of Seagate.....their Barracuda drives, and especially those fast cat SCSI drives...the 15,000 rpm X15 Cheetahs!

Man, did those "Cheetah's spin! And, wow, did they make a noise when when a platter split!

 

[GTP]

The head-parking can be switched off (wdidle3 for Windows; idle3-tools for Linux) and then there's no delay.

Never even knew about these! Thanks for that info!

 

[gikstar]

I use an older Qnap 8-bay unit with 8 - 4Tb HGST Deskstar NAS drives in Raid 6. I chose the HGST based on their reviews and have had no problem with them. Of course I purchase 9 drives not 8 just so that if I do have a problem I can correct it ASAP. For our clients, we have them purchase 2 extra drives to have on hand... can leave the drives in their box and store them in the client's locked server cabinet.