Western Digital has a new drive on the block that's claimed to be engineered for NAS and SOHO Server use. It's like the Green drives but with the following improvements:
1. Designed for 24x7 use
2. RAID support
3. Roughly 20% Read/Write performance bump (compared to Green)
Looks promising.
I have four WD Green drives and frankly, I'm not fully satisfied with them... performance-wise as well as reliability. That, and its inherent RAID limitation made me decide to switch to Seagate. In fact, I was actually thinking that Seagate's SV35 series drives were the best disk models for a home server/NAS setup (designed to have very high MTBF and 24x7 operation). Well, these Reds could be my ticket back into trusting WD drives again.
Let's wait and see.
Source: http://www.storagere...review_wd30efrx
1. Designed for 24x7 use
2. RAID support
3. Roughly 20% Read/Write performance bump (compared to Green)
Looks promising.
I have four WD Green drives and frankly, I'm not fully satisfied with them... performance-wise as well as reliability. That, and its inherent RAID limitation made me decide to switch to Seagate. In fact, I was actually thinking that Seagate's SV35 series drives were the best disk models for a home server/NAS setup (designed to have very high MTBF and 24x7 operation). Well, these Reds could be my ticket back into trusting WD drives again.
Let's wait and see.
Source: http://www.storagere...review_wd30efrx