It's an interesting decision - WD is expanding their low-power 3.5" hard drive offerings with a second line at the same time Seagate exists the "green" market, claiming low-power drives aren't really all that beneficial or quite frankly, special.

Best in class power consumption; Strongest sequential read and write performance; Suited perfectly for SOHO NAS environments

Best in class power consumption; Strongest sequential read and write performance; Suited perfectly for SOHO NAS environments; Weaker random I/O performance seen in our mixed workloads

WD came up with newer line-up of hard drives "Red" suitable for 24/7 for NAS drives. Since a lot of personal and SOHO NAS was featured in this year's Computex, storage drives made specifically for NAS operations was something that was present in Enterprise Series. Consumer?

I didnt buy these drives for performance, I bought them for massive storage. I ripped all my dvds to my server so they would be available to my network. when I set this up originally I started with 500 gig drives, over the years adding dvds and other data I had to keep expanding, I now have 12 hard...

huge capacity; high mtbf; configurable tler (impressive!); extremely quiet; 3 year warranty

slow rotation speed; engineering is all about give and take I guess

Excellent! I have 2 of these 3TB drives on a RAID1 on my personal workstation and in that configu..

Western Digital has spotted a niche in the storage market. To its established range of hard-disk drives, it's added the WD Red , a new range aimed to fulfill the requirements of network-attached storage (NAS).

The WD Red is a new range of hard disks optimised for consumer and small business NAS drives.

Purchased 8 drives for two Sagate Black Armor NAS 400. One drive failed immediately and I sent it for replacement. Within a week, second died (just trying to spin on for few seconds after restart and that's it). Tryed to hook it up to three different system just to run S.M.A.R.T.

I never would have imagined these drives would not arrive in working condition. I've always had good luck with WD drives. These came making a loud clicking noise and couldn't be recognized for formatting.

I run a homebrewed NAS (network-attached storage) setup with open-source software and needed to find

Low power/heat; great performance (faster than Gigbit Ethernet); 3 year warranty

Somewhat more expensive than other 3TB hard drives

I have been using the hard drives for a few weeks now and I would definately buy more. I currently have 4.

Easy To Install; Fast; Good price; Highly Compatible; Quick; Quiet; Reliable

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