Wd red hdd: 5tb & 6tb

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Western Digital is bringing a number of updates to its product lineups, most of them geared towards the WD Red series.

Let's start with the standard WD Red drives. Western Digital is adding a 5 TB and a 6 TB drive to the lineup. These drives now carry the NASware 3.0 feature set, and are built to be used in NAS systems with up to eight drives. They carry a three-year warranty.

Western Digital also introduced the new Red Pro lineup. These drives are intended to be used in NAS systems with between 8 and 16 drives, and these also come with the NASware 3.0 feature set. Initially, these will only come in 2 TB, 3 TB, and 4 TB capacities. WD includes a five-year warranty with the Red Pro hard drives, and aims for these drives to be used in medium to large business environments.

Concluding the updates, WD is also introducing 5 TB and 6 TB Green drives. These are the company's cool and quiet series of hard drives.

As a refresher, the main reason why the WD Red lineup exists is because NAS storage often includes a RAID setup, as opposed to single-drive setups in the typical desktop. The most important feature that the Red drives carry is TLER, or Time-Limited Error Recovery. In most RAID arrays you want a drive to have TLER enabled, as most RAID controllers will drop a drive out of the array if it doesn't respond within 7 seconds. Most desktop hard drives will keep attempting to read data from bad sectors for around 20 seconds. As a result, using desktop drives such as a WD Green drive in a RAID array can result in unnecessary data loss.

Pricing for the new drives is set at $249 and $299 for the WD Red 5 TB and 6 TB models, respectively. The WD Red Pro drives will be a little more expensive, priced at $159, $199, and $259 for the 2 TB, 3 TB, and 4 TB models, respectively.

$299 seems standard for the largest drive on the market at launch.

[IanB]

Size isn't everything: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...r-data-discuss!

Following his reviews of these new huge Red drives, I have a dialogue going with Ganesh from Anandtech about this and he is trying to get comments from WD and Seagate engineers about this issue. He feels there is something to my concerns. Bottom line right now: caveat emptor if you are not using ZFS.

[naokaji]

Size isn't everything: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...r-data-discuss!

Following his reviews of these new huge Red drives, I have a dialogue going with Ganesh from Anandtech about this and he is trying to get comments from WD and Seagate engineers about this issue. He feels there is something to my concerns. Bottom line right now: caveat emptor if you are not using ZFS.

Meanwhile WD has no moral quarrels trying to convince people to use one or two Consumer grade 6TB drives in a NAS http://www.tomshardware.com/news/wes...2tb,27306.html

*shudders at the thought of having to help some moron who used 2x6TB drives in Raid 0*

[PatRaceTin]

I am looking for multiple hdd with less capacity (just in case of hdd fail so I lost less of my content).