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Choosing Hard Drives for a NAS

November 2, 2013

WD Red 3 TB NAS Hard Drive SATA III  64 MB Cache WD30EFRX

Computerworld (Michael Horowitz) has a post about choosing hard drives for a NAS. The post goes through the thought process in choosing a small NAS. He chose a single drive NAS and a 1 TB Western Digital Red drive - all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Synology, Western Digital Hard Drives Tagged With: Hard disk drive, hard drives, Michael Horowitz, Western Digital

Seagate NAS Hard Drives

October 26, 2013

Seagate NAS hard drives have been around for a few months now and are getting generally good reviews. As you may know, consumer rated hard drives are generally not recommended for use in NAS devices for several reasons. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hard Drives, Seagate, Western Digital Hard Drives Tagged With: Hard disk drive, Seagate, Western Digital

WD Red 3TB NAS Hard Drive Review

December 12, 2012

Legit Storage Reviews has done a comprehensive review of the Western Digital 3 TB Red NAS drive. The reason for the NAS drives for use in a NAS: Anyone that has ever built a NAS before knows that buying hard drives and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Western Digital Hard Drives Tagged With: NAS, RAID, Western Digital

Sale on WD 3TB NAS Drive

November 21, 2012

Amazon is running a sale on the 3TB NAS-ready "Red" hard drive. As of this writing you can get it for less than $160 - click here to check the current price. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hard Drives, Western Digital Hard Drives Tagged With: Hard disk drive, hard drives, Western Digital

Another Western Digital Red NAS Hard Drive Review

August 30, 2012

Techgage has provided a review of the new Western Digital Red NAS hard drives. These drives are specifically designed and configured for use in Small Business and home NAS servers. One of the features of the Red hard … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Western Digital Hard Drives Tagged With: Hard disk drive, NAS, Western Digital

Western Digital Red NAS Drives – Worth the Price Difference?

August 11, 2012

Over at Itproportal.com they ran an interesting test of 5 WD Red "NAS" drives versus the original configuration of Samsung and Seagate drives in a Synology 1812+ NAS. This is an interesting test because the author … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Western Digital Hard Drives Tagged With: Hard disk drive, NAS, Samsung, Seagate, Western Digital

Western Digital Red Drives for NAS Devices Reviewed

August 4, 2012

Tomshardware has done their usual thorough job of reviewing the new Western Digital "Red" drives which are specifically marketed to be good for small business and home NAS servers. Toms reviewed both the 2GB and the 3 GB … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Western Digital Hard Drives Tagged With: Hard disk drive, Tomshardware, Western Digital

Western Digital Red Drives for NAS Servers

July 22, 2012

Western Digital has introduced a new line of drives said to be specifically optimized for use in NAS devices. Known as the Red drives, these drives are specifically targeting NAS devices with one to six … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Western Digital Hard Drives Tagged With: hard drives, Western Digital

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