Am Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 10:03:14AM +0000 schrieb antlists: > On 20/12/2020 01:06, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Looking at 4 TB WD drives as an example, the cheapest > > SAS drive started at 145 €, but a WD RED NAS drive (intended for > > uninterrupted operation) at 93 €. > > BEWARE OF WD REDS !!! > > They *U*S*E*D* to have a good reputation. They are STILL marketed as > NAS/RAID drives but are pretty much guaranteed to dump your raid into an > unrecoverable mess once something goes wrong.
I am aware of the problem and that we (actually through Dale) had this topic on this list. I built my NAS in 2017, IIRC, and back then there were no EFAX drives around. First I only bought two drives -- from two different retailers in order to minimise risk of batch failure. One year, when space became scarce, I filled the remaining two slots. I'm not really a WD fanboy in any way, but if I bought HDDs (which doesn't happen often to begin with) I always chose WD, because their model lines were easy to grasp through the colour codes. There is a saying in German tech culture: "Entweder sie geht oder sie geht nicht." (either it works or it doesn't). The pun is on the pronunciation of "sie geht" (it works), which sounds exactly like Seagate. → "Either Seagate or Seagate... not." -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. Why marry? Leasing is so much easier!
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