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HCL WD Red Rotational Vibration Safeguard RVS Please confirm
Netgear's Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) states Western Digital Red HDD have Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS), but I cannot confirm this on any western digital data sheets. I have also read Ro...
Understood. I believe that the red drives do not have RVS, which is why they are positioned for smaller NAS. That is based on the information here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/red ... 248-2.html
So they seem to be designed to have low vibration, but do not use RVS.
As mentioned, the Red drives boast power-on ratings of 8760 hours per year and a mean time between failure (MTBF) rating of 1 000 000 hours, on par with the pricier nearline drives out there. They don’t employ rotational vibration sensors, which is another reason they're being positioned as solutions in smaller storage systems, and not big racks loaded down with spinning disks that weather more severe vibrations.
So they seem to be designed to have low vibration, but do not use RVS.
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