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My WD RED WD30EFRX experience
2 out of six WD30EFRX has failed- this is my third year with readynas ultra6 - and this disks are the first to fail on me. All other disks have not been on the HCL. This time I wanted to be smart and ...
@OP, I'm sorry you lost your data.
I have the WD drives and used them to migrate about 900G of data to my back up NAS. I read all of the negative reviews, but decided I would take a chance since they would be used for the offsite back up to a system already backed up on site, by a NAS and also USB. Okay, I'm somewhat cautious. But there are several points of failure in my system, ( consumer products in a business setting, self maintained, etc.) and this seems to mitigate them.
Migrating the data, I believe. works the drives pretty hard as volumes are synced and new data is added. I had no failures and there were very few data errors and no alerts either.They are also running very cool. Even with this experience, I would not recommend them, at this time, for critical data or single volumes with no back up.
Advice is always 20/20. A NAS is not a backup. I love the cloud, but until google fiber is in more places or fast connections are the norm and not the exception, having live backups, easily swapped out is key. And that is why I'm still willing to give these drives a chance. Since they are advertised as a NAS drive, I will argue with WD to RMA them should they start throwing too many errors and alerts.
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I have the WD drives and used them to migrate about 900G of data to my back up NAS. I read all of the negative reviews, but decided I would take a chance since they would be used for the offsite back up to a system already backed up on site, by a NAS and also USB. Okay, I'm somewhat cautious. But there are several points of failure in my system, ( consumer products in a business setting, self maintained, etc.) and this seems to mitigate them.
Migrating the data, I believe. works the drives pretty hard as volumes are synced and new data is added. I had no failures and there were very few data errors and no alerts either.They are also running very cool. Even with this experience, I would not recommend them, at this time, for critical data or single volumes with no back up.
Advice is always 20/20. A NAS is not a backup. I love the cloud, but until google fiber is in more places or fast connections are the norm and not the exception, having live backups, easily swapped out is key. And that is why I'm still willing to give these drives a chance. Since they are advertised as a NAS drive, I will argue with WD to RMA them should they start throwing too many errors and alerts.
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