My WD RED WD30EFRX experience

I didn't use WD RED WD30EFRX any more so I don't have it's experience but as Senior members has shared their views about WD RED WD30EFRX.

Also use six 3TB REDs since about a week. I'll post if they start to behave! So far so good, knock on wood. But I do run a backup for the critical stuff. With my new fiber connection I can store all important files (about 800 GB) on a server in US (I live in Europe) for 1-2 USD per month (2 year subscription). Transfer speed is 25-50 Mbit/sek (took almost to weeks to run backup). Pretty sweet - hope NSA enjoys my family photos :D .

One of the guys which work at the place I bought 6x WD30EFRX says that they have had "significant more than normal" returns of WD30EFRX drives.
I was offered to buy 3x WD40EFRX drives instead - and to a very good price. The guy says he don't know if they are better or worse than WD30EFRX drives, but they have already sold quite a lot of them and so far they haven't had a single return of WD40EFRX drives.

/crossing fingers...

Disks can and do fail at any time. WD may have made some improvements based on experience with the earlier RED drives but often we may not find out how good drives are till after they have been discontinued.

So far my 6x WD30EFRX are working fine.

The WD40EFRX has been out for a week, so if they had got ANY returns, it would be a really bad drive... :roll:

mangrove wrote:
The WD40EFRX has been out for a week, so if they had got ANY returns, it would be a really bad drive... :roll:

Not necessarily. With a large number of drives produced some are bound to fail quickly. Then there's things like bad batches, poor handling by couriers etc. to consider.

So far my drives perform great. But it has only been some weeks.

@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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ahpsi wrote:
I believe I have ten red's (2 and 3TB) in various NAS systems and all have performed to my satisfaction. No failures yet though as MDGM and StephenB have mentioned the drives haven't been on the market that long.

Sorry to somewhat hijack this thread, but as a user of both the WD20EFRX and WD30EFRX, perhaps you can answer my question.

I am happily running four WD20EFRX disks in my maxed-out old NV, and I'm amazed how cool they run compared to my old 1TB WD Greens. I'd like to recommend the WD30EFRX to a friend running a Pro 6 in X-RAID2, but I'd like to know, do the 3TB disks run just as cool as the 2TB version (obviously I've not tried the 3TBs myself as they're too big for my poor old NV)?

Many thanks,
RIchard.

The 3TB drives are also quite cool (and I also saw they were cooler than the 3 TB WDC Green drives I had installed before).