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Opinion on Drive selection for 516
Just purchased a new 516 diskless. I am looking at either the WD Red 4TB or the WD SE 4TB drives to populate the NAS. Can anyone offer an opinion based on your experience as to the pros/cons of either...
Thanks for your perspective! I was trying to justify in my own mind the extra expense of the enterprise class drives. I've had a ReadyNAS NV+ for over 5 years with 500GB enterprise drives and have had no failures, so that was one data point. the Second data point was the comments on various sites about the number of DOA's folks had with the 4GB Red drives and well as early failures (weeks to months).
There's no question that the Red drives are quieter and run cooler from the specs I've read.
There's no question that the Red drives are quieter and run cooler from the specs I've read.
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