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JonnyPoPo
Sep 19, 2014Aspirant
Readynas Duo and WD2003FZEX compatibility
I received notification that one of my drives failed 2 days ago. I am concerned about getting another drive in to get me back up and redundant quickly. I am also upgrading from 1 TB drives to 2 TB dri...
dstern350
Sep 01, 2015Aspirant
I am about to purchase the same drives. Are they still working ok?
- StephenBSep 01, 2015Guru - Experienced User
dstern350 wrote:
I am about to purchase the same drives. Are they still working ok?
I'd get WDC Red Pro instead (WD2001FFSX). Price is a bit higher, but you are getting an enterprise class drive.
A WDC Red (WD20EFRX) is lower performing (and cheaper) - but will run quite a bit cooler. So that's another option.
Now that NAS-purposed drives have come onto the market, I recommend using them over desktop models.
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