WD Red 5TB Disk WD50EFRX

Hey pdkillian,

They should work just fine, unless there is a specific compatibility issue with the model itself that I am not aware. Maybe some of the moderators can help. Other than that I believe these drives should work just fine.

Captain_WD.

It may not have been tested or there could be a compatibility issue. Is there a particular reason you wish to use the 5TB model?

pdkillian wrote:
Is there a reason the Western Digital 5 TB Red Disk, PN WD50EFRX is not on the compatibility list? All the other sizes of the red drives are up there: 1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB, 4 TB, 6 TB.

It's on sale right now: http://slickdeals.net/f/7497974-5tb-western-digital-red-3-5-sata-iii-hard-drive-179-free-shipping

For those of us with enclosures that have a max of 16Tb per volume - then 4x 5Tb is the sweet-spot max for (x)RAID-5 as 6Tb drives goes over the limit.

Poke -> any updates likely for WD50EFRX for ReadyNAS 104 ?

Are older enclosure compatibility lists updated once they are superseded ?
ReadyNAS 104's are still available and are very cost effective per Tb compared to 204.

Ah - in other threads it hints that 5Tb drives won't get listed for thee 104 since RAID0 would go over the 16Tb max - and only disks which suit all eventualities will get listed.

However - trying other enclosures (max 24Tb) e.g. 314,316 - I see that WD60EFRX 6Tb drives are listed but 5Tb isn't.
Is there a reason for this ?

The current datasheet for the RN300/RN500 series has a max capacity of 36 TB for the RN316 and RN516 (http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/ ... -RN700.pdf). Netgear revised it sometime after the 6 TB drives came onto the market.

I'm not sure why 5 TB models aren't listed. My guess (just speculating) is that Netgear never got around to testing them. 6 TB drives came onto the market shortly after the 5 TB models were introduced.

Personally I think both 5 and 6 TB drives should be on the HCL for all the OS6 NAS - in my view, the HCL should list drives that are compatible, and the 16 TiB ceiling for the RN100 isn't really relevant. Though Netgear obviously disagrees.