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WD20EFRX - WD Red with DUO v1
I see some interest in this drive working on the DUO v1 and thought my recent experience could be useful. Other threads reference this topic but are slightly off from the original titles so I hope sta...
I called Netgear Team yesterday to have some usefull informations. The guy on the phone said: "since netgear no longer produce Duo products, we can not give any Statements regarding this issue. We can only recommend to follow our published combatibility list"!! In other Words "only discs on the HCL are guaranteed accepted by the device. Installed any other disc type is a matter of gamble!!"
Well. i took this risk and bought two WD20ERFX (exact model description: WD20ERFX-68EUZN0, Frimware 80.00A80, manufactered Oct. 2013), installed them on the bays and inserted the bays in the device, then turned it on: ... after abrox. 15 minutes (boot and resync)......... HURRRRAAAA, the two discs are recognized, redundant and ready to go. :)) :D :D ... I copied all my files and all went fine :thumbsup:
Now to compare:
I first bought two Seagates ST2000DM001 and installed them, but i could not stand that continuously chirping noise (head parking noise), and after i've read about "Cycle-Load" on harddiscs i decided to replace them with Western digital RED devices. NOW: the WDs are really more quiet than the Seagates with less Temp also. BUT: i noticed that the data transfer rate are clearly much lower with the WD discs:
- with 2 ST2000DM001 : PC <--> NAS ca. 30MB/s
- with 2 WD20EFRX : PC <--> NAS ca. 17MB/s
(PC, NAS and Switch are Gigabit diveces) !!!1
Whytega, can you confirm this transfer rate, or is it faster on your side???
Well. i took this risk and bought two WD20ERFX (exact model description: WD20ERFX-68EUZN0, Frimware 80.00A80, manufactered Oct. 2013), installed them on the bays and inserted the bays in the device, then turned it on: ... after abrox. 15 minutes (boot and resync)......... HURRRRAAAA, the two discs are recognized, redundant and ready to go. :)) :D :D ... I copied all my files and all went fine :thumbsup:
Now to compare:
I first bought two Seagates ST2000DM001 and installed them, but i could not stand that continuously chirping noise (head parking noise), and after i've read about "Cycle-Load" on harddiscs i decided to replace them with Western digital RED devices. NOW: the WDs are really more quiet than the Seagates with less Temp also. BUT: i noticed that the data transfer rate are clearly much lower with the WD discs:
- with 2 ST2000DM001 : PC <--> NAS ca. 30MB/s
- with 2 WD20EFRX : PC <--> NAS ca. 17MB/s
(PC, NAS and Switch are Gigabit diveces) !!!1
Whytega, can you confirm this transfer rate, or is it faster on your side???
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