WD30EFRX 3TB "Red Series"

It has arrived! Next day delivery even tho' I went for the super saver option because I'm tight. Interestingly Ebuyer have lots of 3TB in stock, but low on the 1TB and 2TB versions.

Newegg had the 3TB version on Friday but was out of stock on Saturday. I clicked the notify button and got an e-mail yesterday at noon, but I was away. By last evening they were out again. Clicked the notify button again, and we will see. I currently have two Hitachi HDS5C3030ALA630 in both of my NVX units along with two Seagate 1TB drives in each. I was going to add some more a while back when they got more reasonable in price, but by then they were gone. I also want to get a couple of the 3TB WD reds to try. I will probably pull the two Hitachi's in my main unit and replace them with two 3TB reds (when I can get them) eventually getting to the point that I have 4 of the red labels in one unit and 4 Hitachis in the other.

All set up! I must say the NV+ v2 is a lot slicker than the v1. It auto installed the latest firmware and within an hour of first switching it on, I have 2.7TB of free space using X-Raid2 (single disk, no redunancy). The disk seems to work well. I can copy files to it at ~45MB/s. Copied about 10GB over, no issues. The drive is the quietest I have ever heard and the whole unit is verging on silent. Current temp is 29C. Still lots to setup on it and give it a good test but anyone want to know anything? So far the WD Red is a fantastic drive.

has anyone tested on the NV+ v1, as I am very keen to get these drives. It's not on the HCL but I just wanted to know if anyone can confirm they work,

Cheers,
asdsa

2TB drives are max for v1. 3TB drives won't work. Hopefully the 2TB will be compatible.

Are these Red drives being tested for the Duo v1?

Definitely not the 3TB drive, but hopefully they can qualify at least the 2TB model. I've just tried PMing a Jedi again asking about this.

Exactly that - 2TB.

I am shopping for some Duo v1 replacement drives and though some of the 2010 era drives from the HCL are still available I'd prefer to buy more current technology.
It would be great of the WD20EFRX was on the HCL for the Duo v1.

Good news:

Han Solo wrote:
I have the 1TB WD Red drive now qualified on the NV+ (sparc) now. The 2TB drive will follow next and I will also make sure to check these out on the Duo (sparc) as well

Please don't purchase drives or use them in your ReadyNAS till they are qualified. It's possible they may not pass NetGear's extensive testing though with the 1TB drive qualified on the NV+ (v1) it does look promising. Considering that these drives are designed for NAS use they are less likely to have compatibility issues than e.g. WD's Green disks.

Has anyone tried two 3TB from the red series in a readyNAS ultra 2? I'm thinking about buying two of them to replace my 2TB drives but I want to be sure first. According to the compatibility list, they should work but according to a ReadyNAS Ultra Series data sheet, the ultra 2 only supports the following configurations: Diskless, 2 TB, 4 TB. But I suppose that this might be due to old version of data sheet?

Could someone please tell me whether it will work or not?