WD30EZRX Any problems ?

PapaBear wrote:

What is different about these drives is that the first certification was done not by Netgear but by Western Digital in several ReadyNAS units as well as competing products. To my knowledge, these are the first consumer grade drives designed specifically for multi disk RAID arrays. Although WD initially certified the drives in the ReadyNAS Duo, Ultra 2 Plus, Ultra 4 and Pro 6, Netgear has certified the drive in a much wider range of ReadyNAS units including the Duo V2 but not the Duo (v1).

I agree these are the first consumer drives aimed at home RAID arrays. If this Red line sticks, then it will likely be very popular with home NAS owners - a safe choice that works in all popular NAS products, is affordable and has reasonable performance.

WDC and Seagate are taking different strategies here. WDC is increasing the differentiation further (now has 4 distinct drive types), Seagate is planning to abandon their "green" drives (consolidating their lines). It will be interesting to see how the two different approaches play out.

Though my guess would be that WDC asked Netgear and the competing manufacturers to do the actual certification, and that WDC didn't do it themselves.