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Retired_Member
Nov 22, 2012

netgear nv+ a sata reset has occured

I've a Netgear NV+ with 4 western digital (caviar green) 2tb harddisks . I've bought this in 2010. It always worked fine, till last week.I had to reboot the system a few time. (the netgear was not app...
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Retired_Member
Nov 22, 2012
StephenB wrote:
reuvekej wrote:
StephenB wrote:
What is the disadvantage for the red drives?
The red drives are specifically designed for NAS, the green drives are not. The red drives have less vibration, and elimination of NAS-unfriendly features (like aggressive head parking).

From a support point of view, both Western Digital and Netgear agree that the red drives work in ReadyNas. That isn't the case for WDC green drives.



If i had known, i had bought the red drives. I thought that the green drives where consuming less energie.

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