Readynas OS 6 Massive Performance Decrease

ihartley wrote:

StephenB wrote: Opinions of course vary. I've been happy with mine. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6157/west ... he-premium did a pretty good test. Interesting article, but I didn't see anything other than configurable TLER, advanced vibration (that many drives support). I think that anyone recommending them as better than other drives (that have configurable TLER) is branding persuasion. I've used WD drives in AMD softraid, and if along TLER they do drop out. But performance, any everything else, is just the same. There's no rocket science in WD Red, that's all I'm saying - and I'd be sad if people swapped out their drives thinking otherwise. If I need a new drive, I'd be happy to buy them - the price premium for the extended warranty is a no-brainer! IMHO.

Hi,

I recently attended a Synology roadshow (of all things) and they also had a senior WD engineer as one of the extra speakers.
The guy had been at WD since it opened and ran one of the the teams that handled drive firmware.
We had a chat after the presentation and I asked him the same thing - what made WD RED better than their WB Black drives.

Answer was they used the some of the same drive mechanism from the RE4 with a modified firmware based off the WD Black.
The controller is smaller than the RE4 hence the used the WD Black controller with some modifications.
Most important one being TLER along with better jitter control etc…
He could have been talking crap, but after listening to marketingdroids, he new what he was taking about.

On another note: Was really impressed at how fast all the NAS manufacturers qualified the WD REDs for use in their NAS devices.
Normally it takes ages. This was the first time I have ever seen virtually all the players support it close to launch date.

PS: I do alot of work with video these days on big RAIDs and SANs - these ALL use HGST so am not a WD fan usually.