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armornone
Nov 22, 2012Aspirant
Western Digital (WD) RED NAS hard drives a Ploy?
It looks like Western Digital( WD) is now selling specialized hard drive for RAID/NAS systems. I thought the entire idea behind a RAID system is that you are using inexpensive disk as in non-speci...
mdgm-ntgr
Nov 22, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
Well WD Green disks are crippled with "green features". The NAS needs to control things like the disk spinning down, not the disk. If you want a WD disk, the WD RED is a much better choice than the WD Green.
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