Western Digital (WD) RED NAS hard drives a Ploy?

I am not saying that the RED hard drives are bad but seems like a marketing gimmick for what we use to call a regular hard drive.

So let me get this straight, you want a hard drive with quality control, a decent warranty time frame and not plagued with Green hell features so you can actually protect your data vs saving 1 watt of power a year. This use to simple be called the standard hard drive. Its like having to pay a penalty fee for opting out of the green movement.

What use to be a trend with eco-hipsters is turning into green bullying and pushing consumers into overly expensive, inferior products. Now this red drive is the next evolution which is trying to sell as a premium to get what use to be standard.

I have 9 RAID system running 4 drives each( 36 drives all together) and the vast majority of my problems have come from so called " Green drives" technology. Especially that seagate so called green drives.

How many more Solyndra disasters do we need?

I hope this everything green thing dies down, especially in the hard drive industry where it has no business being.

If I want to save power, I will tell my Readynas to spin down drive after 1 hour of no use.

Anyway, I think these Red drive should be the standard WD hard drive and there should not be a penaltiy for getting the basic features that people should get away with a hard drive. Its like paying extra for power steering in a car.