What's the diff. or better b/w WD Black and Red? Looking to put the HDD in an enclosure for my movie, music, pix collection to use as home server.
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WD Black drive are high performance consumer drives. They're designed for things like desktop PCs. WD Red drives are constructed with NAS and home/small business servers in mind. WD Red drives are built with things like more vibration resistance, lower operating temperatures, and a longer warranty. This in turn gives them more reliability in an "always on" situation where they would be subject to constant use. The enhanced vibration resistance also gives them more stability when used with multiple other HDDs as they would be subject to more vibration this way. If you plan on having your home server with multiple drives in a RAID config and keeping it on at all times to access then I would recommend WD Reds. WD Black drive are high performance consumer drives. They're designed for things like desktop PCs. WD Red drives are constructed with NAS and home/small business servers in mind. WD Red drives are built with things like more vibration resistance, lower operating temperatures, and a longer warranty. This in turn gives them more reliability in an "always on" situation where they would be subject to constant use. The enhanced vibration resistance also gives them more stability when used with multiple other HDDs as they would be subject to more vibration this way. If you plan on... » Read More WD Black drive are high performance consumer drives. They're designed for things like desktop PCs. WD Red drives are constructed with NAS and home/small business servers in mind. WD Red drives are built with things like more vibration resistance, lower operating temperatures, and a longer warranty. This in turn gives them more reliability in an "always on" situation where they would be subject to constant use. The enhanced vibration resistance also gives them more stability when used with multiple other HDDs as they would be subject to more vibration this way. If you plan on having your home server with multiple drives in a RAID config and keeping it on at all times to access then I would recommend WD Reds. « Show Less
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WD Black drive are high performance consumer drives. They're designed for things like desktop PCs. WD Red drives are constructed with NAS and home/small business servers in mind. WD Red drives are built with things like more vibration resistance, lower operating temperatures, and a longer warranty. This in turn gives them more reliability in an "always on" situation where they would be subject to constant use. The enhanced vibration resistance also gives them more stability when used with multiple other HDDs as they would be subject to more vibration this way. If you plan on having your home server with multiple drives in a RAID config and keeping it on at all times to access then I would recommend WD Reds.
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The primary difference between WD black and red is the error reporting. In a computer, the black drive permits occasional errors, typically correcting them (but having the errors available to see). However, in a server, having errors in, say, a raid system can be devastating. In a server, if a drive has an error that is undetected, then a second error on a different drive can make the raid system unable to rebuild. Thus, the red drives immediately report the error to the NAS so it can be properly handled.Bottom line, you probably don't want Red drives in a computer, and you probably don't want black drives in a NAS. They're both highly reliable, but different. The primary difference between WD black and red is the error reporting. In a computer, the black drive permits occasional errors, typically correcting them (but having the errors available to see). However, in a server, having errors in, say, a raid system can be devastating. In a server, if a drive has an error that is undetected, then a second error on a different drive can make the raid system unable to rebuild. Thus, the red drives immediately report the error to the NAS so it can be properly handled.Bottom line, you probably don't want Red drives in a computer, and you... » Read More The primary difference between WD black and red is the error reporting. In a computer, the black drive permits occasional errors, typically correcting them (but having the errors available to see). However, in a server, having errors in, say, a raid system can be devastating. In a server, if a drive has an error that is undetected, then a second error on a different drive can make the raid system unable to rebuild. Thus, the red drives immediately report the error to the NAS so it can be properly handled.Bottom line, you probably don't want Red drives in a computer, and you probably don't want black drives in a NAS. They're both highly reliable, but different. « Show Less
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The Red is for use in Servers (5400RPM) , The Black is High performance (7200RPM)
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Be aware, the Western Digital RE Black (WD2000FYYZ), and the Western Digital RE4 Black (WD2003FYYS) are different drives with different interface speeds. The (RE4)WD2003FYYS runs at SATA 3Gb/s, whereas the (RE)WD2000FYYZ runs at SATA 6Gb/s.
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SSD isn't suitable for NAS...Due to SSD haven't enough read/write lifetime...I think WD's red disk is better.you can buy it at WD Red 2TB NAS Desktop Hard Disk Drive - Intellipower SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD20EFRX
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I have been running mine with a Western Digital WD30EFRX NAS 3tb just fine for a few months now. Runs quick and hasn't presented any strange playback issues or lag, it has actually decreased load times but probably due to NAS spec. Though, weird behavior with file transfer, when I copied over the old 1tb drive in my Micca to the new 3tb, it somehow ballooned my files by about 200gb. Hidden files show nothing and quite a few folders read different in size between the two drives. Not sure if files are being decompressed on the copy over or something, no ZIPs just ghost data that has taken decent bite out of the drive, I don't think there is a 200gb reserve or system partition on a 3tb...
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both are SATA. the major difference comes between the Western Digital Red Blue and Green lines. Red is Network Attached storage and server line quality. usually they are better built than your standard Blue but cost more than the Blue. as i just mentioned the WD Blue is the mainstream line drive. Green is a more energy efficient line of hard drive.For example i had a computer with a old Quantium Fireball IDE drive and i replaced it with a larger Western Digital Blue IDE and it worked fine.
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I've had the best luck in any NAS or NAS-type device (home-built PC utilized as a NAS) with the WD-Red drives. Any other 2-4TB drives I've tried have failed within the first 12 months of use. If this is going to be a 7x24 device, then I highly recommend spending the little bit extra for the Red series - they have better vibration isolation for multiple drive installations and always-on access. Drive failures were drastically reduced once I switched over to Red drives - this is across three different NAS devices, different vendors (Thecus, WD, and home-built).
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I have 4 Western Digital Red 3TB drives in mine. It has been running non-stop since I bought it. The best investment I've made in computer hardware in long time. Segate and Western digital will both work in it. Not sure if differnt size drives will work though.
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No. Get something more reliable like a WD BLUE OR BLACK (black is better) This drive failed on me after only 4 months in my Xbox 360. I replaced it with a 360mb WD black after a lot of careful research.
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Hey Taylor, I am currently running 4 4GB WD drives and almost the same config as you for FreeNAS. I decided on 1333 Mhz memory since the price wasn't that much different. I have 3 of these sytems running ESXi 5.5. Great motherboards IMO.
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In general , I prefer WD over Seagate. Personally, I have had more Seagate failures . The price is also very fair for the WD blue.
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Makes a good HTPC. So far, this thing has handled every 1080P/5.1 movie I have thrown at it, and has been a good Plex server too.. Data drive is a WD NAS located in another room, through a gigabit switch, and it'll handle fetching, transcoding, and sending movies to Android minipc upstairs no problem.
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Doesn't matter both have similar specs. I have these and WD black drives in my system, I run them both in raid 0 and both arrays perform about the same.
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I have Sata II WD Black drives in mine. However I would suggest a different Raid bay. This one has its own raid card and it works intermittently. There is a lack of support for the card and its very cumbersome.
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WD says that greens will work and nothing else. I have a feeling that has to do with the lower power consumption. I have heard horror stories about green drives and WD software has said my drives have gone bad, but the drives read and write just fine. I love the raid setup and dont know why anyone else hasn't continued this setup at this price point ( I bought mine used for a little less than $100)
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Hi. I don't know, since I mounted a main disk 240 Gb Corsair Force SSD and let a 750 Gb WD Caviar Black for storage I did not looked again in WD offers. This is crap and if it is discontinued much better for all the people who will not waist money for nothing. I let is for storage but disconeccted. I only connet it and save something there from time to time. Regards
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Nope. I purchased the diskless server as well. The one with disks just ship with WD Reds.
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Yes. I did exactly that when I purchased my Synology NAS. The BlackArmor NAS was a piece of crap, but the drives are fine and the Syno. NAS will play well with them.