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Re:Thoughts on the Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB? 2013/01/07 17:26:45 (permalink)
Still abit early, but whats ur feelings on the Red's? At $170ish, pretty good deal. I still wont buy HDD's from Newegg though.......
 
 
 
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Re:Thoughts on the Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB? 2013/01/07 17:45:30 (permalink)
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Still abit early, but whats ur feelings on the Red's? At $170ish, pretty good deal. I still wont buy HDD's from Newegg though.......

 
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Re:Thoughts on the Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB? 2013/01/20 11:37:32 (permalink)
Small follow up on this, apparently RAID5 on an intel controller isn't all it's cracked up to be. I was reconfiguring my system. I changed a few settings on the JMicron side of things and the computer got what I'd best called "confused". It orphaned 2 of the drives on the RAID5 as non-RAID breaking the RAID5 volume and making it unrecoverable. At this point I'm thinking the intel controller is crap. I might as well RAID0 them if RAID5 is not safe.
 
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Re:Thoughts on the Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB? 2013/01/20 11:45:29 (permalink)
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Small follow up on this, apparently RAID5 on an intel controller isn't all it's cracked up to be. I was reconfiguring my system. I changed a few settings on the JMicron side of things and the computer got what I'd best called "confused". It orphaned 2 of the drives on the RAID5 as non-RAID breaking the RAID5 volume and making it unrecoverable. At this point I'm thinking the intel controller is crap. I might as well RAID0 them if RAID5 is not safe.

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Been running RAID 5 on the Intel controller for over 3 months now I think with zero issues.

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Re:Thoughts on the Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB? 2013/03/31 15:48:38 (permalink)
I am going to bring this thread back to ask a question.  Can the WD Red be used as a stand alone storage drive?  It appears after reading this thread is was not be meant for it.  I am looking to replace my 2TB black storage drive.  

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Re:Thoughts on the Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB? 2013/03/31 16:05:35 (permalink)
Thanks for the Intel RST update Brad!
 
Ill be planning a RAID card, once I build my server in fall, Intel should be ashamed, but prob could care less, but thats a given in the day and age, all about the quick sell.....
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Re:Thoughts on the Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB? 2013/03/31 16:32:45 (permalink)
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I am going to bring this thread back to ask a question.  Can the WD Red be used as a stand alone storage drive?  It appears after reading this thread is was not be meant for it.  I am looking to replace my 2TB black storage drive.  


Yes, a red will work for storage. It's meant for NAS use, and as such, typically runs all the time, serving up media.

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Re:Thoughts on the Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB? 2013/03/31 16:35:00 (permalink)
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krane

I am going to bring this thread back to ask a question.  Can the WD Red be used as a stand alone storage drive?  It appears after reading this thread is was not be meant for it.  I am looking to replace my 2TB black storage drive.  


Yes, a red will work for storage. It's meant for NAS use, and as such, typically runs all the time, serving up media.


Okay, thanks.

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