zonderling Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Western Digital is introducing their 10 TB HDD RED series (designed for NAS use). Who's going to buy it? Link to the source article https://www.wdc.com/products/internal-storage/wd-red.html#WD100EFAX 1 Quote Link to comment
bman Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Agreed - it's worth it (to me at least) to pay $120 more to get two more years' warranty and the relatively high (550 TB annually) workload rate compared to the Red's 180 TB rate. That extra $120 in theory should net you a drive lifespan at least double the Red's warranty period (though I suspect the Reds are good for five and the Golds good for 8 to 10 years' use with unRAID). Quote Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 The 10TB Red is a 10TB Gold that didn't make the grade. The 10TB Purple will be a 10TB Red that didn't quite make that grade, and the 10TB Blues will be the crap that's left over that sort of works. Same as all other sizes of WD drive... Quote Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 22 hours ago, NAStyBox said: I think you might have that a little mixed up. I don't think I do, I said exactly what you just did. Gold->Red Pro->Red->Purple->Blue. Quote Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Just checked the price of the 10TB Gold here in the UK. About £570. That's US$741. That's expensive. Quote Link to comment
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