WD Red has features such as NAS compatibility increased reliability and more. Desktop drives aren't purpose-built for NAS. But WD Red drives with NASware 3.0 are. Our exclusive technology takes the guesswork out of selecting a drive.
WD Red has features such as NAS compatibility increased reliability and more. Desktop drives aren't purpose-built for NAS. But WD Red drives with NASware 3.0 are. Our exclusive technology takes the guesswork out of selecting a drive.
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WD Red NAS Hard Drive WD60EFAX - Hard drive - 6 TB - internal - 3.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - 5400 rpm - buffer: 256 MB
WD Red has features such as NAS compatibility increased reliability and more. Desktop drives aren't purpose-built for NAS. But WD Red drives with NASware 3.0 are. Our exclusive technology takes the guesswork out of selecting a drive.
WD Red has features such as NAS compatibility increased reliability and more. Desktop drives aren't purpose-built for NAS. But WD Red drives with NASware 3.0 are. Our exclusive technology takes the guesswork out of selecting a drive.
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Western Digital Red 6tb Hdd - Wd Red Nas Hard Drive
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originally posted on newegg.com
These drives didn't work for me. I ordered two drives which I intended to use as a RAID1 array in a Terra Master enclosure connected to a Mac Mini. After installing and formatting the drives, I found that they were: a) exceptionally noisy, b) slow to write data, and c) unable to complete the transfer of large data files. I subsequently removed the two drives from the enclosure and reformatted them individually on a SATA docking station where I continued to have the same sorts of problems with noise and with large file transfer. I benchmarked these drives against two other drives (a WD 1TB Blue and a Seagate IronWolf 6TB) neither of which had any problems with noise or large files. The WD Red 6TB drives were shipped in their plastic wrappers but without the larger ... MoreThese drives didn't work for me. I ordered two drives which I intended to use as a RAID1 array in a Terra Master enclosure connected to a Mac Mini. After installing and formatting the drives, I found that they were: a) exceptionally noisy, b) slow to write data, and c) unable to complete the transfer of large data files. I subsequently removed the two drives from the enclosure and reformatted them individually on a SATA docking station where I continued to have the same sorts of problems with noise and with large file transfer. I benchmarked these drives against two other drives (a WD 1TB Blue and a Seagate IronWolf 6TB) neither of which had any problems with noise or large files. The WD Red 6TB drives were shipped in their plastic wrappers but without the larger standard packaging one might find on a store shelf. The box they came in was small and had some bubble wrap, but not enough to fully cushion the drives. It is possible they were damaged in shipping. I don't know if this will sour me on WD in the future. I have used many WD drives in the past without any major problems, but this is the first time I've used their Red drives. Since having these problems I have read that some of these large capacity WD Red drives have problems working properly in RAID arrays. I will be returning these drives and for my current application I am going forward with the Seagate IronWolf drives instead.
originally posted on westerndigital.com
Although these drive are labeled NASware 3.0 I found out after I received the drives that they use SMR technology. I intended to use the drives to increase the storage on my ReadyNAS. but in speaking to a Netgear representative he recommended against using SMR technology because they had found them troublesome for writing large files or many files continuously, and especially on RAID sync, scrub, and balance. I researched the drives further and found this was indeed the case. By this time I had already hot swapped one of the drives I'd purchased in anticipation of increasing the storage and upgrading the OS. As part of the upgrade the raid did a resync. The resync took 5 days to complete. This is exactly one of the situations I'd been cautioned about and had seen ... MoreAlthough these drive are labeled NASware 3.0 I found out after I received the drives that they use SMR technology. I intended to use the drives to increase the storage on my ReadyNAS. but in speaking to a Netgear representative he recommended against using SMR technology because they had found them troublesome for writing large files or many files continuously, and especially on RAID sync, scrub, and balance. I researched the drives further and found this was indeed the case. By this time I had already hot swapped one of the drives I'd purchased in anticipation of increasing the storage and upgrading the OS. As part of the upgrade the raid did a resync. The resync took 5 days to complete. This is exactly one of the situations I'd been cautioned about and had seen reported on the internet. In the past my resyncs have completed overnight so I find 5 days unacceptable. In short I don't have confidence in the reliability of SMR drives for my NAS. I requested an RMA be generated to exchange the drives I purchased for the CMR drives I thought I was getting but it's been 2 weeks and I'm still waiting.
originally posted on neweggbusiness.com
The two 6TB discs were purchased to add space on my home server & backup server. They replaced two, one year-3 week old WD Red 4TB discs. The 4TBs were reformatted and partitioned (2 partitions) to accommodate two file shares. After moving data to the drives, all four of them appeared to be in good operating condition; no SMART issues and temps well within acceptable range. Ten days later one of the 4TB drives went offline after having generated a slew of paging errors. I did quite a bit of troubleshooting, but was unable to ever get it mounted properly. I could see it ing Windows Disk management and Partition Manager, but neither program could perform any operations on the drive. I tried to delete the partitions and reformat, but was not able to do that. I did ... MoreThe two 6TB discs were purchased to add space on my home server & backup server. They replaced two, one year-3 week old WD Red 4TB discs. The 4TBs were reformatted and partitioned (2 partitions) to accommodate two file shares. After moving data to the drives, all four of them appeared to be in good operating condition; no SMART issues and temps well within acceptable range. Ten days later one of the 4TB drives went offline after having generated a slew of paging errors. I did quite a bit of troubleshooting, but was unable to ever get it mounted properly. I could see it ing Windows Disk management and Partition Manager, but neither program could perform any operations on the drive. I tried to delete the partitions and reformat, but was not able to do that. I did manage to see the top level folders a couple of times, but the disc would went offline each time. No luck with CHKDSK either; running it would immediately knock the drive offline. I then went to WD web site to see what the warranty would do for me. Unfortunately, after entering the serial number, the site displayed the message that the limited 1 year warranty had expired on 12/02/19. So much for 3 year warranties, huh? I'm thinking that maybe I can now use it as a doorstop, since it's obviously not heavy enough for a boat anchor.
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 6 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
Western Digital Red 6tb Hdd - Wd Red Nas Hard Drive
Delivery $13.42
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These drives didn't work for me. I ordered two drives which I intended to use as a RAID1 array in a Terra Master enclosure connected to a Mac Mini. After installing and formatting the drives, I found that they were: a) exceptionally noisy, b) slow to write data, and c) unable to complete the transfer of large data files. I subsequently removed the two drives from the enclosure and reformatted them individually on a SATA docking station where I continued to have the same sorts of problems with noise and with large file transfer. I benchmarked these drives against two other drives (a WD 1TB Blue and a Seagate IronWolf 6TB) neither of which had any problems with noise or large files. The WD Red 6TB drives were shipped in their plastic wrappers but without the larger ... MoreThese drives didn't work for me. I ordered two drives which I intended to use as a RAID1 array in a Terra Master enclosure connected to a Mac Mini. After installing and formatting the drives, I found that they were: a) exceptionally noisy, b) slow to write data, and c) unable to complete the transfer of large data files. I subsequently removed the two drives from the enclosure and reformatted them individually on a SATA docking station where I continued to have the same sorts of problems with noise and with large file transfer. I benchmarked these drives against two other drives (a WD 1TB Blue and a Seagate IronWolf 6TB) neither of which had any problems with noise or large files. The WD Red 6TB drives were shipped in their plastic wrappers but without the larger standard packaging one might find on a store shelf. The box they came in was small and had some bubble wrap, but not enough to fully cushion the drives. It is possible they were damaged in shipping. I don't know if this will sour me on WD in the future. I have used many WD drives in the past without any major problems, but this is the first time I've used their Red drives. Since having these problems I have read that some of these large capacity WD Red drives have problems working properly in RAID arrays. I will be returning these drives and for my current application I am going forward with the Seagate IronWolf drives instead.
Although these drive are labeled NASware 3.0 I found out after I received the drives that they use SMR technology. I intended to use the drives to increase the storage on my ReadyNAS. but in speaking to a Netgear representative he recommended against using SMR technology because they had found them troublesome for writing large files or many files continuously, and especially on RAID sync, scrub, and balance. I researched the drives further and found this was indeed the case. By this time I had already hot swapped one of the drives I'd purchased in anticipation of increasing the storage and upgrading the OS. As part of the upgrade the raid did a resync. The resync took 5 days to complete. This is exactly one of the situations I'd been cautioned about and had seen ... MoreAlthough these drive are labeled NASware 3.0 I found out after I received the drives that they use SMR technology. I intended to use the drives to increase the storage on my ReadyNAS. but in speaking to a Netgear representative he recommended against using SMR technology because they had found them troublesome for writing large files or many files continuously, and especially on RAID sync, scrub, and balance. I researched the drives further and found this was indeed the case. By this time I had already hot swapped one of the drives I'd purchased in anticipation of increasing the storage and upgrading the OS. As part of the upgrade the raid did a resync. The resync took 5 days to complete. This is exactly one of the situations I'd been cautioned about and had seen reported on the internet. In the past my resyncs have completed overnight so I find 5 days unacceptable. In short I don't have confidence in the reliability of SMR drives for my NAS. I requested an RMA be generated to exchange the drives I purchased for the CMR drives I thought I was getting but it's been 2 weeks and I'm still waiting.
The two 6TB discs were purchased to add space on my home server & backup server. They replaced two, one year-3 week old WD Red 4TB discs. The 4TBs were reformatted and partitioned (2 partitions) to accommodate two file shares. After moving data to the drives, all four of them appeared to be in good operating condition; no SMART issues and temps well within acceptable range. Ten days later one of the 4TB drives went offline after having generated a slew of paging errors. I did quite a bit of troubleshooting, but was unable to ever get it mounted properly. I could see it ing Windows Disk management and Partition Manager, but neither program could perform any operations on the drive. I tried to delete the partitions and reformat, but was not able to do that. I did ... MoreThe two 6TB discs were purchased to add space on my home server & backup server. They replaced two, one year-3 week old WD Red 4TB discs. The 4TBs were reformatted and partitioned (2 partitions) to accommodate two file shares. After moving data to the drives, all four of them appeared to be in good operating condition; no SMART issues and temps well within acceptable range. Ten days later one of the 4TB drives went offline after having generated a slew of paging errors. I did quite a bit of troubleshooting, but was unable to ever get it mounted properly. I could see it ing Windows Disk management and Partition Manager, but neither program could perform any operations on the drive. I tried to delete the partitions and reformat, but was not able to do that. I did manage to see the top level folders a couple of times, but the disc would went offline each time. No luck with CHKDSK either; running it would immediately knock the drive offline. I then went to WD web site to see what the warranty would do for me. Unfortunately, after entering the serial number, the site displayed the message that the limited 1 year warranty had expired on 12/02/19. So much for 3 year warranties, huh? I'm thinking that maybe I can now use it as a doorstop, since it's obviously not heavy enough for a boat anchor.
I was using this drive as a mass storage for my Mac fatted in HFS+. Had only used about 3 of the 6 TB and after a reboot the drive would not mount. Tried other Macs, tried windows using HFS+ software, no go. Disk utility says bad B-tree. After buying a $120 data recovery tool (disk drill) and recovering maybe 70% of the data from the drive, I formatted it again in HFS+. Still bad B-tree. Tried APFS, still errors. Tried not APFS and HFS+ under both MBR and GPT-fail. It will format in exFAT but Im not confident that I wont lose data seeing as how it will not successfully format in other formats. Gonna try my hand with a warranty claim but I dont want another one of these cheap drives.
All 3 of these drives that I have purchased (within 2 years) have failed. The last "operating" drive only reads at about 5 MB/s, which is sad. They all make a "chirping" sound at random, which is the motor powering up and down. Not buying another one of these drives. Not worth it. 3 of 3 basically bad hard drives. I would only rate these as fair because the motors have not completely given up, but the chirping and slow reads are only getting worse with time.
ZFS is one of the most popular RAID technologies out there, especially for DIY'ers. It forms the foundation of FreeNAS. And I loved previous version of WD Red drives. I liked they were low power and low heat - I didn't need 7200 RPM drives. Now, they change their technology and create drives that are susceptible to *catastrophic failure* in the most popular RAID technology out there, without *any* update to their marketing literature. I'm sorry, directing people to a blog post while also claiming it'll work great in NAS and RAID configurations without an explicit disclaimer that you're excluding *the most popular RAID technology* is pretty underhanded. I've got several of these drives now in my RAID that I need to pay to replace. I don't have a viable use for them, ... MoreZFS is one of the most popular RAID technologies out there, especially for DIY'ers. It forms the foundation of FreeNAS. And I loved previous version of WD Red drives. I liked they were low power and low heat - I didn't need 7200 RPM drives. Now, they change their technology and create drives that are susceptible to *catastrophic failure* in the most popular RAID technology out there, without *any* update to their marketing literature. I'm sorry, directing people to a blog post while also claiming it'll work great in NAS and RAID configurations without an explicit disclaimer that you're excluding *the most popular RAID technology* is pretty underhanded. I've got several of these drives now in my RAID that I need to pay to replace. I don't have a viable use for them, and they only have a few months of usage on them. And they work great! Until they don't, and I could suffer a failure cascade that would take out my entire RAID. WD - will you exchange my EFAX for EFRX?
I bought this WD Red 6TB back in 12/2019 to go in my Synology DS412+ to replace an existing WD Red 3TB that is 4 years old. WD is now putting out documentation that these drives are actually not NAS rated drives. How could a reputable company let this happen. The whole purpose in buying a NAS rated drive is to put in a NAS system. This drive is barely acceptable for an archival system where you are only doing straight backups with no updates to the data already archived. Stay away at all cost if you want your RAID to stay intact and performing at peak performance. Google class action lawsuit against WD because of this issue. My drive is still in it's original sealed package and I refuse to put it anywhere near my RAID.
I purchased the Red 6TB drive as a replacement drive for by 5-bay Drobo connected to our home Mac server, and used for storing Time Machine backups for our 5 computers. The Drobo has only WD Red drives purchased over the past years, gradually swapping in larger Red drives as old ones fail or I needed increased storage space. This is probably at least the 10th Red drive I have swapped in to our Drobo. As soon as I swapped in this drive I noticed it wasn't as usual. The Drobo would unmount and re-mount repeatedly during the RAID rebuild phase. When it was done rebuilding I tested it out by running a Time Machine backup, which should do an incremental change to a sparse bundle file. I noticed that the entire sparsebundle file (1.7TB) was reduced to zero bytes and the ... MoreI purchased the Red 6TB drive as a replacement drive for by 5-bay Drobo connected to our home Mac server, and used for storing Time Machine backups for our 5 computers. The Drobo has only WD Red drives purchased over the past years, gradually swapping in larger Red drives as old ones fail or I needed increased storage space. This is probably at least the 10th Red drive I have swapped in to our Drobo. As soon as I swapped in this drive I noticed it wasn't as usual. The Drobo would unmount and re-mount repeatedly during the RAID rebuild phase. When it was done rebuilding I tested it out by running a Time Machine backup, which should do an incremental change to a sparse bundle file. I noticed that the entire sparsebundle file (1.7TB) was reduced to zero bytes and the backup software prompted to perform a "first backup", i.e. the historical changes were lost. I then noticed that this was the case also for all backup sets for the four other computers in our home. I now realize that the Red drive I purchased uses SMR instead of CMR and that these new Red drives don't appear to be suitable at all for our purpose. I can see that this information is on the website but how can WD make such a significant change to a product line and keep its name? Apparently, the Red is now named Red Plus but that was not obvious at all. I cannot believe how the good people at WD could allow this to happen. This is probably a decent standalone drive but it should not have been allowed to drag the Red (NAS/RAID) product line in the dirt. I am devastated, sad and angry with myself for trusting the product name so deeply that I didn't do research. And I am angry with WD for betraying that trust.
I bought two of these to put in a dual-drive NAS. They work great for my needs. I only use to NAS for backup purposes, not as primary storage. Otherwise I would go with the WD Red Plus because it uses CMR write technology rather than SMR like the WD Red. You can google CMR and SMR for more info on why that makes a difference.I ordered these directly from Western Digital and the shipping was super fast.
beware WD Red are SMR shingled. This means each writes will be wrtien twice after the buffer. Red are (EFAX)HDD ARE NOT SUATABLE FOR RAID. WD Red plus (EFZX) are CMR, not. Please get information on CMR disks.Performance in raid shows write drops while SMR will rewrite all in disk in shingled way to keep 6TB possibility.It's a ok drive for archive (loner drive), and very bad choice for raid.Replacing a 6TB with a WD Red (EFAX) in a raid environment wold take 9 days of write to rebuilt. This would cause stress to the disk and you data would be at risk for 9 days if you don't access your data during the process.
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 6 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
