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Western Digital Red?
Reading through the webpage for this product, it says that it's for NAS
systems. How exactly as a hard drive for a NAS different than a regular desktop one? Yousuf Khan |
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Western Digital Red?
On 11/23/2016 01:41 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Reading through the webpage for this product, it says that it's for NAS systems. How exactly as a hard drive for a NAS different than a regular desktop one? 1. Drives designed for NAS use *may* run at a lower speed, e.g., 5400/5900rpm rather than 7200rpm. They probably run a little cooler this way. I think this is true of WD Red drives. 2. They may be designed to minimize rotational and other vibration that could affect other drives in the same enclosure. As with any brand, some people love the Reds for NAS use, but I just read a post on the FreeNAS forum by someone who will never buy another Red. Perce |
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Western Digital Red?
On 11/23/2016 6:07 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 11/23/2016 01:41 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote: Reading through the webpage for this product, it says that it's for NAS systems. How exactly as a hard drive for a NAS different than a regular desktop one? 1. Drives designed for NAS use *may* run at a lower speed, e.g., 5400/5900rpm rather than 7200rpm. They probably run a little cooler this way. I think this is true of WD Red drives. 2. They may be designed to minimize rotational and other vibration that could affect other drives in the same enclosure. As with any brand, some people love the Reds for NAS use, but I just read a post on the FreeNAS forum by someone who will never buy another Red. Yes, I noticed that it's a slower-speed drive. Does it really make a huge difference that a drive is either 5400/5900 RPM these days with 64MB caches onboard? Yousuf Khan |
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Western Digital Red?
On 11/23/2016 7:32 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 11/23/2016 6:07 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote: On 11/23/2016 01:41 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote: Reading through the webpage for this product, it says that it's for NAS systems. How exactly as a hard drive for a NAS different than a regular desktop one? 1. Drives designed for NAS use *may* run at a lower speed, e.g., 5400/5900rpm rather than 7200rpm. They probably run a little cooler this way. I think this is true of WD Red drives. 2. They may be designed to minimize rotational and other vibration that could affect other drives in the same enclosure. As with any brand, some people love the Reds for NAS use, but I just read a post on the FreeNAS forum by someone who will never buy another Red. Yes, I noticed that it's a slower-speed drive. Does it really make a huge difference that a drive is either 5400/5900 RPM these days with 64MB caches onboard? Yousuf Khan A few years back, I updated a laptop from 5400 to 7200RPM. Made a significant difference in how fast it "felt". |
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Western Digital Red?
On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 22:32:00 -0500, Yousuf Khan
wrote: Yes, I noticed that it's a slower-speed drive. Does it really make a huge difference that a drive is either 5400/5900 RPM these days with 64MB caches onboard? If it is not your main drive, no. Cache matters a little bit, when you are doing repetitive stuff. The frequently used info stored in cache, not retrieved from drive = much faster response time for that info. You would notice the speed of the faster drive when playing games, for example. A 7200-rpm drive will respond noticeably faster than a 5400/5900-rpm drive when playing games because "speed matters" in games where reaction time to events onscreen make a difference. But, if you are playing games where "speed matters", then you should be using a SSD, not a rotating drive. |
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Western Digital Red?
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Western Digital Red?
On 11/24/2016 4:35 AM, mike wrote:
On 11/23/2016 7:32 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote: Yes, I noticed that it's a slower-speed drive. Does it really make a huge difference that a drive is either 5400/5900 RPM these days with 64MB caches onboard? Yousuf Khan A few years back, I updated a laptop from 5400 to 7200RPM. Made a significant difference in how fast it "felt". True, but I've also recently noticed that some newer 7200's feel a lot faster than older 7200's, without any change in rotational speeds. I'm assuming it's due disk caching. So given identical disk caching, will a 5900 feel pretty fast too? Yousuf Khan |
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Western Digital Red?
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Western Digital Red?
On 11/28/2016 1:55 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
True, but I've also recently noticed that some newer 7200's feel a lot faster than older 7200's, without any change in rotational speeds. I'm assuming it's due disk caching. So given identical disk caching, will a 5900 feel pretty fast too? More data per inch. -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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Western Digital Red?
On 11/29/2016 5:22 AM, Ed Light wrote:
On 11/28/2016 1:55 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote: True, but I've also recently noticed that some newer 7200's feel a lot faster than older 7200's, without any change in rotational speeds. I'm assuming it's due disk caching. So given identical disk caching, will a 5900 feel pretty fast too? More data per inch. So 5000's would have the same amount of data/inch as 7200's. Yousuf Khan |
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