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WD Blue or WD Red?
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Chris Moore
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The last set I bought was 8 of the 4TB Seagate Desktop drives, they have been working great for me almost a year now.
Good to know. I will keep an eye out for deals on Seagate desktop drives over the next few days.
Arixos
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So after a year, how was your experience with those hdds? Do you recommend going with those cheaper models?
mistermanko
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I'm interested to hear more on that too. Given that the price difference between WD Blues vs. WD Reds is almost 30€ for me in Germany right now - same for Barrcuda vs. Ironwolf - it's kind of a hard one to pay the extra money if filesharing is the main purpose of my FreeNAS.
Not sure about @Chris Moore 's drives, but my 2 Barracuda's (1TB each) are running great in the NAS. Been about 2 years. Wouldn't have saved a whole lot of money between barracuda vs Ironwolf -- the difference in the US is not as large as 30 Euros. it's more like $6-$10 most times. But I had these drives lying around, so I thought I'd give them a go. From that perspective, I ended up saving about $160 since the Ironwolfs 1TB at that time were around $80. Now they seem to be around $55-$60. I also have 4 Constellation drives running in hardware RAID in my VM server and I have no complaints on them either.
Currently Barracuda 1TB is $42 and the Seagate Desktop HDD is $40 and Seagate Constellation/Enterprise is $50. In the 3TB range the Constellation($56) is cheaper than the Desktop ($59). These days, you'd find 3 & 4 TB drives to be cheaper than 1TB & 2TB just due to supply/demand. Bottom line, figure out the size you want your drives, then see which one is cheapest. My order of preference in Seagate is (same drive size -- similar pricing, say max $5-$7 difference between each)
But since this thread is about WD Red vs Blue, I'd say I don't have any experience with WD other than a Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB drive in my desktop (yeah... the power on hours on that is 65952 = 7.5 years) but it's still working.
FYI: The old Barracudas which used to be desktop drives is not the same as the Seagate Desktop I think. It's all confusing marketing bullcrap.
Currently Barracuda 1TB is $42 and the Seagate Desktop HDD is $40 and Seagate Constellation/Enterprise is $50. In the 3TB range the Constellation($56) is cheaper than the Desktop ($59). These days, you'd find 3 & 4 TB drives to be cheaper than 1TB & 2TB just due to supply/demand. Bottom line, figure out the size you want your drives, then see which one is cheapest. My order of preference in Seagate is (same drive size -- similar pricing, say max $5-$7 difference between each)
- Constellation
- Barracuda ( because they are usually cheaper than Ironwolf)
- Ironwolf (these run super hot in my NAS -- 35C - 44C (6TB 7200RPM) which makes me wary)
- Desktop (no personal experience yet on how they are..so I would buy them only if this is super cheap compared to the other 3 -- say like $30 difference, which usually isn't the case in US)
But since this thread is about WD Red vs Blue, I'd say I don't have any experience with WD other than a Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB drive in my desktop (yeah... the power on hours on that is 65952 = 7.5 years) but it's still working.
FYI: The old Barracudas which used to be desktop drives is not the same as the Seagate Desktop I think. It's all confusing marketing bullcrap.
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