Western Digital Red 4TB HDD US$136.22 (~AU$171) Delivered @ Amazon

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Lowest price ever according to Camel x3. Local price $219 from MSY

Specifically designed for use in NAS systems with up to 8 bays
Tested for 24x7 reliability
NASware firmware for compatibility
3-year limited warranty
Small and home office NAS systems in a 24x7 enviornment
Package includes a hard drive only - no screws, cables, manuals included. Please purchase mounting hardware and cables separately if necessary.
Ships in WD-certified box for safe transit during shipping

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  madrooster on 20/07/2017 - 10:31

  +3

  Beware WD drives cannot be warrantied locally as WD considers them to be out of region.

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  YellowKnight on 20/07/2017 - 10:39

  What NAS would suit this for video editing?

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  XucCac on 20/07/2017 - 10:50

  I need a nas with cloud access similar to dropbox.. anyone know whats good for me? Need ios app for auto upload of videos n fotos.

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  [Deactivated] on 20/07/2017 - 12:02

  FreeNas…
  or Unraid…
  I don't know, still looking into it myself…

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    jztilly on 20/07/2017 - 13:32

    how bout xpenology

    been running it at home for a couple years. works so well that i've set one up for my brother, both brother in laws and my parents. can't go wrong

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      [Deactivated] on 20/07/2017 - 13:52

      Sweet, cheers for the advice, go ahead and set me up one too :-D

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  check on 20/07/2017 - 12:08

  Does anyone know why a drive "Specifically designed for use in NAS systems" is better than a non-NAS hard disk?
  I used a hard disk I had from before in my simple NAS system.

  Will this drive make it better?

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    gizmomelb on 20/07/2017 - 12:15

    +1

    generally NAS specific HDDs run cooler (and slower) than desktop drives. ie: stick a few 7200 rpm drives into a small NAS enclosure and you could end up cooking them due to the heat they produce. Also the way data is interleaved through the HDDs may be better organised due to the number of heads / platters as compared to a desktop drive.

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    DeepDreamer on 20/07/2017 - 12:16

    +1

    NAS drives are reportedly built with better vibration resistance, and with moving parts designed for continuous operation. They also report errors differently. As I understand it, if there is an unreadable sector, a NAS drive will report it more quickly, assuming it's part of a RAID array and there will be another way to recover the data. A desktop drive will keep trying to read those sectors, going super slow. In a RAID array, that slows down the whole array.

    That's from my research. I don't have first hand experience

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    AlexF on 20/07/2017 - 16:14

    +1

    As above two posters wrote: NAS drive (a) procrastinates head parking; and (b) expedites response from failed read/write operations.

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  spinferno on 21/07/2017 - 09:10

  Do these run hotter than greens? my environment is pretty warm.