Western Digital 6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD (SMR WD60EFAX) $140.66 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

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LDfknG on 29/03/2022 - 15:43 amazon.com.au (446 clicks)
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Nervous first timer.

This just popped up as a suggestion for me after I bought the 6tb Red Plus drives. Seems cheaper than the historic deal of the $165 earlier in the month.
Also doesn't look like there is an order qty cap like there was on the Red Plus drives.

5400RPM performance class
NASware firmware for compatibility
NAS systems with daily workloads associated with personal and home office environments and idle time available to perform necessary background operations
Supports up to 180 TB/yr Workload Rate* | * Workload Rate is defined as the amount of user data transferred to or from the hard drive. Workload Rate is annualized (TB transferred ✕ (8760 / recorded power-on hours))

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  saitaris on 29/03/2022 - 15:48

  +9

  SMR - don't buy these for NAS use. Just don't.

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    bdl on 29/03/2022 - 17:25

    F WD with their SMR shenanigans. Never again.

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  heavyoctopus on 29/03/2022 - 15:51

  +1

  SMR, no good for NAS hence so cheap.

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  Marek77 on 29/03/2022 - 16:05

  +2

  i wouldnt touch them if they were free. on second thought, if they were free, id flip them on facebook

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  dirtydealdog on 29/03/2022 - 16:11

  +1

  For anyone wondering why SMR drives are bad for NAS, read this article: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/caveat-emptor-smr-di…

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    dtingy on 29/03/2022 - 17:08

    +1

    Still don't understand with above article. Does smr ok for surveilance nvr? Prefer skyhawk or purple but they are hardly on sales.

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      white3knight on 29/03/2022 - 18:20

      Get the skyhawk so you won’t have any issues.

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  garetz on 29/03/2022 - 16:14

  +4

  western digital did this to themselves.

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  rainbowyen on 29/03/2022 - 16:43

  +3

  It's ridiculous that WD still keep using SMR in their red lines

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    saitaris on 29/03/2022 - 18:10

    +1

    At least it's easy to differentiate now. Red = SMR, Red Plus/Pro = CMR.

    Still, marketing these for NAS use under any label is extremely poor.

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  nuttapillar on 29/03/2022 - 18:50

  Would this be good for a regular drive inside a pc for storage, and running games from it sometimes?

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    deadlift on 29/03/2022 - 19:02

    +1

    Nah, if can't find a reasonable sata ssd and you have to have a mechanical drive. You'd want a faster speed eg 7200 or better still sas not this 5400 model. If you wanted an external HDD that is barely written to or read from, this might be your model.

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    slowmo on 29/03/2022 - 21:56

    no.ESPECIALLY for inside a PC, you will start to hate your PC

    https://www.reichelt.com/magazin/en/guide/smr-cmr-which-hard…

    and a 2020 article on WD's dodgy: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/caveat-emptor-smr-di…