6TB WD Red or 4TB WD Re?

[Quasduco]

So, I can either get 6TB Red drives (not pro) for $160, or 4TB Re SAS drives for $130. Both manufacturer refurbs.

Use is bulk storage, ZFS on FreeNAS, on 24/7. Will be doing mirrored vdevs. SAS is doable, both with my backplane and my HBA.

The capacity of the Red is of course appealing, but it seems like the Re is just a sexy, beefy drive.

I want the drives to last.

Cast your votes - I buy tomorrow.

 

[T_Minus]

Be sure to look @ power for the RE vs. RED iirc its ~4w vs ~10w.

For home I went with WD RED (4TB) and for business/work stuff I went with 4TB WD RE/RE4 (SATA).

I like both

 

[Patriot]

5tb toshiba $140?

 

[MiniKnight]

5tb toshiba $140?

And that's new pricing too: Amazon.com: Toshiba 5TB Canvio Desktop External Hard Drive (HDWC250XK3J1): Computers & Accessories !

 

[Diavuno]

RE.

 

[Quasduco]

Be sure to look @ power for the RE vs. RED iirc its ~4w vs ~10w.

For home I went with WD RED (4TB) and for business/work stuff I went with 4TB WD RE/RE4 (SATA).

I like both

Where I live, that is ~$1.3 a month difference for 4 drives, so I'm not going to worry about power in my planning. Thanks for the thought, though.

 

[Quasduco]

5tb toshiba $140?

While the price is certainly attractive, I would lose warranty by shucking, would I not?

Also, in other external drives I have owned, they use "weenie" drives in them. Is Toshiba different?

 

[Patriot]

@Quasduco
The price of the internal drives fluctuates but 140 is its low... it seems to be quite a bit more presently.

 

[izx]

While the price is certainly attractive, I would lose warranty by shucking, would I not?

Also, in other external drives I have owned, they use "weenie" drives in them. Is Toshiba different?

No, the Toshiba is easy to disassemble and reassemble if necessary. Amazingly their externals have a 3-year warranty while the new retail internal X300s have 2 years!

From my experience with the 6TB version, Toshiba uses the previous generation drives (MD04ACAxxx) in externals, if you consider the X300 the "current" generation. The only difference I saw was ~20 MB/s lower max sequential xfer rate, and possibly 64MB vs 128MB cache.

 

[croakz]

What's the warranty on WD refurbs? I just bought a few used\pull WD RE 4tb. Went the used route because they had the remaining of a 5 year warranty, where the re-certified ones I saw had less than a year warranties.

 

[izx]

What's the warranty on WD refurbs?

AFAIK, the only legit way to get WD refurbs is via RMA. The refurb initially carries a 90-day warranty. Once WD receives the original "bad" drive, the refurb's warranty will be extended to the remainder of the original, assuming more than 90 days remained.

 

[workingnonstop]

Can I ask where you can get the refurb 6TB drives for that price? Thanks.