Bought WD Red

[Gorgoroth]

Hello,

 

So, my girlfriend is in Miami doing a trip and I asked her to buy an HD for me. She send me some pics of HDs and I choosed the wd red (unfortunatelly I didnt know that RED is for NAS and not for DESKTOPS)

I just wanted to know If I'll have some problem with that... I will just play some games and watch some movies in the HD... 

[Snipergod87]

Its firmware is tuned for NAS environments but will work fine in a desktop

[Fasauceome]

It will work, but it probably cost more than you needed to spend. The WD Blue line is the standard PC line, and they're a lot cheaper usually.

[Gorgoroth]

Just now, Snipergod87 said:

Its firmware is tuned for NAS environments but will work fine in a desktop

 

will not I have speed or performance losses in games?

[Snipergod87]

Not really compared to any other 5400 RPM drive.

Firmware tweaks are for TLER (Used in RAID) and vibration compensation for multiple disks in a small chassis.

[jake9000]

As far as disk speed, cache, data throughput etc all of the drives are largely the same. The only thing is that the firmware is more optimized for reading than for writing, and better compatibility with RAID setups.

There's no harm in using a red in your desktop, it just isn't optimal. tbh though... the bigger problem is that you aren't buying an SSD

[Brad417]

3 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

 

will not I have speed or performance losses in games?

Load times will be slightly longer if you compare it to a WD Black HDD

[Gorgoroth]

Thanks for all the answers! One more thing: I'm going to ask my girlfriend to change the HD at bestbuy. Do you think they change easy? Probably not right? Because so, the RED is more expensive than the BLUE, so they would have to return money

[Stormseeker9]

3 minutes ago, jake9000 said:

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tbh though... the bigger problem is that you aren't buying an SSD

My exact same thought ! Haha 

[Snipergod87]

Shouldn't be an issue really, there might be a restocking fee though.

I have been running WD RED drives for years, out of 14 drives, 1 failed after 3+ years of 24/7 use.  Most of them are in my NAS, two of them are in my server, which serves up multimedia content over the network.  Been extremely reliable.

 

Also IIRC the Blues have a much shorter warranty than the RED's as well.

[Gorgoroth]

3 minutes ago, Stormseeker9 said:

My exact same thought ! Haha 

 

I did not buy a ssd because I have two of samsung already: one of 120gb for the system and another of 250gb for games (Evo 850 and 860 respectively). And one 500gb HD

[Gorgoroth]

so I'm going to try to change the HD at bestbuy, but if it does not, it's okay to run on my desktop for movies / games right? You're consoling me haha.

[Snipergod87]

You should be able to exchange it no problem, but it would work fine for movies games basically anything, it isnt much different than a WD Blue

[SenKa]

WD Red's are overkill for home use, but that isn't a horrible thing.

 

They last forever, I've had great experiences with them. I recently purchased an EasyStore 8TB to shuck the drive out of (which is cheaper, since Easystores go on sale often. I found a killer deal. The high capacity Easystore's use WD Whites, which are WD Reds.). The only issue with shucking is you usually need to tape off Pin 3 on the power connector or use a molex to sata power adapter.

 

Good luck on your WD Red! 

[aezakmi]

There's no such thing as a hard drive for NAS and a hard drive for desktop, it's mostly just cheap marketing, they needed to come up with something to justify the creation of 10 different consumer grade hard drive lineups and inflated prices.

A NAS is a Network Attached Storage, it could be anything from a simple laptop running a Windows share to a 300TB storage rack

 

There are server grade hard drives but that's a whole different universe, capacity starts at 10TB.

[SenKa]

29 minutes ago, aezakmi said:

There's no such thing as a hard drive for NAS and a hard drive for desktop, it's mostly just cheap marketing, they needed to come up with something to justify the creation of 10 different consumer grade hard drive lineups and inflated prices.

A NAS is a Network Attached Storage, it could be anything from a simple laptop running a Windows share to a 300TB storage rack

 

There are server grade hard drives but that's a whole different universe, capacity starts at 10TB.

NAS drives have longer warranty, and better binned parts for 24/7 use. But could WD just sell 1 type below 10TB at WD Red spec and everything 10TB above at WD Purple spec? Probably...

[Gorgoroth]

 

good news! I managed to switch to 3tb wd blue!