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A query about WD Reds

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So my dad is looking to be picking a few of these drives today and needs to know if they're compatible with windows server 2003 and 2008.

I couldn't find anything on their site. Can you guys be of assistance? :D

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So my dad is looking to be picking a few of these drives today and needs to know if they're compatible with windows server 2003 and 2008.

I couldn't find anything on their site. Can you guys be of assistance? :D

Of course they are!

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Of course they are!

He's more wary of it and wants to be sure. That and he doesn't want to make two trips to microcenter.

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He's more wary of it and wants to be sure. That and he doesn't want to make two trips to microcenter.

Don't understand why they wouldn't be compatible.

They are drives, drives are drives.

Especially WD Reds, as they are design for servers/NAS environments. 

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Peripherals : | MOUSE : Logitech G602 | KEYBOARD: K70 RGB (Cherry MX Brown) | NAS: Synology DS1515+  - WD RED 3TB X 5|ROUTER: AC68U

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Don't understand why they wouldn't be compatible.

They are drives, drives are drives.

Especially these, as they are design for servers/NAS environments. 

That's what i was thinking!

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Just for the reference, can you give an example of an unsupported HDD?

As long as the OS has drivers for the HDD (trust me EVERY modern OS has drivers for pretty much every HDD driver you could ever need), the only problem would be the interface on the actual motherboard.

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