Help choosing WD drives

[angus_pa]

Hi everybody

 

i am looking at buying 2 drives to do a raid set up either 2 or 3 tb for personal data phots and music for daily use

should i go for WD red which i am assuming are 5800 rpm or WD red Pro which are 7200 rpm - would i really notice the difference

other choices could be hitachi nas or WD re

 

 

 

[Jade]

Ping @Mighty_Miro_WD?

 

Edit: Fine. Ping @Captain_WD :c

[VolkA]

Maybe it's just me, other than SSD, the rest of the HDD seems like almost the same speed to me now. 

[Mighty_Miro_WD]

Hi there @angus_pa!

 

I would recommend to go with WD Red since you want to setup a RAID with 2 drives because WD Red Pro is designed for larger NAS and RAID setups (8-16 drives array). 

 

As for the RPM of the drives, WD Red has Intellipower, which means that the RPM will depend on the performance requirements of most applications. For instance, if your application requires mostly sequential read/writes, then the drive will perform comparable to a 7,200 RPM drive, and if your application performs mostly random mode operations, then the performance may drop by about 10% because of the latency time. WD Red Pro has 7200 RPM.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers!

 

@Jade, thank you for the ping!

[angus_pa]

TY that helps heaps

[Moose347]

There isnt much difference between 7200rpm and 5400rpm so it would be more economical to get the 54000rpm one.