Questions about WD Red Plus

I assume you mean screws of the following type? Supermicro MCP-410-00005-0N: HDD Screws or Supermicro MCP-410-00006-0N: HDD Screws

It is the possibility to distinguish whether the HD works with SMR or CMR storage technology. https://www.heise.de/news/NAS-Festplatten-Western-Digital-fuehrt-WD-Red-Plus-fuer-CMR-Garantie-ein-4794455.html

As far as I know, the PS4 only has one bay for 2.5" hard drives. So if you can bend space and time, you can use a 3.5" hard drive in a 2.5" bay. If you can't, there's a filter under PC Components>Storage>Hard Drives where you can view only 2.5" hard drives. Actually, all these hard drives should work with the PS4 :)

Doch. plus heisst 5400rpm. Dazu auch: https://www.digitec.ch/de/questionandanswer/the-wd-red-plus-2021-and-the-wd-red-pro-both-exist-on-4tb-the-pro-is-7200rpm-instead-of-5400rpm-386412?productTypeId=36 und mehr Hintergrund: https://heise.de/-4888581

Yes.

Yes, you can install the Western Digital Harddisk WD Red Plus 3.5" SATA 4 TB with 5400 rpm in your NAS DS418. This hard disk is specially designed for use in NAS systems, supports continuous operation (24x7) and is compatible with the SATA III interface, which meets the requirements of the DS418. Western Digital extensively tests the WD Red Plus series for compatibility with many NAS systems, including those with multiple drives, and the drive is optimised for continuous operation to ensure reliability and performance in NAS environments.

Hello, yes, it should fit. In principle you can (since you have Raid 1) simply pull out 1 disc and put the new one in. Then you should see something about repair storage pool somewhere in the NAS storage manager. If you do this, the raid will be restored. This can take a few hours. It is best to simply wait about 24 hours. The new one will still be displayed with the capacity of the old one, don't get confused. After the raid has been restored, do the same with the 2nd hard drive. Finally, expand the storage pool to 12Tb (also in the storage manager).

Yes, the Western Digital Red Plus 12 TB hard drive (WD120EFBX) has a standard SATA III (SATA 6Gb/s) connector that you can easily connect to your motherboard. This port is compatible with your ASUS TUF Gaming X670E-Plus Wifi motherboard.

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Happy hour over again. It was probably more of a happy minute ;)

Hello Roger, I've had a quick look. Here it looks like you would get the same: WD Red Plus (8 TB, 3.5", CMR) ciao.

have a look at the price development, it also explains why the prices are the way they are

Can't say, at the time I bought mine the 14 was either not yet available or it was (much) more expensive. I do not recall.

https://helpcenter.digitec.ch/hc/de/articles/360012370979-Angebote-von-Drittanbietern The funny pricing behind the decimal point usually gives this one trader away.

Hello Should work, normally the NAS "regulates" this itself. The lowest RPM wins. Let us know which NAS and if it worked. Greetings

Speaking for the 2013 efrx (old wd-red, now re-labelled as wd-red-pro, CMR), mine have yet to annoy me. The WD40EFRX was known as _the_ known good among the new garbage marketed as WD-RED in the SMR scandal. Whereby good is relative: reasonable failure rate even with RAID use, with acceptable performance and slightly cheaper in price than better disks. I think the refresh is also OK. But in view of WD's information policy (SMR disks, especially the disaster of SMR disks in the WD-REDs and their almost complete uselessness for NAS/storage (except read-only archive use without RAID), incl. associated class-action law suite; i.e.: red pro are the possibly acceptable reds, new "only-reds" are SMR and to be avoided) I would rather let them hang out for another year and then read reviews. Which explains the price. For ANY other size or series, however, I would (1) still look at Seagate's Iron Wolf, and (2) look at the chosen platters in the Backblaze harddrive stats. WD was kicked out of there for a reason (not only SMR) and has to work _*HARD*_ to regain trust... And regarding the size of the disks: also look at the repair times, e.g. for arrays. A raid with 16TB disks is actually no longer repairable in a reasonable time with SATA. About the warranty: WD itself claims on shop.westerndigital.com 3 years for all Red Pros, and therefore also for the EFZX (the other one is not mentioned there anymore).

A year ago, there was a fair amount of negative press regarding WD Red hard drives because they reported incorrect RPM values to the SMART tools (programmes that read technical metadata from the hard drives). The new models fix these problems. https://www.heise.de/news/Nach-Kritik-an-5400-RPM-Class-Western-Digital-bringt-neue-WD-Red-Plus-HDDs-4954777.html

That's why I'm buying it. A 4TB HDD internally in my tower for images (CR2-DNG-TIFF-JPG-etc...). And two other 4TB external (two identical copies, you can never be too careful). And another 3-pack for "office" data.

The Red Plus series was introduced by WD purely because of the CMR/SMR confusion. All Red Plus are CMR. https://www.heise.de/news/NAS-Festplatten-Western-Digital-fuehrt-WD-Red-Plus-fuer-CMR-Garantie-ein-4794455.html If you want to avoid the WD mess altogether, use Seagtae IronWolf disks.

I did a quick google for you: No, this model is not explicitly mentioned on the Synology HDD compatibility list: https://www.synology.com/de-de/compatibility?search_by=products&model=DS720%2B&category=hdds_no_ssd_trim&p=1