Rating 4.5 40 reviews
Manufacturer: Western Digital
price $209.64
StorageReview.com
13 years ago

Western Digital Red NAS Hard Drive Review [WD30EFRX]

It's an interesting decision - WD is expanding their low-power 3.5" hard drive offerings with a second line at the same time Seagate exists the "green" market, claiming low-power drives aren't really all that beneficial or quite frankly, special.
Pros:
  • Best in class power consumption
  • Strongest sequential read and write performance
  • Suited perfectly for SOHO NAS environments
Cons:
  • Best in class power consumption
  • Strongest sequential read and write performance
  • Suited perfectly for SOHO NAS environments
  • Weaker random I/O performance seen in our mixed workloads
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Hardware BBQ
13 years ago

WD Red WD30EFRX 3 TB SATAIII Storage Drive Review

WD came up with newer line-up of hard drives "Red" suitable for 24/7 for NAS drives. Since a lot of personal and SOHO NAS was featured in this year's Computex, storage drives made specifically for NAS operations was something that was present in Enterprise Series. Consumer?
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Mwave.com
13 years ago

bought for storage

I didnt buy these drives for performance, I bought them for massive storage. I ripped all my dvds to my server so they would be available to my network. when I set this up originally I started with 500 gig drives, over the years adding dvds and other data I had to keep expanding, I now have 12 hard...
Pros:
  • huge capacity
  • high mtbf
  • configurable tler (impressive!)
  • extremely quiet
  • 3 year warranty
Cons:
  • slow rotation speed
  • engineering is all about give and take I guess
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Sybaritic
13 years ago

Western Digital 3TB Red SATA6 64MB Hard Drive

Excellent! I have 2 of these 3TB drives on a RAID1 on my personal workstation and in that configu..
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Tech Advisor
13 years ago

WD Red 3TB review

Western Digital has spotted a niche in the storage market. To its established range of hard-disk drives, it's added the WD Red , a new range aimed to fulfill the requirements of network-attached storage (NAS).
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PC Advisor
13 years ago

WD Red 3TB review

The WD Red is a new range of hard disks optimised for consumer and small business NAS drives.
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excaliberpc.com
13 years ago

3 out of 8 dead (replacement works fine for now)

Purchased 8 drives for two Sagate Black Armor NAS 400. One drive failed immediately and I sent it for replacement. Within a week, second died (just trying to spin on for few seconds after restart and that's it). Tryed to hook it up to three different system just to run S.M.A.R.T.
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Buy.com
13 years ago

I never would have imagined these drives would not arrive in working condition. I've always had good luck with WD drives. These came making a loud clicking noise and couldn't be recognized for formatting.
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epinions.com
13 years ago

The best low-power consumer 3TB hard drive available

I run a homebrewed NAS (network-attached storage) setup with open-source software and needed to find
Pros:
  • Low power/heat
  • great performance (faster than Gigbit Ethernet)
  • 3 year warranty
Cons:
  • Somewhat more expensive than other 3TB hard drives
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J&R
13 years ago

Nice Hard Drives

I have been using the hard drives for a few weeks now and I would definately buy more. I currently have 4.
Pros:
  • Easy To Install
  • Fast
  • Good price
  • Highly Compatible
  • Quick
  • Quiet
  • Reliable
Cons:
  • Dont Have Any Yet
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