chetansha
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On eBay.com mostly refurbs or discards,^* Where are the SAS HDDs available for so less?
Coming to the WD Red vs Blue vs others, it depends on you. We have seen that the Reds are great vs normal HDDs when used in servers.
On eBay.com mostly refurbs or discards,^* Where are the SAS HDDs available for so less?
Coming to the WD Red vs Blue vs others, it depends on you. We have seen that the Reds are great vs normal HDDs when used in servers.
Not really sure. All I know is the hardware is the same - the difference is in the software.The red parks heads every 8 seconds by default which can be increased to 5 minutes. Is it the same for the blue?
Source is someone who works at wd and writes controller code for drives . So no I unfortunately do not have a link to prove my claim.^ do you have a source to that? What i've heard so far is that the wd blue is the renamed wd green. and the red firmware has TLER which the other drives don't have, without which raid arrays will fail. haven't seen anything about blue and red h/w being the same. it makes financial sense though, for wd...
Do WD red drives do automatic bitcoin mining or something? I mean I had bought a 2tb red from prime for 7k in march 2014, and now this is how much they cost?? !!!
Seriously wtf is going on?
An update (no change really): While the WD Red 2tb costs $85 (Rs. 5.5k) in the US, here it's STILL going for over 7k.
https://www.amazon.in/WD-Hard-Disk-Drives-WD20EFRX/dp/B008JJLZ7G
https://www.amazon.com/WD-Hard-Disk-Drives-WD20EFRX/dp/B008JJLZ7G
What about Seagate hard drives? Aren't they reliable anymore?