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Confidently upgrade your NAS performance with the assurance of a 3-year limited warranty, coupled with world-class support services included with every WD Red™ drive.
WD Red Spec Sheet - CNET Content
Western Digital has heralded a positive shift in its approach to users of shingled WD Red NAS drives, via a short statement on the company blog. As described in our recent article Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic...Do right by your NAS and choose the drive purpose-built for NAS with an array of features to help preserve your data and maintain optimum performance. Take the following into consideration when choosing a hard drive for your NAS: My Cloud Ex2 was equipped with 2 x WD20EFRX - 68EUZN0 (2TB disk, 64mb cache) configured in Raid 1; after searching online i have found that there is a new disk WD20EFAX with 2TB and 256mb cache.
WD20EFRX-68EUZN0 Western Digital Red 2TB SATA Hard Drive WD20EFRX-68EUZN0 Western Digital Red 2TB SATA Hard Drive
WD20EFRX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD20EFRX-68AX9NO Western Digital 2TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. I will replace the broken drive with the WD2002FFSX and leave the currently working WD20ERFX (until it will eventually fail). Not just any drive will do. Get up to 48TB of capacity in your 8-bay system and with WD’s exclusive NASware 3.0 technology, you can optimize each and every drive. Built into every WD Red™ hard drive, NASware 3.0’s advanced technology improves your system’s storage performance by increasing compatibility, integration, upgradeability, and reliability. Error recovery controls: WD Red™ NAS hard drives are specifically designed with RAID error recovery control to help reduce failures within the NAS system. The specification can be found here Western Digital WD Red Pro NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD 3.5" | Western DigitalThere?셲 a leading edge WD Red drive for every compatible NAS system to help fulfill your data storage needs. The primary difference between the two 2TB CRM drives is the rotation speed (7200 vs 5400). Not sure if that will be an issue. Tend to doubt it; although performance will likely (Don’t really know) be limited to 5400 rpm performance if you have a Raid 1 configuration