🚀 Elevate your NAS game with WD Red Plus — storage that works as hard as you do!
The Western Digital 12TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive is a robust, 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s HDD designed specifically for small to medium business NAS systems. Featuring CMR technology and NASware firmware, it supports up to 180 TB/year workload, ensuring reliable, high-capacity storage optimized for 24/7 operation with a 3-year limited warranty.
Hard Drive | 12 TB Mechanical Hard Disk |
Brand | Western Digital |
Series | WD Red |
Item model number | WD120EFAX |
Hardware Platform | Mac, PC |
Item Weight | 1.46 pounds |
Product Dimensions | 5.79 x 4 x 1.03 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 5.79 x 4 x 1.03 inches |
Color | Red |
Flash Memory Size | 8 TB |
Hard Drive Interface | Serial ATA |
Hard Drive Rotational Speed | 5400 RPM |
Batteries | 1 Lithium Ion batteries required. |
Manufacturer | Western Digital |
Language | English, English, English, English, English |
ASIN | B07RQ99XJH |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | May 29, 2019 |
J**S
Best storage drive , NAS not required + professional Q & A podcast addressing RED drives | a great youtube video |
I have been a long term western digital customer for over 10yrs. This drive is aimed and marketed at NAS type devices however also very good in a regular desktop computer system as a storage drive, which is how I am currently using it for my personal desktop system .I have owned this red drive for approx. 10 days now. The sustained transfer speed is very good. the lower / variable spindle speed compared to normal 7200RPM drives doesn't impact its performance for my use . It performs better then my 4TB WD green drive. My Red drive was installed in a computer with many hard drives and it runs at a cool 84F (29 C ) at idle, the lowest temp. drive in the computer. Also according to the Red drive spec sheet uses the least amount of power as well.Time limited error recovery (TLER) is one of the benefits for the Red drives , outlined in the youtube video podcast below.A popular weekly hardware video podcast with storage editor at PC Perspective ( pcper) Allyn Malventano addressing uses of red model drives:https://youtu.be/WjjCMWZ0aDU?t=51mI included a start time for later in the podcast @ 51 minutes, the start of discussion of WD red drives and its use in NAS and non NAS systems Some valuable info on NAS / RAID design can be found in this video as well. plus other general server hardware info is addressed.At time 55:40 in the the video more info and insight regarding DIY home NAS and RAID stability, reliability and design is discussed as well. Potentially saving a DIY person some pretty decent cash and at least some calories reading conflicting information online. All of which for some buyers reading reviews on amazon for this product would find useful or at least interesting.For me, my drives in my personal computer for this review are used for pure storage via Linux based operating systems. In some computer systems i've built are media servers, again using linux with LVM and sometimes MDADM , other times using RAID cards such as IBM M1015 , a cheaper version, of more expensive promise model cards with SAS.HGST is another maker of hard drives with good reputation and within the same general price range for some of their models, however western digital now owns them, formally Hitachi Global Storage Technologies . I've not taken the time while writing this to check if HGST drives feature some of the features the Red model line up offers.If you are going for a gaming system drive or require heavy I/O for a operating system drive, the red of course wouldn't be your best option.I use a WD Black drive, # WD3003FZEX for this . Steam games fill a drive quickly. With my budget and limited sata ports it makes a SSD fairly useless for storing games , or a media server gaming rig combo. Most of the time, once game is loaded , its mostly done , leaving the CPU and GPU left doing the work... . so for my needs esp dual booting , gaming on linux and windows using a Black model drive is my best option for my hardware , storage and requirements to have one type of operating system running most of the time. I do sometimes run Linux on a stand alone 120GB SSD , if I disconnect my optical drive , smaller ssd drives are quite inexpensive now and do make life a bit easier esp on aging desktop hardware.The cost per TB in a black model is still quite low for the performance level and the only high performance drive to offer a 5 year warranty standard. Especially when compared to a hybrid model drives cost and other drive makers of fast mechanical and hybrid solutions. Heavy gaming via steam would make a hybrid drives nand cache not very effective , fairly quickly iirc .Hopefully some of this info will prove useful , or at least give some starting ground to look into , research options deeper that may not have been considered before.
B**.
Parking was factory set to 300 seconds on my drives and they are working well.
I purchased two of the 3TB drives and one of the 2TB drives. When I went into WDIDLE3 the setting for all three drives were set to 300 seconds (5 minutes). Since I was in there I simply disabled it. These drives are working flawlessly thus far as I have the two 3TB drives in a media center running Media Browser 3, PlayOn, and a few other apps. The 2TB drive is hooked up to a Dish Network Hopper as a secondary storage. I have not experienced any issues so far with these drive. I will update as time goes on with more info.*Update 3/27/15: Some drive information obtained from HD Guardian:Drive 01Serial Number: WD-WCC4N7E*****Firmware: 82.00A82User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytesProduct Name Status Exp Date (MM/DD/YYYY)3 TB WD Red Hard Drive In Limited Warranty 1/6/2018Overall Health:Temperature: 34*CHigh: 36*CLow: 34*CLast Test: Completed without error.No bad sector detected.No ATA error detected.SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 03 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 185 182 021 Pre-fail Always - 57334 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 425 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 07 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 09 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 67310 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 011 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 012 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 40194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 116 110 000 Old_age Always - 34196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0Working Time: 673 hours (28 days, 1 hours)Last Update Fri Mar 27 01:53:28 2015 CDTDrive 02Serial Number: WD-WMC4N0F*****Firmware: 82.00A82User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytesProduct Name Status Exp Date (MM/DD/YYYY)3 TB WD Red Hard Drive In Limited Warranty 12/11/2017Overall Health:Temperature: 37*CHigh: 41*CLow: 35*CLast Test: N/ANo bad sector detected.No ATA error detected.SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 03 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 181 179 021 Pre-fail Always - 59504 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 505 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 07 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 09 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 67210 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 011 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 012 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 48194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 113 109 000 Old_age Always - 37196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0Working Time: 672 hours (28 days)Last Update Fri Mar 27 01:53:28 2015 CDT-------------------------------------------Update 5/14/2015 Some drive information obtained from HD Guardian:Drive 01Serial Number: WD-WCC4N7E*****Firmware: 82.00A82User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytesProduct Name Status Exp Date (MM/DD/YYYY)3 TB WD Red Hard Drive In Limited Warranty 1/6/2018Overall Health:Temperature: 37*CHigh: 37*CLow: 34*CLast Test: Completed without error.No bad sector detected.No ATA error detected.SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 03 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 186 182 021 Pre-fail Always - 57004 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1935 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 07 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 09 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 98 98 000 Old_age Always - 184410 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 011 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 012 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 190194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 113 108 000 Old_age Always - 37196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0Working Time: 1844 hours (2 months 16 days, 20 hours)Last Update Fri May 14 22:31:35 2015 CDTDrive 02Serial Number: WD-WMC4N0F*****Firmware: 82.00A82User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytesProduct Name Status Exp Date (MM/DD/YYYY)3 TB WD Red Hard Drive In Limited Warranty 12/11/2017Overall Health:Temperature: 37*CHigh: 41*CLow: 35*CLast Test: N/ANo bad sector detected.No ATA error detected.SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 03 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 181 179 021 Pre-fail Always - 59084 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2425 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 07 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 09 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 98 98 000 Old_age Always - 183610 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 011 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 012 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 240194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 110 106 000 Old_age Always - 40196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0Working Time: 1836 hours (2 months, 16 days, 12 hours)Last Update Fri May 14 22:31:35 2015 CDT
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