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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Western Digital RED 3tb drives?

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Scott Pultz

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Is anybody using the WD RED drive in a Raid configuration? How is your performance? From what I have seen they have good sequential read speed although poor random speed compared to other drives. I'm not sure how much this matters with video editing software.

I'm trying to decide between the RED and the RE or Seagate ES.3 drives. The enterprise drives are faster and perhaps more reliable. However I plan to have a solid backup structure in place, so right now I'm wondering about performance. Obviously I don't want to rebuild my array every month either due to failures :)

The price on the RED drives have fallen to $130 each which is $43/TB compared to $100/TB for the enterprise drives.

Cheers,

Scott
 
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