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The article opens > Some users are experiencing problems adding the latest WD Red NAS drives to RAID arrays No, these drives are not 'fine' for NAS use

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• boomboomsubban 7y ago
  You are missing my likely poorly made point, WD seems to have different view of what non-enterprise "NAS use" entails than those users having problems.
  • ubercow13 7y ago
    While they might have some concept of what home NAS use is, these drives are literally marked as dead by common NAS filesystems/RAID drivers because the filesystem thinks they are malfunctioning due to them being so slow, when they are first put into an array >keep[s] getting kicked out of RAID arrays due to errors during resilvering This problem is independent of what type of workload you actually use the NAS for.
    • boomboomsubban 7y ago
      See, by NAS HDD they mean "fit for the rapper Nas," so any problems these users have are their fault for not being Nas. This is hyperbole, but "network attached storage" could basically refer to every hard drive now and not be false advertising. No matter how unacceptable you view this, it's the kind of shit hardware manufacturer's often do.
      • ubercow13 7y ago
        I think that’s an exaggeration. They are specifically advertised as being for RAID configurations.
        • boomboomsubban 7y ago
          Not every raid configuration though. Just looked at the Red spec sheet, and it specifically says "without being tested for compatibility with your NAS system, optimum performance is not guaranteed." You'd need to find a setup authorized by their compatibility list that breaks for them to admit any fault.