4TB Hard drive $100 at Fry's

yeah those will be fine, Ive got a bunch of 6tb ones in my NAS.. they are comparable to a WD RED but a bit faster.. WD owns HGST now, they just finished merging..
 
Anytime you can get down to around $25 per Terrabyte... it's a pretty good deal.
Yeah, they're not WD Purples, but still... at least it's not a Seagate.

Just my $.02.
Jim
 
Yeah, all my drives are WD and they held up pretty well. Picking up a few of these.
 
The Reds are designed for NAS and Servers, where 24/7 and heavy read/write (mostly read) are common.
The Purples are aimed at the Surveillance market.
I run some redundant drives in mine. (RAID - Shmaid... it's JBOD for me).


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I guess you didn't click on the link you posted.
 
I have the Reds in my NAS, which now mostly write 1.5TB/week since I caught the IP cam bug.

Are theses likely to fail prematurely?

i presume the purples are designed to write a lot then?
 
no reds are not likely fail any sooner..

purples prioritize writes so you dont drop frames on recording, and have power management, queueing, and other specific firmware optimizations designed for video use.. unless you got alot of cameras you will be unlikely to tangibly see any of these benefits.

these HGST Deskstars are better than WD Reds, and Reds are great.. the 7200rpm spindle speed is quite noticeable, especially in a raid when speeds start compounding.

The problem is the green economy/efficiency lines, those have aggressive power management and constant surveillance use is far too abusive.
 
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Been rocking on couple of these. So far so good. Great deal!
 
Knock on wood, I've never had a WD drive fail. I'm still rocking a set of Raptors in Raid 0 from 2003. Ran hard in a gaming PC for years 24/7 operation still glitch free. Though they have been retired as an X drive last year, used as whatever storage now.
 
Great price but unfortunately it's an in-store pickup only. Closest Fry's store to my location is about 300 miles away. :sad2:
 
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