Highly popular drive that is in shortage. 3Tb WD Red Drives for NAS - WD30EFRX. We have limited number of these at just $195 each Including GST. Plus only $5 fixed price postage.
In addition, we also have a range of Qnap, Synology and Netgear NAS in stock. Add this to your order, and you will not pay anymore for postage!
Correct, they also have TLER enabled (ideal for Hardware arrays)
They are pretty overpriced for what they are though, especially since seagate increased the warranty on the ST3000DM001 to 2 years now.
AHH! Its Copie from OCAU with the neverending faulty SR-2's haha. Love your work man!
It was only two, to which i got full refunds with after i argued with Performance PC's. Got an SR-X now, no CPU's atm though :( on the lookout for some cheaper 2690's
i'm using greens now and have not had any issues… they been up for over a year now…
Good luck! :)
i run backups, so don't need luck…
Some of my greens are starting to fail (I have 10 x 2TB). 4 of them have already exhausted 200 sector remaps, just keep it in mind and monitor your drives with any SMART reader.
To be fair though, my 2 x 1TB Black drives from 4 years ago are on their last legs too, BUT those are 4 years old and have been through 3 PCs. They've subsequently been retired.
Yeah, my Greens are starting to die as well, but they've not done a heap of work. Shame I've got so many of them, as I'm not a fan.
SPINRITE seems to crash after a while on large drives, and is desperately in need of an update. I even tried booting from a DOS environment instead of FREE-DOS or whatever Steve Gibson used - still crashes on various machine configs!
I've had 2 greens out of 4 fail so far. =[
Also importantly it's low vibration design which allows the drives to work so physically close to each other.
Other than the warranty, this was the big selling point for me when I bought these bad boys for my server.
My server had 4 WD Greens, and now I have 4 WD Reds (with the Greens as the backups).
Terrific drives.
Great selling point if you are after a quiet file server in a home environment. These are as quiet as the greens but also vibrate even less.
I think it's about time I started replacing my 1TB and 2TB drives with a couple of these 3TB drives :)
Definitely a good drive for some NAS/raid setups where the information can be striped against other discs and therefore multiple HD boot up so the information can be accessed.
However if running an unraid setup the cost benefit of the green may outweight any pros of the reds.
any deals on the smaller red drives?
No special deal as the 3tb is by far the most popular and we have the most stocks of.
any 2tb or 3tb green on special?
Should I go RED for a htpc drive (24/7 box) or AV-GP or just stick with Green?
Stick with green - no benefit for the extra dollars to go for red in HTPC setup
no benefit
why not if it's running 24/7 ?
If its running 24/7 id go the red as well.
in a home environment spin down drives ftw
Not if you use CrystalDiskInfo or similar to disable APM to stop the click, click, click of some drives (eg Seagate 2Tb cc96 firmware).
Honest response from the rep, even though it might reduce sales for this deal. Thumbs up from me!
Price $215.00 on website?
Coupon Code : RED
5% Delivery insurance killed it!
i want a 3tb ( no case ) for storage , mostly kept on my book shelf and brought out from time to time…..I have green at the mo….Do you think green is appropriate.
Stick to your green and if this isn't your backup then organise one
Got the 3TB RED for $188 delivered more than a month ago. Pretty happy with that price :)
Where from Geek?
flingshot at one of their previous promos, coupled with a $20 voucher
WD warranty is suck, I have green, used only 1 year and got problem. And I have to send it to Malaysia to claim the warranty, the store won't accepted anymore as it is already more than 1 year and have to spend $50 for delivery and took 1 month to get your HD back. Unbelievable such a big company but no representative in Australia, they have only call centre in here but not service centre, so beware before you buy WD Drive.
No man, you suck !
And I have to send it to Malaysia to claim the warranty
If it came with a one-year warranty, what do you expect after one year ?
And then we have people saying, Red is only a Green - don't buy it.
But it has a three year warranty - D'Oh
what's your drug of choice? clearly you're disconnected from the world
WD Green carries 2 years warranty (based on http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp). Most stores after 1 year, they won't accept it for warranty. You have to send it to Manufacturer.
I admitted, after flood disaster in Thailand, WD warranty is PITA. Take ages to process.
PS: Do you know Adobe is also a big company (maybe not as big as Western Digital), they have no representative in Australia too.
The deal might or might not be good, but WD are a complete PITA to deal with re warranty.
With both major HDD manufacturers on a acquisition spree, there's not much left in the name of choice.
Seagate also took a battering after the .11 firmware issues.
WD and Seagate are the two majors left in the market (discounting Hitachi & Toshiba)
FWIW, I've had more DOA Hitachi drives than any other brand. I'll never buy another.
WD drives used to be rightly called 'Wanton Disaster'.
Apple is having to replace a huge pile of Seagate drives in their iMac range. As well as the .11 FW fail, referred to by Geek above.
Toshiba has been the most reliable drive of all the brands I've used in my work.
However, any consumer-level drive is built to a lower standard than server-level. A discounted server level drive gets my attention every time I'm looking for new hardware.
As said before, if you can afford to lose all your data, then a low-end, cheapie, consumer drive will suffice.
Was happy to get the $195 price in-store… [BLAB==>] still personally unsure of the quantity to buy.. 1->5 for my N40L… stick with just the one for the mo… will probably regret.
I have had issues from all HDD brands, but one thing to know is that it always changes from the tech to new tech… although i'll never buy a seagate again, it's more a price-point issue than a burn issue…
I did the same and I think it was the right choice! The price is good but not phenomenal.
I've had two WD 1Tb green drives so far and only 1 failed under a year the other one has been going for about a year and a half now.
Be aware that NetPlus emailed me the plain text of my password after I created an account. They had also stripped out some special characters.
They also "require" a fixed phone (land) line to complete your order.
FYI :: WD Reds are WD Greens that have been designed to run 24x7 with low power (so ideal for NAS's). Also should be a 3yr manufacturer warranty.