These will be excellent for that purpose. They should last a long time. I have a lot of the 8tb (8x8tb in one case) versions just for that purpose. Now that I know these are EMAZ drives I will go get a couple because the price is too good to pass up.
Also of note BB has a WD 4tb portable drive...
Thanks for posting. I would really like to know which drives are in these. Does anyone have any experiences/thoughts?
Are these essentially the same drives that were in the 8tb drives?
I am looking to build a new NAS and these would fit the bill nicely since the boxed RED drives are still very...
Yes - If you shuck them you one needs to either have an adapter or cut one of the pins.
Also of note - these drives allow for drive level encryption where the Reds and the Best Buy versions do not.
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These have the Helium sealed drives in them. They are not the Reds, but very close. As far as I can tell they are the same drives minus TLER.
I use 8 of these for 24 hour on operation...