WD RED Pro 6TB Shortage?

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Anyone know if there is a shortage of 6TB RED Pros? Ordered 24 but are on back order and have checked other places and seem out of stock. NewEgg seems to have stock though.
 
HGST work well too and seem to be relatively cheaper in price. Love WD Red. I have 2x 4Tb in my NAS for two years now. No issues. Still running.
 
ReCOde said:
HGST work well too and seem to be relatively cheaper in price. Love WD Red. I have 2x 4Tb in my NAS for two years now. No issues. Still running.
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Ya know I have had nothing but WD drives for 8 + years and never had a single DOA or a drive failure before I replaced a drive via upgrade and yet I now after reading that backblaze report I feel like I can not trust the WD Reds ( non-pro)

I will probably go with HGST, they seem to be a good choice right now.
 
zaniix said:
If you cant find the Red pros try the HGST Deskstar NAS 6tb drives,
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Red Pros have a 5 year warranty, these HGST are only 3

Remember the OP is asking about Red Pros. They are completely different drives than the plain Reds. I had a 25% failure rate on plain WD Reds but these WD Red Pro drives I bought a few months back are amazing IMO.
 
drescherjm said:
How many drives?



My experience with red drives is they are pretty slow compared even to 5XXX RPM HGST drives. Are the pros faster?
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just 4 drives... but still I've had zero dead drives of any other kind.

Red Pros are 7200RPM and still quiet.
 
mls1995 said:
Red Pros have a 5 year warranty, these HGST are only 3

Remember the OP is asking about Red Pros. They are completely different drives than the plain Reds. I had a 25% failure rate on plain WD Reds but these WD Red Pro drives I bought a few months back are amazing IMO.
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you are correct about the warranty difference, but Red Pros and the HGST NAS drives are still very similar in speed and reliability regardless of the warranty offered. Plus the HGST drives are less expensive.

I could see someone caring about warranty if they are buying a lot of drives because if 1 of 3 drive fails after 3 years I would likely just upgrade it, but if I have a large quantity of drives this could be an issue where the 2 extra years of insurance is very nice.

mls1995 said:
just 4 drives... but still I've had zero dead drives of any other kind.

Red Pros are 7200RPM and still quiet.
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Would you say the RED Pros are more silent than the HGST NAS drives? MY only issue with the HGST NAS drives is I wish thaey were closer to the sound levels of the WD Reds, but I just figured all 7200rpm drives are going to make a bit more noise. I would get the 5400RPM versions from HGST but for some reason they are more expensive.
 
just 4 drives... but still I've had zero dead drives of any other kind.
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You are lucky. For the last 5 or so years I RMA ~20 drives a year out of around 200 drives that spin 24/7/365. With that said this year the number will go down substantially. I believe only 4 drives have failed (that are still under warranty) with 3 of these being enterprise drives..
 
drescherjm said:
You are lucky. For the last 5 or so years I RMA ~20 drives a year out of around 200 drives that spin 24/7/365. With that said this year the number will go down substantially. I believe only 4 drives have failed (that are still under warranty) with 3 of these being enterprise drives..
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Which make/model out of the 20/year you replace are most common ?
 
ToddW2 said:
Which make/model out of the 20/year you replace are most common ?
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It was Seagate 7200.11 (we had ~50 in service - many were RMA'd multiple times). Although not a single one of these died by the firmware bricking bug. Most of these experienced an extremely high URE rate and many reallocated sectors until the drive failed in a short time.

The second highest was WDC black. Mostly 1TB and 500 GB models.

By far the best drives we have are Hitachi / HGST Deskstars which we have ~50 (with many of these drives having almost 5 years of power on hours) has had only 1 RMA and it was DOA.
 
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zaniix said:
you are correct about the warranty difference, but Red Pros and the HGST NAS drives are still very similar in speed and reliability regardless of the warranty offered. Plus the HGST drives are less expensive.

I could see someone caring about warranty if they are buying a lot of drives because if 1 of 3 drive fails after 3 years I would likely just upgrade it, but if I have a large quantity of drives this could be an issue where the 2 extra years of insurance is very nice.



Would you say the RED Pros are more silent than the HGST NAS drives? MY only issue with the HGST NAS drives is I wish thaey were closer to the sound levels of the WD Reds, but I just figured all 7200rpm drives are going to make a bit more noise. I would get the 5400RPM versions from HGST but for some reason they are more expensive.
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Per user reviews, HGST drives are generally noisy. All the Red models are quiet, even the Pros. HGST are very reliable so that's the main thing. But the Red Pros are really nice.
 
drescherjm said:
You are lucky. For the last 5 or so years I RMA ~20 drives a year out of around 200 drives that spin 24/7/365. With that said this year the number will go down substantially. I believe only 4 drives have failed (that are still under warranty) with 3 of these being enterprise drives..
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I don't own that many drives at one time. Do you personally own 200 drives? I own just enough to keep my data safe.
 
This is at work for our medical imaging research. Backups are done to a dual drive LTO2 autochanger that I keep trying to get a budget to get it replaced with a even just a LTO6 drive since the 200GB tapes are too small and expensive per GB. At home I have around 20 drives with much less failure.
 
Damn. The prices at amazon on these drives have hit $379. They must be hard to get I guess. I bought 24 at $279 but they are on backorder.
 
cbiggers said:
Damn. The prices at amazon on these drives have hit $379. They must be hard to get I guess. I bought 24 at $279 but they are on backorder.
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Yeah $319 on newegg, I think they are still very new and people like you are buying lots of them.

Give it time and some deals are bound to appear

I don't see spending the extras over a HGST NAS drive for home use, its a large price gap for the RED Pro. Maybe if it was work related or if noise was a major issue. I wish they were still $279
 
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Man, still no stock at amazon directly. Third party now has them at $435 each. They aren't even on Neweggs site anymore. I might just want to cancel my Amazon order for 24 and get another drive, but I got them at $279. Really wanted the Pro speeds and 5 year warranty.

Should I give up?
 
Yea I saw that, just hate to pay $319 each when I got them for $279 from Amazon. Of course they may never ship. I may give it another month since i'm not much in a rush but is a bit annoying.
 
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