
Price per TB


Keeping in line with Western Digital’s other newer drives, this one is a lot quieter in terms of vibration. Speeds are pretty decent overall and on par with what I would expect (see other for speeds). Cheaper than the Red drives with most of the benefits. These drives don’t appear to experience the same slow spin-up that some full on NAS drives do. 1TB drives are extremely cheap these days so you can buy a bucket load of them compared to even a few years ago.

-Observed write rates of up to 220 MB/s (sustained for greater than 30 seconds). -Low vibration (less than some SAS drives) -Runs cooler than the other HDDs I have (nothing over 35 C with an ambient temperature of 21 C).

Had the drives about 6 months - running in a G-Tech 2 drive Thunderbolt as Raid 0 on MB-PRO 17. Getting 273MB write, 263MB read.

Ran 4 of these in a storage array for a few years. They replaced a similar array built on smaller SATA drives. Needless to say, they're muuuuch faster than the SATA drives.



Quiet, Cool, 7200RPM, Large Capacity, NOT SMR!