Western Digital 6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD60EFAX
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Capacity: 6TB
Style: Red
Pattern Name: Hard Drive
Features
- Available in capacities ranging from 2-6TB with support for up to 8 bays
- 5400RPM performance class
- NASware firmware for compatibility
- NAS systems with daily workloads associated with personal and home office environments and idle time available to perform necessary background operations
- Supports up to 180 TB/yr Workload Rate* | * Workload Rate is defined as the amount of user data transferred to or from the hard drive. Workload Rate is annualized (TB transferred (8760 / recorded power-on hours))
- 3-year limited warranty
Description
There’s a leading edge WD Red drive for every compatible NAS system to store your precious data. With drives up to 6TB, WD Red offers a wide array of storage for customers looking to build a NAS solution. Built and tested for personal and home NAS systems with up to 8-bays, these drives pack all the punch you need in one powerhouse unit for storing, archiving, and sharing. With WD RedTM, you’re ready for what’s next.
RAM: 6 TB
Hard Drive: 6 TB Mechanical Hard Disk
Number of USB 2.0 Ports: 1
Brand: Western Digital
Series: WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive
Item model number: WD60EFAX
Hardware Platform: PC, Mac
Item Weight: 1.28 pounds
Product Dimensions: 1.03 x 5.79 x 4 inches
Item Dimensions LxWxH: 1.03 x 5.79 x 4 inches
Color: Red
Flash Memory Size: 256
Hard Drive Interface: Serial ATA
Hard Drive Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
Manufacturer: Western Digital
Country of Origin: Thailand
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No
Date First Available: February 22, 2019
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Capacity: 6TB
Style: Red
Pattern Name: Hard Drive
This particular model (WD60EFAX) WD Red 6 TB uses a recording technology called SMR. You can look up specifics about SMR hard drives online but one known issue with using this tech is that drives tend to suffer in data write performance. Using these drives in a parity based RAID (RAID 5, for example) results in very slow initialization, rebuild, and general write speeds which results in an array taking 5-10 times longer to perform operations where data is being written; along with a much higher likeliness of the controller dropping the drive or even other non-SMR drives in the array because of timeouts. I’ve experienced all of these issues in my RAID arrays, in mixed SMR and non-SMR (PMR) arrays and even more so with all-SMR drive arrays. To make matters worse, WD does not advertise this as an SMR drive or list it in any spec sheet. And while SMR isn't necessarily a bad thing, it does not perform well for parity based RAID or any sort of frequent or heavy write operations which is very common in “NAS” environments this drive is supposedly labeled for. SMR is an important fact and absolutely needs to be considered when purchasing a drive. The fact that WD doesn't list this specification is a form of false advertising as far as I’m concerned. There is no easy way to determine for sure if WD's drives use SMR or not without having the serial number and asking support. Even if you do ask there is no guarantee they will give you the information. I only discovered that this drive uses SMR because I was having issues with them, so I decided to go read more online reviews of it. In some reviews, some people recommended looking at Synology's hard drive compatibility chart. Though you can't guarantee that is an accurate way to determine if a drive is SMR or not, it did say that this drive is SMR. So their compatibility chart is at least a place to start, especially if you are researching a drive before buying it. So in the end, I can't recommend this drive for anything other than non parity RAID setups, and mostly-read environments, or archival storage where you simply write the data then leave it for months or years. I really hope WD will decide to start adding whether or not their drives use SMR on the product description and spec sheets. SMR isn’t inherently bad, it is just not good for parity-based RAID or write-intensive usage scenarios – so the WD60EFAX drive isn’t good for those scenarios either.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2020 by grego
Capacity: 6TB
Style: Red
Pattern Name: Hard Drive
Warning, WD is slipping people slow SMR drives. Shingled Magnetic Recording. So buyer beware. Not all WD Red drives are created equal. Do your research before you buy. These drives may not perform well in your NAS. VERY DISAPPOINTED IN WESTERN DIGITAL.
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2020 by Jeffrey H. Tiemann
Capacity: 6TB
Style: Red
Pattern Name: Hard Drive
I purchased this WD RED 6TB NAS drive to expand my Drobo 5D which was running low on space. The 6TB RED drive is one listed by Drobo as being compatible with the 5D - which is running four 3TB RED drives. It has been a nightmare. Western Digital has secretly changed the design of their RED NAS drives, causing compatibility issues with existing systems. This is NOT an NAS drive. Shame on WD for its deception. There are many users like me who found themselves in the same positon. After a lot of troubleshooting and research, I learned that WD wouldn't even admit to the RED drives using SMR until very recently. They still don't label them as such on Amazon. My raid was running fine before adding this drive. Now it's in a critical state, inaccessible, and I have open support tickets with both WD and DROBO. There should be a class-action lawsuit brought against WD for its deception and recklessness with their user's trust, time, and data.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2020 by Clint Bohaty
Capacity: 6TB
Style: Red
Pattern Name: Hard Drive
I bought this to replace a 7 year old WD Red 3TB that has been running 24/7/365 in a Drobo for the past 7 years. I have only used WD Red drives in this 5-bay Drobo, and have had zero problems. After ejecting the 3TB, I put in the new WD Red 6TB. The Drobo seemed to accept it, it spun it up, but then very quickly it showed as “FAILED”. I ejected it and tried it again— no luck. Finally, I read online that sometimes you need to wait for the Drobo to finish layout with one drive missing, and then reboot it with he new drive inserted. I did this, and it was recognized as an SSD— that’s a little weird! But then it tried to re-layout and would go for a few hours and the have to restart again. I finally left it for the weekend, and it finally finished. However, it disconnects from the computer ALL THE TIME. Finally, I read that WD Red, which are DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR NAS/RAID use, are using SMR technology. This makes them completely unsuitable for RAID use! I can’t believe that they would make this change, and I’ll never buy another WD drive ever again. I just ordered an Seagate IronWolf as a replacement.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2020 by G. vander Rhodes
Capacity: 6TB
Style: Red
Pattern Name: Hard Drive
I've used WD drives for greater than 25 years. I thought these new RED drives were slow for what I'm using them for in my NAS. I don't need to wonder anymore as WD published a blog on April 22, 2020 admitting they have been using previously undocumented SMR (shingled magnetic recording) in their 2TB-6TB RED drives. I purchased two of these WD RED drives from another source and three 6TB WD RED from Amazon and now have the reason why I feel so disappointed in all five of these WD drives. If my primary writing were burst writing these would have likely been fine, but it is not; I only write very large image files and video files on this NAS. Had WD been disclosing this the whole time, as they should have, i.e., before I and tens of thousands of others purchased these then I would have looked at either getting the RED Pro which are CMR (conventional magnetic recording) or I would have purchased Seagate Ironwolf drives which are all CMR. Clearly, as the headline says, my quarter century of trusting WD has been broken by WD and it is very possible that WD will never earn that trust back. WD does a good job of spinning this disclosure to say it was important that they listen carefully and understood customer feedback, specifically how WD communicated which recording technologies are used. "Your concerns were heard loud and clear." I think many customers who purchased these without the benefit of this disclosure would simply call that lying.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2020 by Mike Lindsey