Average read speed for all eight drives at full throttle is around 800mbs and works superbly in FreeNAS 9.3 in raid z configuration.Its common knowledge now that these externals have 8TB Western Digital Red drives inside of them.Its the reason why I went with Western Digital, and specifically not Seagate (with their shingle technology).They are very easy to shuck, allowing you to run them internally using SATA.
Easystore Wd Review Full Throttle IsHowever, the reason for the 4-star rating is that most consumers will not shuck them, and they do run hot inside of their casing. Given they are WD Red drives, Im confident they will survive those temperatures within the warranty period (2 years), but its been tested and proven that hard drives do not do so well in terms of longevity with temperatures in excess of 40c. If you do shuck them, they run very cool; and you dont even have to install them internally. Just popping off the outer casing, and running a small fan on top keeps temperatures within 32-36c. I personally have 140mm fans blowing on top of mine still running on USB. My internal 8TB actually runs hotter due to less ventilation in my computer. Just keep in mind that if you shuck them and break the case, it will void the warranty. So outweigh the pros and cons before, and do your research on proper shucking:) Overall very satisfied with these 8TB Red NAS 256MB Cache drives. I would recommend this to a friend Helpful (165) Unhelpful (31) Report Comment Show comments ( 8 ) ThatDude Pros mentioned: Ease of use, Set up, Speed Cons mentioned: Noise, Power, Redundancy ThatDude Rating 5 out of 5 stars with 1 review FreeNAS Plex Posted 2 years ago. ThatDude Pros mentioned: Ease of use, Set up, Speed Cons mentioned: Noise, Power, Redundancy I usually dont like writing reviews cos there are always pseudo techies somewhere telling people what to do and what to do. Funny enough, 90 percent of them leave reviews that either ruin a products rating or ruin other people takes or experiences with them. Fortunately, Im a high IT Systems Admin with a dozen of years experience under my belt, so I move through these chuff deemed helpful reviews. I bought 8 of these drive for my FreeNAS build and they have been perfect so far. Shucking them was very easy and I can honestly say the cases or enclosures are all perfectly intact with not even a single scratch on them. All I used was a simple flat head screw driver, some patience and a sprinkle of common sense. I kept all the internals, closed it back up and boxed for potential warranty purposes. In terms of whether youd find Red NAS 256mb drives in these, that possible as well. These work very well and have been working for me for almost 6 months now. ![]() I have 8 in my case and I hear my low rpm fans before I hear these puppies. I am running all eight drives off of a P20 IT Mode flashed IBM ServeRAID M1015 card.
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