I bought 5 of these and shucked them earlier this year to replace 4TB Red drives in my Synology 1512+. At that time they were the red 256mb cache drives inside. I have heard some people saying these are now white drives but everything I can find on them is that they are just relabeled red dives. No idea but these will be great for people to actually do backups on as you could backup weekly and keep months worth of them before letting it auto delete.
I bought 5 of these and shucked them earlier this year to replace 4TB Red drives in my Synology 1512+. At that time they were the red 256mb cache drives inside. I have heard some people saying these are now white drives but everything I can find on them is that they are just relabeled red dives. No idea but these will be great for people to actually do backups on as you could backup weekly and keep months worth of them before letting it auto delete.
So did you take the external drive apart for the drive inside? Or did you connect them as USB devices? (I'm interested in getting into the fancy backup/networked drive systems but haven't had the time).
Collecting dust??? Backup, backup, backup ;)
I bought 5 of these and shucked them earlier this year to replace 4TB Red drives in my Synology 1512+. At that time they were the red 256mb cache drives inside. I have heard some people saying these are now white drives but everything I can find on them is that they are just relabeled red dives. No idea but these will be great for people to actually do backups on as you could backup weekly and keep months worth of them before letting it auto delete. So did you take the external drive apart for the drive inside? Or did you connect them as USB devices? (I'm interested in getting into the fancy backup/networked drive systems but haven't had the time)."/>
I bought 5 of these and shucked them earlier this year to replace 4TB Red drives in my Synology 1512+. At that time they were the red 256mb cache drives inside. I have heard some people saying these are now white drives but everything I can find on them is that they are just relabeled red dives. No idea but these will be great for people to actually do backups on as you could backup weekly and keep months worth of them before letting it auto delete.
So did you take the external drive apart for the drive inside? Or did you connect them as USB devices? (I'm interested in getting into the fancy backup/networked drive systems but haven't had the time).
I am not KnightRid, but when he says he "shucked" them, that is what is meant. He took the drives out of the enclosure and placed them in a NAS.
Collecting dust??? Backup, backup, backup ;)
I bought 5 of these and shucked them earlier this year to replace 4TB Red drives in my Synology 1512+. At that time they were the red 256mb cache drives inside. I have heard some people saying these are now white drives but everything I can find on them is that they are just relabeled red dives. No idea but these will be great for people to actually do backups on as you could backup weekly and keep months worth of them before letting it auto delete.
So did you take the external drive apart for the drive inside? Or did you connect them as USB devices? (I'm interested in getting into the fancy backup/networked drive systems but haven't had the time).
I am not KnightRid, but when he says he "shucked" them, that is what is meant. He took the drives out of the enclosure and placed them in a NAS."/>
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I bought 5 of these and shucked them earlier this year to replace 4TB Red drives in my Synology 1512+. At that time they were the red 256mb cache drives inside. I have heard some people saying these are now white drives but everything I can find on them is that they are just relabeled red dives. No idea but these will be great for people to actually do backups on as you could backup weekly and keep months worth of them before letting it auto delete.
So did you take the external drive apart for the drive inside? Or did you connect them as USB devices? (I'm interested in getting into the fancy backup/networked drive systems but haven't had the time).
I bought 5 of these and shucked them earlier this year to replace 4TB Red drives in my Synology 1512+. At that time they were the red 256mb cache drives inside. I have heard some people saying these are now white drives but everything I can find on them is that they are just relabeled red dives. No idea but these will be great for people to actually do backups on as you could backup weekly and keep months worth of them before letting it auto delete.
So did you take the external drive apart for the drive inside? Or did you connect them as USB devices? (I'm interested in getting into the fancy backup/networked drive systems but haven't had the time)."/>
I am not KnightRid, but when he says he "shucked" them, that is what is meant. He took the drives out of the enclosure and placed them in a NAS.
So did you take the external drive apart for the drive inside? Or did you connect them as USB devices? (I'm interested in getting into the fancy backup/networked drive systems but haven't had the time).
I am not KnightRid, but when he says he "shucked" them, that is what is meant. He took the drives out of the enclosure and placed them in a NAS."/>
Reds do not have the error correction that standard drives (Blues, Blacks, Greens, etc.) have.
Its seems strange that WDC would use Reds in their external USB drives (Easystore, My Book and Elements).
Thank you!