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[camorri]

Has anyone tried any of the new Western Digital red drives on a DNS-323 ?

See this link for information on the drives. -->http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810

I had a pair of WD 1 tera byte drives ( WD 10 ears ). One died in less than 10 hours of use in the DNS-323. The second one is still in the NAS, however, I keep it powered off most of the time. I turn it on for back-ups only.

The list of approved drives is very old. I can not find the models listed at the stores here.

I'm open to suggestions for replacement drives that are available.

[jwatkins36]

See the thread in the DNS-325 Disk compatibility forums, I asked this same question there.

These Western Digital RED drives are going to be very popular, due to price and due to their firmware being tweaked for NAS and RAID.

I don't understand why D-Link wouldn't test their NAS boxes for compatibility with these new drives!

Now I am saving up for a DROBO, which is compatible with the WD REDs.

Good Luck.

[dacker]

Has anyone tried any of the new Western Digital red drives on a DNS-323 ?

The list of approved drives is very old. I can not find the models listed at the stores here.

Did you ever get an informed answer to your question or did you wing-it and put Red Drives into your DNS-323?

I've had a pair of 1.5TB Seagates in RAID1 in mine for four years and one of them is getting cranky.  I want to replace both, especially since Seagate stopped making 1.5TB drives.  I'd use Seagate 2TB drives except the reviews on them are terrible for DOAs and reliability.

I'd go WD Blue except they stopped making 1.5TB and 2TB Blue drives, leaving one to either have to buy the more expensive Black drives or the slower Green drives.  I'm hoping the Red drives are a good compromise, especially since Newegg is offering them for $100 each TODAY.

Thanks!

[GregGP1]

I am running two WD Red 2TB drives (WD20EFRX) in my DNS-323.
Firmware 1.08
Raid 1 (mirrored)
EXT3 file system

Everything is working fine, and the system temperature reported by the Status function for the box seems to report about 4-5 degrees F. lower (for similar) operations, compared to the WD Black drives that were previously installed in the 323.

[dacker]

I knew there must have been someone out there who would have taken a chance and assembled this untested configuration.  Time to look for a good sale on the RED drives!

THANKS!

[badbob2]

It's the reason why I moved from stock firmware to ALT F.

Support for higher capacity drives. Hoping another group will write open source alternative firmware for my other NAS too (qnap) since they don't seem to offer large HD support, or have performance issues with certain drives.

[Rodent]

I am running two WD Red 2TB drives (WD20EFRX) in my DNS-323.
Firmware 1.08
Raid 1 (mirrored)
EXT3 file system

Everything is working fine, and the system temperature reported by the Status function for the box seems to report about 4-5 degrees F. lower (for similar) operations, compared to the WD Black drives that were previously installed in the 323.

Hi GregGP1,

I know you posted this just on 6 months ago now but I was wondering if when you formatted your WD20EFRX drives did you upgrade your firmware to 1.10 and than down grade back to 1.08 after the drives where formatted as these seem to be AFT drives???

I have just purchased 2xWD20EFRX drives my self but I want to run them as standard drives only.

Thanks
Rodney

[mauriz73]

hi all,
i'm interested in putting 2 x WD20EFRX in my DNS-323...

Are them full compatible with our NAS?? I've read GregGP! and Rodent posts... could them confirm the compatibility?

thanks a lot!

[coxwain]

Any other updates?

I put a WD20EFRX drive in my dns323  1.10 firmware.

It recognized and formatted okay.  I then pulled it out and put it into a Ubuntu box to restore data from my older failed 1.5tb sea gate and the rd WD20EFRX failed on me. .less than 3 hours of use.


Is this a problem with the wd or they way I was using it?

The drive can't be seen in the bios now.

[ivan]

Two things.

1) Drives do fail.  .

2) Which bios are you talking about?

If the drive is dead then you should return it under warranty and get a replacement.

[dosborne]

I find most new drives these days either fail within a few hours or run well for a long time. The percentage of DOA across manufacturers seems way up from the past.

[coxwain]

Finally I have a 2 tb red nas in with a 500 gb black  both wd

They both seem to be working with 1.10

my black is going to be the torrent drive as it seems the torrent drive is the one that always fails.  The red will be a media /movie server.  I hope that drive will suffice.

I am thinking of a 2nd nas  Synology 214+ with either 2x 2tb WD Black or 2x 3tb WD Red.  Any recommendations.

Mostly being used for storage of data, pictures and videos.  There might be some serving of the files too