The older Reds were fine, I've had plenty of those running for 5+ years, but I wouldn't trust the new ones with potential SMR except in single drive applications with no kick-out.
The spin rate of the red drives tries to balance speed with power consumption, no head parking, and specific error recovery rates and timeouts that are known so a RAID controller doesn't kick them. Never cared about the other ones, so who knows.
The older Reds were fine, I've had plenty of those running for 5+ years, but I wouldn't trust the new ones with potential SMR except in single drive applications with no kick-out.
The spin rate of the red drives tries to balance speed with power consumption, no head parking, and specific error recovery rates and timeouts that are known so a RAID controller doesn't kick them. Never cared about the other ones, so who knows.
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