there are users who swear a wd red drive, despite being made primarily for NAS use, works just fine as a secondary hard drive but there are others like cat2devnull who feel it's a bad idea like in the post below here on tom's hardware forumsĪnd then there's JPHapgood who said he used a WD red drive for four years for storage and he was happy with itĪlso I should point out the label on the hard drive said it was manufactured July 2021 in Taiwan (which is impressive given the drought conditions those poor guys are having over there not to mention the coronavirus issues world wide) so practically hot off the presses so to speak if that makes a difference. My online research has turned up mixed results. Definitely not installing Windows or any programs at all on it given the slow rpm and I really don't care if it's slow just as long as it works and lets Acronis restore my operating systems if I get into trouble! (the Acronis program itself is on a different drive, the same ssd drive Win 8 is is installed on aka the " C " drive, but I plan on telling Acronis to create the backup images themselves onto the WD Red drive).
#ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE WD EDITION WD RED PC#
On rare occasions I've been forced to use Acronis to restore Win 8 or Win 10 on my desktop PC if something goes wrong with either one of those operating systems. I do one of those backups per operating system for two backups total once every 2 to 3 months, sometimes once a month.
#ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE WD EDITION WD RED WINDOWS 10#
I'd like to use it for backups of Windows 8 and Windows 10 (I dual boot off my PC, Win 8 and Win 10 each "live" on their own separate ssd drive) using Acronis True Image.
I know the speed is only 5400 rpm which is fine with me for the purpose I'm considering. did some online research so I know it's best suited for a NAS environment (not sure what that is ) which is definitely not me I'm just a humble desktop PC home user, Windows 8 and Windows 10. well amazon sent me by mistake (instead of the hard drive I ordered), then told me to go ahead and keep, a 2 TB Western Digital Red Plus hard drive model number WD20EFZX here's the amazon link for itĪfter doing my dance of joy over getting a free 2 TB hard drive I started wondering what would be the best use for it.
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