No worries, I had my fair shared of WD red, enterprise HGST hdd, Enterprise Seagate NAS hdd from using 2 bays, 4 bays, 5 bays, 8 bays to rack mount synology over the span of 8 years. The failure rate for Seagate NAS hdd is always much higher than HGST and follow by WD RED. So far I had very good experience with WD red and WD red pro.
Also amazon sales of WD red is much higher than seagate ironwolf, even though WD red is much more expensive than ironwolf.
Infact some WD elemental ext hdd are WD red with white label, and folks are buying it to use for the NAS by taking a part the WD elemental case because it is much cheaper than getting the WD red.
Also amazon sales of WD red is much higher than seagate ironwolf, even though WD red is much more expensive than ironwolf.
Infact some WD elemental ext hdd are WD red with white label, and folks are buying it to use for the NAS by taking a part the WD elemental case because it is much cheaper than getting the WD red.
I was trying to find info on this as well to add a 10TB drive to my NAS, but can't find any conclusive answers.
Went with WD Red in the end since the general opinion online seems to favor WD over seagate.
Also, the funny thing is the Red is 5400rpm, but after testing, has the same read/writes as my 7200rpm HGST Deskstar drive.
User benchmark seems to show that Reds are faster than ironwolves as well: https://hdd.userbenchmark.com/Compa...0TB-2016-vs-WD-Red-10TB-2017/m161315vsm324807