Western Digital 4TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5″ – WD40EFAX

Works exactly as expected
This hard drive does exactly what it promises. It’s fast, quiet, and reliable. Perfect for NAS setups or internal storage. Western Digital remains a solid choice for quality and performance.

Used to Easily Replace Failed Drive in Tivo Roamio
I considered throwing away my six year old Roamio, model 846500, when it failed. The Tivo wouldn’t get past the “Welcome” screen. I fixed the failure in less than an hour with only this WD20EFAX drive, and now have four times the storage as a bonus. The internet knowledge base (and the Weaknees company that’s probably the best third party support company for Tivo) says that this failure mode is almost always caused by a failed hard drive. They also recommend this particular model replacement drive. Replacing the drive in Tivo Roamio is extremely easy. It’s easy both both physically and because this Tivo will automatically format a new drive (as long as the drive size is 3TB or less) and automatically load all the required Tivo software during boot up. You will, unfortunately, lose any recordings and such drive-kept data as channel lists, scheduled recordings and One-Passes, and so on that were on the old failed drive. There are plenty of decent videos on the internet to show how to do this, but here is a quick procedure to give you an idea of how easy it is: Remove two torx head screws in the back of the unit and use a thin blade such as a common dinner knife to carefully pry up the top of the box. Remove three torx screws that attach the drive’s adapter rails to the box and disconnect the drive’s data/power cable by pulling the connector away from the drive. Remove the drive mounting rails from each side of the drive, noting their original position, by removing the two torx screws connecting each rail to the drive. Using the new drive, put everything back together. Reconnect the Tivo to your TV system, plugging in the power cable last. Plug in the Tivo’s power and let the system boot up. Be patient because it will take some time for the Tivo to automatically format the drive and load all the software needed. Follow the screen guide to set up the Tivo as for a new unit. Your current account with Tivo and any monthly or All-In programming are still in place because the account is based on the box’es ID number which is stored on Tivo’s motherboard rather than its hard drive. Voila…You just saved yourself the cost of a new Tivo and upgraded your video storage capacity, as I did!

Achetez il y a six mois pour un Nas en fonctionnement 24/24. Aucune remarque à faire. J’en suis satisfait.

The two 1TB Seagate drives in our ZyXEL NAS326A were beginning to throw a few “Spin_Retry_Count” errors and were getting a bit noisy and hot. This is often a sign that the bearings are starting to go. As I also wanted to increase capacity, I opted for 2 of these WD NAS Red drives (2TB) – to run in a similar Raid-1 configuration.They arrived next day, factory sealed and well packaged direct from Amazon. Their manufacture date was November 2019 and the SMART information on each drive confirmed zero power on hours and zero accumulated errors. So I was able to swap one drive at a time with a rebuild in between. It took a few hours but everything seems fine.These new drives run a few degrees cooler than the older Seagate discs they replaced. They are also much quieter (though not silent). Transfer times are a marginal improvement – though that has never been an issue for us. After a week, we still have zero errors so I am satisfied everything is as it should be. Automatic backups to an external drive are also running smoothly.I was also able to register both drives on the WD website and received confirmation of the ~3 year (37 month) warranty. At 5400 rpm, they may not be the quickest NAS drives available, but at less than £70 each (including Prime delivery), I consider these discs a bit of a bargain.So, thus far, I am most chuffed! Obviously, time will tell…..