[Review] HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red WD40EFRX 4TB 5400RPM 64M SATA3 NAS Desktop HDD

In this article I talk about a HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red, modelo WD40EFRX de 4TB, 5400 RPM, 64 MB cache, SATA3 interface, acquired on eBay, seller/store overbling7. The Red line from Western Digital is indicated for NAS devices.

Motivation

Four years ago (in 2014) I bought a NAS from Synology, the DS214play. It was a great purchase, I like him very much. This is where I do my backups, is it to synchronize my files (If subject to a limit of space of Dropbox and similar to that?), This is where I keep photos and videos to watch on my TV, among many other uses.

The DS214play still works perfectly, but every once in a while he takes a while to list files in a directory. Furthermore, He does not support some new interesting features, as the Btrfs file system, that makes versioning of files very efficiently, consuming minimal disk space. Por fim, the DS214play supports only two disks. I have two hard drives of 4 GB on it in RAID 1, so I have 4 TB available.

Therewith, the desire to upgrade the began to emerge. For over a year I've been planning to buy a new Synology NAS, with support for 4 HDs, with more processing power and more memory, with possibility to use the Btrfs file system. With more disks you can also take advantage of the system SHR (Synology Hybrid RAID), that allows you to combine different sized disks and get the highest amount of available space without giving up the redundancy.

At first the idea was to buy a DS916play, but it took me so much that he got out of line and has now been replaced by the DS918play. The idea was to purchase it without disks in Amazon, redirecting it to the Brazil, and buy the HDS of China, It's cheaper and usually comes without taxes. Furthermore, the HDs of China usually come sealed, What does not happen with HDs bought in Brazil.

I know that the packets from China are taking enough to get, graças ao jogo sujo do Correios que está querendo forçar os chineses a usar fretes mais caros. Because of this, decidi comprar o primeiro HD para o NAS antes mesmo de comprar o próprio NAS, e foi assim que decidi pela compra do HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red, modelo WD40EFRX de 4TB.

Choice of HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red

The choice of HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red It was quite natural. Como não venho tendo uma boa experiência com HDs da Seagate, tenho preferido a Western Digital ultimamente. I already have a WD Gold, at WD Blue and an WD Green. Todos já analisados aqui no Skooter Blog, e todos ainda funcionando perfeitamente.

O WD Red é a versão otimizada para NAS, então ele acabou sendo a minha escolha. O tamanho de 4TB é o que tem o menor custo por terabyte. Com o SHR nada impede que eu opte por modelos maiores para os próximos discos.

Purchase of HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red

The purchase of the HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red, modelo WD40EFRX de 4TB foi feita no eBay, onde encontrei o melhor preço com o vendedor/loja overbling7: US$ 160,00 incluindo frete grátis.

Na ocasião o frete estava listado como “Economy Shipping from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan to worldwide”. Imaginei que viria um registrado comum, mas acabou vindo ePacket. Essa modalidade de frete é mais vantajosa pois o Correios não fica sentado nelas por 6 meses antes de entregar. Desse modo o pacote acabou chegando bem antes que eu esperava. Teve um “Object has not yet come to the unit.” no caminho, after all, Correios é Correios e precisa dar uma atrasada. No final das contas o pacote chegou em 38 calendar days. Considerando que essa semana chegou um pacote que comprei em outubro (but 6 months to deliver), 38 dias ficou de bom tamanho. It was not taxed.

Unboxing of HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red

The HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red came well packed, com bastante plástico bolha e um pouco de isopor. Estava no pacote original lacrado, mas com um corte na parte traseira, feito para colar um selinho. 😡

I hate that mania baby kisses guarantee paste instead of simply write down the serial number. I've already told here that I once bought a PC that warmed a lot and I ended up finding a kiss on top of the processor, Sticky thermal paste, between the processor and heatsink. Ultimately, Bottlecap necklace is typical of Paraguay and reseller of product coming from Paraguay.

The last two HDs that I bought with the Chinese came 100% sealed. Now this last pasted the Bottlecap, but at least you didn't take the HD package. Check out the photos:

See also the video of unboxing from the HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red:

Test of HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red

Without the NAS to test the new HD, the way was put it on my desktop even, apenas para verificar os dados do S.M.A.R.T. e ver se ele está funcionando e se era realmente zerado.

The Crystaldiskinfo mostrou que o HD era realmente zerado e não tinha nenhum problema. And CrystalDiskMark mostrou a capacidade de leitura e escrita. With 163 MB/s de leitura sequencial e 152 MB/s de gravação sequencial, the HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red de 4TB se saiu até um pouco melhor do que a especificação, que mostra uma taxa de transferência interna de 150 MB/s.

Tracing

These are the tracking information package, obtained on the site of the station:

17/04/2018 16:04 REMOVED / SP	Delivered to the addressee object
17/04/2018 09:30 REMOVED / SP	Object out for delivery to the recipient
16/04/2018 14:48 INDAIATUBA / SP	Object forwarded Treatment Unit in INDAIATUBA / SP for distribution in Unit REMOVED / SP
12/04/2018 16:06 INDAIATUBA / SP	Object has not yet come to the unit. Please, wait.
03/04/2018 18:11 CURITIBA / PR	Object forwarded Distribution Unit in CURITIBA / PR for Treatment Unit in INDAIATUBA / SP
03/04/2018 18:09 CURITIBA / PR	Customs supervision terminated Visit My environment Imports
02/04/2018 15:21 CURITIBA / PR	Object received by the post Office of Brazil Visit My environment Imports
11/03/2018 10:12 CHINA / CN	Object forwarded of Country in CHINA / CN to country in BRAZIL / BR
10/03/2018 21:25 CHINA / CN	Object posted Visit My environment Imports

Table-Summary

It, Finally, This is the table-summary of purchase:

Product Name:	HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red, modelo WD40EFRX de 4TB, 5400 RPM, 64 MB cache, SATA3 interface
Name Original:	New HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red WD40EFRX 4TB 5400RPM 64M SATA3 NAS Desktop HDD
Store:	eBay | seller/store: overbling7
Value:	US$ 160,00
Current value:	US$ 160,00
Payment Method:	Credit Card Visa International
Shipping Type:	Economy Shipping from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan to worldwide
Shipping Fee:	Free
Package Home Country:	China
Purchase Data:	05/03/2018
Submission Date:	10/03/2018
Data Delivery:	17/04/2018
Time in Transit:	38 days
Declared content:	replacement under warranty
Type Marked Content:	–
Declared Value:	US$ 15,00
Taxed:	Not
Taxable Value:	-
Tax Value:	-

Final Considerations

Ainda é cedo para fazer uma avaliação do HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red, modelo WD40EFRX de 4TB, 5400 RPM, 64 MB cache, SATA3 interface, afinal eu ainda não tenho o NAS e fiz apenas um teste rápido com ele.

Anyway, resolvi aproveitar o bom preço e o frete ePacket do vendedor (agora o anúncio lista “Economy SpeedPAK from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan”), beyond “bom humor” do Correios e da Receita Federal, para pedir logo um segundo HDD Western Digital 3.5″ Red, modelo WD40EFRX de 4TB. Ele já está a caminho. 🙂 Espero que chegue rapidamente e sem impostos também.

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