WD Green or Red drives

Posted by: Dave The Bass on 22 January 2015

I'm probably going to get a QNAP TS-251 to host my music library, and will use Asset.  I was wondering whether there was experience out there on using WD Green drives in a NAS as they are, allegedly, quieter.  Is that true, and are they quick enough for streaming hi-res files? Otherwise I'll just go for the Red drives.

 

A reasonably quiet NAS would be good as it will sit in our family room.  I have also looked at the HS-251 but all reports seems to show it as running very hot...

 

Any thoughts on this?  Cheers. D

Posted on: 24 January 2015 by jobseeker
Originally Posted by engjoo:

Please use RED. I have used Green and they fail prematurely under the NAS environment.

Same happened to me