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by xeroxmalf 4598 days ago
The RED drives you are refering to actually have some of the worst reviews around compared to even normal consumer drives. (Source: newegg reviews you mentioned)
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i'm not sure where you're getting that info:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236...

http://www.amazon.com/WD-Red-NAS-Hard-Drive/dp/B008JJLZ7G

been running 3x of these in a raid-5 NAS, no issues so far (not that it's any kind of indicator on a system which idles as a backup all day)

About half of the Newegg reviews are 3-eggs or lower. And even some of the 5-egg reviews mention dead drives! They only got 5 eggs because of Newegg's easy return policy. The drives are clearly unreliable.
great :(