Plex HDD 10tb WD Red choices

Hardware HDD's & SSD's
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https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822231547

Which should I get? The only difference is the disk rpm, one is 5400 and the other is 7200. Which would probably be better for plex? I plan on replacing one of my 4tb hdd with this due to the 4tb being filled up, it wont be in raid to begin with or for that matter quite a while until I buy a second one of these.

My concern is that a 10tb drive might be handicapped at 5400rpm for video streaming. My 4tb reds do well for streaming two streams simultaneously. So I don’t know if it is a handicap or not for larger capacity drives?

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I’ve got a few 10TB 5400 rpm white labels that are pretty close to the Reds that do about 180-190MB/s sequential r/w which if I’m not mistaken is faster than the 4TB drives.

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My goal is to replace all four of my WD 4tb reds with 10tb in raid, but for now I am gonna stick with the one drive.

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The Question is, what are you playing through it.
Assuming only Video Streaming, we can probably assume maximum throughput. From this Review: https://www.storagereview.com/wd_red_10tb_review The 5400RPM Drive could reach up to 1.7 Gigabit/s. That’s not enough for 4K, 23.98 at 8Bit 4:4:4 (https://www.extron.com/product/videotools.aspx) which clocks in at 8 Gigabit/s.

So, look at your files and what Datarate they have.

With all that said, i don’t think the 7200RPM Drive will be THAT much faster in sequential Performance as to justifiy a 30% Price increase…

Edit: Here’s a review of the Pro model with some Benchmarks:https://www.servethehome.com/western-digital-red-pro-10tb-nas-hdd-review/
Seems to close to spen 100 extra bucks for my taste.

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Well I transcode to compress. I don’t stream 4k videos. Just 1080p. And even that takes a 8gb or larger file size of an episode down to as little of a size as 800mb.

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What are you using to transcode?

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You’ll probably be fine with either. Both can comfortably hit 100MB/s, which is close to saturating a 1GB/s Ethernet connection. So, unless you plan on streaming uncompressed, High Bitrate UHD Content, both should suffice.
I’m personally running a single Seagate Ironwolf and haven’t run into any Bottlenecks with streaming Video from my NAS.

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handbrake, h265 with qualit 23 and optimization at med.

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5400RPM is fine.

Look into shucking USB drives to save money.

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I would shuck but it completely voids the warranty to do so.

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At least in the US, WD accepts shucked drives as under warranty.

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Yep that’s correct. And even if they didn’t, the extreme price difference would make it a good tradeoff.

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White label red drive.

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Some are, some aren’t. You might get a blue. But it doesn’t matter when they’re so much cheaper. Buy two and keep one on the shelf for replacements.

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I do indeed have a 10tb Easy Store that I can shuck. Or just use it as a backup for my WD Red.

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Well there you go then, perfect.