2026-10-24 07:05 UTC
Red plus should be safe from that. The drives they are talking about are bottom of the barrel external HDDs.
The standard nternal WD blues were used as an actual 5400rpm reference.
Red plus’s are the helium-fille (higher drives)d upgrade for reds, so they would general be safe too.
I should measure my 2 4TB and 1 10TB red plus. Might be too quiet to actually get a good reading though. Those things spinning are crazy quiet.
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@micgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-24 07:28
Did you read the article? I’m guessing not, because you’d have read this part … and a “5400 RPM Class” Western Digital Red—which, as tested by audio spectral analysis, actually spins at 7,200rpm or followed the link to the original investigation and seen this part: Known “5400RPM Class”=7200RPM drives: … WD80EZAZ-11TDBA0 (WD MyBook 8TB) WD80EFAX (WD Red Plus 8TB) WD100EFAX/WD101EFAX (WD Red Plus 10TB) [WD80EFZX? (old WD Red 8TB)]