Huge capacity, economical, fast enough (and expensive)

After 2x last year the WD40EZRX (Green) bought, and no problems have arisen (no warnings in SMART) I have now bought a 6TB WD HD. Instead of about 150 about 215 would be due for the Green model. I was the first time opt for the more expensive Red model, because the whole place 2 3 year warranty offers (only recently showed a Seagate drive 2.5 years for error ....) and only 10% more cost. The Lauferk sitting in a desktop, which is almost every day and sometimes even going through few weeks.

Used as pure data drive, as GPT disks initialized (not MBR) no problems.
(For booting I use an SSD)

As data grave with 5400-7200 r / min fast enough, the device but now takes days ....
Formatting, Self Test with gsmartcontrol, TrueCrypt formatting fully write, and verify: everything about each 9h-12h ...
Am positively surprised by the modesty of the drive:
Manufacturer's specification: 3.4W idle, 5.3 W operation. (See to the details WD40EZRX: 3,3W - 4,5W.).
Since even need the 5TB Seagate significantly more (ST5000DM000: 5.0 / 7.5W)

Benchmarks (when freshly formatted, empty disk):

H2testw: (50GB) Write: 162 MB / s Read: 165 MB / s (compared WD40EZRX: 134 / 140MByte)

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World: [...]
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* MB / s = 1,000,000 bytes / sec [SATA / 300 = 300,000,000 bytes / s]

Sequential Read: 177 484 MB / s
Sequential Write: 171 252 MB / s
Random Read 512KB: 52 429 MB / s
512KB Random Write: 92,959 MB / s
4KB Random Read (QD = 1): 0.632 MB / s [154.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD = 1): 1,413 MB / s [345.0 IOPS]
4KB Random Read (QD = 32): 1,993 MB / s [486.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD = 32): 1,438 MB / s [351.2 IOPS]

Test: 1000 MB [Q: 0.0% (0.3 / 5588.9 GB)] (x5)
Date: 8/18/2014 7:23:57
OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

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Gsmartcontrol reports: "Capacity 6:00 TB [5:46 TiB, 6,001,175,126,016 bytes]"

After Windows indication (fresh NTFS formatted with 4096 bytes clusters:
6,001,039,241,216 bytes (total memory capacity; slightly depending on the size of the allocation units)
or
6.001039241216 terabytes (1 T = 1 * 10 ^ 12)
or slightly rounded ~ 6,001 terabytes or 6.00 TB or 6 TB
or, using the Binärpräfixe IEC standard,
just
5860389884 KiByte or
5723036 MiByte or
5588.903 GiByte or
5.4579 TiByte (1 Ti = 1 * 2 ^ 40)

I run my computer open under the table. The hard drive is in standby rushes softly (perceptible, but does not bother me, but had been quieter), but you "clicks" no. Neither gegelentlich.