Suitable for continuous operation?

After 14 months broken.
Of course you can go from time to time broken a hard drive, but this should not happen in a plate which is positioned as a long-distance runner for NAS systems on the market.

In a NAS 2x Hitachi disks, disk 1 after 1 year at the end. So exchanged for the WD Red and waiting for the other Hitachi also soon come to an end.
Today, one year later, almost expected clack noises from the NAS. But nothing there, the remaining Hitachi is still doing well, it's only 1 year old WD Red suddenly no longer wanted.

Here, the NAS was not even used as a long-distance runner, but only turned on when needed spordaisch times.
So it looks so out with the promise of a particularly durable hard drive.
The WD Red is not worth more or less than other hard drives in the market that deliver fewer advertising promises and, drawing on special features.
The higher price you can save so confidently and advertising believe was never even particularly clever.