question WD60EZRX or Others?

[LunarMist]

Is there any alternative to the WD60EZRX in a 6TB slow/cool drive for around $300? The Seagate 6TB becomes too hot to use without cooling, and the Hitachi NAS 7200 RPM drive is marginal for heat. Thanks.

 

[Mercutio]

You could wait another two weeks and see what reviews on the 8TB Seagate drive are like. I'm probably going to buy a couple as near-line backup targets, so I suspect I'll have something to say about them soon enough.
Hitachi drives in general handle heat beautifully. It's absolutely the last thing I'd worry about with the 7k *Star drives.

 

[LunarMist]

So do you think 50°C is OK for continual use a few days at a time?

 

[time]

Yep. That's the maximum water temperature in these parts because it takes 5 minutes to deliver 3rd degree burns, whereas 60°C takes just 1 second.

In other words, it's a benign temperature in the overall scheme of things. Hotter than Google's optimal 45°C target for a 24x7 array, but almost certainly fine in your context.

 

[LunarMist]

I finally purchased some of the 6TB WD drives to replace the Seagate backup drives, which will be used as primaries to replace some olden 4TB 7200K Hitachis. From what I can determine, the WD drives do not have the shingles.