It has now become known that the manufacturer Western Digital has cheated on its own NAS hard drives. Especially the HDD 5400 RPM Class confuses the buyer in terms of speed.
Several hard disk series affected
As a Reddit user has now discovered, manufacturer Western Digital is advertising some of its hard drive series at a speed that does not correspond to reality. Contrary to what the name 5400 RPM suggests, for example, it doesn’t have a speed of 5400 rpm, but 7200 rpm. This has two disadvantages. After all, it is not only much louder, but also consumes far more power. Western Digital’s “WD Red Plus” NAS series, for example, uses the same HDD. The model with 8 TB storage space has a power consumption of 8.8 watts. If one compares this with the Barracuda Compute of Seagate, which is also supposed to offer 5,400 revolutions, it becomes clear that this has a power consumption of only 5.3 watts. The power consumption of the WD Red Plus is much more consistent with other NAS HDDs...
