It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Alberts_Here on 2025-06-08 04:07:27.

I'd like to preface by apologizing if this question was answered before, but I couldn't find it myself.

I'm looking to upgrade my old WD Red 8TB in my computer with a newer and larger one, specificly either the:

• WD Gold 18TB (WD181KRYZ)
• WD Red Pro 18TB (WD181KFGX)

I'm a photographer and would use this drive as a 1st copy for my photos (already have a dedicated NAS). I see they're both going for the same price here in Canada, and am wondering if there's an advantage to either drive for my use case.

I'm aware the theoretical max write speed for the Red Pro is 4mbps faster, but are there other factors that would affect what you would recomend I get?

Cheers!