A:Answer To follow up on my previous response; I received the drives I ordered yesterday, (Friday, 11/10/17) and cracked them open to find some similarities and differences in comparing them to the 8TB Easystore drives I bought this spring and summer.
Differences:
1. The packaging now has a Holiday offer on it, so presumably this is not excess Inventory from the summer that they are trying to unload. In a bright yellow circle on the front "HOLIDAY OFFER 250GB CLOUD STORAGE ". If your drive has this, I would take an educated guess that it is a similar drive to what is described here and NOT the drives from the summer.
2. The drive ID is WD80EMAZ.
3. This is NOT a Red labeled drive. Specifically the sticker is all white. (google image search the ID to see examples)
The models I cracked out of the EZStore in the spring were WD80EFZX and this summer were WD80EFAX.
WD = Western Digital
80 = 8TB Capacity
EF = Red Series
ZX = 128Mb Cache
AX = 256Mb Cache
Similarities:
1. Like the FAX it has 256Mb Cache
2. Like the FAX it uses firmware 83.HOA83 firmware. I see this through my Synology DSM Storage Manager app. I do not have access to look at the fw of the FZX
My best guess is that the WD80EMAZ is a re-labeled Red drive and the EM means Mobile.
The most important things for me are the same, and the differences are just in the label.
YMMV.
