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Western Digital has spotted a niche in the storage market. To its established range of hard-disk drives, it’s added the WD Red, a new range aimed to fulfill the requirements of network-attached storage (NAS)The WD Red – available in 1TB, 2TB and 3TB c...
In the WD Red, Western Digital has pulled off a great balance of features for this specialist network-storage hard disk. It runs as quietly as the low-power Caviar Green yet with performance more like a fast 7200rpm desktop PC hard drive. Currently se...
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Earlier this year Western Digital (WD) announced the WD Red NAS hard drives that are a line of SATA III 6Gbps hard drives specifically designed for home and small office NAS (network attached storage) systems. Anyone that has ever built a NAS before...
The WD Red 3TB NAS Hard Drive performed great and spending a little extra for the NASware technology appears to be well worth it!...
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Western Digital's new line of Red drives $119.99 at Dell has been specifically engineered to work with NAS devices. These 3.5-inch SATA drives can be installed in most of the common NAS devices on the market including those from Synology, Qnap, D-Lin...
Improves NAS read and write speeds.
Bottom Line, Western Digital's specially engineered Red drives are a worthy consideration for those who need fast, reliable NAS performance...
Western Digital's specially engineered Red drives are a worthy consideration for those who need fast, reliable NAS performance...
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I'm going to let the cat out of the bag right here and now. Everyone's home RAID is likely an accident waiting to happen. If you're using regular consumer drives in a large array, there are some very simple (and likely) scenarios that can cause it...
Whisper quiet operation, even while seeking!, Power sipping thanks to Green pedigree, Outstanding sequential read and write speeds, 3Year warranty with 24/7 support hotline, 1,000,000 hour MTBF (35% boost over other consumergrade hard drives)...
Random access performance is low (onpar with WD AVGP).
Western Digital has seen a future market demand and filled that void brilliantly. The new Red series offers outstanding throughput, dead-silent operation, and even some enterprise features at a cost only slightly above that of the lowest cost consumer...
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Western Digital (WD) introduced hard drives specifically targeted towards NAS systems under the Red branding last month. Jason had some initial coverage at launch time. WD claimed to have put in a number of firmware features and some additional hard...
With the WD Red lineup, Western Digital continues its successful branding initiative. The three disks that we have had in-house over the last month have performed and held up quite well under stress. The disks have the optimal balance of firmware features...
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xbitlabs.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:29:26
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In the summer of 2012 Western Digital unveiled its Red product series optimized for network attached storage devices. It is positioned by the manufacturer as optimal for entry-level and midrange NASes that can take in 1 to 5 HDDs. Corporate users are o...
Western Digital’s Red series is definitely a success. It is superior to its predecessor in those parameters we could measure in our tests such as speed, power consumption and temperature. This advantage may be due to the progress that has been made in...
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In the past, many have opined that the advent of the cloud was going to gut the NAS market, but a multitude of factors have risen to speed the deployment of NAS into numerous applications. The NAS market has been experiencing explosive growth lately, and...
The WD Red is designed specifically to address the needs of the NAS market with advanced features such as TLER, IntelliPower, NASware 2.0, and 3D active Balance Plus. These features address NAS-specific problems that plague desktop drives pushed into ser...
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techarp.com Updated:
2013-09-12 15:20:26
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The new Western Digital Red family of NAS hard disk drives is quite an interesting enhancement of the Western Digital Green family of low-powered, slower-spinning hard disk drives (formerly known as the Western Digital Caviar Green family). It is basi...
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When Western Digital first unveiled its 2TB Caviar Green drive in 2009, those who were planning on building a home server or purchase a NAS felt that they were a no-brainer choice. After all, what's better than low-power and huge storage? Well, that w...
When WD first announced its Red NAS drives, I admit that it seemed a little expected. The company has targeted the surveillance and audio / video market before, so catering to NAS users, to me, seemed to be the next logical step. That said, while it d...
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Majority of electronics fall into one of two categories: consumer or enterprise. Typically the price tags very significantly between the two, but you usually get what you pay for. Enterprise equipment is generally put through more quality assurance te...
Designed for use in NAS and RAID arrays, Solid performance, Cooler thermal profile than other drives...
Only a 3 year warranty...
Western Digital has an interesting product here. It falls right in between their consumer line of drives and their enterprise line. This makes it perfect for small businesses that can’t afford a SAN, but can afford a NAS. The feature set rivals that o...
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Each month we test one to two NAS products here at TweakTown, but the number of emails I receive asking which drives to use far surpasses that number. The main issue that crops up when choosing a set of disk drives is always the same, price. When shop...
The Western Digital Red Series isn't WD's first RAID environment HDD, but it is their first affordable for home use model. The RE class of products certainly helped the company to develop this new class of drive and we are thankful to say the least...
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Despite being first to market with a NAS-targeted hard drive, WD has proven itself to be the late one on offering a 4TB model – Seagate beat it to the punch just a couple of months earlier. It was a little baffling that WD didn't offer the top-density mod...
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This is the –1TB Platter version of the WD30EFRX that is reviewed earlier. To re-quote my 30EFRX Red drive's review:WD has this error recovery feature that's usually present in enterprise storage optimized for 24/7 operation (along with multiple features...
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WD came up with newer line-up of hard drives “Red” suitable for 24/7 for NAS drives.Since a lot of personal and SOHO NAS was featured in this year's Computex, storage drives made specifically for NAS operations was something that was present in Enterprise...
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PC storage has increasingly split into two categories: system and secondary. System storage houses your OS, applications, games, and all the data you need to access quickly. Secondary storage handles everything else.SSDs are easily the best solution for s...
In some ways, the Red 4TB feels like the future of mechanical drives. It's tuned for PC RAID arrays and network-attached storage, which are the most attractive applications for high-capacity hard drives right now. When you're storing 4TB of data, you wan...
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There's no denying that the popularity of Network Attached Storage devices (or NAS Servers as i like to call them) has increased at such a degree over the past 3 years that even regular consumers purchase them for home use whether that's for downloading f...
Build Quality (MTBF Of 1.000.000 Hours), Good Performance Levels, NASware 2.0 Technology (Low Temperatures/Noise Levels/Power...
Raw Performance (However More Than Enough For NAS Use)...
Although we don't do power consumption tests on HDDs cause quite frankly it's very hard to be 100% on the spot with such results we did perform our usual temperature and noise level tests both of which showcase that Western Digital has indeed invested tim...
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WD sent its 4TB variant of its RED series NAS storage drive for evaluation. This should be interesting to see how it performs. Earlier, we've reviewed WD Red 2TB and 3TB variants which performed pretty well.1. Introduction 2. Specifications and Images 3...
The performance of the 4TB is a very good enough on most counts for a network storage drive. The performance of the Red Series so far remains consistent. Even if you look at average access tests, not only it performs better than Seagate' 4TB NAS counte...
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storagereview.com Updated:
2014-11-20 11:33:40
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WD was first to market with a duty-specific NAS drive when they launched the Red family over two years ago. They're now onto the third iteration of the 3.5" drive (we previously review the WD Red Pro), which includes an updated firmware, NASware 3.0, and...
Largest NAS HDD available, Great 8K performance, Upgraded NASware features...
Trade-off in random access performance with slower spindle speed...
For those looking maximize their storage capabilities in a NAS, the WD Red 6TB drives are a great option. Not only to they perform very well, but they offer 2TB more capacity than anything else currently in the market on a third generation platform that h...
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The hard drive market has become a lot less sexy in the past few years thanks to SSDs. What we used to consider...
When considering the WD alternatives, both Red and Green drives seemed priced appropriately and ran cool and quiet throughout testing. We have nothing to complain about, as they seemed to do the job and won't require the cost upside we saw with Seagate's offering. All in all, we're happy to recommend all three drives, but there are caveats to that all-important price performance curve that you'll have to calculate for yourself, based on your specific needs and wants...
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The WD Red 1TB (2.5 inch) and 6TB.Undersides.The Red drives we're going to examine today come in starkly different form factors. The Red 6TB is more of what we've seen before, the latest high capacity desktop flagship for users with limited drive bays who...
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Western Digital's Red and Se 4TB hard drives are two high capacity sides of the same coin. Both are optimized for RAID/NAS use but the Red is a low power model for consumer use while the Se is a high performance enterprise drive.
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NAS drive solution from WD and Seagate have been around for a while, and recently introduced two storage capacity variants- WD50EFRX 5TB and WD60EFRX 6TB. We're going to take a look at the 5TB Red Variant.To keep with the storage demands with the SOHO env...
Excellent Transfer Speed, 5TB Storage Space...
Access Speed...
I really wish 10Gb/s Ethernet was a norm. With the requirement for networked (especially wired LAN) storage requirement is slowly growing in many households with multiple systems and wireless devices, 1Gb/s Ethernet port just doesn't cut it. Its long over...
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Considering the fact that WD announced its Red 6TB hard drive last summer , getting a review of it on the site has taken quite some time. In fact, now that we've entered 2015, I took a moment to look back and see when our last look at a bare drive was, an...
I'll preface this conclusion by saying that there are more 6TB hard drive reviews en route. It'd be nice to test out the WD Green, for starters, although I don't think it's that necessary. I believe it should perform just about the same as this Red driv...
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wegotserved.com Updated:
2015-12-06 10:10:08
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Western Digital moves NAS storage to the next level with massive capacity and competitive performance. Don't expect to see massive performance gains by moving to a NAS drive over newer desktop models, but claimed reliability features and premium support w...
sCutting through the benchmarks, what does all this mean?Firstly, if you're using a NAS with traditional (non-NAS specific) hard drives, then switching to a WD Red drive (or one of its competitors, like Seagate NAS hard drives) may provide a bump in file...
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We received updated samples from WD, as well as applying a firmware update to the samples used in our original review. We were able to confirm that the update does in fact work, and brings a WD60EFRX-68MYMN 0 to the identical and improved performance char...
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The Western Digital WD Red is a hot topic in the NAS community at the moment as the small NAS market now has a drive specifically targeted at the market for the first time. Up until now Western Digital have separated their hard drive lines into three; Blu...
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decryptedtech.com Updated:
2015-12-25 11:30:43
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Over the years the need for more storage has exploded. I have seen systems with 750GB drive packed with pictures, MP3s and movies not to mention actual work files. It has become borderline ridiculous. Still we need to have better access to more space to s...
When WD first called us about these drives we were a little skeptical to be honest with you. We did not see the need or the use for an extra category of drive in this range. After all, many people will recommend that you just get the fastest drives in the...
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Mechanical hard disk drives have been around for decades now but it wasn't until the introduction of the first NAS (network attached storage) and digital NVR (network video recorder) models that the need for different models was even considered by manufac...
Build Quality (MTBF Of 1.000.000 Hours), Good Read/Write Performance, NASware 3.0 Features, Low Temperatures, Noise Levels & Power...
Overall Performance & Price (Compared To the Competition)...
When choosing which drives to get for use with a NAS performance should not be the first thing consumers should look for and that actually makes sense since lower power consumption, temperatures and even noise levels could be more “beneficial”...
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Western Digital is a company with deep roots in the storage industry, with products that span virtually every customer and business need. Western Digital is also considered one of the most trustworthy brands that users look to when purchasing a new drive...
Larger than life capacity, Low cost, Enterprise grade features, Low power consumption, Larger than life capacity, Low cost, Enterprise grade features, Low power consumption...
We were pleasantly surprised by the overall performance and function of the two 6TB Red drives. In their intended environment, the performance was on par with some enterprise level drives. We were also able to stream video to two devices while also writin...
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Western Digital just launched its new Red family of mechanical hard drives, optimized specifically for home and small office/home office (SOHO) network-attached storage devices. The company sent its 2 and 3 TB models for us to benchmark and review. When...
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hw4all.com Updated:
2018-06-28 17:46:00
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Most people today do not prefer to buy hard drives and solid state drives. But given the price of a gigabyte to store large amounts of data without the traditional hard disk drives can not do. Especially it concerns the NAS network storage, which are beco...
Two of the most interesting hard drive in our tests – Seagate Ironwolf / NAS 8TB (ST8000VN0002) and Western Digital Red 8TB (WD80EFZX). First released performance and a good set of features for high-end NAS. WD Red 8TB also provides good performance, but...
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Western Digital has expanded their Red line to include an 8TB model, increasing the maximum capacity of 8-bay NAS units to 64TB so that SOHO users can get even more out of their initial server investment. WD is using their HelioSeal helium-technology to g...
Lower energy usage than a traditional drive, Optimized for NAS use, Good performance overall...
Trailed slightly behind compeititve drive in most tests...
The WD Red 8TB model is a great addition to Western Digital's Red line, building sealed drive technology into a well known platform to deliver a compelling overall value proposition...
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Storage devices for personal computers have always been a tricky proposition. While the majority of computer parts are solid state , the computer industry has spent most of its life storing bits on electromechanical mechanical devices like tapes and flopp...
Highest sequential performance seen from a 5400 RPM HDD to date, Highest random / IOPS performance seen from a 5400 RPM HDD to date, Matured enterprise technology adopted for consumer usage, along with a hermetically sealed drive enclosure, should yield i...
Helium did not make the 8TB Red noticeably lighter (I kid - it is actually 0.22 lbs lighter!), Would like to see 7200 RPM consumer model (8TB Red Pro), More 8TB Red review action coming soon...
PROS:Highest sequential performance seen from a 5400 RPM HDD to date.Highest random / IOPS performance seen from a 5400 RPM HDD to date.Matured enterprise technology adopted for consumer usage, along with a hermetically sealed drive enclosure, should yiel...
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The popularity of Network-Attached Storage (NAS) systems has fuelled a surge in demand for large capacity hard disk drives. This interest led Western Digital to create the WD Red NAS-optimised family of hard disk drives. Today, we are going to look at the...
This is our second review of a helium-filled hard disk drive (after the 8TB WD Gold), and we continue to be impressed. Even from its specifications alone, we can already see a significant reduction in power consumption and noise levels. These are not mino...
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Hard disk drives have become specialized products designed for specific needs. The manufacturers use both hardware and software to tune the drives' parameters for specific workloads. For instance, a digital video recorder will rarely read or write random...
Excellent price point for this capacity, High mixed sequential workload performance, Low heat, Low noise...
Weak random performance...
The 8TB Red costs just over $100 less than the 10TB model and delivers only slightly less performance. The drive delivers an excellent cost-to-capacity ratio and is the model we would choose to build a new dense server. The new Helium-filled models al...
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For years the Hard Disk Drive was the mainstay of all commercial personal computers around the world. It's had a bashing lately from the superb Solid State Drive technology, paving the future for fast, low power and robust main system storage. So where do...
We put this together due to the solid performance we are seeing with our HomeServer project. We had a fair idea on how this drive would perform, we tested extensively prior to deciding on the RAID configuration. We wanted to run through a dedicated review...
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WD continues to expand the capacities of its popular Red brand of HDDs with the latest being 10TB. With this new bump up in capacity an 8-bay NAS can have a whopping 80TB of capacity without adding any expansion units. The HDDs come in 3.5” form factor ma...
Strong large-block sequential read score, Great 8k 70/30 results, Good price to capacity ratio...
Had the lowest write scores on a few benchmarks...
The WD Red 10TB is perfect for those looking to add capacity to their NAS and need a fair amount of performance to go along with it...
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