Testseek.com have collected 305 expert reviews of the Western Digital 3.5 inch NAS Red SATA600 WD-EFAX / WD-EFRX / WD-EFZX / WD-EFFX Series and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital 3.5 inch NAS Red SATA600 WD-EFAX / WD-EFRX / WD-EFZX / WD-EFFX Series.
September 2013
(85%)
305 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(92%)
2379 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
850100305
The editors liked
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)
Published: 2014-06-05, Author: The , review by: hardwarebbq.com
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...
Abstract: The 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 basicall....
Abstract: 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...
Abstract: 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.
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...
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...
Abstract: 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....
Published: 2012-09-11, Author: Andrew , review by: techworld.com
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...
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...
