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September 2013
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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)
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...
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...
Published: 2012-08-13, Author: The , review by: hardwarebbq.com
Abstract: 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...
Published: 2012-07-24, Author: Manuel , review by: tomshardware.com
Abstract: 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...
Published: 2012-07-20, Author: Jim , review by: servethehome.com
Abstract: 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...
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...
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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Published: 2020-04-17, Author: Jonathan , review by: aphnetworks.com
While confusing someone to be a Hong Kong grandma may be hard to forgive as a trivial mistake, it is hard to blame anyone who glanced over the difference between the Western Digital Red WD140EFFX 14TB andRed Pro WD141KFGX 14TBin the name. While both are m...
Published: 2017-10-20, Author: Jonathan , review by: aphnetworks.com
"I got your data back," I told my supervisor. "Thankfully, it is just your motherboard that died. Your hard drives are just fine. You are not so lucky every time." Within a week, my supervisor began to back up his data. Since it was for only one computer...
