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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
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000 hour MTBF (35% boost over other consumergrade hard drives)
Prior to the month or so I have had these drives, I had never had the opportunity to test helium technology. With the launch of the 8TB Red, WD has seemingly stabilized the platform enough to trust it out in the wild with consumers and in introducing th...
Great performance, Plentiful capacity, Much more affordable than enterprise 6TB disks
Not the absolute fastest disk performance, Early firmware misconfiguration
We liked The Western Digital Red 6TB finally means 6TB disks are a realistically affordable prospect for everyone. While you still pay something of a premium over 4TB disks and lower capacities, it's worth it for fewer devices in your PC or NAS. Sequentia...
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Published: 2014-10-08, Author: Paul , review by: tweaktown.com
WD experienced tremendous success when they pioneered the client NAS HDD segment with the popular WD Red series. The Red series addresses DAS RAID users as well, providing a value option for smaller RAID arrays that was not present a few short years ago....
The WD Red 6TB is quite a surprising solution and if we analyze our test results, I can really see where this purpose built solution will fit in. First off, it is obvious this drive does not really care for workload testing, as it did not perform too wel...
Published: 2013-09-07, Author: Paul , review by: tweaktown.com
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...
Three-year warranty, Good performance, Efficient performance, High data density
Specific spin speed not stated
WD's Red drives are good solution if you've just bought a NAS enclosure and aren't sure what types of drives you want to stick in there. They have a slightly longer warranty than desktop drives, as well as a longer stated mean time between failure, which...
Quiet operation. Respectable speeds. TLER means less likely to drop from arrays. Anti-vibration tech built specifically for NAS use
None notable,
If you need to stack your NAS, the Red drive makes a good choice — good speeds, quiet operation and some intelligent technology make it the go-to drive....
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. ...
functional and quiet internal drives for any small NAS unit, but in no way remarkable. We look forward to seeing how the WD Red series evolves, though.Join the PC World New Zealand newsletter!-->JoinError: Please check your email address.Tags hard drive...
