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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
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000 hour MTBF (35% boost over other consumergrade hard drives)
Western Digital has created a great drive with their RED 6TB HDD. It is designed specific for NAS usage and is a drive that is perfect for RAID setups. We saw great performance figures in all our benchmarks the drive also features a very low power consump...
6TB Capacity, 24/7/365 certified with 3-year warranty, Low price per GB of storage, Reduced running cost through lower electrics bill, Reduced hardware purchase needs due to available disk size per bay,
none, Neutral, Weighs 725 grams, “The WD RED 3.5″ 6TB drive blasted almost any other SATA drive away that we’ve tested prior. The great speeds, enormous capacity, and cheap price per GB makes it a winner in every way.”, Western Digital 3.5″ Red 6TB NAS Ha
The Western Digital Red 6TB is a hard drive and as such doesn't offer much design-wise, but why should it, it is a storage drive. Still, the sticker on the top has all relevant information you need in a layout that easy and fast to read. I would have like...
Great performance, Plentiful capacity, Much more affordable than enterprise 6TB disks
Not the absolute fastest disk performance, Early firmware misconfiguration
After solving the early firmware issue, the Western Digital Red 6TB is a great product. If you're building a NAS, or stuffing a desktop PC with double-digit amounts of storage with multiple hard disks in a RAID array, the Red series are the ones to go fo...
Published: 2014-09-30, Author: Andrew , review by: techadvisor.co.uk
The WD Red in its new 6 TB form is self-evidently one huge disk. With the help of improved firmware it is now smiled upon for use in 8-bay NAS units, while its top speed of around 175 MB/s is faster than ever. Only at the level of smallest files do we see...
Abstract: Like all Western Digital Red models, the 6TB model has NAS-specific firmware called NASWare. The Red 6TB uses the latest version of NASWare, version 3.0, which isn’t available as a download that you can install on older Red disks. According to Western Dig...
Published: 2013-12-11, Author: Leo , review by: micromart.co.uk
Abstract: Perhaps you want a small, stylish NAS that takes up the bare minimum of space, in which case you need a pair of 2.5" 1TB WD Red drives. Please move smartly to the left and read the previous review, where you'll find everything you need.That takes care of ...
Abstract: Most of our avid readers of course have at least one SSD in their desktop and laptop, but for large volume storage you're still relegated to conventional hard disks. It's almost become a negative connotation - 'conventional' - and it really doesn't do t...
The WD Red drive comes in a variety of sizes from 750 GB all the way up to the 4 TB version we are reviewing here.This is one of the only 4 TB drives on the market today so if you need a lot of storage, and a good speed, and you plan on using the drive in...
We were already very much convinced about the qualities of the Red disks from Western Digital we tested earlier. The same holds for de 4TB model. The disk definitely isn't the fastest around, but that's not what is sets out to achieve in the first place...
