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September 2013
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305 Reviews
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The editors liked
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
Up to 10TB capacity options
Low noise and power consumption
Good endurance
Fair pricing
Good performance
Up to 10TB capacity (8TB tested today)
Suited for multi-bay enclosures
24/7 usage certified
Low noise thanks to the 5400RPM class
Great performance
Plentiful capacity
Much more affordable than enterprise 6TB disks
Good speeds
Despite the spec
Good reliability
Huge capacity
Low power consumption
Quiet
Fantastic design
I personally love the WD colour schemes
Great performance for a 5400RPM drive
Low power
Designed for 24/7 use in a file server
NAS or for even home use
Available in capacities up to 6TB
3year warranty on retail samples (nonOEM)
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Specially engineered for NAS
Three models from 1TB to 3TB
Improves NAS read and write speeds
Balance Plus tech may boost reliability
The editors didn't like
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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
Not as fast as 7200 RPM drives
5400 RPM spindle speed
“Western Digital continues to develop and improve their WD Red drives. The 10TB version I tested today is a perfect example
A solid SOHO NAS drive that is silent and efficient.”
WD Red 10T
Not as fast as 7200RPM drives
“Western Digital’s WD Red are proven drives which will serve you well any day. The 8TB model I tested today is no different.”
Western Digital WD RED 8TB NAS HDD Review
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Western Digital
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Not the absolute fastest disk performance
Early firmware misconfiguration
No RV sensor
Toshiba's N300 drives are bettervalue in some cases
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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Published: 2014-07-21, Author: Twitter
Terry , review by: wegotserved.com
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...
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...
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....
