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Launched just over a year ago, Western Digital's Red line of drives, along with an easier to understand product line-up (Greed, Blue, Black and so on) have changed the way that many consumers look at their storage. The Red drives are built primarily for a...
Built for NAS, 3 year warranty, Enterprise features and reliability, Low power usage, 1m hour MTBF, Desirable price...
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PricingLike their full sized 3.5″ counterparts, the 2.5″ drives both come in with a good price point for their size. With prices ranging from around £60 to just over £160 for the 3.5″ 1-4TB drives and the 2.5″ drives coming in at around £60 for the 750GB...
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micromart.co.uk Updated: 2014-03-21 03:35:12
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Now here's an unusual question: when is a 2.5" hard drive not intended for use in a laptop? I'm not talking about a 2.5" drive that's too thick to slip inside a modern laptop. In the past, WD has released its 1TB Scorpio Blue drive in both 9.5mm and 12.5m...
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Before July 2012, choosing the correct drive for your NAS left you with limited options. On one hand, you had the WD Green, which carried a lot of power saving features, but lacked high-end performance. Then there was the WD Black, a drive that offered t...
The new Western Digital Red in the 2.5" form factor is an extension of hard work and dedication that WD has put into developing solutions to fit their customer's needs. First introduced just over a year ago, the WD Red set a path, bringing enterprise rel...
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Western Digital launched their WD RED line quite a while ago, and it's been a successful one. We've previously had a look at how the 2.5-inch version with 1TB capacity performs as a single disk, but we've yet to look at how four of these will do in a RAID...
Western Digital's RED line of drives have made vast improvements in SOHO and SMB storage arrays, giving them the performance and reliability that they need but on a scale that doesn't carry the same price tags that the enterprise-class drives bring with t...
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uk.hardware.info Updated: 2018-02-21 06:42:38
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Despite the upswing of the cloud and increasingly cheaper SSDs, the most convenient and most affordable way to store large amounts of data is still a hard disk drive. In this article we take a look at 18 models meant for use in a NAS.Hard drives might not...
Because the throughput of these hard drives will be limited by the used NAS and the network connection we do not primarily look at the speed here, but at the elements that are important for this segment: noise levels and power consumption. Therefore it is...
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The WD Red family of NAS-tuned hard drives is a perfect example of the ways mature technology like the hard drive can continue to be specialized for new applications. Today WD has announced new additions to the Red lineup; two 2.5-inch drives, which will...
First 2.5-inch hard drive tuned for NAS performance, Performs very well in single-drive tests compared to existing 2.5" HDD models, Competitive performance in a multi-drive scenario in our NAS environment...
Lack of SFF NAS devices in the market...
WD is betting on the emerging market for NAS devices with 2.5-inch drive bays, and has gotten into the market early. If you are looking for a 2.5-inch NAS drive, the WD Red 1TB should definitely be on your radar...
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Before July 2012, choosing the correct drive for your NAS left you with limited options. On one hand, you had the WD Green, which carried a lot of power saving features, but lacked high-end performance. Then there was the WD Black, a drive that offered t...
The new Western Digital Red in the 2.5" form factor is an extension of hard work and dedication that WD has put into developing solutions to fit their customer's needs. First introduced just over a year ago, the WD Red set a path, bringing enterprise rel...
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The WD Red 1TB (2.5 inch) and 6TB.Undersides.The Red drives we're going to examine today come in starkly different form factors. The Red 6TB is more of what we've seen before, the latest high capacity desktop flagship for users with limited drive bays who...
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pcper.com Updated: 2015-05-31 10:33:19
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Here's my translation of Western Digital's marketing speak for the specs of the WD Red Series. Some of these are not specifically listed by WD, but we know they are in there, so we will keep them here for your education: NoTouch™ ramp load technolo...
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Hard drive makers are in something of a quandary these days, as the old methods of revamping their product line are becoming increasingly difficult to achieve.That's because there is a realistic limit to how much data you can cram on a spinning disk...
An early Christmas present for any NAS box...
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Computer storage has come a long way since our last roundup. We have new PCIe 4.0 SSDs, NVMe drives are becoming the de facto standard for new machines, and prices for legacy drives have plummeted. Rather than just focusing on high-end drives, this time w...
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