Optimized for NAS with NASware™
The WD Red family of drives features Western Digital’s exclusive NASware™ technology that fine tunes drive parameters to match NAS system workloads, which helps increase performance and reliability.
Designed for Continuous Operation
WD Red Pro hard drives are designed to handle the rigorous demands of high-intensity 24x7 multi-user NAS environments and increase system durability.
Tested for Dependable Compatibility
Western Digital partners with a wide range of NAS system vendors for extensive testing to ensure compatibility with most NAS enclosures.
Protected against Excessive Vibration
WD Red Pro drives include Rotation Vibration (RV) sensors that anticipate and proactively counteract disturbances caused by increased vibration. By dispersing excess vibration across the drive chassis, turbulence is minimized, performance is maintained and drives are protected.
Built to Absorb Shock
WD Red Pro hard drives include a multi-axis shock sensor to detect subtle shock events and automatically compensate with dynamic fly height technology to further protect the drives in NAS enclosures.
Get the most out of your NAS system with HDDs and SSDs specifically engineered for multi-user NAS workloads.
WD Red® Plus for power users and small to medium business NAS environments
WD Red® Plus drives deliver the speed and capacity required to store, protect and share growing amounts of data in mid-sized RAID-optimized NAS systems with increased power efficiency.
WD Red® Pro for high-intensity 24×7 multi-user enterprise NAS environments
WD Red® Pro drives are engineered for the performance, scalability and dependability businesses require to store, share and collaborate on large amounts of data in multi-bay RAID-optimized NAS systems.
Fast caching for all
Enhance responsiveness for SMB applications — or manage virtualization and database storage for enterprise — with WD Red SSDs.
Power Your NAS with Western Digital
Support team collaboration, share files with clients, and power data-hungry applications with purpose-built NAS HDDs and SSDs.
WD Red Plus NAS Hard Drive
Product Highlights:
- Available in capacities ranging from 1TB to 14TB
- For RAID-optimized NAS systems with up to 8 bays
- Rated for 180TB/year workload and 1M hours MTBF
Ideal for:
- Home Offices and Power Users
- Small to Medium Businesses
- Consumer and Commercial NAS systems
WD Red Pro NAS Hard Drive
Product Highlights:
- Available in capacities ranging from 2TB to 24TB
- For RAID-optimized NAS systems with unlimited # of bays
- Rated for 550TB/year workloads and up to 2.5M hours MTBF
Ideal for:
- Multimedia Creative Pros
- Medium to Large Businesses
- Commercial and Enterprise NAS systems
WD Red SN700 NVMe™ SSD
- Our fastest-caching SSD boosts system responsiveness and improves I/O performance
- Up to 5,100 TBW, or terabytes written, for exceptional reliability and endurance3
- Available in capacities of 250GB–4TB
- 5-year limited warranty
WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD 2.5”/7mm Cased
- Fast-caching SSD boosts system responsiveness and improves I/O performance
- Up to 2,500 TBW for exceptional reliability and endurance
- Available in capacities of 500GB–4TB
- 5-year limited warranty
WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD M.2 2280
- Fast-caching SSD boosts system responsiveness and improves I/O performance
- Up to 560MB/s and 530MB/s sequential read/write performance, respectively
- Available in capacities of 500GB-2TB
- 5-year limited warranty
NAS System Compatibility4
WD Red HDDs and SSDs have been compatibility-tested by major NAS system providers with their NAS systems and components, such as host bus adaptors, controller cards, and enclosures. See below for links to compatibility lists maintained by major NAS system providers.
CASE STUDY
WD Red Plus Drives Deliver Optimized Performance for NAS Environment of Digital Startups
AI-driven Shikenso Analytics partnered with Western Digital to reimagine its storage architecture in order to keep up with its explosive data growth. The startup chose WD Red Plus to optimize performance, security, reliability, and scalability.
Frequently Asked Questions
For power users and small to medium business NAS environments, WD Red® Plus drives deliver the speed and capacity required to store, protect and share growing amounts of data in mid-sized RAID-optimized NAS systems with increased power efficiency.
For high-intensity 24×7 multi-user enterprise NAS environments, WD Red® Pro drives are engineered for the performance, scalability and dependability businesses require to store, share and collaborate on large amounts of data in multi-bay RAID-optimized NAS systems.
To tackle extreme workloads, upgrade your NAS system with fast-caching WD Red SSDs, including the WD Red SN700 and WD Red SA500. These drives will boost responsiveness and I/O performance and are perfect for multi-user high-intensity NAS environments.
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Disclosures
1. Workload Rate is defined as the amount of user data transferred to or from the hard drive. Workload Rate is annualized, that’s TB transferred ✕ (8760 / recorded power-on hours). Workload Rate will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurations.
2. 1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less, depending on operating environment.
3. TBW (terabytes written) values calculated using JEDEC client workload (JESD219) and vary by product capacity.
4. Western Digital makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, and cannot be held liable regarding the compatibility of its internal hard drives when used with NAS systems identified as compatible by the system providers above. Western Digital does not guarantee the compatibility with third-party products and peripherals and reserves the right to update the list above at any time without prior notice.