WD Red 5TB NAS Hard Drive: 1 to 8-bay RAID Hard Drive: 3.5-inch SATA 6 Gb/s, IntelliPower, 64MB Cache
- WD Red is the only drive specifically designed for NAS systems with 1 to 5 bays.
- Extensively tested for compatibility with top NAS manufacturers.
- Engineered for 24/7 operation and reliability.
- WD NASWare technology enables seamless integration with balanced performance.
- 3 year limited warranty.
- Beyond desktop with Answered
- Important features for system integrators
WD Red is the only hard drive designed for NAS systems that have 1-5 drive bays. Available in captivities ranging from 1 TB to 6 TB, WD Red is designed specifically for home and small office NAS systems. The drives are extensively tested for compatibility and reliability in the demanding operating environment of a 24×7 NAS system. WD’s exclusive NASware firmware technology enables seamless integration and balanced performance. Innovative technology reduces power consumption and lowers the operating temperature, and with a 35% improvement in MTBF over desktop drives, WD Red is a more reliable and robust NAS hard drive solution.
Features
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Experienced in Network Attached Storage
No matter which NAS enclosure you decide to purchase, you can trust that WD Red hard drives will be the most reliable NAS storage on the market. This is because WD has the most extensive NAS partner compatibility-testing list available in the industry.*
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NAS for Home & Small Business
WD Red hard drives enable our customers to create their own reliable Personal Cloud systems whether it’s in the office or at home. WD gives you peace of mind knowing your data is stored locally on WD Red NAS hard drives and not outside of your personal network. Want to safely store and share important business documents to one central location? WD Red hard drives are a great solution for small businesses or home office set ups who want NAS systems with safe and reliable storage. -
WD Red & NASware
WD Red hard drives are designed specifically with our NAS optimized technology called NASware, which optimizes a WD Red hard drive for the 1 to 8 bay NAS enviornment. NASware helps to further improve drive reliability as well as compatibility for NAS systems, ensuring that WD Red will work with partner systems.
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Ideal for
WD Red hard drives are available in a variety of capacities of up to 6TB for 3.5 inch form factors and up to 1 TB for 2.5 inch form factors. WD recommends using WD Red hard drives for NAS enclosures up to 8-bays which means customers have a potential of 48TB of storage in a single NAS enclosure!For NAS systems up to 16-bays, WD recommends using WD Red Pro hard drives.
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What it holds
WD offers capacities of up to 6 TB per hard drive, which allows you to hold up to 1,200,000 photos, 461 hours of video or 1,500,000 songs.**Examples of the number of photos, songs, videos and any other files that can be stored on a hard drive are provided for illustrative purposes only. Your results will vary based on file size and format, settings, features, software and other factors. As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, megabit per second (Mb/s) = one million bits per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.
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