WD Red vs Red Plus? I have just bought a DS220J and want to populate it in a RAID 1 configuration with two 2TB WD Red drives. I only want to use the NAS for local storage to serve files and to back up one or two local PCs. Would you recommend the Red or […]
Understanding the difference between WD Blue, Red, Black, Green, Purple and Gold Hard Drives UPDATED FOR 2023 Western Digital have been in the hard drive and SSD market since the 1970s and I think it is safe to say that are one of the biggest and best storage media providers in the world. A lot of this […]
Understanding the difference between WD Blue, Red, Black, Green, Purple and Gold Hard Drives Western Digital have been in the hard drive and SSD market since the 1970s and I think it is safe to say that are one of the biggest and best storage media providers in the world. A lot of this success and market […]
The WD Red SA500 SSD for NAS Drives is Revealed WD is really, REALLY pushing their wares in the closing stages of 2019 with the latest announcement of a new series of NAS targetted SSD drives. The new Western Digital Red SA500 SSD, arriving hot on the heels of the announcement of the WD Red […]
Testing the 14TB WD140EFFX NAS HDD Now that WD Red has entered the realms of 14TB, with the release of the WD140EFFX NAS hard drive, the competition between drive manufacturers is really beginning to ramp up. We are long since past questioning the necessity of NAS optimized hard drives (i.e. RAID suitable, random read/write, 24×7 […]
Testing the WD Red SA500 NAS SSD Now that Western Digital has entered the NAS Solid State Drive market with their dedicated Network Attached Storage SSD, the WD Red SA500 series, we are really starting to see a change in the way most mid-range users handle the data in their NAS. Hard drive and SSD […]
The WD Red NAS Hard Drive Series hits 14TB Good news for those that are looking for the biggest and best hard drives for their NAS Drive(Synology, QNAP, Asustor, etc) with the release of a new and larger addition to the WD Red HDD series, now in 14 Terabytes of size. The WD Red range […]