Western Digital Introduces Next-Level Storage Solutions for NAS Environments

Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), nowadays added an array of purpose-constructed garage solutions for small organizations and home places of work leveraging NAS environments. The answers encompass the first-ever WD Red® SSDs, which beautify overall performance and caching abilties in a hybrid NAS surroundings, as well as a 14TB potential for the WD Red and WD Red Pro HDDs.

SSD Performance to Support High-Speed Connectivity With the boom in virtualization, 10GbE (10 Gigabit Ethernet) and higher connectivity speeds are becoming an critical characteristic set in current NAS structures. To help decrease a overall performance bottleneck, SSD speeds are critical.

To completely guide the requirements of those environments, storage tool sturdiness, pace and capability stay heavily in call for. Building on the demonstrated reliability of Western Digital's WD Red product portfolio, the solutions are built to convert ache points to earnings for the stop person. When applied as a caching solution in a NAS gadget, the WD Red SA500 SSD helps to boost performance at the same time as the brand new better ability WD Red and WD Red Pro HDDs offer greater storage area in the same NAS device.

"A boost in overall performance for NAS systems can translate to more content material in less time, so creators or small agencies can work greater correctly to boom output and, as a result, capacity income," said Ziv Paz, senior director, purchaser computing phase advertising, Western Digital. "Our higher capacities coupled with optimized endurance inside the WD Red portfolio are making room for larger files and lowering storage bandwidth-prompted strain. For creators running on big projects through the years, the latest WD Red SSD solution allows a hybrid NAS surroundings where the SSD can function a caching mechanism for each large and frequently accessed documents."

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"Working with Western Digital has proved more and more useful in delivering premium storage for our NAS systems," stated Meiji Chang, trendy supervisor, QNAP. "With the addition of modern WD Red SA500 SSD as a storage or caching solution, our clients can now take full gain of committed SSD slots in our structures and advantage from faster community switch speeds and best staying power."

"Whether it's editing video projects, backing up photos or developing software program, the proper storage platform now not most effective protects your statistics, however lets you get admission to it quicker," said Patrick Deschere, advertising director, Synology America Corp. "By pairing Synology with Western Digital, you can optimize your NAS experience and get the best of the cloud while keeping complete possession of your data."

Product Details New merchandise brought today are:

  • WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD

    • Purpose-built for NAS lovers, the state-of-the-art WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD offers capacities from 500GB as much as 4TB1 (2.5-inch simplest) and creates an surroundings optimized for 10GbE networks as well as caching in NAS structures to hastily get entry to frequently used files. With advanced persistence for heavy examine and write masses demanded by NAS in a 24/7 environment, the drive supports OLTP databases, multi-user environments, picture rendering, 4K and 8K video enhancing.

  • WD Red NAS Hard Drive

    • Complementary to the WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD, the cutting-edge WD Red HDD capacity growth to 14TB1 is designed for use in NAS systems with up to eight bays. Ideal for small-and-home-office 24/7 environments, the power helps as much as a 180 TB/yr workload price*.

  • WD Red Pro NAS Hard Drive

    • Built just like the WD Red HDD with a lift for professional NAS workloads and as much as 14TB1 capacity, the WD Red Pro HDD supports as much as 24 bays. With three-D Active Balance Plus technology and errors recovery controls with NASware™ three.zero era, the force operates with enhanced reliability.

Pricing and Availability The WD Red SA500 SSD comes in capacities of 500GB up to 2TB for the m.2 form issue and ranges in charge from $72.00 as much as $297.00 (MSRP USD) inside the u.s. The 2.5-inch form factor of the WD Red SA500 SSD is available in capacities of 500GB as much as 4TB and levels in charge from $75.00 to $600.00 (MSRP USD) inside the u.s. Both shape factors of WD Red SA500 SSDs are presently to be had in restricted portions on the WD store within the u.s. And can be to be had globally in November at pick out Western Digital stores, e-tailers, resellers and system integrators. The WD Red NAS HDD in 14TB potential is priced at $450.00 (MSRP USD) in the u.s. And the WD Red NAS Pro HDD in 14TB capacity is priced at $525.00 (MSRP USD) inside the u.s. These 14TB HDD merchandise will be to be had globally in November at choose Western Digital shops, e-tailers, resellers, device integrators and on the WD store.

The new WD Red products be part of Western Digital's portfolio of HDD and SSD solutions that are motive-built for a range of applications in organization, patron and gaming markets. For company clients, Western Digital recently greater its WD Gold Enterprise Class HDD storage answer, now to be had in capacities up to 14TB1.

Enabling the opportunities of data, Western Digital gives one of the industry's broadest portfolio of products and solutions to assist people seize, hold, access and transform their content. For greater information, go to our website: www.westerndigital.com

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  • Pull quotes:

    • Western Digital: "A improve in performance for NAS systems can translate to extra content in much less time, so creators or small agencies can paintings greater successfully to growth output and, as a end result, ability earnings," stated Ziv Paz, senior director, purchaser computing phase advertising, Western Digital.

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