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WD Red™ for NAS – Now More Choices for Customers

As the range of use cases for NAS has become increasingly diverse, we have now made it easier for users to match the right drive with their applications and workloads – from moderate small office/home office (SOHO) workloads to intensive small- and medium-business (SMB) use, as well as more demanding environments.

The New WD Red™ HDD Family

WD Red™

(SMR) is the main stream option for Personal/Home Office applications with light to moderate workloads and extended idle time.

WD Red™ Plus

(CMR) addresses the higher workload requirements of the Small Office and Medium Business user and meets the need of the ZFS community.

WD Red™ Pro

(CMR) is our performance solution for the higher bay-counts of intensive business workloads.

2 to 6TB

SMR
Home/Small Office
1 to 8 bay
5400 RPM
3 Year Warranty

1 to 14TB

CMR
Small & Medium Business
1 to 8 bay
5400 RPM
3 Year Warranty

2 to 18TB

CMR
Intensive Workloads
8 to 24 bay
7200 RPM
5 Year Warranty

Specifications

	WD Red™	WD Red™ Plus	WD Red™ Pro
CAPACITY	2, 3, 4, 6TB	1 to 14TB	2 to 18TB
Cache (up to)	256MB	512MB	512MB
Interface	SATA – 6Gb/s	SATA – 6Gb/s	SATA – 6Gb/s
Recording Tech	SMR	CMR	CMR
Workload	180TB/year Workload	180TB/year Workload	300TB/year Workload
Transfer Rate (up to)	180MB/s	215MB/s	255MB/s
RPM	5400	5400	7200
MTBF Hours/Uber	1 Million/ < 10 in 1014	1 Million/ < 10 in 1014	1 Million/ < 10 in 1014
WARRANTY	3 Year Warranty	3 Year Warranty	5 Year Warranty