Storage optimized for the cache of NAS systems that allows quick access to the most used files. Its increased endurance withstands the read and write loads required by NAS systems, giving you the reliability you need 24 hours a day, every day. Specially designed for Western Digital 3D NAND NAS systems to provide maximum SATA performance to home and business users. Reduces latency and increases responsiveness for online transaction processing (OLTP) databases, multi-user environments, photo rendering, 4K and 8K video editing, and other applications. Available in 2.5” and M.2 formats to fit the slots of modern NAS systems. With capacities ranging from 500 GB to 4 TB (in the 2.5” format only), you'll have the flexibility to customize your NAS system to meet the most demanding storage needs.
Storage optimized for the cache of NAS systems that allows quick access to the most used files. Its increased endurance withstands the read and write loads required by NAS systems, giving you the reliability you need 24 hours a day, every day. Specially designed for Western Digital 3D NAND NAS systems to provide maximum SATA performance to home and business users. Reduces latency and increases responsiveness for online transaction processing (OLTP) databases, multi-user environments, photo rendering, 4K and 8K video editing, and other applications. Available in 2.5” and M.2 formats to fit the slots of modern NAS systems. With capacities ranging from 500 GB to 4 TB (in the 2.5” format only), you'll have the flexibility to customize your NAS system to meet the most demanding storage needs.
Storage optimized for the cache of NAS systems that allows quick access to the most used files. Its increased endurance withstands the read and write loads required by NAS systems, giving you the reliability you need 24 hours a day, every day. Specially designed for Western Digital 3D NAND NAS systems to provide maximum SATA performance to home and business users. Reduces latency and increases responsiveness for online transaction processing (OLTP) databases, multi-user environments, photo rendering, 4K and 8K video editing, and other applications. Available in 2.5” and M.2 formats to fit the slots of modern NAS systems. With capacities ranging from 500 GB to 4 TB (in the 2.5” format only), you'll have the flexibility to customize your NAS system to meet the most demanding storage needs.
Storage optimized for the cache of NAS systems that allows quick access to the most used files. Its increased endurance withstands the read and write loads required by NAS systems, giving you the reliability you need 24 hours a day, every day. Specially designed for Western Digital 3D NAND NAS systems to provide maximum SATA performance to home and business users. Reduces latency and increases responsiveness for online transaction processing (OLTP) databases, multi-user environments, photo rendering, 4K and 8K video editing, and other applications. Available in 2.5” and M.2 formats to fit the slots of modern NAS systems. With capacities ranging from 500 GB to 4 TB (in the 2.5” format only), you'll have the flexibility to customize your NAS system to meet the most demanding storage needs.
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Bought this to add storage to an M1 Mac Mini. So far it's reliable and performing well. Files are always accessible right away with no lag or delay. Only had it a few months, so I'll see how it goes and update the review if things change.
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I recently purchased a Synology DS920+ and was intrigued by the prospects of being able to install an M.2 2280 SSD for a pool of fast cache on the device. This particular drive is in the list of “recommended accessories” on the B&H product listing for the DS920+, so I figured “great, I suppose I’ll get that one.” Turns out j should’ve done my research a bit better, because the DS920+ only supports the NVMe protocol for the M.2 2280 form factor, not the SATA protocol of this particular drive. So buyer beware if your purchasing this particular SSD for use in the DS920+, because despite its inclusion as an idea accessory it is not in fact supported.
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I have had great success with WD SSDs in the past and have been happy with these so far. I use them in a NAS environment as Read/Write cache and as hot data storage in a auto-Tiering configuration. Good products, good tools, and good customer support.
| General | |
| Device Type | Solid state drive - internal |
| Capacity | 1 TB |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
Western Digital WDS100T1R0B Red SA500 1TB M.2 2280 SSD
Free delivery between Wed – Mon
WD WUSTVA196BSS200 / 0B42566 SAS 12Gb/s 960GB SSD
Free delivery between Wed – Mon
WD Ultrastar DC SS540 0B42565 SAS 12Gb/s 960GB SSD
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WD WUSTVA196BSS205 / 0B42568 SAS 12Gb/s 960GB SSD
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WD RED SA500 1TB M.2 2280 NAS SATA SSD
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Bought this to add storage to an M1 Mac Mini. So far it's reliable and performing well. Files are always accessible right away with no lag or delay. Only had it a few months, so I'll see how it goes and update the review if things change.
I recently purchased a Synology DS920+ and was intrigued by the prospects of being able to install an M.2 2280 SSD for a pool of fast cache on the device. This particular drive is in the list of “recommended accessories” on the B&H product listing for the DS920+, so I figured “great, I suppose I’ll get that one.” Turns out j should’ve done my research a bit better, because the DS920+ only supports the NVMe protocol for the M.2 2280 form factor, not the SATA protocol of this particular drive. So buyer beware if your purchasing this particular SSD for use in the DS920+, because despite its inclusion as an idea accessory it is not in fact supported.
I have had great success with WD SSDs in the past and have been happy with these so far. I use them in a NAS environment as Read/Write cache and as hot data storage in a auto-Tiering configuration. Good products, good tools, and good customer support.
This WD SSD drive was installed into a Dell Inspiron 5000 series laptop. The drive being replaced was a traditional mechanical WD Blue drive of the same capacity. Downloaded the drive cloning software from the WD website and the process was trouble free (make sure you get a good USB transfer cable). Installed the new drive and it booted up to Windows 10 without a glitch. Being a drive designed for NAS install, it does cost a bit more, but I wanted a drive that was a more reliable over the long term and hopefully this will deliver.
I purchased this to replace a failing Seagate FireCuda ST2000LX001-1RG174 within a RAID array.For me the most important point was an exact or bigger match on the drive capacity. A smaller capacity, even by only a few MB would have meant that the drive would be unusable for it's intended purpose. Switching to a SSD to improve performance was the other factor.I purchased the 2TB SATA 2.5" form factor (in case this review somehow shows beside other form factors).The raid array sits on a hypervisor running multiple KVM VM's. For those like me who appreciate how your system will see the drive. below are appropriate snippets from my kernel's boot log.The details for this drive (on a Linux 4.9.0 kernel)ata6.00: ATA-11: WDC WDS200T1R0A-68A4W0, 411000WR, max ... MoreI purchased this to replace a failing Seagate FireCuda ST2000LX001-1RG174 within a RAID array.For me the most important point was an exact or bigger match on the drive capacity. A smaller capacity, even by only a few MB would have meant that the drive would be unusable for it's intended purpose. Switching to a SSD to improve performance was the other factor.I purchased the 2TB SATA 2.5" form factor (in case this review somehow shows beside other form factors).The raid array sits on a hypervisor running multiple KVM VM's. For those like me who appreciate how your system will see the drive. below are appropriate snippets from my kernel's boot log.The details for this drive (on a Linux 4.9.0 kernel)ata6.00: ATA-11: WDC WDS200T1R0A-68A4W0, 411000WR, max UDMA/133ata6.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AAata6.00: configured for UDMA/133scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WDS200T1R0A 00WR PQ: 0 ANSI: 5sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.82 TiB)sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is offsd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUAThe drive was a drop in replacement from the Linux kernel / old array. Old drive (it was replacing) details :ata3.00: ATA-10: ST2000LX001-1RG174, SDM1, max UDMA/133ata3.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
These were purchased as additional storage drives for a TrueNAS Core system. I have gone all SSD as I don't need masses of space and the fact that the drives are silent as well as faster is more important. They were detected by the system with no issue at all. The following commanddd if=/dev/zero of=benchfile bs=4k count=250000 && sync; rm benchfilewhen run inside a VM gives the following output1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB, 977 MiB) copied, 6.62751 s, 155 MB/s
Longer Life over performance, I hope! This is WD's answer to the need for an SSD with longer lifespan (5 year warranty) for use in a Network Storage device (NAS). There are faster SSD's out there, but if you want one for a NAS it has to be a SATA device at the moment and these at least offer more Total Terrabytes written than consumer grade devices for your laptop. Yes it is typically 3 or four times the price of a typical Spinning Hard drive of the same capacity, but it has no moving parts to wear out, makes no noise and runs cooler. The future of NAS drives.
I have gone all SSD in my TrueNAS Core system as silent operation and speed are more important than capacity. Drives were detected with no issue at all. When I run the following command on the TrueNAS Core shell.dd if=/dev/zero of=benchfile bs=4k count=250000 && sync; rm benchfileI get the following result.1024000000 bytes transferred in 5.568465 secs, (183892681 bytes/sec)I know you can get NAS SSDs with a better set of specifications but they can be quite a bit more expensive, so for my use case these seemed like a good middle ground.
5 year warranty and priced a bit more than comparable drives by "Brand C" (what I was planning to use). Performance is more than adequate for my needs. No apparent "major issues" with these drives that I could find, unlike the "Brand C" drives. I bought a pair of these SSD for a Raid-1 setup to use in a home system that runs 24x7 and needs to reliably run 24x7 with this Raid-1 storage array (mostly used to read data, not write it). I had a very short list of choices: "Brand S", "Brand C", "Brand I", and WDC. I have used SSD from all 4 of those manufacturers over the past decade or more. I decided on this SSD because it claims to be specifically designed for use in a NAS, and I presume that implies RAID setup, so I am hoping that is not a bunch of "marketing speak". ... More5 year warranty and priced a bit more than comparable drives by "Brand C" (what I was planning to use). Performance is more than adequate for my needs. No apparent "major issues" with these drives that I could find, unlike the "Brand C" drives. I bought a pair of these SSD for a Raid-1 setup to use in a home system that runs 24x7 and needs to reliably run 24x7 with this Raid-1 storage array (mostly used to read data, not write it). I had a very short list of choices: "Brand S", "Brand C", "Brand I", and WDC. I have used SSD from all 4 of those manufacturers over the past decade or more. I decided on this SSD because it claims to be specifically designed for use in a NAS, and I presume that implies RAID setup, so I am hoping that is not a bunch of "marketing speak". I would consider buying these again if the price was "a bit more competitive".
We compared this to the Crucial 1TB SSD and found that its match up was better with the Crucial MX500 SSD we also installed in a new HP 17.3 laptop. Combined 32gb of Crucial Memory as well gave us the connection we needed for fast 4-8K News footage for FOX,CNN,MSNBC,ABC,CBS,NBC media outlets.... Our production time has been cut by 85% and that counts when you have to get the feed out.... Yesterday?... You get our drift.... We did compare this SSD to Crucial's SSD in the M.2. format and found it to be a better, faster drive for 4-8K film and news production :)
| General | |
| Device Type | Solid state drive - internal |
| Capacity | 1 TB |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
