Western Digital red Pro 4TB Review

We have reviewed Western Digital's NAS solutions for professional hard drive.

The brand is Western Digital, which produces hard disks designed for the purpose of to understand that if you want to pay attention to the color codes in the names is sufficient. The VelociRaptor series is crafted for pure desktop performance for models like this except the names of the series always you can see the color codes. Blue, Green, Black, Red, which is known as each of this series has different uses.

The name of the product that we will address in this review red Pro WD4001FFSX Product Code. By Western Digital Red series hard drives are designed for use in NAS storage devices. On more than one computer connected to a local network as NAS devices backup the data to meet the needs that the devices are expected to remain running continuously. So NAS hard drives has properties slightly different than their desktop cousins.

But if you pay attention, here is just the code name of the device is not Red, Red Pro. Enterprise NAS solutions should be prepared by considering this more of the hard disk. Red series which is cheaper for home and Small Office applications may be preferred. With a capacity of 2 TB WD20EFRX review of the model from this series can be found here. Wd4001ffsx actually the model in this review: “enterprise”, which is called a model of large scale enterprise applications designed for.

Design

WD Red Pro 4TB model, are crafted for home use, and sold more cheaply, does not have much in common with the Red series. Western Digital RE WD4000FYYZ 4TB red Pro corporate which is a product of the model can be said to be based on the model. Many NAS WD4001FFSX drives in the same chassis is designed for systems that need to use. Red models, up to eight hard disks in the NAS device, while at the same time know you could use the same Red Pro WD4001FFSX in the model number may go up to sixteen.

Same with the rest of the hard disk inside the chassis so much that you need to work for a long time, specific technologies such as Pro available in red at the ends. Now that the Red Pro has a standard hard drive 64 MB cache. However, one of the most important features that separates this model from most similar tray rotation speeds of 7,200 rpm. In this way, the device read and write speeds of 5,400/5,900 rpm higher than your competitors translates. The device is the standard 3.5-inch format and SATA interface with the enclosure using the connection. The model we're looking at here 2TB 3TB and 4TB capacity, in addition to versions are also available.

Performance

A NAS hard disk performance can be affected by many different elements. Resides in the NAS and connected in a RAID configuration, the speed of the network on which it resides, factors such as how many users access to the device at the same time, the factors that directly changed the overall performance in daily use.

However, the Red Pro 4TB general reading, writing and accessing tests gave very satisfactory results we can say that. The reading test random data of 132 MB/sec who obtained a value of red Pro sequential read/write transactions, an average of 175 MB/sec speed to go on. These values are much cheaper than the Red series Pro red which means more performance. However, an average performance compared with other brands of NAS hard drives in your own Lane is revealed.

Results

Western Digital Red Pro Series red from the company's own more expensive, as these lines are being written, between them nearly £ 200 there was a difference. However, this is an advantage brought about by the difference in price there, unlike most of the Red Pro hard disk, the 5-year warranty comes with. The average working life of 1 million hours enterprise the price on the terms of this guarantee on a hard drive already, but it's not always a common thing.

If working in a home or office environment on a storage device when you attach the hard disk NAS up to 3 or 4, then it will be more efficient to opt for the Red instead of the Red Pro Series. On the other hand, data security and long warranty is more important to you if the money I paid extra for the Red Pro will not go to waste. Without any worries about performance of this model would be a good option for anyone with business at the centre of NAS storage.