Western Digital 1TB WD Red SA500 NAS 3D NAND Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS100T1R0A

Its slower than the newer drives so you can get OSs to load on it that you have trouble getting to load on some PCs. I an going to load it with what I want then try copping it to a newer faster V-NAND drive. I have a few PCc I can use it with so one of then will get an upgrade when I am done with my current use for it.

Worked as advertise still working

Does the job, time will say if it deserve its RED name. Just Works

WD Reds are made for Network Array Storage solutions (in other words, ones that plug into your wireless router), so they are meant to be specifically fast under high loads. This is an interesting form factor as the M2 emphasizes compactness over mass use. There are a couple of routers out there that accept M2s natively (almost all introduced in the last year), but there are easy M2 to SATA adapters out there. Using one, I hooked this drive up to my router and then made it a media center with multiple devices accessing the drive for media transmission over the wireless. Because this is manufactured to be in a NAS, this drive takes parallel reading thread load very well, and I could stream data for four devices at 4k stream loads without any degradation from the wireless or extensive caching on my devices. The read and writes were at 90% of the advertised features if parallel, in opposition (so one device reads and another one writes), this drops to 40% of the read theoretical maximum and 50% of the write maximum, so there is still some work that can be done on these drives for queue efficiency, but I think this is more a firmware concern than a hardware limitation. While you can use this directly in your devices, this would be overkill and the Blue or Green would probably be better for most systems at better pricing. As a standard drive though, this is more comparable to WDs Black series in terms of throughput. I highly recommend this drive if you do have an M2 native NAS device or if you are willing to put in the SATA adapter. This drive will perform very well under major thread load.

I have to buy another drive. Its kept failing and freezing my server. Had to buy a new one

Only thing I would change would be that sticker

A++

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