WD Red Pro 6 TB Review - High Performance NAS HDD Gets a Capacity Bump
by Ganesh T S on September 7, 2015 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- NAS
- Storage
- HDDs
- Western Digital
Performance - Raw Drives
Prior to evaluating the performance of the drives in a NAS environment, we wanted to check up on the best-case performance by connecting one of them directly to a SATA 6 Gbps port. Using HD Tune Pro 5.50, we ran a number of tests on a raw drives. The following screenshots present the results for the WD Red Pro. Corresponding images for similar drives that have been evaluated previously are also provided in the drop-down box for easy comparison.
Sequential Reads
Sequential Writes
Random Reads
Random Writes
Miscellaneous Reads
Miscellaneous Writes
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Souka - Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - link
It would be even louder with four of these WD Red Pro drives!nagi603 - Monday, October 5, 2015 - link
The problem might also lie with your NAS: insufficient decoupling will lead to very nasty vibration, as is insufficient dampening or the use of not stiff enough components.beginner99 - Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - link
Well with the Pro only $33 more it's a no brainer. The 5 years warranty alone will make that a profitable investment alone.Visual - Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - link
Important details are missing from the article. It should be the first thing covered for drives of such capacities - make it clear if they are using a shingled write method requiring rewrites of large blocks for small random writes.Morawka - Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - link
anyone remember when all seagate consumer drives had 5 year warranties.. it was great. now we are lucky to get a 3 year warranty.FunBunny2 - Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - link
planned obsolescence is a wonderful thing. just ask Apple.star-affinity - Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - link
In what way is Apple worse than others when it comes to ”planned obsolescence”?valinor89 - Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - link
As far as I know Apple was the first mass consumer company to embrace the practice. Or at least the best known for it. Usually gadgets of other companyes were expected to be superceeded by advancing technology, not designed to fail after x time... One of the most famous examples was the Ipod Nano case.The practice existed before but apple put it in the spotlight.
Gigaplex - Sunday, September 13, 2015 - link
Apple is rarely the first to do anything. They certainly weren't the first to embrace planned obsolescence.Hannibal80 - Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - link
Why not moving to a 10gbe for the nas test? I think that for a soho scenario could make sense, with a direct 10gb connection between workstation and nas and classic 1gb link among remaining clients. Just my 2 cents