Western Digital has introduced the new WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD, a high-endurance and fast-caching solution that accelerates NAS performance for SMB customers.
This powerful new drive is engineered to support 24/7 NAS environments and always-on applications with the ultimate in reliability and endurance. Its fast system responsiveness and I/O performance are perfect for multi-user, multi-application environments, letting SMBs tame their toughest projects from virtualization to collaborative editing to intensive database storage. Its slim “gum stick” design slips right into the NVMe-ready M.2 slot that is available in many of today’s leading NAS enclosures.
“NVMe technology is now more integral to QNAP solutions than ever before, with most of our RAID models supporting M.2 SSD caching as a standard,” said Tamblyn Calman, sales and marketing director, QNAP. “The WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD helps to further enhance QNAP’s product portfolio’s storage capabilities by boosting the NAS system’s read/write speeds without adding to the overall number of disks in the array.”
Key features of the WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD drive include:
- High Performance – Delivers up to 3,430 MB/s performance (500GB and 1TB models) – more than 5 times the sequential read capability of SATA drives
- High Reliability and Endurance – Optimized for 24/7 NAS workload environments offering high reliability and endurance of up to 5,100 TBW (4TB model) to handle the constant caching of read and rewrite cycles
- High Capacity – Offered in capacities from 250GB to 4TB to help cover present and future caching needs
Availability
The new WD Red NVMe SSDs join Western Digital’s WD Red portfolio of storage solutions that include WD Red HDDs and WD Red SATA SSDs – all purpose-built for NAS. The WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD has a 5-year limited warranty.