The WD Red Pro hard drives have been specially developed for medium-sized or large business customers and are available for NAS systems with up to 24 drive bays. Designed for high-intensity workloads in 24x7 environments, the WD Red Pro family is ideal for archiving and sharing content as well as building RAID arrays in advanced operating systems such as ZFS and other file systems. These hard drives increase efficiency by enabling your employees to quickly share files and reliably back up folders in your NAS solution.Designed for optimal NAS compatibility - WD Red Pro hard drives with NASware technology simplify hard drive selection. The unique algorithm is optimised for NAS systems and provides the right balance of performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. In short: WD Red Pro is the hard drive with the highest compatibility for NAS enclosures.
Scope of application | NAS |
Interface | SATA |
Interface version | SATA III |
Cache | 512 MB |
Sustained Speed HDD | 272 MB/s |
Max. Speed | 7200 RPM |
Storage Technology | CMR |
Item number | 14017090 |
Manufacturer | WD |
Category | Hard drives |
Manufacturer no. | WD181KFGX |
Release date | 29.9.2020 |
Sales rank in Category Hard drives | 58 of 2565 |
Scope of application | NAS |
Interface | SATA |
Interface version | SATA III |
Form factor | 3.5" |
Storage capacity | 18 TB |
Cache | 512 MB |
Sustained Speed HDD | 272 MB/s |
Max. Speed | 7200 RPM |
Storage Technology | CMR |
MTBF | 1000000 h |
Hard disk additional functions | Native command queuing |
Maximum operating temperature | 70 °C |
Max. noise level | 20 dB |
Power consumption (standby) | 1.60 W |
Power consumption | 6.90 W |
Country of origin | China |
Manufacturer commitment | SBTi |
CO₂ emissions | 241.95 kg |
Climate contribution | CHF 5.75 |
Scope of delivery | 1 piece |
Length | 14.70 cm |
Width | 10.16 cm |
Height | 2.61 cm |
Weight | 690 g |
Length | 21 cm |
Width | 15 cm |
Height | 8 cm |
Weight | 744 g |
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The Western Digital Red Pro is one of the most expensive hard drives in this comparison. The technical data place it somewhere between the inexpensive desktop hard disks and the server models: only an estimated 1 million hours until failure, only 300 TByte workload per year and the data security is also on the level of a desktop hard disk with one read error per 1014 bits...