Tag: red

  • Western Digital Red Drive Performance Numbers: Sequential Read/Write

     

    As a follow-up to our review (found here), we’ve finally finished testing the new Red drives and compared them to the equivalent Green drives.

     

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  • Western Digital 2TB Red Drive review (WD20EFRX)

     

     

    Up until now Western Digital have separated their hard drive lines into three; Blue for consumer drives, Green for low-power drives and Black for performance. This has now been expanded with a fourth colour added to the stable; the WD Red NAS hard drive range. Western Digital tout these as being designed specifically for the usage patterns typically seen in a network-attached-storage (NAS) device – generally 24/7 operation, potentially poor ventilation and the likelihood of being in a RAID array of some description for mass media storage.

     

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  • Bitfenix Spectre Pro fans

    We’re testing these at the moment for our builds which have LED fans in them… while we haven’t finished the performance testing they’re not bad as eye candy in the meanwhile!