Western Digital partners with a wide range of NAS system vendors for extensive testing to ensure compatibility with most NAS enclosures.

For the test configuration, we wanted a configuration that de-emphasized CPU performance. Effectively we wanted to take CPU performance out of the equation to focus on drive performance. Here is what we utilized: After the previous article on STH, the question we received was how this impacts arrays. Specifically, RAID arrays our readers use. We utilize a lot of ZFS at STH, so in mid-April 2020 we started a project to see if, indeed, there was a difference. In short, there was, and in a big way. Test ConfigurationCompatibility: Desktop hard drives are not always tested for compatibility in NAS and can present problems during integration.

Why is that? Why keep SMR and PMR drives with the SAME capacity in the same line and HIDING this info from customers? So they can target “specific” markets with the SMR drives? It seems like a marketing TEST!!! How BIG is it? Compatibilidad: A diferencia de los discos de escritorio, los discos duros WD Red están diseñados y probados para funcionar con NAS de forma específica e incluyen la tecnología NASware™ que ajusta con precisión los parámetros de la unidad para que coincidan con las cargas de trabajo del sistema NAS y, así, obtener un rendimiento óptimo. Aside from a jump in maximum latency at a thread count of two and high queue depths, the same points as the WD Red 4TB achieves high throughput, the Red 4TB performs about average throughout the 8K maximum latency benchmark. It’s performance at the greatest workloads is again closer to the Constellation CS 4TB and the Se 4TB than the other comparables. Western Digital se asocia con una amplia gama de proveedores de sistemas NAS para realizar pruebas exhaustivas y asegurar la compatibilidad con la mayoría de las carcasas NAS. OS: Windows 10 Pro 1909 64-bit / FreeNAS 11.3-U2 (note, the latest is FreeNAS 11.3-U3.1 but it was released well after we started the project)Error recovery controls: WD Red™ NAS hard drives are specifically designed with RAID error recovery control to help reduce failures within the NAS system.