Western Digital Red Drives for NAS Devices Reviewed

Tomshardware has done their usual thorough job of reviewing the new Western Digital "Red" drives which are specifically marketed to be good for small business and home NAS servers. Toms reviewed both the 2GB and the 3 GB models. Toms explains the need for drives that are more robust than typical desktop drives:

In order to achieve more robust reliability in a multi-drive array, you really need to look at purpose-built nearline hard drives. They're optimized, both at the

Western Digital Red Drives for NAS Devices Reviewed