Battle of the 4 TB NAS Drives: WD Red and Seagate NAS HDD Face-Off

Stefan Mileschin · 5th September 2013, 07:40

The SMB / SOHO / consumer NAS market is expected to experience good growth over the next few years. With declining PC sales and increase in affordability of SSDs, hard drive vendors have scrambled to make up for the deficit and increase revenue by targeting the NAS market. Hard drive models specifically catering to 1-5 bay consumer NAS units have been introduced by both Western Digital and Seagate. With the launch of the second generation WD Red models yesterday, both have 4 TB versions. How do these models fare against each other? What makes enterprise drive models (such as the WD Re and WD Se) targeting higher-end NAS units different? Read on to find out.

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5th September 2013, 07:40	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,514	Battle of the 4 TB NAS Drives: WD Red and Seagate NAS HDD Face-Off The SMB / SOHO / consumer NAS market is expected to experience good growth over the next few years. With declining PC sales and increase in affordability of SSDs, hard drive vendors have scrambled to make up for the deficit and increase revenue by targeting the NAS market. Hard drive models specifically catering to 1-5 bay consumer NAS units have been introduced by both Western Digital and Seagate. With the launch of the second generation WD Red models yesterday, both have 4 TB versions. How do these models fare against each other? What makes enterprise drive models (such as the WD Re and WD Se) targeting higher-end NAS units different? Read on to find out. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7258/b...as-hdd-faceoff

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