The alternatives, HGST's Helium He6 and Seagate Enterprise Capacity 6TB, are both intended for the enterprise market, and cost approaching twice as much as the Western Digital Red, which is priced at £210 (around $330, AU$380).
It squeezes 1.2TB of data onto each of its five platters, and like most modern hard disks, has 64MB of cache and a 6Gb/s SATA III connector. When formatted, it provides 5.45 binary TB of data in Windows.
Western Digital has recently added another line of hard disks, the Red Pro, which are intended for SME and enterprise NAS use. These are marked as 7,200RPM instead of intellipower, and the drives only go from 2TB to 4TB, with a five-year warranty like the Black disks. Western Digital says these drives are optimised for use in larger NAS systems running up to 16 drives.
It squeezes 1.2TB of data onto each of its five platters, and like most modern hard disks, has 64MB of cache and a 6Gb/s SATA III connector. When formatted, it provides 5.45 binary TB of data in Windows.
Western Digital has recently added another line of hard disks, the Red Pro, which are intended for SME and enterprise NAS use. These are marked as 7,200RPM instead of intellipower, and the drives only go from 2TB to 4TB, with a five-year warranty like the Black disks. Western Digital says these drives are optimised for use in larger NAS systems running up to 16 drives.
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