EC News DeskWestern Digital has introduced an array of purpose-built storage solutions for UAE’s small businesses and home offices leveraging NAS environments. The new solutions will be locally available in November, which includes the first-ever WD Red SSDs. This will enhance performance and cache abilities in a hybrid NAS environment, as well as a 14TB capacity for the WD Red and WD Red Pro HDDs.
With the increase in virtualisation, 10GbE and higher connectivity speeds are becoming an essential feature set in modern NAS systems. To help minimise a performance bottleneck, SSD speeds are crucial. When utilised as a caching solution in a NAS system, the WD Red SA500 SSD helps to boost performance while the new higher capacity WD Red and WD Red Pro HDDs offer more storage space in the same NAS device.
Product details
- WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD
- o Purpose-built for NAS enthusiasts, the latest WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD offers capacities from 500GB up to 4TB1 (2.5-inch only) and creates an environment optimised for 10GbE networks as well as caching in NAS systems to rapidly access frequently used files. With superior endurance for heavy read and write loads demanded by NAS in a 24/7 environment, the drive supports OLTP databases, multi-user environments, photo rendering, 4K and 8K video editing
- WD Red NAS Hard Drive
- o Complementary to the WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD, the latest WD Red HDD capacity increase to 14TB1 is designed for use in NAS systems with up to 8 bays. Ideal for small-and-home-office 24/7 environments, the drive supports up to a 180 TB/year workload rate*.
- WD Red Pro NAS Hard Drive
- o Built like the WD Red HDD with a boost for professional NAS workloads and up to 14TB1 capacity, the WD Red Pro HDD supports up to 24 bays. With 3D Active Balance Plus technology and error recovery controls with NASware 3.0 technology, the drive operates with enhanced reliability.
“There is a tremendous growth of large-scale technology transformation taking place in the UAE and the Middle East region across small and medium businesses and enterprises. The growth in our region is mainly due to the early adoption of advance storage technologies by small enterprises combine with fast growing digitalisation through several end-use industries. We are geared up to launch our NAS solutions that meet all the meet the pain points of end users in the region with attractive price points” says Khwaja Saifuddin, Senior Sales Director, Middle East at Western Digital.
He adds, “A boost in performance for NAS systems can translate to more content in less time, so creators or small businesses can work more efficiently to increase output and, as a result, potential income. Our higher capacities coupled with optimised endurance in the WD Red portfolio are making room for larger files and reducing storage bandwidth-induced stress. For creators working on large projects over time, the latest WD Red SSD solution enables a hybrid NAS environment where the SSD can serve as a caching mechanism for both large and frequently accessed files.”
Says Meiji Chang, general manager, QNAP, “Working with Western Digital has proved increasingly beneficial in delivering premium storage for our NAS systems. With the addition of today’s WD Red SA500 SSD as a storage or caching solution, our customers can now take full advantage of dedicated SSD slots in our systems and benefit from faster network transfer speeds and optimal endurance.”
