Leveraging its strength and leadership in flash, Western
Digital today announced the new WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD, a high-endurance,
fast-caching solution that accelerates NAS performance for SMB customers. This
powerful new drive is engineered to support 24/7 NAS environments and always-on
applications with the ultimate in reliability and endurance. Its fast system
responsiveness and I/O performance are perfect for multi-user,
multi-application environments, letting SMBs tame their toughest projects from
virtualization to collaborative editing to intensive database storage. Its slim
“gum stick” design slips right into the NVMe-ready M.2 slot that is available
in many of today’s leading NAS enclosures.
According to an IDC 2021 FutureScape, by 2021, at least 70%
of digitally-enabled small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) will operate
under a hybrid model of working, with remote work emerging as a norm¹. This can
put pressure on business owners as they, their staff or IT consultants support
advanced use cases like virtualization, collaborative editing and intensive
database workloads in order to manage the seamless flow of data.
For SMBs, NAS — or network attached storage — is one of the
most widely used methods for accessing, sharing and protecting data alongside
the cloud. NAS solutions help SMBs solve for latency and remote shared access
to data or applications across the network.
“SMBs need robust systems that are efficient and intuitive
to manage, and in many cases they need some sort of infrastructure on-premises.
A NAS solution can benefit SMBs of all sizes, providing the performance,
capacity and reliability they need. For more advanced and performance intensive
applications, however, the NAS system will need a boost,” said Eric Spanneut,
vice president of Client and Enterprise SSDs for Western Digital’s Flash
Business unit. “Our new WD Red™ SN700 NVMe™ SSD is the perfect caching solution
to complement our WD Red HDDs in a high-capacity NAS environment.”
“NVMe technology is now more integral to QNAP solutions than
ever before, with most of our RAID models supporting M.2 SSD caching as a
standard,” said Tamblyn Calman, sales and marketing director, QNAP. “The WD Red
SN700 NVMe SSD helps to further enhance QNAP’s product portfolio’s storage
capabilities by boosting the NAS system’s read/write speeds without adding to
the overall number of disks in the array.”
Key features of the WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD drive include:
High Performance – Delivers up to 3,430 MB/s** performance
(500GB and 1TB models) – more than 5 times the sequential read capability of
SATA drives
High Reliability and Endurance – Optimized for 24/7 NAS
workload environments offering high reliability and endurance of up to 5,100
TBW (4TB model) to handle the constant caching of read and rewrite cycles
High Capacity – Offered in capacities from 250GB* to 4TB* to
help cover present and future caching needs
The new WD Red NVMe SSDs join Western Digital’s WD Redportfolio of storage solutions that include WD Red HDDs and WD Red SATA SSDs –
all purpose-built for NAS. The WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD family is now available
from the Western Digital store and through select distribution channel
partners. It has a 5-year limited warranty.***
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