Internal Hard Drive Western Digital RED Red 4TB WD40EFAX 3.5" 4TB SATA 3

Western Digital Red 4TB Internal Hard Drive

WD Red is a 3.5-inch hard drive for personal and home office NAS systems with up to 8 bays. Model WD40EFAX offers 4TB of capacity, 256MB of cache, a SATA 6Gb/s interface and 5400 RPM class performance, so you can back up, share and stream files and content across your home network.

Western Digital's NASware technology fine-tunes the drive parameters for NAS workloads, and RAID error recovery control helps reduce failures in multi-drive arrays. The drive uses device-managed SMR recording and is aimed at light daily workloads, with a 180TB per year rating and 1,000,000 hours MTBF.

Key features

• NASware technology - Western Digital fine-tunes the drive parameters to match NAS system workloads, which helps increase performance and reliability.
• RAID ready - RAID error recovery control helps reduce failures in multi-bay NAS systems, unlike most desktop drives that are configured for generic use.
• Tested compatibility - Western Digital partners with a wide range of NAS system vendors for extensive testing to ensure compatibility with most NAS enclosures.
• 24x7 operation - Designed for always-on, multi-user NAS environments, with noise and vibration protection, a 180TB per year workload rating and 1,000,000 hours MTBF.
• For home and small office NAS - WD Red is intended for enclosures with up to 8 bays and light daily workloads: PC backup, file sharing and media streaming at home or in the office.

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