6TB WD60EFPX Red Plus 5400RPM 256MB

WD Red™ Plus for demanding workloads
The WD Red™ Plus delivers unparalleled performance for small and medium-sized business NAS environments and increased workloads in home and small offices. It“s optimized for archiving, content sharing, and building RAID arrays in systems with ZFS and other file systems. Designed and tested for NAS systems with up to 8 drive bays, the hard drives provide the flexibility, versatility, and security you need to store and share your valuable personal and business files.

For small and medium-sized enterprises
With a NAS and WD Red™ Plus hard drives, you can stream, backup, organize, and effortlessly share your digital content with other devices on your home or business network. NASware™ 3.0 technology increases the compatibility of your hard drives with other devices. Larger organizations with up to 24 drive bays can rely on the outstanding performance of WD Red™ Pro hard drives.

Exclusive NASware 3.0
Not every drive is suitable. You can use up to 112 TB of capacity in an 8-bay NAS system, and Western Digital“s exclusive NASware 3.0 technology gives you the ability to optimize each individual drive. NASware 3.0 is built into every WD Red™ Plus drive and enhances your system“s storage performance with cutting-edge technologies and improved compatibility, integration, upgradeability, and reliability.

Designed for optimal NAS compatibility
WD Red™ Plus hard drives with NASware™ technology simplify hard drive selection. Our unique algorithm is optimized for NAS systems and creates the right balance of performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. In short, WD Red™ Plus is the hard drive with the highest compatibility for NAS enclosures. This is backed up by the numbers. WD Red™ Plus hard drives are the result of extensive compatibility testing with NAS partners and extensive integration of their technologies.

WD Red™ Pro for Enterprise
For business customers seeking a NAS system for intensive applications, WD Red™ Pro hard drives offer exceptional performance for medium and large businesses with extreme requirements. WD Red™ Pro hard drives deliver uncompromising performance and the highest security with a 5-year warranty for NAS environments with 9 to 24 drive bays.

3D Active Balance Plus
Our advanced dual-level mass balancing technology significantly improves overall drive performance and reliability. Hard drives without proper mass balancing can cause excessive vibration and noise in a multi-drive system, reducing hard drive lifespan and degrading performance over time.

An environment in continuous operation
Your NAS system runs around the clock. Extremely reliable storage is essential. With an MTBF of more than 1 million hours, the WD Red™ Plus is designed for continuous operation.

Desktop hard drives compared to WD Red™ Plus
Choose the right NAS-optimized hard drive with a wide range of features to protect your data and maintain peak performance. Consider the following when selecting a hard drive for your NAS system:

- Compatibility: Unlike desktop drives, these hard drives are tested for compatibility with NAS systems to ensure optimal performance.
- Reliability: Continuous operation of a NAS or RAID is extremely demanding. Desktop hard drives are typically not designed and tested for these conditions – unlike the WD Red™ Plus.
- Error recovery protocols: WD Red™ Plus NAS hard drives are specifically designed with RAID error recovery protocols that help reduce failures in the NAS system.
- Noise and vibration protection: Desktop drives are designed for stand-alone operation and therefore typically offer little or no protection against the noise and vibration inherent in multi-drive systems. WD Red™ Plus hard drives are optimized for use in multi-bay NAS environments.