WD Red SN700 M.2 NVMe Up to 4TB SSD for NAS

According to an IDC 2021 FutureScape, by 2021, at least 70% of digitally-enabled SMBs will operate under a hybrid model of working, with remote work emerging as a norm ⁽¹⁾.

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 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, VP, client and enterprise SSDs, flash business unit, Western Digital Corp. “Our new WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD is the perfect caching solution to complement our WD Red HDDs in a high-capacity NAS environment.“

Boost NAS performance with NVMe SSD cache solution
The company announced the WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD, a high-endurance, fast-caching solution that accelerates NAS performance for SMB customers.

This drive is engineered to support 24/7 NAS environments and always-on applications with reliability and endurance. Its fast system responsiveness and I/O performance are 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.

“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, director, sales and marketing, Qnap Systems, Inc. “The WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD helps to further enhance Qnap’s product portfolio’s storage capabilities by boosting the NAS system’s R/W speeds without adding to the overall number of disks in the array.“

Key features of WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD drive include:

• Performance – Delivers up to 3,430MB/s ^(**) performance (500GB and 1TB models) – more than 5x the sequential read capability of SATA drives

• Reliability and endurance – Optimized for 24/7 NAS workload environments offering reliability and endurance of up to 5,100TBW (4TB model) to handle the constant caching of read and rewrite cycles

• Capacity – Offered in capacities from 250GB ^(*) to 4TB ^(*) to help cover present and future caching needs

The Red SN700 NVMe SSD family is available from the firm webstore and through select distribution channel partners. It has a 5-year limited warranty. ^(***)

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⁽¹⁾  IDC FutureScape Webcast: Worldwide SMB 2021 Predictions, Doc # US47035820, December 2020
(*) Based on read speed. 1MB/s = one million bytes per second. Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending upon host device, usage conditions, drive capacity, and other factors.
^(**) 1GB=one billion bytes and 1TB=one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.
^(***) Five years or Max Endurance (TBW) limit, whichever occurs first.