Western Digital 6TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5″ – WD60EFAX Specifications and Details

Overview

Store and Stream your Digital Content from your NAS Fast and Reliably using a WD Red™ NAS Had Drive

There’s a leading edge WD Red™ NAS hard drive for every compatible NAS system to store your precious data. With drives up to 6TB, WD Red™ offers a wide array of storage for customers looking to build a NAS solution. Built and tested for personal and home NAS systems with up to 8-bays, these drives pack all the punch you need in one powerhouse unit for storing, archiving, and sharing. With WD Red™, you’re ready for what’s next.  

WD Red™ for Personal or Home Office

Stream, backup, share, and organize your digital content at home with a NAS and WD Red™ NAS hard drives designed to effortlessly share content with the devices in your personal or home office environments. NASware 3.0 technology increases your drives’ compatibility with your existing network and devices, TV, stereo, and more. Live in a connected world.

Exclusive NASware 3.0

Not just any drive will do. Get up to 48TB of capacity in your 8-bay system and with WD’s exclusive NASware 3.0 technology, you can optimize each and every drive. Built into every WD Red™ NAS hard drive, NASware 3.0’s advanced technology improves your system’s storage performance by increasing compatibility, integration, upgradeability, and reliability.

Built for Optimum NAS Compatibility

Designed for personal and home office NAS systems, our unique algorithm balances performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. WD Red™ drives optimize performance in environments with idle time, allowing them to complete necessary background operations efficiently. To ensure optimal performance, always check compatibility with your system. WD Red™ drives may not be suitable for higher workload environments. We highly recommend using WD Red™ Plus drives for ZFS file systems and overall NAS system compatibility since they are optimized for higher workloads.

24/7 Environment 

Since your NAS system is always on, a reliable drive is essential. The WD Red™ drive, designed to tackle 24×7 environments, offers an MTBF of up to 1 million hours.

Premium Support and a 3-year Limited Warranty

Confidently upgrade your NAS performance with the assurance of a 3-year limited warranty, coupled with world-class support services included with every WD Red™ drive. 

Desktop Drives vs. WD Red™

Do right by your NAS and choose the drive purpose-built for NAS with an array of features to help preserve your data and maintain optimum performance. Take the following into consideration when choosing a hard drive for your NAS:

• Compatibility: Unlike desktop drives, these drives undergo testing for compatibility and optimum performance.
• Reliability: A NAS or RAID operates in an always-on, high-temperature environment, and desktop drives typically lack the design and testing that WD Red™ undergoes for those conditions.
• Error recovery controls: WD Red™ NAS hard drives feature RAID error recovery control, which helps reduce failures within the NAS system.
• Noise and Vibration Protection: Designed to operate solo, desktop drives typically offer little or no protection from the noise and vibration present in a multi-drive system. WD Red™ drives are designed to thrive in multi-bay NAS system environments.

Tech Specifications

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