Nowadays highest-capacity laborious drives are usually geared toward cloud service suppliers (CSPs) and enterprises, however this doesn’t imply that inventive professionals or common customers don’t want them. To cater to calls for of extra common shoppers, Western Digital has began shipments of its Red Pro 24 TB HDDs, that are geared toward high-end NAS use for inventive professionals with vital storage necessities.
Western Digital’s Red Pro 24 TB laborious drives come roughly 20 months after their 22 TB mannequin hit retail in 2022, providing an incremental enchancment to WD’s highest-capacity NAS and client laborious drive providing. The platform makes use of standard magnetic recording (CMR), function a 7200 RPM rotating pace, are geared up with a 512 MB cache, and use OptiNAND know-how to enhance reliability in addition to optimize efficiency and energy consumption. The HDDs are rated for an as much as 287 MB/s media to cache switch fee, which makes them a number of the quickest laborious drives round (albeit, nonetheless a bit slower in comparison with CSP and enterprise-oriented HDDs).
Just like different high-end network-attached storage-aimed HDDs, the Red Pro 24 TB laborious drives use helium-filled platforms which are similar to these designed for enterprise drives. Consequently, the Red Pro 24 TB HDD are geared up with rotation vibration sensors to anticipate and proactively counteract disturbances brought on by elevated vibration and multi-axis shock sensors to detect delicate shock occasions and routinely offset them with dynamic fly peak know-how to make sure that heads to not scratch disks.
What these drives lack in comparison with WD Gold and Ultraster 22 TB and 24 TB drives for enterprises and cloud datacenters is the ArmorCache function that gives safety in opposition to energy loss when write-cache is enabled (WCE mode) and enhances efficiency when write-cache is disabled (WCD mode).
On the reliability aspect of issues, Western Digital’s Red Pro 24 TB HDDs are designed for 24/7 operation in vibrating environments, equivalent to enterprise-grade NAS with a great deal of bays, and are rated for as much as 550 TB/yr workloads in addition to as much as 600,000 load/unload cycles, which is in step with what Western Digital’s WD Gold and Ultrastar laborious drives provide.
As for energy consumption, the WD Red Pro 24 TB consumes as much as 6.4W throughout learn and write operations, as much as 3.9W in idle mode, and as much as 1.2W in standby/sleep mode.
Western Digital’s Red Pro 24 TB (WD240KFGX) HDDs are actually delivery to resellers in addition to NAS makers, and are slated to be out there shortly. Expect these laborious drives to be barely cheaper than the WD Gold 24 TB mannequin.
