WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD
2.5-inch/7mm cased SATA Solid State Drive (SSD)

Overview

The Power of Red Comes to SSD

Boost your SSD NAS system’s performance and responsiveness with the WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD. Your NAS system is always on, making a reliable drive essential. Unlike standard NAS SSDs, WD Red NAS SATA SSDs are specifically designed and tested for 24/7 usage. This durability together with efficient caching of big files make these drives ideal for OPLTP databased, mult-user environments, photo rendering, 4K and 8K video editing and other demanding applications. With 2.5" and M.2 form factors and capacities from 500GB up to 4TB¹ (2.5" only), the WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD lets you optimize your existing or next NAS system for superior performance and endurance.

¹ 1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less, depending on the operating environment.

Specifications

¹ Backwards compatible to SATA 3 Gb/s and SATA 1.5 Gb/s.
² As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second. Effective maximum SATA 6 Gb/s transfer rate calculated according to the Serial ATA specification published by the SATA-IO organization as of the date of this specification sheet. Visit www.sata-io.org for details.
³ Measured using CrystalDiskMark, 1000MB LBA range, on Desktop with Intel Z77 chipset, Window 8 with Intel iRST version 11.7.0.1013, secondary driveLenovo X240 with Intel Core i5-4300U, 4GB RAM, Windows 8.1 update1x64, Intel RST 12.8.10.1005. Performance may vary based on host device. 1MB = 1,000,000 bytes. IOPS = input/output operations per second.
⁴ TBW (terabytes written) values calculated using JEDEC client workload (JESD219) and vary by product capacity.
⁵ Measured using the MobileMark 2012 benchmark with DIPM (Device Initiated Power Management) enabled.
⁶ MTTF = Mean Time To Failure based on internal testing using Telcordia stress part testing.
⁷ Operational temperature is measured by an on board temperature sensor. The SSD box package is rated up to 60C°.

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Documentation

Download the WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD Datasheet (.PDF)