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WD Red SA500 WDS500G1R0A 500 GB

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WD WDS500G1R0A
Placement
internal
Volume
500 GB
Form factor
2.5"
Interface
SATA 3
Memory type
3D TLC NAND
Write speed
530 MB/s
Read speed
560 MB/s
Shockproof
1500 G
Manufacturer's warranty
5 years
Size
100x70x7 mm
Official Website
shop.westerndigital.com
Added to E-Catalog
October 2019
Dual-core eight-channel controller. Separate RAM cache chip. High sequential and random speed. Increased rewrite resource.
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Western Digital Red WDS500G1R0A 500 GB Solid State Drive - 2.5" Internal - SATA (SATA/600) - 350 TB TBW - 560 MB/s Maximum R

Capacities from 500GB up to 4TB* (2.5" only) gives you the flexibility to customize your NAS to meet your most demanding storage needs. Available in 2.5" and M.2 form factors to fit the slots in modern NAS systems. Superior endurance can handle the heavy read and write loads demanded by NAS, giving you the reliability you need in a 24/7 environme... morent. Purpose-built for NAS with proven Western Digital� 3D NAND to deliver maximum SATA performance to both home and business users. Reduces latency and improves responsiveness for OLTP databases, multi-user environments, photo rendering, 4K and 8K video editing, and more. Storage optimized for caching in NAS systems to rapidly access your most frequently used files.
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Western Digital 500GB WD SA500 NAS SATA SSD - Internal Solid State Drive, Red - WDS500G1R0A-68A4W0 WDS500G1R0A-68A4W0

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.
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Western Digital WD Red SA500 2.5' 500GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) WDS500G1R0A WDS500G1R0A

Storage optimized for caching in NAS systems to rapidly access your most frequently used files. Superior endurance can handle the heavy read and write loads demanded by NAS, giving you the reliability you need in a 24/7 environment. Purpose-built for NAS with proven Western Digital 3D NAND to deliver maximum SATA performance to both home and busine... moress users. Reduces latency and improves responsiveness for OLTP databases, multi-user environments, photo rendering, 4K and 8K video editing, and more.
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An ideal choice as a working drive.
7 May 2020 
My laptop got a "second wind". I bought my DELL Inspiron 5767 about three years ago, and it still has a pretty sturdy configuration: CPU Core i7 with Intel 620 graphics processor, 8Gb DDR4 RAM, discrete graphics card AMD R7 440 with 4Gb DDR5 RAM on board. However, technology does not stand still and for some programs this configuration is already outdated. Considering I've recently gotten into video editing, for Adobe Premiere PRO and Adobe After Effects, this configuration wasn't very solid even when I purchased the laptop, and the latest versions of Premiere and After Effects refuse to work with these graphics processors. Also, a serious obstacle for comfortable use of this software was the drive installed in the original configuration: HDD Toshiba 1Tb, 5400 prm. But working with it was still somewhat tolerable until I "clicked" the computer case right above the area where the disk was located. I'm amazed the disk lasted another whole three hours after that... The service center technician turned out to be a shifty character and installed a similar HDD to the one that failed, but used, which I found out very quickly. I had to have a preventive conversation with both the technician and his manager, and as a result, the laptop was "equipped" with another 8Gb RAM and this technical marvel. I admit: I am absolutely thrilled! This device "ingested" 350Gb of backups in an hour, all without any loss of speed and with an operating temperature of 35 degrees...
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Red equals reliability

WD Red SA500 is a new line of solid state drives from 500 GB to 4 TB designed for 24/7 operation. Includes both classic 2.5-inch and modern M.2 models, both with SATA3 bus. The main scope of these SSDs are NAS servers, that is, multi-disk network file storage. However, nothing prevents the Red SA500 from being used in both desktop PCs and laptops.

dual core controller

The Red SA500 is based on perhaps the best "old school" SSD controller — Marvell 88SS1074. It has two ARM architecture cores, eight channels of flash memory and supports external RAM cache chips. All this together allows him to develop the speed of reading and writing random files up to 95K and 85K IOPS (input-output operations per second), respectively. This parameter is especially important for those who often work with local databases (DBMS) containing a myriad of small files.

Selected Memory

The sequential read and write speeds of the Red SA500 also did not let us down: 560 and 530 Mbps, which is the practical limit of the SATA3 bus bandwidth. All thanks to the selected chips of SanDisk BICS3 64-layer 3D TLC flash memory (we remind you that SanDisk semiconductor factories are now owned by Western Digital). A separate Nanya buffer RAM chip adds even more responsiveness to the system.

Universal Soldier

In general, the WD Red SA500 is a fast (by SATA SSD standards), reliable (300 TB overwrite resource for a 500 GB model) and, most importantly, a versatile solid state drive. It is equally well suited for NAS storage, work or gaming desktops, and most laptops. Western Digital also has Red NAS-oriented hard drives.