Western Digital’s flash innovation empowers SMBs and WFH warriors tackle extreme workloads and collaborate faster using NAS. According to an IDC 2021 FutureScape, by 2021, at least 70% of digitally enabled small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) would use a hybrid style of work, with remote work becoming the norm.
This can put strain on business owners as they, their employees, or IT consultants support sophisticated use cases like virtualization, collaborative editing, and high-volume database workloads in order to maintain a continuous flow of data.
Along with the cloud, NAS — or network attached storage — is one of the most extensively utilised means for SMBs to access, share, and safeguard data. Latency and distant shared access to data or applications over the network are problems that NAS solutions help SMBs solve.
“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, vice president of Client and Enterprise SSDs for Western Digital’s Flash Business unit.
Also noted, “Our new WD Red™ SN700 NVMe™ SSD is the perfect caching solution to complement our WD Red HDDs in a high-capacity NAS environment.”
Western Digital today unveiled the new WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD, a high-endurance, fast-caching solution that enhances NAS performance for SMB clients, using its flash leadership.
This powerful new drive is designed to provide the highest level of dependability and endurance for 24/7 NAS settings and always-on applications. Its responsive system and I/O performance are ideal for multi-user, multi-application situations, allowing SMBs to tackle even the most difficult projects, such as virtualization, collaborative editing, and database storage. Its compact “gum stick” design fits easily into the NVMe-ready M.2 slot found 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, sales and marketing director, QNAP.
Further said, “The WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD helps to further enhance QNAP’s product portfolio’s storage capabilities by boosting the NAS system’s read/write speeds without adding to the overall number of disks in the array.”
Key features of the WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD drive include:
• High Performance – Up to 3,430 MB/s sequential read performance (500GB and 1TB versions) – more than 5 times the sequential read capabilities of SATA drives.
• High Reliability and Endurance – Designed for 24/7 NAS workload situations, with up to 5,100 TBW (4TB model) of reliability and endurance to manage the constant caching of read and rewrite cycles.
• High Capacity – Available with capacities ranging from 250GB to 4TB to meet current and future caching requirements.
