Article 5Q2X4 Western Digital Introduces WD Red SN700: PCIe 3.0 M.2 NVMe SSDs for NAS Systems

Western Digital Introduces WD Red SN700: PCIe 3.0 M.2 NVMe SSDs for NAS Systems

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Ganesh T S
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Western Digital's Red series of drives for network-attached storage systems has a significant share in various NAS market segments. The series started off with a focus on hard drives, and more recently WD Red SSDs were introduced in Q4 2019, a few years after the SanDisk acquisition. These SATA SSDs (in both 2.5" and M.2 form-factors) were based on Marvell 88SS1074 controllers and targeted caching applications.

The increasing popularity of tiered storage, coupled with the deployment of NVMe (in the form of add-in cards, and now, natively in NAS boards) has prompted Western Digital to create a new member in the WD Red family. The new WD Red SN700 comes in 5 capacities ranging from 250GB to 4TB.

WD Red SN700 NVMe SSDs for NAS
Capacity250 GB500 GB1 TB2 TB4 TB
Model NumberWDS250G1R0CWDS500G1R0CWDS100T1R0CWDS200T1R0CWDS400T1R0C
ControllerSanDisk In-House?
NAND Flash3D TLC NAND
Form-Factor
Interface
M.2-2280, PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3
Single-Sided
(22.15mm x 80.15mm x 2.38mm)
Double-Sided
(22.15mm x 80.15mm x 3.58mm)
Seq. Read Max
(128KB @ QD32)
3100 MBps3430 MBps3400 MBps
Seq. Write Max
(128KB @ QD32)
1600 MBps2600 MBps3000 MBps2900 MBps3100 MBps
Rand. Read IOPS
(4KB @ QD32)
220K420K515K480K550K
Rand. Write IOPS
(4KB @ QD32)
180K380K560K540K520K
SLC CachingYes
DRAM Buffer?????
Opal EncryptionNo
PowerPeak9.24 W
PS3 (LP)70 mW100 mW
PS4 (Sleep)3.5 mW5 mW
Warranty5 years
MTBF1.75 million hours
TBW5001000200025005100
DWPD10.7
Addl. Info.Link
MSRP$65$80$145$290$650

A PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe drive can provide a quantum leap in I/O performance, especially over pure HDD-based systems. NAS units are fast becoming hyperconverged application servers, and NVMe drives can improve user experience with both storage tasks as well as application tasks. In particular, tasks related to workloads like virtualization, multi-user collaborative editing and other similar applications. The benefits for traditional enterprise workloads such as intensive databases are also evident, even when the NVMe drive is used purely as a caching drive. Interestingly, the 1TB and lower capacity models have a 1 DWPD rating, while the 2TB and 4TB ones have a 0.7 DWPD endurance number.

It must be noted that Seagate has already released two generations of NVMe drives for the NAS market in their IronWolf series. WD is playing a bit of a catch-up in this particular market segment, but its SanDisk heritage and vertical integration can possibly give the WD Red SN700 an edge over the IronWolf series.

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