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Review: WD Red SA500 M.2 1TB NAS SSD
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#5785206 Posted on: 05/04/2020 01:26 PM
If it was to put in a PC i would said so, but red's target are NAS and RAID dedicated system, nearly all wich use M2 are SATA... then it make sense.
Nice review Hilbert
Yikes. Who is going to buy an M2 unit that is SATA3 based?
If it was to put in a PC i would said so, but red's target are NAS and RAID dedicated system, nearly all wich use M2 are SATA... then it make sense.
Nice review Hilbert
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#5785262 Posted on: 05/04/2020 05:50 PM
I don't understand what makes this more special for a NAS than any other TLC SSD. If endurance was the selling point, they'd have made it MLC or SLC.
I don't understand what makes this more special for a NAS than any other TLC SSD. If endurance was the selling point, they'd have made it MLC or SLC.
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#5785351 Posted on: 05/04/2020 11:55 PM
WD is either completely incompetent or is purposely kneecapping their consumer line to push sales to their higher-end product lines or to their HGST labeled devices.
WD is either completely incompetent or is purposely kneecapping their consumer line to push sales to their higher-end product lines or to their HGST labeled devices.
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#5785374 Posted on: 05/05/2020 02:02 AM
I have a software setup based on PrimoCache on my server, 1 SSD + many HDDs.
What this resolves by offloading commonly (or recently) accessed data to the SSD is save a lot of power by spinning down the disks for most of the time.
The computer eats around 80W in idle with all disks in power saving mode (not spinning), and if I do a check it jumps to over 200W and stays there until the 10 minute power management kicks in.
Amazing how much HDDs can consume when there are lots of them !
Not to mention that the machine is nearly silent with the disks not spinning, while being quite noisy with them on !
Not sure if NASes do the same, but it would be a good use case for such a drive.
For speed ? Nah, not much, since the likelyhood of data needing to be accessed from the HDDs is high, 1TB nowhere near enough cache for a 100+ TB array...
I have a software setup based on PrimoCache on my server, 1 SSD + many HDDs.
What this resolves by offloading commonly (or recently) accessed data to the SSD is save a lot of power by spinning down the disks for most of the time.
The computer eats around 80W in idle with all disks in power saving mode (not spinning), and if I do a check it jumps to over 200W and stays there until the 10 minute power management kicks in.
Amazing how much HDDs can consume when there are lots of them !
Not to mention that the machine is nearly silent with the disks not spinning, while being quite noisy with them on !
Not sure if NASes do the same, but it would be a good use case for such a drive.
For speed ? Nah, not much, since the likelyhood of data needing to be accessed from the HDDs is high, 1TB nowhere near enough cache for a 100+ TB array...
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I think that ZFS box with some RAM & SSD for cache + spindle disks for storage in RAID-Z2 would make more sense than going SSDs only, at least with such total writes value.