vrworld.com Updated:
2018-02-22 07:41:52
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Solid performance, great reliability, scales wellToday I'm taking another look at Western Digital's WD RE 4 TB WD4000FYYZ enterprise drives. I reviewed a single WD4000FYYZ in our Western Digital 4 TB roundup , and Western Digital was kind enough to provid...
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maximumpc.com Updated:
2018-02-22 07:41:52
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The WD RE 4TB drive is specifically meant to handle an enterprise workload, but don’t let that scare you off, as it includes a desktop-friendly SATA 6Gb/s interface. As long as you’re running Windows Vista or Windows 7, you should be able to format it...
Lots of storage; semiaffordable; fast.
Not 1TB per platter; 3x cost of 3TB drive.
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In 2012, Western Digital made changes to both its product-line naming schemes and also how it presents itself as a company. Changes so small, so subtle, that even I didn't clue in until long after the fact.For starters, when talking about the company's pr...
4TB – need we say more?, Fantastic performance. Handily beats out the Black 4TB, Boasts numerous enterpriselevel features focusing on security and stability...
Pricing – but it's to be expected on enterprise equipment...
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While SSDs are by now the unquestioned performance kings when it comes to storage, their capacities are still too low and cost-per-gigabyte still too high for them to displace hard drives completely. While SSDs continue to improve at a meteoric rate...
As the benchmarks show, the WD WD4000FYYZ RE is a solid performer. Partitioning it on our test system was no challenge, though its unusually large capacity might cause problems if you intend to use it with an older NAS. Four terabytes is a huge amount...
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techarp.com Updated:
2018-02-22 07:42:01
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The last Western Digital RE drive we tested was the 2 TB Western Digital RE4-GP. It was a lower-powered version that ran at a fixed spindle speed between 5,400 and 7,200 RPM (Western Digital refused to disclose the exact spindle speed), with a SATA 3...
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Western Digital RAID Edition (RE) 4TB Enterprise drive takes the RE family to the 4TB capacity limit. The new drive offers a SATA 6Gbps interface with RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER), dual actuator technology, enterprise build quailty to...
Higher sequential transfer speeds than 2TB RE, High Capacity - 4TB...
Outpaced in some places by the Western Digital RE 2TB drive, Lower Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) than competition...
The Western Digital RE SATA 4TB provides fast, and reliable performance with the largest available capacity and will give enterprise users a density boost for bulk storage applications...
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When considering a new storage solution, most users try to find the right balance between speed and capacity. SSDs are super fast, no doubt about it, but an HDD spinning at 7200RPM or 10,000RPM will still offer solid performance, and you have access to...
Strong performance, Excellent storage density, Dual actuator and RAFF technology for RAID setups, 5-year warranty...
Relatively pricey...
On the whole, the WD RE 4TB SATA hard drive is a champ. It delivers strong performance, and it packs plenty of features to ensure reliability and endurance that are backed up by WD's excellent 5-year warranty, which is a number which will offer confidence...
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The Western Digital RAID Edition line of hard drives has been around for some time now, and has largely impressed us with each subsequent release. Since the launches of the RE4-GP and later, the faster spinning RE4, WD's enterprise line had been cap...
Outstanding sequential read and write speeds, File performance approaching 10,000 RPM VelociRaptor in some areas, 5Year warranty with 24/7 support hotline, 1,200,000 hour MTBF (1,000,000 for WD Red Series)...
Not yet available in a 'GP' series (unknown if this will happen), Different tuning might effect some workloads negatively (compared to prior gen RE4).
After perhaps a longer than expected wait, Western Digital has released a 4TB hard disk in the form of its new RE series. RE drives have always carried a 'faster' track geometry than their consumer units, and this same case applies here. A heavier hea...
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We first became aware of Western Digital's RE4 Enterprise Storage hard drives while parts checking a 1U Dell R310 server back in 2011 - an "Enterprise Storage" SATA drive seemed a curious object.... but before we get into the specs of the 1.0TB WD RE4 dri...
File CopyingFor this test a single 8.5GB file is copied from an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD system disk to the test disk (write to), from the test disk to the OCZ Vertex 2 SSD (read from), and from the test disk to itself (read and write to self). While this test is...
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