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The Power of Red Comes to SSD

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.

Product Details

Supercharge your NAS
Durability together with efficient caching of big files make the WD Red™ SA500 NAS SATA SSD ideal for OLTP databases, multi-user environments, photo rendering, 4K and 8K video editing and other demanding applications.

Access big files fast
WD Red™ SA500 500 GB SSD 2.5 inch SSD storage is optimized for caching in NAS systems to rapidly access your most frequently used content. 

Give it your tough workloads
WD Red™ SSD’s superior endurance can handle the heavy read and write loads demanded by NAS, giving you the reliability you need in a 24/7 environment. 

Work more efficiently
Purpose-built for NAS with proven Western Digital® 3D NAND, the WD Red™ NAS Solid State Drive delivers maximum SATA performance to boost your productivity and effectiveness at home or in the office.

Use it for your demanding applications
The drive reduces latency and improves responsiveness for OLTP databases, multi-user environments, photo rendering, 4K and 8K video editing, and more.

Build with flexibility
Customize your NAS to meet your most demanding storage needs with capacities ranging from 500GB up to 4TB1.

Full Specifications

Features
  • Endurance of up to 2500TBW 
  • Ideal for caching in NAS systems to rapidly access your most frequently used files
  • Reduces latency and improves responsiveness for OLTP databases, multi-user environments, photo rendering, 4K and 8K video editing, and more
Capacity
500GB
Form Factor
2.5-Inch
Sequential Read Performance
560MB/s
Sequential Write Performance
530MB/s
Random Read
95K IOPS
Random Write
85K IOPS
Interface
SATA
Warranty
5-Year Limited Warranty
Endurance (TBW)
350
Dimensions (L x W x H)
3.94" x 2.75" x 0.28"
Weight
37.4gms
Model Number
WDS500G1R0A
Operating Temperature
0°C to 70°C
Non-Operating Temperature
-55°C to 85°C
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Western Digital Dashboard

The Western Digital Dashboard helps users maintain peak performance of the Western Digital SSD in Windows operating systems with a user-friendly graphical interface for the user. The Western Digital Dashboard includes tools for analysis of the disk (including the disk model, capacity, firmware version, and SMART attributes) and firmware updates.

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  1. 1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less, depending on the operating environment.
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