Boost your NAS system’s performance and responsiveness with the WD Red™ SA500 NAS SATA SSD. Unlike standard SSDs, WD Red NAS SATA SSDs are specifically designed and tested for 24/7 usage. With 2.5” and M.2 form factors and capacities from 500GB up to 4TB1 (2.5” only), the WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD lets you optimize your existing or next NAS system for superior performance and endurance.
Longer Life over performance, I hope!
This is WD's answer to the need for an SSD with longer lifespan (5 year warranty) for use in a Network Storage device (NAS). There are faster SSD's out there, but if you want one for a NAS it has to be a SATA device at the moment and these at least offer more Total Terrabytes written than consumer grade devices for your laptop.
Yes it is typically 3 or four times the price of a typical Spinning Hard drive of the same capacity, but it has no moving parts to wear out, makes no noise and runs cooler.
The future of NAS drives.