Thecus NAS With WD Red SA500 SSD
SATA and M.2 SSDs flash disks up to 4TB
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on October 31, 2019 at 2:50 pmThecus Technology Corp. and Western Digital Corp. announce that the new WD Red SA500 SSDs are supported by every current Thecus NAS model.
The Red SA500 SSD will be available both in SATA and M.2 form factors with initial capacities of 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB. These SSD are intended to be used for home and small offices and are storage optimized for caching in NAS to access the most frequently used files.
Although SSD are now cheaper than ever, WD realizes that traditional HDDs still give us more gigabyte per dollar, so HDDs are still recommended for bigger capacity storage. Furthermore, the highest capacity of the new Red SA500 SSD is 4TB which is usually not sufficient for most users of NAS.
Red SA500 SSD are designed and tested for every-day all-day usage and have shown endurance for heavy read and write loads demanded by NAS to provide the highest reliability.
They use a tiered caching structure to improve write performance and endurance with a DDR DRAM cache and a SLC flash write cache to buffer data before accessing the main storage cells based on TLC NAND flash. This result in an endurance rating of up to 2500TBW (terabyte written) and the mean time to failure is listed as up to 2 million hours – more than 200 years. The new Red SSD deliver sequential read speeds of up to 560MB/s and sequential write rates of 53 MB/s to be 4 times faster than normal HDDs – while using less power.
The Red SA500 SATA SSD in compact M.2 form factor are available with 500GB, 1TB and 2TB while the 2.5″ model is additionally offered with 4TB.
After compatibility testing with different models, the they are drop-in ready for every current Thecus NAS (and many older models) to accelerate data transfer and provide a viable alternative for speed-hungry or impatient NAS users.
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