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Western Digital's Red SA500 500GB M.2 SSD boosts the performance and responsiveness of your NAS. The WD Red SA500 is specifically designed for NAS servers in 24/7 use. Built with 3D NAND, it offers a written endurance of 350TB and has a 2 million hour MTBF.
The WD Red SA500 500GB SSD (WDS500G1R0B) M.2 SATA 6Gb/s opens up new possibilities for your NAS with read speeds of up to 560MB/s and write speeds of up to 530MB/s and the number of operations per second reaches 95,000 IOPS for reading and 85,000 IOPS for writing
The WD Red SA500 NAS SSD is optimized for caching on NAS systems to quickly access the content you use most often.
This drive reduces latency and improves responsiveness for OLTP databases, multi-user environments, photo rendering, 4K and 8K video editing
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General information |
Product name |
Western Digital SSD M.2 WD Red SA500 500 GB |
Brand |
Western Digital | |
Model |
WDS500G1R0B | |
Main characteristics |
Interface with the computer |
M.2 - SATA 6Gb/s |
Hard drive format |
M.2 | |
M.2 format |
M.2 2280 | |
Heatsink |
No | |
Capacity |
500 GB | |
Flash memory type |
TLC (Triple-Level Cell) | |
NVMe |
No | |
PS5-compatible |
No | |
Performance |
Read speed |
560 MB/s |
Write speed |
530 MB/s | |
IOPS Read |
95000 | |
IOPS in writing |
85000 | |
Endurance |
350 | |
TRIM compatible |
Yes | |
Physical characteristics |
Width |
22 mm |
Height |
2.38 mm | |
Depth |
80 mm | |
Weight |
7 g | |
Warranties |
Commercial warranty |
Seller 3 years |
Legal warranty |
See terms & conditions |
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Product referenced on 22 Nov 2019
I bought this SSD in M.2 to use as a cache on a QNAP TVS1282, as it was compatible on the QNAP website.
We'll see in the long run, but apparently it should be good as it had a good reputation.
