Western Digital 1TB WD Red SN700 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive SSD for NAS Devices - Gen3 PCIe, M.2 2280, Up to 3,430 MB/s - WDS100T1R0C

With my current project, l am modifying and moving a large amount of data to/from my NAS. This SSD helps keep the transfer rate high.

Bought 4TB model from Amazon. Installed w/o problems & is running well in HP Elitebook 745 G6. (Used for a Windows 11 clean install). Applied thermal pads to the boom (x1) and to the top (x2) of the card, so the top makes contact w/ aluminum chassis. Temp readings are low (~32-35). Can’t comment on longevity (since I just bought my unit), but so far it looks very good.

Finding a reasonably priced 4TB NVMe that will write a whole TeraByte at nearly full speed is almost impossible. But this one will. The next best alternative costs 50% more as of February 2022.

Worked great in my Asustor AS6704T nas.

On my home NAS, which gets fairly heavy use, a pair of these gave me a nice R/W speed enhancement via SSD Cache. Very happy with the performance.

This drive is really great. I havent tried to benchmark the speeds, because Im just using it in a USB enclosure; so I will never be able to see those speeds anyway. Professionally, I use a lot of virtual machines to perform my work; this drive has a ton of space which is perfect for what Im doing and is large enough to hold all of my documents, manuals, and basically everything else I could ever need for work. Being inside a little USB enclosure, it fits into my bag easily. I expect it to be a strong performer for years to come.

Bought 2 of these for a Synology DS1522+ which work only as caching memory (R/W). They have improved response for 2 virtual machines and file retrieval.

I used it for less than a week and it died. I guess that’s what happens when everything inside is sandisk. Putting red collar won’t make it last a minute longer. You are warned. stay far away from western digital products

My previous NVMe drive died quickly and just outside of warranty. I found that I really tore through it as I do a lot of 4k video and photo editing. I was less worried about speed and more worried about getting something that could hold up longer. These Red SSDs have a significantly more TBW rated than most of the others in their class. You can get something much faster and bigger for the same price as one of these... but if you need the durability, look no further. I cannot speak to the durability as its still very new... but I can say that the speeds look to be as advertised through my limited testing and so far, has not let me down.

WD has been reliable. The SSD Red meets my needs and so far so good. Use it for Time machine backups so it is used with some frequency. It runs on the warm side so plan accordingly regarding your enclosure, thermal pads, etc.