WD Red 3TB
The WD Red 3TB is out of stock at every retailer we track right now. The specs below still apply when it returns. The maker rates it for about 493 GB read or written a day.
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Where to buy the WD Red 3TB
Every in-stock offer we track, cheapest first.
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Specifications
Drive
- Capacity
- 3TB
- Form factor
- 3.5"
- Cache
- 256 MB
The maker does not state whether this drive is CMR or SMR, so we don't guess.
Rated for
- Use class
- NAS
- Bays
- Up to 8
- Workload
- 180 TB/year
- Warranty
- 3 years
That is about 493 GB read or written a day, far more than a desktop writes.
Identity
- Part number
- WD30EFAX
Quality score
How we score →Scored from recording type (CMR or SMR), workload rating, warranty, measured failure rate where Backblaze covers the model, spindle speed, MTBF and cache. Use class and size filter; they never score.
A factor we hold no value for scores zero rather than being skipped, so a drive we know little about never outranks a fully documented one. A low score with low confidence means undocumented, not bad. This is a specification index, not a benchmark, and it only compares hard drives with each other.
See every capacity of the WD Red on one page, or compare it with every other drive on the Hard Drives table. For what a hard drive gives up against an SSD, see SSD vs HDD.
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