Western Digital WD Red SN700 M.2 250 GB PCI Express 3.0 NVMe

I bought two of these drives, installed them on my NAS DS923+, in less than two months one of the drives failed. Configured an SSD Cache and the NAS is not even heavily used. Very poor experience

I have a NAS for my home medias.This works wonders and extremely reliable. WD Red is my go-to for all my storage needs. Long lasting and reliable.

Bon produit en bonne état. Bien recu le colis

First and fore most, it's double sided, the second side, the chips are located at the "end" of the drive, which is the furthest away from the NVME pin connecter.Stays steady at WRITING 1200megaBYTE/s until it maxed out. There's no such thing as cache, but the reads are all over the place, sometimes 2200mbyte/s for a couple of minutes, sometimes stays steady at 1000mbyte/s, sometimes drops to 900mbyte/s. Anyways, the lowest it dropped was 900mbyte/s.These were all tests done by moving large VM containers, smallest are 100GB each, some as big as 1TB. And yes, I use this drive mainly to host my VM containers off of. Creating and destroying VM containers require more "writing" than reading, and the read speed isn't that poor neither.TL;DR, it won't win any drag races, but since it acts like having no cache at all, it will ALWAYS offer STEADY performance even if you smash it over and over again. There is no recovery time for cache, as there IS no cache. (it acts like having no cache) And the speeds are much faster than QLC and TLC when their cache is exhausted.Cons, it still gets toasty like any other NVME drive, so make sure you stick a heatsink on. If you use it as an external drive, make sure you pay the extra $10 with nice metal chassis and includes thermal pads enclosures. This NVME drive costs a lot (with or without discount), so you can't skimp out and buy the cheapest NVME enclosure out there. Also buy the 10Gbps enclosure if you can afford it too.

I purchased 2 of the 500GB for my Synology 920+ running DSM7Easy tool-less installation.Decided to use only ONE of them in READ mode for my Calibre and Plex libraries as well as Docker images. Noticeably faster load up of art work which is important for the Media room experience. Movies will not see any speed boost - as why would they? But the artwork loading is quick and very noticeable once cached.Synology WILL complain when you set up the Cache as there are no WD products in the Synology "compatibility" chart. Don't now if this is due to a failed business agreement or whatever, however it will work.I have 15TB of storage, and the Single 500GB NVMe SSD is more than enough. I will likely move the other one to another NAS, or into my computer. i likely could have gotten away with a 256GB NVMe SSD but room to grow is always good.Please note that the Synology Read/Write cache mirror set up has caused some people grief in the past, so please do your own research on this before doing it. Personally I don't feel the need.

He comprado este SSD para mi NAS QNAP Ts-464-8g, para crear un almacenamiento SSD y en el instalar todas las apps, de este modo ganar rapidez y fluidez en la carga de apps.En concreto ha sido para instalar la app Plex, de esta forma al tener instalado el servidor Plex en el SSD, la carga de la biblioteca del servidor Plex es mucho más rápido, cargan más rápido las carátulas y todos los metadatos, fluyen mejor los menús, aunque luego las películas y todos los medios los reproduzca del HDD, pero he ganado en rapidez y mejor rendimiento de toda la biblioteca PLEX.Estoy pensando en comprar otro para las grabaciones de NVR, ya que en el mismo NAS también tengo montado un servidor NVR para grabar las cámaras de seguridad de casa, el problema que aquí está grabando continuamente 24/7, y los SSD tienen mucho desgaste en la escritura, y por ello me puede durar poco en ese sentido, aun así miraré si hay algún SSD especial contra escrituras constantes y así crear otro almacenamiento para el NVR, sobre todo es para intentar eliminar el dichoso ruido mecánico de los discos duros de un NAS, ya que al estar grabando continuamente las cámaras el disco está todo el rato sonando, y al tener el NAS en el salón está todo el rato el típico sonido de disco duro, y esto se quitaría teniendo otro SSD para NVR, ya solo sonaría cuando lee algún dato o escribe del disco Hdd, pero eso ya son momentos puntuales.Bueno para no enrollarme más, perfecto este SSD, ha sido instalarlo y al arrancarlo ya lo ha reconocido perfecto, y recomiendo usarlo como almacenamiento en lugar de caché, y ahí instalar las apps y así ganas rendimiento y rapidez.