WD Red Plus 4TB review: The WD40EFPX is a reliable NAS hard drive small business users might buy on price alone
If the asking price wasn’t 25% higher than a few months ago, I might recommend this drive as an alternative to the IronWolf range. It’s a decent performer, runs quietly and uses CMR technology. It ticks plenty of boxes, but is it enough to redeem WD?
Pros
- +A bit faster than the IronWolf performance
- +It’s CMR, not an SMR drive
- +Quiet in operation
Cons
- -Huge price hike recently
- -High cost per TB
- -No health management model
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Following up on my review of the Seagate IronWolf 8TB, for balance purposes, it's good to look at what WD is selling into the same retail space.
The WD40EFPX is the model I’ll be looking at in this...
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