Western Digital Red Pro 18TB 7200rpm 512MB Cache 3.5 Inch SATA NAS Hard Drive

WD Red Pro drives are engineered to handle high-intensity workloads in 24×7 multi-user commercial and enterprise NAS environments. WD Red Pro drives deliver the performance, scalability and dependability businesses require to store, share and collaborate on large amounts of data in multi-bay RAID-optimized NAS systems.

Powering Smarter Content Management​:
WD Red Pro HDDs deliver the capacity and durability AI-driven NAS solutions depend on, supporting advanced data management and content aggregation. As AI NAS stores more structured and unstructured data, WD Red Pro scales to keep pace — boosting productivity and storage efficiency.

Durability for Heavy Workloads:
With a workload rating of up to 550TB/yr, WD Red Pro hard drives are designed to handle the rigorous demands of high-intensity, 24×7 multi-user NAS environments. Continuous operation is exactly what these drives are built for — so your AI NAS runs hard without slowing down.

Enterprise-Class Capacity and Reliability:
WD Red Pro drives are offered across a wide range of capacity points — from 2TB to 26TB— to scale with the needs of your organization. Rated at up to 2.5 million hours mean time before failure (MTBF), they deliver the enterprise-class reliability that always-on AI NAS environments depend on.

Optimized for RAID:
WD Red Pro drives feature Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER), helping ensure uninterrupted operation in RAID-powered NAS and AI NAS systems. Proven in tower and rack-mount systems with any number of bays, WD Red Pro is the right drive for AI NAS at every scale — backed by a 5-year limited warranty.

• Capacity: 18TB
• Form Factor: 3.5-Inch
• Connector: SATA
• Interface: SATA
• Transfer Rate: up to 272MB/s
• Disk Speed (RPM): 7200 RPM
• Recording Technology: CMR
• Cache Size: 512MB
• Operating Temperature: 0°C to 65°C
• Non-Operating Temperature: -40°C to 70°C
• Warranty: 5-Year Limited Warranty
• Endurance (TBW): 550TB/year
• Certifications: BSMI, ICES-003/NMB-003, CE, FCC, KC, Maghreb, RCM, UKCA, VCCI, CB-Scheme, TUV, UL
• Compatibility: RAID-optimized NAS systems with unlimited # of bays
• Dimensions (LxWxH): 147 x 101.6 x 26.1mm
• Weight: 690gms