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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Anton Shilov

WD Red Pro 26TB hits the market for $569 — new capacity enables portable 208TB RAID solution for $8,299

WD Red Pro 26TB.

Western Digital has introduced its highest-capacity hard disk drive for network-attached storage (NAS) systems—the WD Red Pro 26TB—and several direct-attached storage (DAS) systems aimed at creative professionals. These DAS offer capacities of up to 208TB and employ one to eight hard drives.

Western Digital's WD Red Pro 26TB hard drive (WD260KFGX) is based on the company's latest 11-platter helium-sealed platform with a 7200 RPM spindle speed and the OptiNAND technology. The drive leverages Western Digital's 2nd Generation energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording (ePMR 2) platform and uses conventional magnetic recording (CMR) for predictable performance in all workloads. Speaking of performance, the WD Red Pro 26TB can boast a 272 MB/s transfer rate.

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