Western digital wd sentinel dx4000 compatable drive

#Western digital wd sentinel dx4000 compatable drive full
#Western digital wd sentinel dx4000 compatable drive software
#Western digital wd sentinel dx4000 compatable drive windows

Mentioning price, the top en configuration as IвЂ™ve tested here does come with a tall price tag of around ВЈ1400 (~US $2160 / в‚¬1640), but for that price you have to keep in mind that you will be getting four 4TB as well as the Windows licence on top of the system itself which bare is around ВЈ600 making it quite a competitively priced product.

#Western digital wd sentinel dx4000 compatable drive software

IвЂ™m not saying this is a bad product in its entirety, certainly there are a number of great things to applaud Western Digital for with the redundant external power supplies and the very compact build as a result of some clever internal designs, but as I mentioned above, its the software side that loses some of the value that you get from the DX4000. Using a 5400RPM drive also has an effect when it comes to rebuild times on the RAID5 array, if a 12TB system is bought for example and a compatible drive is added into the system, the slower drive results in a rebuild time that does take longer than usual вЂ“ so this is something else to take note of. When it comes to upgrading the DX400 with more drives (for those that buy a lower capacity SKU in the first instance), there is a major point to note that there is a very limited compatibility set of hard drives and in most cases drives will wither not be detected or will not function properly. With Linux based systems, there is a one click factory reset option integrated in to the user interface, however with this unit, to cut a long story shots its basically a case of reinstalling Windows Storage Server on to the NAS which can take quite an amount of time вЂ“ this is one of the major downsides to this system and I feel that a Linux based OS on the NAS would be a major benefit to both the systems performance but also towards the functionality that the could be to offer.

#Western digital wd sentinel dx4000 compatable drive full

Where it does fall down however is the number of options and the hassle that the end user has to go through when the eventuality arises that a full system reset is required. For Windows based environments, the Sentinel can be integrated to work seamlessly with a number of network clients, backing them up automatically in quiet periods (over night for example) and the simple desktop application and interface makes management relatively easy. Using a Windows based interface is a little off piste to other NAS offerings and it does have itвЂ™s pros and cons.

With 16TB worth of drives already installed and the system ready to plug in and get set-up, which in its own part is a simple guided step by step process as Windows Storage Server is configured for the end users network environment. With this being Western DigitalвЂ™s first revisions of their own NAS, a system that from the outside looks the part and on paper has a fair amount to offer shows that they have done some good research into what is needed and that they have what is needed to delve into this particular market.

Having a drive vendor manufacture a NAS to work with their own line of drives is a welcomed approach to mass storage technologies.