Western Digital Gold hard drives are back and get more reliable

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/25/2019 07:45 AM | source: | 5 comment(s)

Western Digital HDD makes a return in the form of a line-up of enterprise-class SATA hard drives designed for demanding workloads. This family of hard drives (WD Gold DC HA750) is derived from WD's flagship Ultrastar SATA series, using the most popular features that cater to cloud applications and distributed file systems, as well as to object storage solutions.

Offered in a full range of capacities from 1TB to 14TB, the WD Gold drives can be deployed across traditional storage arrays, rack-mounted storage enclosures, and server-based distributed storage systems. The HelioSeal technology in the 12TB and 14TB drives offer high storage densities and power efficiency.

The WD Gold drives come in 3.5” form factor for easy deployment within the data center and deliver 6Gbps SATA III performance with 7,200 RPM. They use the Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) technology to optimize performance for workloads involving random writes that are commonly used. They also provide secure erase (SE) with sanitizing overwrite functionality for the data.

The WD Gold product line offers a workload handling capability of 550TB per year, reliability of up to 2.5M-hour MTBF, and are backed by a 5-year limited warranty.

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barbacot
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#5714327 Posted on: 09/25/2019 11:06 AM

I see the gold for the honey but where is the green for the money??? - no price given???

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#5714336 Posted on: 09/25/2019 11:46 AM

So WD Black isnt top of the line anymore.

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#5714353 Posted on: 09/25/2019 12:23 PM

I see the gold for the honey but where is the green for the money??? - no price given???

Official pricing starts at 80$ for the 1TB model and goes up to 550$ for the 14TB HDD.

*Source: WD Shop - https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-gold-sata-hdd#WD1005FBYZ

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#5714449 Posted on: 09/25/2019 06:07 PM

I didn't know they were gone. I bought a brand new 4TB gold on Amazon for $140 just about a year ago.

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#5714487 Posted on: 09/25/2019 09:05 PM

So WD Black isnt top of the line anymore.

Black never was an Entretoise solution, Gold was always WD's Top Enterprise drive until WD decided to discontinue them for some reason and started losing business enough to bring them back.

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