Western Digital Adds the WD Gold Hard Drives

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/19/2016 04:52 PM | source: | 3 comment(s)

Western Digital today announced a new line; WD Gold datacenter hard drives. WD Gold datacenter hard drives are designed for a broad range of applications - including small- to medium-scale enterprise servers and storage, and rack-mount datacenter servers and storage enclosures. WD Gold drives are currently available at select U.S. distributors, resellers and through the WD Store.

With purpose-driven designs for the datacenter, WD Gold datacenter hard drives are launching with a new, high-capacity configuration of up to 8TB that offers HelioSeal helium-technology for performance, ideal capacity per square foot, power efficiency and low power consumption for datacenter environments. WD Gold datacenter hard drives feature an optimized design with an 8TB option that helps reduce the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of servers and storage systems, benefiting IT administrators challenged with growing storage capacity needs on limited budgets. WD Gold hard drives will also include a premium dedicated support line for customers worldwide.

"Western Digital has a proven history of providing award-winning purpose-driven products for unique requirements of each application environment, like WD Red, WD Purple and WD Blue drives," said Brendan Collins vice president of product marketing, Western Digital Corporation. "WD Gold is a pinnacle part of the color portfolio strategy and another step in creating optimized drives for the markets we serve. Our continued goal is to deliver the most competitive and reliable solutions on the market."

WD Gold datacenter hard drives include:

Improved power efficiency - New electronics enhance power efficiency up to 15 percent1. HelioSeal technology enables up to 26 percent lower power consumption2
Better performance - Up to 18 percent sequential performance improvement over previous generation WD Re 4TB datacenter drives, and up to 30 percent improvement in random write performance over previous generation WD Re 6TB datacenter drives through media-based cache, and up to 3x improvement over competitive offerings
High reliability - WD Gold incorporates best-of-breed design, manufacturing and test processes to achieve one of the highest reliability ratings in the industry - 2.5 million hours MTBF (8TB offering)
Dedicated Premium Support Line and WD Gold Model Numbers - Western Digital offers a 24/7 premium support line for WD Gold customers and can be reached at U.S.: (855) 559-3733; International: +80055593733. WD Gold model numbers:

o 6TB: WD6002FRYZ

o 4TB: WD4002FYYZ

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Koniakki
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#5260625 Posted on: 04/20/2016 11:24 AM

Well my Seagate 3TB(ST3000DM001) spilled the beans after 4 years(3 of semi-continuous operation) so I might consider this.

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#5260629 Posted on: 04/20/2016 11:26 AM

I really have good experience with WD drivers. Having a 2x1TB WD Black drivers for a long time, not that i need a gold one.

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#5260693 Posted on: 04/20/2016 02:27 PM

I'm a big fan of the WD RE and WD SE HDDs, I have WD Re 8x 4TBs in my windows server and they have been running for the last 2 years none stop for hyper-V environment and data and media server purposes without single issue.

Good to see they now have an improved version with a combination of both the RE and SE versions(reliability and Performance), plus they now go up to 8TB, I would love few of those...

I have had few WD Red's go wrong on me over the years in my NAS, random bad sectors and "re-identify disk" spamming the logs, but no data lose (thanks to raid 10). But WD have been pretty good on the support and replaced them quickly and efficiently, so I cant complain.

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