#5714327

barbacot

2019-09-25 12:06

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

#5714336

Undying

2019-09-25 12:46

So WD Black isnt top of the line anymore.

#5714353

Laci

2019-09-25 13:23

barbacot:

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

#5714449

Margalus

2019-09-25 19:07

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

#5714487

Yakk

2019-09-25 22:05

Undying:

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.

#6135980

Shalmaneser

2023-05-26 14:08

Rated at "up to 2.5M hours MTBF." What's the reality? I can't find any stats.

#6135984

Astyanax

2023-05-26 14:25

disks left spinning without head parking generally only fail if there are already magnetic weaknesses in the platter.