Your Data Is Gold
WD Gold® HDDs incorporate our latest innovations to handle heavy, continuous read-write workloads in the toughest of enterprise and commercial system environments. WD Gold® drives provide the utmost in HDD storage performance, reliability, durability, and capacity-point flexibility to small and medium businesses and design professionals whose mission-critical data and creative output are essential to their success.
Built For Demanding Use Cases
Customize your business's storage mix to fit your specific needs with hard drives in capacities of up to 26TB1 engineered for demanding applications and read-write workloads of up to 550TB2 per year.
Enhanced Reliability
With a five-year limited warranty3 supporting up to 2.5M hours MTBF,4 WD Gold® hard drives deliver enhanced levels of dependability and durability.
Protection and Performance Boost
ArmorCacheTM technology (available in 22TB and above) is a Western Digital-only feature that provides enterprise power loss protection of your data in write-cache enabled (WCE) mode while increasing performance in write-cache disabled (WCD) mode.
Continuous Innovation
The WD Gold® 26TB1 model is built on the world's first 11-disk HDD platform and delivers the 10th generation of HelioSeal® technology, which has proven to be a vital foundation for continuous capacity growth for over a decade.
Robustness For Tough Environments
Our exclusive Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) uses dual sensors to anticipate and counteract disturbances, maintaining peak performance in high-vibration environments.
Flexibility and Peace of Mind
WD Gold® has undergone extensive testing and validation in a variety of host bus adapters, servers, and enterprise storage solutions employing RAID and other data resiliency configurations.
Capacity
8TB
Form Factor
3.5-Inch
Connector
SATA
Interface
SATA
Transfer Rate
up to 267MB/s
Disk Speed (RPM)
7200 RPM
Recording Technology
CMR
Cache Size
256MB
Endurance (TBW)
550TB/year
Operating Temperature
5oC to 60oC
Non-Operating Temperature
-40oC to 70oC
Additional Details
Cloud applications and distributed file systems like Apache Hadoop to support Big Data analytics
Bulk storage using object storage solutions like CEPHTM and OpenStack Swift
Direct and Network Attached Storage (DAS and NAS), RAID storage
Industrial applications
Entry server storage
Certifications
BSMI, ICES-003/NMB-003, CE, FCC, KC, Maghreb, RCM, UKCA, VCCI, CB-Scheme, TUV, UL
Product Features
Vibration protection technology
HelioSeal delivers high capacities with low power draw (14TB and up)
Projected 2.5M hours MTBF
Compatibility
Windows
Windows Server
Linux
macOS
In The Box
WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA HDD
Item Dimension (L inchxW inchxH inch)
6 x 4 x 2
Weight
1.58 lb
Warranty Information
5 YEARS