WD Gold
Datacenter Capacity HDD
With ten times the workload capacity of desktop drives, WD Gold hard drives feature advanced technology that delivers industry leading reliability, capacity, power efficiency and performance. Designed for a multitude of Datacenter-specific applications, WD Gold hard drives are perfect for high-availability server and storage arrays that demand the most robust storage device available with 24/7 premium customer support.
Full range of nearline capacities - From boot servers to high end enterprise storage systems, WD Gold hard drives offer the capacities required for the most demanding datacenter environments.
Highest workload capability - Delivering both performance and reliability to any datacenter environment, WD Gold hard drives are designed to handle up to 550TB per year which is the highest workload capability of any 3.5-inch hard drive.
Highest level of reliability - With up to 2.5 million hours MTBF, WD Gold hard drives deliver the highest level of reliability and durability for yearly operation (24x7x365) within the most demanding storage environments.
Vibration Protection - Enhanced RAFF™ technology includes sophisticated electronics to monitor the drive and correct both linear and rotational vibration in real time. The result is a significant performance improvement in high vibration environments over other desktop hard drives.
RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) – Prevents drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives.
Extended thermal burn-in test – Each drive is put through extended burn-in testing with thermal cycling to ensure reliable operation.
Dynamic fly height technology – Each read-write head’s fly height is adjusted in real time for optimum reliability.
Dual actuator technology - A head positioning system with two actuators that improves positional accuracy over the data track(s). The primary actuator provides coarse displacement using conventional electromagnetic actuator principles. The secondary actuator uses piezoelectric motion to fine tune the head positioning to a higher degree of accuracy.
Hard drive
Hard drive capacity : 8000
Hard drive interface : Serial ATA III
Hard drive speed : 7200
Hard drive size : 3.5
Drive device, buffer size : 256
Device type : HDD
Bytes per sector : 512
Start/stop cycles : 600000
Hard drive interface transfer rate : 6
Hard drive sustained transfer rate : 200
Mean time between failures (MTBF) : 2000000
RoHS compliance : Y
System requirements
Windows operating systems supported : Y
Mac operating systems supported : Y
Linux operating systems supported : Y
Weight & dimensions
Width : 101.6
Height : 26.1
Depth : 147
Weight : 641
Power
Power consumption (read) : 8.8
Power consumption (write) : 8.3
Power consumption (idle) : 7.4
Operational conditions
Operating temperature (T-T) : 5 - 60
Storage temperature (T-T) : -40 - 70
Operating shock : 65
Non-operating shock : 300
