WD Gold 8TB

The WD hard drive brand releases a new model designed specifically for an overloaded servers and data centres environment. Gold 8TB hard drives use advanced technology to deliver the best results in terms of reliability, power efficiency and performance. They are designed for year operation (24×7×365), with a workload rating up to 550TB per year and up to 2.5 million hours MTBF. To sum up, this hard drive offers one of the highest levels of service life compared to other hard drives of this class.

WD Gold 8TB Hard Drive Key Features

• Designed as a server or data centre storage
• For non-stop operation (24×7×365)
• Ready for a great workload (up to 550TB per year, 2.5 million hours MTBF)
• Greater power efficiency
• Has been subjected to extensive testing in terms of compatibility

Enterprise solution for data centres

WD Gold 8TB uses the latest HelioSeal technology. Therefore this generation achieves higher performance, lower power consumption and higher capacities on storage arrays. All of these are certainly desirable features for datacentre environments where it reduces total cost of ownership. Additionally, the Gold Series is subject to rigorous testing across a variety of storage systems and with various SATA controllers to ensure easy plug-and-play installation.