Tuesday, April 19th 2016
Western Digital Announces the WD Gold Hard Drives
Western Digital Corporation, a world leader in storage solutions, today announced the expansion of its award-winning color portfolio with 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:
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.
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 8TB: WD8002FRYZ
o 6TB: WD6002FRYZ
o 4TB: WD4002FYYZ
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WD4002FYYZ (3rd party seller): ~$294-$318 (+applicable shipping)
Amazon:
WD8002FRYZ: ~$665 (+applicable shipping)
WD6002FRYZ: ~$511.22 (+applicable shipping)
WD4002FYYZ: ~$212.44 (+applicable shipping)
For those who have seen the Gold drives before, Amazon shows a bunch of other model #'s for some of these drives, ending in stuff like FSYZ, F9YZ and even a 2TB WD2000FYYZ.
Here's a full price comparison of 4TB Western Digital drives from Newegg:
$114.99 -- WD Blue 4TB, 5400 RPM, model WD40EZRZ
$149.99 -- WD Purple 4TB, 5400 RPM, model WD40PURX
$149.99 -- WD Red 4TB, 5400 RPM, model WD40EFRX
$195.00 -- WD RE 4TB, 7200 RPM, model WD4001FYYG
$196.99 -- WD Black 4TB, 7200 RPM, model WD4003FZEX
$214.99 -- WD Se 4TB, 7200 RPM, model WD4000F9YZ
$244.40 -- WD Red Pro 4TB, 7200 RPM, model WD4002FFWX
$294.11 -- WD Gold 4TB, 7200 RPM, model WD4002FYYZ
Defeats the point of colour coding your product lines if there are so many bloody colours no one can remember them.
I'm guessing Mystic blue or Blurple next... sparkly orange?
People - stop feeding WD your money...there are too many colours damn it! :)
That said, look at this page:
www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/desktop-hdd/#specs
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It has become the industry norm.