Western Digital Announce 10TB Gold HDD for $849

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Western Digital Gold HDD Capacity at 10TB For $849

Western Digital Corporation announced a high-capacity configuration of up to 10TB for its WD Gold datacenter HDDs.

Western Digital WDC_GOLD_10GB_WD101KRYZDesigned for modern enterprise storage systems, WD Gold 10TB datacenter HDDs feature HelioSeal helium-technology for high capacity, power efficient storage for datacenter environments.

WD Gold datacenter HDDs are designed for a range of applications – including small- to medium-scale enterprise servers and storage, and rack-mount datacenter servers and storage enclosures.

This 10TB datacenter HDDs feature an optimized design over the existing WD Gold 8TB drives that helps reduce TCO of servers and storage systems through an 8% operating power reduction while delivering 25% more capacity. This benefits IT administrators challenged with keeping up with growing storage demands on limited budgets.

It is Western Digital’s ongoing goal to provide superior reliability and compelling value to our enterprise customers,” said Brendan Collins, VP, product marketing, Western Digital. “WD Gold drives are a key component of the overall WD portfolio, providing power efficient, capacity-optimized storage for a wide range of high workload applications. The new 10TB capacity enables customers to efficiently deploy higher density storage solutions.

WD Gold 10TB datacenter HDDs provide:

  • Improved power efficiency – HelioSeal Technology delivers lower power with an increase in capacity. Power efficiency (watts/TB) during operation is improved up to 26% over the WD Gold 8TB drive.

  • Better performance – Up to 21% sequential performance improvement over WD Gold 8TB datacenter drives

  • High reliability – WD Gold drives incorporate design, manufacturing and test processes to achieve one of the highest reliability ratings in the industry – 2.5 million hours MTBF (8TB and 10TB offerings)

  • Dedicated Premium support line – The company offers a 24/7 premium support line for WD Gold drive customers.

WD Gold 10TB HDDs (model number WD101KRYZ) are available at select U.S. distributors, resellers and through the company webstore.