WD Gold 8TB Enterprise SATA Hard Drive

WD GOLD HDD - 8TB Drive

The 8TB WD GOLD is a high-quality DATACENTER HDD that delivers incredible performance thanks to its easy to use 3.5 inch form factor that is just 26.1 mm in height, the drive has a rotation speed of 7200 rpm. The WD GOLD HDD’s technical highlight is it’s 6Gb/s interface, which is the latest SATA III standard. This drive in particular has a storage capacity of 8TB and has a massive 128MB Cache.

SCALE IT IN GOLD

With up to ten times the workload capacity of desktop drives, WD Gold hard drives employ advanced technology to deliver among the best in 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.

HIGH-CAPACITY NEARLINE DRIVE

WD GOLD hard drives are just the right bend of performance, workload capability and also keeping the the total cost of ownership down. Massive capacities up to 8TB suit even the most demanding datacenter, enterprise server, or cloud storage needs.

COST EFFECTIVE ENTERPRISE-CLASS STORAGE

With the 8TB WD GOLD Hard Drive you can build a massive data footprint with capacities in the range of 6 - 218TB per square foot, to make sure all of this data is kept safe the GOLD HDD’s are equipped with enhanced RAFF Technology which monitors the drive and corrects both linear and rotational vibration in real time, this along with the Multi-axis shock sensor and StableTrac Technology gives you peace of mind to know your data is safe.

COMPATIBILITY TESTING

All WD Gold hard drives are extensively tested across a variety of popular OEM storage systems, SATA controllers, and host bus adapters, to ensure ease of integration for a plug and play solution.

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.

TIME-LIMITED ERROR RECOVERY (TLER)

Reduces drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives.