Western Digital Corporation has introduced a line of hard drives WD Gold. The first new items designed for data centers, as well as the good fit for servers and storage. The new drives are characterized by high reliability and low power consumption, which is important for these applications.
The line includes WD8002FRYZ drives, WD6002FRYZ, WD4002FYYZ, the volume of which is 8, 6 and 4 TB. Spindle speed in all the novelties is 7200 r / min, and they are connected via SATA 3.0 interface (6Gb / s). Volume of DRAM cache in disk WD Gold is 128 MB, and the manufacturer notes that the caching system has been optimized, due to which productivity has increased by 18-30% (compared with hard drives for data centers Data centers WD Re).
According to the manufacturer, through the use of new electronic components the energy efficiency of hard disk WD Gold series increased by 15% higher compared to the other drives the company. The hard drive WD Gold 8 TB HelioSeal applied technology, filled with helium. This power consumption is 26% lower compared with the 8-terabyte hard drives from other manufacturers, the developers claim. Mean time between failures (MTBF) for the WD Gold drives declared at the level of 2.5 million hours.
Hard Drives WD Gold are available now priced at $ 310, $ 500 and $ 630 for models with 4, 6 and 8 TB of memory, respectively. Related Products :
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