Western Digital Corporation(NASDAQ: WDC), a world leader in storage solutions, today announced the expansion of its award-winning color portfolio with a new line; WD Gold™ data center hard drives. WD Gold data center hard drives are designed for a broad range of applications including small- to medium-scale enterprise servers and storage, and rack-mount data center servers and storage enclosures.
With purpose-driven designs for the data center, WD Gold data center hard drives are launching with anew, high-capacity configuration of up to 8TB that offers Helio Seal® helium-technology for performance, ideal capacity per square foot, power efficiency and low power consumption for data center environments. WD Gold data center 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 data center hard drives include:
- Improved power efficiency – New electronics enhance power efficiency up to 15 percent. Helio Seal technology enables up to 26 percent lower power consumption
- Better performance up to 18 percent sequential performance improvement over previous generation WD Re™ 4TB data center drives, and up to 30 percent improvement in random write performance over previous generation WD Re 6TB data center 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:
8TB: WD8002FRYZ
6TB: WD6002FRYZ
4TB: WD4002FYYZ
More information about the WD Gold hard drives and terms of the limited warranty may be found on the company website at www.wd.com.