Western Digital is expanding its award-winning colour portfolio with a new line: WD Gold datacentre hard drives.

WD Gold datacentre hard drives are designed for a broad range of applications – including small- to medium-scale enterprise servers and storage, and rack-mount data centre servers and storage enclosures.

WD Gold drives will be available at select distributors in South Africa in the month of July.

With purpose-driven designs for the datacentre, WD Gold datacenter hard drives are launching with a new, high-capacity configuration of up to 8TB.

It 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 optimised 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 and include:

  • Improved power efficiency – New electronics enhance power efficiency up to 15 percent. HelioSeal technology enables up to 26 percent lower power consumption.
  • 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:
    • 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.