Western Digital Corporation (www.wd.com) has expanded its color portfolio with a new line: WD Gold datacenter hard drives.
WD Gold datacenter hard drives are designed for a broad range of applications – including small- to medium-scale enterprise servers and storage, and rack-mount datacenter servers and storage enclosures. They’re now available with a new, high-capacity configuration of up to 8TB that offers HelioSeal helium-technology.
WD Gold datacenter hard drives feature an optimized design with an 8TB option. They also include a premium dedicated support line for customers worldwide.
The new hard drives purportedly enhance power efficiency up to 15% and enables up to 26 percent lower power consumption. They also provide up to 18%sequential performance improvement over previous generation WD Re 4TB datacenter drives, and up to 30% improvement in random write performance over previous generation WD Re 6TB datacenter drives through media-based cache.