Western Digital Enhances Its Datacenter Portfolio With WD Gold Hard Drives

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Western Digital Corporation, a world leader in storage solutions, today announced the expansion of its award-winning 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. WD Gold drives are currently available at select U.S. distributors, resellers and through the WD Store.

With purpose-driven designs for the datacenter, WD Gold datacenter hard drives are launching with a new, high-capacity configuration of up to 8TB that 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 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.
 
Pulling out all the stops to keep spindle drive tech alive despite it being caught in the vortex of the drain...
 
DejaWiz said:
Pulling out all the stops to keep spindle drive tech alive despite it being caught in the vortex of the drain...
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They still have a massive distance in price per GB, I still buy HDDs in that replacing all the 5TB drives in my server with SSD would cost me a small fortune, being that this is mostly stream stuff, the throughput on them is more than enough to saturate my home network. But if the trend with SSD size and price keeps up, in a few years they might be at the same $/GB as HDD, but with far greater performance. Unless they pull something out of the hat for a big bump in capacity, because it really doesn't look like they will be able to keep pace with SSD tech, which is still quite new in the storage space.

SSD tech is really the only thing as of late that gets me excited about computers/upgrades, not touched much else in my system other than storage. The number game with SSD is getting old however, the last 3-4 "newer" "faster" SSDs I have noticed no gain in performance, only benchmarks, I would gladly take "slower" drives for larger capacity at the same price point.
 
I find magnetic storage quite useful still. But that is mainly do to the price. My NAS isn't capable nor used for the speeds that SSDs can produce. I'd like to see some ssds that were less speed focused and more geared towards a NAS use case.
 
When I can get a 4TB server class SSD for less than $300, I'll start replacing my magnetic drives.
But with Server SSD's still running around 10x the price, I don't think I'll be doing it soon.
 
nutzo said:
When I can get a 4TB server class SSD for less than $300, I'll start replacing my magnetic drives.
But with Server SSD's still running around 10x the price, I don't think I'll be doing it soon.
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I think we are still at least 1 decade away. I am not even sure that 3D NAND will be enough to solve the cost difference.
 
So what do we have now? Gold, Blue, Black, Red, Purple, am I missing any?
 
tazeat said:
So what do we have now? Gold, Blue, Black, Red, Purple, am I missing any?
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Green. Not sure if they still make them, I know some places still have them for sale. And outside of color, you also have Re, Se and VelociRaptor drives, do they still make the AV drives as well? Pretty sure this is still missing a few.
 
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