IRVINE, Calif., April 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- 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™ 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.
"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 datacenter hard drives include:
- Improved power efficiency – New electronics enhance
power efficiency up to 15 percent1. HelioSeal technology
enables up to 26 percent lower power consumption2
- 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.
About Western Digital
Founded in 1970, Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC),
Irvine, Calif., is an
industry-leading developer and manufacturer of storage solutions
that enable people to create, manage, experience and preserve
digital content. It is a long-time innovator in the storage
industry. Western Digital Corporation is responding to changing
market needs by providing a full portfolio of compelling,
high-quality storage products with effective technology deployment,
high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Its products are marketed
under the HGST and WD brands to OEMs, distributors, resellers,
cloud infrastructure providers and consumers. Financial and
investor information is available on the company's Investor
Relations website at investor.wdc.com.
Apps, services, and other features are subject to change
based on your location, software version, device model, and third
party service providers.
Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, WD Blue, WD Purple and WD Red
are registered trademarks and WD Gold and WD Re are trademarks of
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other
countries. HelioSeal is a registered trademark of Western Digital
Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other marks may be mentioned
herein that belong to other companies. Pictures shown may vary from
actual products. Not all products may be available in all regions
of the world. As used for storage capacity, one gigabyte = one
billion bytes; one terabyte = one trillion bytes. Total accessible
capacity varies depending on operating environment.
1 Versus previous generation WD Re hard drives
2 Versus competitive enterprise class 8TB drives
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