Western Digital Gold hard drives are back and get more reliable
Summary
Western Digital HDD makes a return in the form of a line-up of enterprise-class SATA hard drives designed for demanding workloads. This family of hard drives (WD Gold DC HA750) is derived from WDs flagship Ultrastar SATA series, using the most popular features that cater to cloud applications and distributed file systems, as well as to object storage solutions. The WD Gold drives come in 3.5” form factor for easy deployment within the data center and deliver 6Gbps SATA III performance with 7,200 RPM. They use the Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) technology to optimize performance for workloads involving random writes that are commonly used. The WD Gold product line offers a workload handling capability of 550TB per year, reliability of up to 2.5M-hour MTBF, and are backed by a 5-year limited warranty.