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Invest in Gold Featuring up to ten times the workload capacity of desktop drives, WD Gold hard drives are designed from the ground up for enterprise-class reliability, capacity, power efficiency and performance. High workload rating Delivering dependable performance to any storage environment, WD Gold hard drives are designed with a workload rating up to 550TB per year,* among the highest of any 3.5-inch hard drive. And now on its 4 generation design, HelioSeal technology is field-tested and proven to deliver high capacity, reliability, and power efficiency you can trust.
Invest in Gold Featuring up to ten times the workload capacity of desktop drives, WD Gold hard drives are designed from the ground up for enterprise-class reliability, capacity, power efficiency and performance. High workload rating Delivering dependable performance to any storage environment, WD Gold hard drives are designed with a workload rating up to 550TB per year,* among the highest of any 3.5-inch hard drive. And now on its 4 generation design, HelioSeal technology is field-tested and proven to deliver high capacity, reliability, and power efficiency you can trust.
Invest in Gold Featuring up to ten times the workload capacity of desktop drives, WD Gold hard drives are designed from the ground up for enterprise-class reliability, capacity, power efficiency and performance. High workload rating Delivering dependable performance to any storage environment, WD Gold hard drives are designed with a workload rating up to 550TB per year,* among the highest of any 3.5-inch hard drive. And now on its 4 generation design, HelioSeal technology is field-tested and proven to deliver high capacity, reliability, and power efficiency you can trust.
Last updated at 01/10/2026 17:54:22
originally posted on westerndigital.com
I bought this drive because I was very mad about my lack in storage in my server, this was the best purchase that I have ever made. The drive is very reliable and has been through quite a few power outages and brownouts before I got a UPS and it's still trucking along like nothing ever happened. The performance of this drive is very quick as long as you have the system it is put into configured correctly. The only slight issue I have is the drive is quite loud while it is doing a SMART test, but I don't see that big of a problem with that because it is a standard thing that makes sure the drive is functioning correctly.
originally posted on newegg.com
Bought as a replacement for 3 HDDs on my desktop, one of them being over 10 years old. Reinstalled system on a SSD and all data is stored on this drive. No problem during installation. Data transfers were as fast as could be expected of a good mechanical drive. Specs and warranty are about the same as WD Black and cost me less. If it's built for servers why not use it as a data disk on desktop I wondered. Up to now it does a very good job. Opening and saving files is fast. Exactly what I was looking for.
originally posted on ebay.com
The sequential read and write rates of this HDD are just at 200 Mb/s. Seek times are also very short. The 128 Mb cache buffer only finishes this feeling of "The Bourne Supremacy". What is surprised me a little bit is that with SATA 2 controller performance of this HDD is almost the same as on SATA 3 one. In fact this is quite normal for mechanical HDD with rotary spindle... Please see the results of testing @ SATA 3 controller: IDE mode, Microsoft AHCI driver, Intel(R) Rapid Storage driver. And finally about the quietness of the drive. I'm not quite sure that "quiet" is correct word for it... When I made sequential read with MHDD the moveable magnetic head system produced quite loud pushes accompanied with drive vibration, but I think this is normal for it.
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 4 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" x 1/3H |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
I bought this drive because I was very mad about my lack in storage in my server, this was the best purchase that I have ever made. The drive is very reliable and has been through quite a few power outages and brownouts before I got a UPS and it's still trucking along like nothing ever happened. The performance of this drive is very quick as long as you have the system it is put into configured correctly. The only slight issue I have is the drive is quite loud while it is doing a SMART test, but I don't see that big of a problem with that because it is a standard thing that makes sure the drive is functioning correctly.
Bought as a replacement for 3 HDDs on my desktop, one of them being over 10 years old. Reinstalled system on a SSD and all data is stored on this drive. No problem during installation. Data transfers were as fast as could be expected of a good mechanical drive. Specs and warranty are about the same as WD Black and cost me less. If it's built for servers why not use it as a data disk on desktop I wondered. Up to now it does a very good job. Opening and saving files is fast. Exactly what I was looking for.
The sequential read and write rates of this HDD are just at 200 Mb/s. Seek times are also very short. The 128 Mb cache buffer only finishes this feeling of "The Bourne Supremacy". What is surprised me a little bit is that with SATA 2 controller performance of this HDD is almost the same as on SATA 3 one. In fact this is quite normal for mechanical HDD with rotary spindle... Please see the results of testing @ SATA 3 controller: IDE mode, Microsoft AHCI driver, Intel(R) Rapid Storage driver. And finally about the quietness of the drive. I'm not quite sure that "quiet" is correct word for it... When I made sequential read with MHDD the moveable magnetic head system produced quite loud pushes accompanied with drive vibration, but I think this is normal for it.
I have installed and used many of these drives. Not 1 has been DOA and several have been going over a decade (Including Black HDD). Only problem is that both times I got a warranty replacement (failing smart-but still working) they replaced them with lesser drives. Granted they were close to the end of warranty, but a blue drive is NOT a replacement for an enterprise drive. I haven't had problems with the RMA process and turn around was fast, just not equal replacements.
I am a PC Builder, I bought a lot of [HDD's] ex. (WD Blue, WD Black, Seagate BarraCuda, Seagate IronWolf, Seagate FireCuda) in my experience, this is one of the best [Consumer level HDD] by (price to performance): 1-for the speed: it's a killer; [I GOT AROUND 205 MBps WRITE AND 220 MBps READ], it's almost half SATA SSD speed, Compared to my (WD black 130 MBps write, 135 MBps read) and both of them (WD Black and WD Gold has almost the Same Price, Same RPM [7200]). 2-you will get double cash memory for the same capacity and price compared with other [HDD's] like (WD Black). 3-YOU WILL GET A 5 Years WARRANTI. I recommend this Drive
I tried every which way to have LINUX find GRUB to boot the OS. Absolutely no such luck or is the drive incompatible with LINUX. The drive itself is working fine as a slave, but as soon as you expect it to run as master for LINUX, it does not provide boot information that is needed to start the OS. I tried LINUX MINT (based on UBUNTU) I tried DEBIAN LINUX the original. I installed LINUX MINT several times without as reported failure, including the GRUB install. On reboot, nothing! The boot sector or whatever data might have been written to it, runs right into the digital darkness of HDD space. Some Grub part was written to the drive, but it is very useless since it produces an error "attempt to read or write outside of disk hd0" As far as I am concerned, all data ... MoreI tried every which way to have LINUX find GRUB to boot the OS. Absolutely no such luck or is the drive incompatible with LINUX. The drive itself is working fine as a slave, but as soon as you expect it to run as master for LINUX, it does not provide boot information that is needed to start the OS. I tried LINUX MINT (based on UBUNTU) I tried DEBIAN LINUX the original. I installed LINUX MINT several times without as reported failure, including the GRUB install. On reboot, nothing! The boot sector or whatever data might have been written to it, runs right into the digital darkness of HDD space. Some Grub part was written to the drive, but it is very useless since it produces an error "attempt to read or write outside of disk hd0" As far as I am concerned, all data during install had to go onto this drive, the only one. Why trying to read or write outside the drive e.g. air bubble or? I wound up to take a 500GB from another computer that was running as slave. Installed the LINUX MINT without a single problem. The 1TB GOLD wound up as a slave in previous mentioned computer as storage. It seems more and more to me, that some OS manufacturer pay hardware manufacturer to make it very difficult to get their hardware working with LINUX. Sad, sad, almost like the white house.
Bought a 22TB Gold model. Used in NAS data center application. It failed at 12,960 hours in service; a mere fraction of published MTBF of 2,500,000 hours. it cost over $20 in postal and return shipping fees to use the Limited Warranty. The replacement drive then failed at only 168 hours in service, and requires another $20 in postal costs and return shipping fees to obtain a replacement. The sunken costs in warranty costs are now 7% of the product purchase cost. Had I not sunken $600 into buying this product, I'd throw it away. Competitor products of the same storage capacity are still in service more than three years after installation. The products I received are unfit for for "Enterprise Class" applications.
This is my 4th WD Gold Hard Drive and I have no gripe for them so far. I have used almost all major brands hard drives. I have learned in a hard way what hard drive failure leads to. That's why it's imperative to have backup of a backup. I hope WD Gold drives are reliable as they claim. I'll recommend users prefer enterprise class drives consumer drives or performance drives. As of today(May 6, 2020) price for Gold drive 6TB is lesser than 6TB black HDD. Also, they've best MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) figures on the market today. If you ask me whether It's worth the few extra $$$ then definately. I'm a PC enthusiastic but I don't run my system 24/7. As this product is made by humans, it's susceptible to manufacturing default. However, according to my calculation ... MoreThis is my 4th WD Gold Hard Drive and I have no gripe for them so far. I have used almost all major brands hard drives. I have learned in a hard way what hard drive failure leads to. That's why it's imperative to have backup of a backup. I hope WD Gold drives are reliable as they claim. I'll recommend users prefer enterprise class drives consumer drives or performance drives. As of today(May 6, 2020) price for Gold drive 6TB is lesser than 6TB black HDD. Also, they've best MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) figures on the market today. If you ask me whether It's worth the few extra $$$ then definately. I'm a PC enthusiastic but I don't run my system 24/7. As this product is made by humans, it's susceptible to manufacturing default. However, according to my calculation if every thing goes fine, this HDD should last for 15-20 years or at max 30 years for me as my average PC run time is 4.8 hours per day(in the last 6 months). This drive hasn't produced much noise so far nor it get heats up. Literally, it remains much cooler than my Samsung 970 EVO + 2TB NVME. I dumped nearly 2TB of data at a room with a constant ambient temp of 67°F and the drive temperature was 98F. However, all these data is as of today and it's been just 2 days. There's a whole life ahead and will update my review. One of the important thing for users is how much user space we get in 6TB of HDD. So, I got 5.45TB of space in a 6TB HDD. For more don't forget to check my review video above. I'm unable to post picture of this HDD as due to some reason, Home Essentials Direct has disabled picture upload and when I contacted them, I got a really weird response as here "We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused. ? During the COVID-19 situation, we are taking steps to protect the health of our team members. As a result, there are some temporary limitations in how you can review products on Home Essentials Direct. We appreciate your understanding." One image upload option is available, I'll update the images as well.
I bought this after having no problems buying a 2tb skyhawk hdd.i was a bit wary at first knowing how fragile hard disks can be and you dont know how much work its been put to in the past.It and the skyhawk work 100% with no SMART notifications of imminent trouble .No bad sectors and to date no problems at all and with a 2 year warranty ?!? If it lasts half that your in the money.Being the gold version its tougher than the rest so any thoughts buying it a bad idea negated by its better build.arrived well wrapped in bubble wrap but it may be a thought to use the proper air envelopes available nowadays in the future by the seller.all in all no problems and not a bad price aswell
i really dont give negative but the Negetive i gave here due to the way posted the HDDs, it was completely disastrous. these are HDDs not SSD and they were wobbling in the big space of its box. these parcel guys through the boxes here and there and we dont know how many times they had hard jerks on throughing and while traveling. i need to put these in Server and the level of trust on these you know where it will go. these could have filled with at least newspapsers so it would not wobble.
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 4 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" x 1/3H |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
