Your Data Is Gold
Store It That Way
HDDs Built for Enterprise and Professional Demands
WD Gold HDDs incorporate our latest innovations to handle heavy, continuous read-write workloads in the toughest of enterprise and commercial system environments. WD Gold drives provide the utmost in HDD storage performance, reliability, durability, and capacity-point flexibility to small and medium businesses and design professionals whose mission-critical data and creative output are essential to their success.
Professional-grade storage especially if your future is in...
Podcasting
Your episode library is growing your audience.
Social Media
Your content library shows it’s not just a hobby.
Video Game Design
Your company’s next game could redefine storytelling.
Musical Performance
Thousands of hours of practice are paying off.
Music Studio Engineering
You captured their creativity in the room on the day.
Architectural Design
Your latest designs will help land the next big contract.
Industrial Design
Industries may soon rely on your firm’s latest designs.
Data Science and A.I.
A.I. may soon leverage trillions of additional parameters.
TV and Film Production
Common data mishaps on set can mean lost production days.
Built For Demanding Use Cases
Customize your business’s storage mix to fit your specific needs with hard drives in capacities of up to 26TB, engineered for demanding applications with a read-write workload rating of up to 550TB per year.4
Continuous Innovation
The WD Gold 26TB model is built on the world’s first 11-disk HDD platform and delivers the 10th generation of HelioSeal® technology, which has proven to be a vital foundation for continuous capacity growth for over a decade.
Enhanced Reliability
With a five-year limited warranty supporting up to 2.5M hours MTBF4, WD Gold hard drives deliver enhanced levels of dependability and durability.
Robustness For Tough Environments
Our exclusive Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) uses dual sensors to anticipate and counteract disturbances, maintaining peak performance in high-vibration environments.
Protection and Performance Boost
ArmorCache™ technology (available in 22TB and above) is a Western Digital-only feature that provides enterprise power loss protection of your data in write-cache enabled (WCE) mode while increasing performance in write-cache disabled (WCD) mode.
Flexibility and Peace of Mind
WD Gold has undergone extensive testing and validation in a variety of host bus adapters, servers, and enterprise storage solutions employing RAID and other data resiliency configurations.
Product
Specifications
Enterprise Class SATA HDD
Specifications
Capacity
1TB - 26TB
Connector
SATA
Transfer Rate
up to 291MB/s
Recording Technology
CMR
Warranty
5-Year Limited Warranty
Dimensions (L x W x H)
5.79" x 4" x 1.03"
Model Number
WD261KRYZ
Form Factor
3.5-Inch
Interface
SATA 6Gb/s
Disk Speed (RPM)
7200 RPM
Cache Size
128MB - 512MB
Weight
670 gms
Operating Temperature
5°C to 60°C
Non-Operating Temperature
-40°C to 70°C
Certifications
BSMI, ICES-003/NMB-003, CE, FCC, KC, Maghreb, RCM, UKCA, VCCI, CB-Scheme, TUV, UL
Product Features
- Vibration protection technology
- HelioSeal® delivers high capacities with low power draw (14TB and up)
- Projected 2.5M hours MTBF
Compatibility
- Windows®
- Windows Server®
- Linux®
- macOS®
In The Box
White Paper
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Disclosures
- Workload Rate is defined as the amount of user data transferred to or from the hard drive. Workload Rate is annualized (TB transferred X (8760 / recorded power-on hours)). Workload Rate will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurations.
- 1MB = 1 million bytes, 1GB = 1 billion bytes, and 1TB = 1 trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.
- See support.wdc.com for region-specific warranty details.
- Projected values for model numbers WD261KRYZ, WD242KRYZ, WD203KRYZ, WD122KRYZ, WD103KRYZ. Final MTBF and AFR specifications are based on a sample population and are estimated by statistical measurements and acceleration algorithms under typical operating conditions, workloads of 220TB/year, and 40°C device-reported temperature. Derating of MTBF and AFR will occur above these parameters, up to 550TB/ year and 60°C (device reported temperature). MTBF and AFR ratings do not predict an individual drive’s reliability and do not constitute a warranty.