Wd Gold 2tb Review

The first enterprise class drives i bought 10 years ago and which run at 10 000rpm have been running 24 7 365 and are still running to this day.

Wd gold 2tb review. I place a high value on reliability. 10tb 8tb 6tb 4tb 2tb and 1tb. Logical physical bytes per sector. Wd gold 8tb specifications.

Transfer rates between my nvme drive and this 2tb gold drive are excellent. 512n 512e user sectors per drive. The wd gold 8tb has a lower sustained transfer rate than the 10tb competitors do and it also has a much smaller 128 mb cache which is the same amount of cache found on the hgst he8. The 2tb wd gold is the fastest of all and quiet as a mouse chances are that if anything is heard look elsewhere it s not the hdd.

Wd gold enterprise class hard drive review. Available in 1tb to 18tb capacities the wd gold is a highly reliable solution for demanding storage environments and provides up to 2 5m hours mtbf vibration protection technology and a low power draw thanks to helioseal technology for 12tb and above. I ve used at least a hundred drives over the last decade. With a 128mb cache 4x more than any of my others fast as greased lightning and just like the wd black former re4 has the industry leading 5 year warranty.

Wd gold hard drives are backed by a 3 year warranty and a premium dedicated support line for all customers. I didn t have luck with the first one that was sent and the rma process took a while. The wd gold 2tb 2016 averaged just 9 2 lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. I have no issues and its a good storage drive.

I m very happy with the replacement. 12tb of vast storage goodness with similar sustained throughput and better random writing the gold is the gold standard for 12tb hard drives. Our review units include eight of the 8tb capacity. These wd gold drives have a mtbf 2 5 times higher than those early drives.