Engineered for heavy application workloads and designed with an endurance of up to 550TB per year, the 10TB Gold 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Enterprise HDDfrom 10TB Gold 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Enterprise HDDis well suited for use in enterprise-class data centers and storage systems. This 7200 rpm drive utilizes the SATA III 6 Gb/s interface and a 256MB cache for data transfer rates of up to 262 MB/s. Moreover, as a professional-grade drive, it has an MTBF rating of 2 million hours, 600,000 load/unload cycles, a non-recoverable error rate of < 1 in 10¹⁵, and an annualized failure rate of 0.35%. Also featured is vibration protection for improved performance in high vibration environments.

10TB Storage Capacity    3.5" Form Factor    SATA III 6 Gb/s Interface    256MB Cache    7200 rpm    Data Transfer Speeds up to 262 MB/s    600,000 Load/Unload Cycles    2 Million Hours MTBF

• Cloud applications and distributed file systems like Apache Hadoop to support Big Data analytics
• Bulk storage using object storage solutions like CEPH and OpenStack Swift
• Direct & Network Attached Storage (DAS & NAS), RAID storage
• Industrial applications
• Entry server storage

WD Gold lets you build out your storage your way with a 10TB SATA hard drive, engineered for heavy application workloads and designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year.

With a 2 million hour MTBF, WD Gold hard drives deliver enhanced levels of dependability and durability.

WD Gold drives have sophisticated monitoring electronics that help correct linear and rotational vibrations in real time using enhanced vibration protection technology for improved performance in high-vibration environments.

Specifically designed for use in enterprise-grade storage systems and data centers, WD Gold HDDs are broadly compatible with major enterprise operating systems.

Related Questions and Answers

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A: A WD Gold drive combines the speed and performance (for a mechanical drive) of a WD Black and the reliability and continuous uptime of a WD Red. The WD Gold series is designed for data centers, so it has a long lifespan, fast reads and writes and is capable of being on and used 24/7. These are basically the best drives offered by WD.If you need performance you can go with Black, if you need NAS type reliability and uptime, you can go with Red. I went with Gold to get the best drive I could that provided both of those features.

Q: 2. Retail drive, OEM or gray market drive?

A: It's an OEM. Comes in a plain brown cardboard box. Checked S/N on Seagate's website it's covered in the US.

Q: 3. Will this work as a regular pc hard drive?

A: Yes, that's how I use it.

Q: 4. Will this drive work in the Synology DS923+ NAS?

A: Yes, this WD 22TB Gold 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal Enterprise HDD will work with the Synology DS923+ NAS.

Q: 5. Warranty

A: Included is a 5-year WD warranty.

Q: 6. Does thee Seagate Constellation work with the Mac OS and install on the original Mac Pro?

A: Yes

Q: 7. Will this work in an ordinary Windows 10 Desktop?

A: Yes, so long as you have the SATA connectors needed this will work in a Windows 10 desktop

Q: 8. Can this 12tb drive be used as in a desktop Windows 10 PC as a secondary hard drive mainly for storing large picture RAW files and large video files?

A: The Gold version of WDC's HDs is designed for data center (server) environments. That simply means it is designed to have a longer life span with heavier use. You pay more for that verses similarly sized WDC Blue or Black HDs but to answer your question yes it will work in a desktop PC with Windows 10 as a secondary drive.

Q: 9. what's the deal with the cloud Storage they refer to?

A: This is an enterprise class drive and they figure you will be doing enterprise projects with it. Such as providing cloud-based (buzzword) storage to your customers. That's all.

Q: 10. Dos this drive support SCSI (UAS) mode?

A: This is a SATA 6 Gb/s Interface and will not support SCSI.