Engineered for heavy application workloads and designed with an endurance of up to 550TB per year, the 22TB Gold 7200 RPM SATA III 3.5" Enterprise HDDfrom 22TB 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 512MB cache for data transfer rates of up to 291 MB/s. Moreover, as a professional-grade drive, it has an MTBF rating of 2.5 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 are vibration protection for improved performance in high vibration environments, HelioSeal technology for a reduced power draw, and ArmorCache technology for power loss protection.

22TB Storage Capacity    3.5" Form Factor    SATA III 6 Gb/s Interface    512MB Cache    7200 rpm    Data Transfer Speeds up to 291 MB/s    600,000 Load/Unload Cycles    2.5 Million Hours MTBF    HelioSeal Technology    ArmorCache Technology

• 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 22TB SATA hard drive, engineered for heavy application workloads and designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year.

With a 2.5 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.

With a capacity of 22TB, this WD Gold drive utilizes OptiNAND technology's capacity-enabling feature.

The ArmorCache feature provides enterprise power loss protection of your data in write-cache enabled (WCE) mode while increasing performance in write-cache disabled (WCD) mode.

HelioSeal technology delivers high capacities with a low power draw.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Are these brand new drives?

A: Yes, the WD 4TB Gold 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal Enterprise HDD, B&H # WE4003FRYZSP, is a new drive.

Q: 2. Will this drive work with Windows 11?

A: The WD 16TB Gold 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal Enterprise HDD can be formatted to work with Windows 11.

Q: 3. 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: 4. Will this WD 22TB Ultrastar 7200 rpm SATA 3.5" Drive (BH #WE0F48155) work with a CRU enclosure and a Mac Pro desktop computer?

A: Yes, the WD 22TB Ultrastar 7200 rpm SATA 3.5" Internal Data Center HDD (OEM Packaging) can be used in a 3.5" SATA III compatible CRU enclosure with a Mac Pro.

Q: 5. Are they loud and noisy or not bad? I just bought two 12TB Seagate drives for my Drobo 8D and are really clanking and making lots of noise...almost sounds like something is for sure wrong. Thanks

A: Yes, mine are also loud and clanky. My experience with most enterprise products, be it routers, switches, or hard drives, is that they don't care about noise that much -- Just performance and reliability. So I believe what you are experiencing is normal.

Q: 6. 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: 7. Is there any reason to no use this in a Synology NAS?

A: The WD 10TB Purple Pro 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal Surveillance Hard Drive can be used in a NAS, but I would recommend the WD 10TB Red Pro 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal NAS HDD, B&H # WE102KFBXSPM, as WD Red drives are optimized for use in NAS arrays while WD Purple drives are optimized for surveillance.

Q: 8. Does this work with Unifi UNVR or UNVR Pro?

A: Yes. The WD 8TB Purple Pro 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal Surveillance Hard Drive (OEM) BH #WEWD8001PURP will work with both the Ubiquiti Networks UNVR UniFi Protect NVR BH #UBUNVR and the Ubiquiti Networks UNVR-PRO UniFi Protect NVR Pro (No HDD) B&H # UBUNVRPRO.

Q: 9. 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.

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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.