Engineered for heavy application workloads and designed with an endurance of up to 550TB per year, the 12TB Gold 7200 RPM SATA III Enterprise HDDfrom 12TB Gold 7200 RPM SATA III 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 255 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 and HelioSeal technology for a reduced power draw.

12TB Storage Capacity    3.5" Form Factor    SATA III 6 Gb/s Interface    256MB Cache    7200 rpm    Data Transfer Speeds up to 255 MB/s    600,000 Load/Unload Cycles    2.5 Million Hours MTBF    HelioSeal 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 12TB 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.

HelioSeal technology delivers high capacities with a low power draw.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. 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: 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 work as a regular pc hard drive?

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

Q: 4. Is the 12TB N300 or a N300 (non pro for that matter) a CMR drive?

A: The Toshiba 12TB N300 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal NAS HDD is a CMR Drive.

Q: 5. Will is work for data storage with QNAP TL-D400S 4-Bay JBOD Enclosure B&H # QNTLD400SUS MFR # TL-D400S-US ?

A: The WD 18TB Gold 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal Enterprise HDD should be compatible with the QNAP TL-D400S 4-Bay JBOD Enclosure (B&H # QNTLD400SUS).

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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: 7. What's the difference between retail and oem?

A: WD will not honor the warranty of OEM drives. I am just learning this the hard way with 5 WD Red drives that I bought from B&H less than 2 years ago. Strangely, the listing and my receipt do not say that they are OEM but WD does. I was only trying to register them online a month ago, not having a problem. B&H ought to be a little more forthcoming about this.

Q: 8. Would this drive fit into a HP Envy-17 laptop?

A: This is a standard 9.5 mm hard drive. Unless your 17 inch HP Envy is super thin, it should fit quite easily.

Q: 9. Warranty

A: Included is a 5-year WD warranty.

Q: 10. 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.