WD Gold HDD Spec and Price in the United States
WD Gold is the single-drive enterprise line, positioned below the Ultrastar data-center drives: 7200rpm CMR with a five-year warranty, per the WD data sheet. The 4-10TB capacities are air drives with a 256MB cache; from 12TB up they move to helium, a longer MTBF rating, and — at 16TB — a 512MB cache. It is the common choice for workstation builds and small servers that want enterprise reliability without data-center firmware, with sustained throughput of 255-262 MB/s across the capacities here.
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- 4TB
- 10TB
- 16TB
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Specifications
- Capacity
- 4TB
- Interface
- SATA
- Sequential read
- 255 MB/s
- Sequential write
- 255 MB/s
- Rotation speed
- 7200 RPM
- Form factor
- 3.5-inch
- Cache
- 256 MB
- Warranty
- 5 years
Capacities
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What owners and reviewers say
Summarised from 1 source(s), reviewed September 13, 2026. A source is counted only where it names this model exactly. How we track prices
Commonly praised
- Offers industry-leading areal density aimed at lowering data-centre cost of ownership.
- Rated for a long mean time between failures under a five-year warranty, with advanced recording and sealing technology.
- Delivered strong lab throughput including random results close to the reference drive.
Commonly criticised
- Carries a price premium as a newly introduced high-capacity drive, a solid but not ground-breaking update.
Sources behind this summary
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