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The Western Digital 12TB Gold is the latest and currently largest capacity drive in WD's drive range aimed at the enterprise market where the demands for increased storage density are growing ever larger. The Gold range of drives have a number of built...
The WD Gold has all the features that Seagate's more expensive Barracuda Pro and IronWolf Pro have, but it's priced like the less-expensive Iron Wolf. So now I need to say it: The WD Gold is currently the best deal in a 12TB hard drive. Nice stuff from...
Despite the fact that there are only three hard disk drive manufacturers left, you have a lot to choose from when you're looking for a new drive. It is not just about prices either. Though SSDs have outperformed hard drives for a long time now, there...
There can be no doubt that Western Digital's WD Gold 12TB Datacenter hard disk is an awesome drive. The benchmark results speak for themselves and put the drive at the top in most of our charts. Considering that this is the flagship HDD, it's no...
This is our first review of a helium-filled hard disk drive, and we are very impressed. Even from its specifications alone, we can already see a significant reduction in power consumption and noise levels. These are not minor either.The helium-filled...
Hard drives of 10 TB are very expensive, with prices that start at an average of about 372 pounds / 430 euros, but the test results are excellent. All drives in the test are fast, and in part thanks to the used helium they are primarily quiet in idle –...
On April 20, 2016, Western Digital launched the new WD Gold family of hard disk drives. These hard disk drives are designed for maximum performance and reliability in the highly demanding datacenter. They are designed to handle workloads of up to 550 TB...
