User Manual

WD Gold
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Enterprise-class Hard Drives
Drive to endure.
WD Gold hard drives feature up to ten times the workload rating¹ of
desktop drives and employ advanced technologies for enterprise-
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the ground up to be an ultra-robust storage device, WD Gold drives
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INTERFACE
SATA 6 Gb/s
WIDTH/HEIGHT
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PERFORMANCE CLASS
7200 RPM Class
CAPACITIES
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MODEL NUMBERS
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Product Benets
High workload rating
Delivering dependable
performance to any storage
environment, WD Gold™ hard
drives are designed with a
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year
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, among the highest of any
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Enterprise-class storage to rely on
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WD Gold hard drives deliver
reliability and durability, are built
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within the most demanding storage
environments, and are backed with
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HelioSeal™ Technology
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Digital hard drives shipped
2
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HelioSeal™ technology allows
for higher capacities and less
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And now on its 4th generation
design, HelioSeal™ technology is
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high capacity, reliability, and power
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Vibration protection
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uses sophisticated electronics to
monitor the drive and correct linear
and rotational vibrations in real
time for improved performance
versus WD’s desktop drives in high-
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RAID-specic, time-limited error
recovery (TLER)
Reduces drive fallout caused by the
extended hard drive error-recovery
processes common to desktop
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Dynamic y height technology
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is adjusted in real time to ensure
consistent performance for
reduced errors and optimized
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Dual-stage actuator technology
WD Gold drives feature a dual-
stage actuator head positioning
system for a high degree of
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provides course displacement
while the secondary stage uses
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the head positioning to a higher
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Compatibility testing
All WD Gold hard drives are
extensively tested across a
variety of popular OEM storage
systems, SATA controllers, and
host bus adapters to ensure ease
of integration for a plug and play
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7200RPM-Class
This 7200RPM-class hard drive
delivers the fastest performance
with the highest workload rating of
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have the most capable hard drive
regardless of the application with
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Applications
Enterprise servers and storage systems; mission-critical applications needing reliable, robust high capacity storage; high-end surveillance and industrial
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The WD Advantage
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