Storage Drives

WD Gold HDDs incorporate our latest innovations to handle heavy, continuous read-write workloads in the toughest of enterprise and commercial system environments. WD Gold drives provide the utmost in HDD storage performance, reliability, durability, and capacity-point flexibility to small and medium businesses and design professionals whose mission-critical data and creative output are essential to their success.

Store your data with confidence on WD Gold.

WD Gold HDDs incorporate our latest innovations to handle heavy, continuous read-write workloads in the toughest of enterprise and commercial system environments. WD Gold drives provide the utmost in HDD storage performance, reliability, durability, and capacity-point flexibility to small and medium businesses and design professionals whose mission-critical data and creative output are essential to their success.

Built For Demanding Use Cases

Customize your business's storage mix to fit your specific needs with hard drives in capacities of up to 26TB, engineered for demanding applications with a read-write workload rating of up to 550TB per year.

Enhanced Reliability

With a five-year limited warranty supporting up to 2.5M hours MTBF, WD Gold hard drives deliver enhanced levels of dependability and durability.

Protection and Performance Boost

ArmorCache™ technology (available in 22TB and above) is a Western Digital-only feature that provides enterprise power loss protection of your data in write-cache enabled (WCE) mode while increasing performance in write-cache disabled (WCD) mode.

Continuous Innovation

The WD Gold 26TB model is built on the world's first 11-disk HDD platform and delivers the 10th generation of HelioSeal® technology, which has proven to be a vital foundation for continuous capacity growth for over a decade.

Robustness For Tough Environments

Our exclusive Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) uses dual sensors to anticipate and counteract disturbances, maintaining peak performance in high-vibration environments.

Flexibility and Peace of Mind

WD Gold has undergone extensive testing and validation in a variety of host bus adapters, servers and enterprise storage solutions employing RAID and other data resiliency configurations.

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Tackle Intensity with WD Red® Plus

Packed with power to handle NAS environments in home offices up to medium-sized businesses, WD Red Plus is ideal for helping protect, archive, and share valuable data in NAS systems with up to 8 bays. WD Red Plus NAS drives give you the flexibility, versatility, and confidence you need for your important home and work files.

For Small or Medium Businesses

WD Red® Plus drives deliver the speed and capacity business customers require to store, protect, and share increasing amounts of data with a growing number of NAS users. For NAS systems with up to 8 bays, WD Red Plus drives deliver uncompromising performance and unwavering assurance backed by a 3-year limited warranty.

For Home Office and Power Users

Whether you're a power user looking to store high-resolution videos or running a home office with thousands of electronic documents, WD Red® Plus drives are designed to help you effortlessly organize, protect, and share your digital content.

Exclusive NASware™ 3.0 Technology

Built into every WD Red® Plus hard drive is Western Digital's exclusive NASware 3.0 technology. NASware 3.0 is advanced technology that improves your NAS system by increasing compatibility, integration, upgradeability, and reliability. WD Red Plus drives with NASware technology take the guesswork out of selecting a drive for your NAS system.

Built for Optimum NAS Compatibility

Optimized for NAS systems, our unique algorithm balances performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. Simply put, a WD Red® Plus drive is one of the most compatible drives available for NAS enclosures. But don't take our word for it. WD Red Plus drives are a reflection of extensive NAS partner technology engagement and compatibility testing.

3D Active Balance Plus

Our enhanced dual-plane balance control technology significantly improves the overall drive performance and reliability. Hard drives that are not properly balanced may cause excessive vibration and noise in a multi-drive system, reduce the hard drive life span, and degrade the performance over time.

Thrives in 24/7 Environments

Since your NAS system is always on, a reliable drive is essential. With an MTBF of up to 1 million hours3, the WD Red® Plus drive is engineered to tackle 24/7 environments.

Premium Support and a 3-year Limited Warranty

Confidently upgrade your NAS performance with the assurance of a 3-year limited warranty, coupled with world-class support services included with every WD Red® Plus drive.

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Enterprise-class hard drives engineered to deliver high performance and reliability to commercial and enterprise NAS environments.

WD Red^® Pro drives are engineered to handle high-intensity workloads in 24?7 multi-user commercial and enterprise NAS environments. WD Red Pro drives deliver the performance, scalability and dependability businesses require to store, share and collaborate on large amounts of data in multi-bay RAID-optimized NAS systems.

Optimized for NAS with NASware™

Western Digital's exclusive NASware™ technology fine tunes drive parameters to match NAS system workloads, which helps increase performance and reliability.

Designed for Continuous Operation

WD Red Pro hard drives are designed to handle the rigorous demands of high-intensity 24x7 multi-user NAS environments and increase system durability.

Tested for Dependable Compatibility

Western Digital partners with a wide range of NAS system vendors for extensive testing to ensure compatibility with most NAS enclosures.

Protected against Excessive Vibration

WD Red Pro drives include Rotation Vibration (RV) sensors that anticipate and proactively counteract disturbances caused by increased vibration. By dispersing excess vibration across the drive chassis, turbulence is minimized, performance is maintained and drives are protected.

Built to Absorb Shock

WD Red Pro hard drives include a multi-axis shock sensor to detect subtle shock events and automatically compensate with dynamic fly height technology to further protect the drives in NAS enclosures.

Engineered with Industry-Leading Technology

WD Red Pro 22TB and 24TB hard drives feature Western Digital's proprietary OptiNAND™ technology which leverages integrated iNAND embedded flash to perform key housekeeping functions, freeing up more capacity and improving the overall drive performance.

Backed by World-Class Support and Warranty

As an industry-leading hard drive manufacturer, Western Digital stands behind their NAS storage solutions with the assurance of a 5-year limited warranty and world-class support services for hassle free data storage.

Desktop drives vs. WD Red® Pro

It is important to choose a drive purpose-built for RAID-optimized NAS systems to ensure optimum performance and preserve your valuable data. Take the following into consideration when choosing a hard drive for your NAS:

• Compatibility: Unlike desktop drives, WD Red Pro hard drives are specifically designed and tested for NAS and include NASware™ technology which fine tunes drive parameters to match NAS system workloads for optimum performance.
• Reliability: Desktop drives aren't typically designed for the demands of an always-on NAS environment. WD Red Pro hard drives are designed to perform under tough conditions encountered in high-intensity 24x7 multi-user NAS environments.
• RAID Ready: WD Red hard drives are engineered with RAID error recovery control to help reduce failures within multi-bay NAS systems, unlike most desktop drives that are configured for generic use.
• Noise and Vibration Protection: Designed to operate solo, desktop drives typically offer little or no protection from the noise and vibration present in a multi-drive system. WD Red hard drives include Rotation Vibration (RV) sensors that anticipate and proactively counteract disturbances caused by increased vibration often found in multi-bay NAS systems.

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WD Red® Plus | Tackle Intensity with WD Red Plus

Packed with power to handle NAS environments in home offices up to medium-sized businesses, WD Red Plus is ideal for helping protect, archive, and share valuable data in NAS systems with up to 8 bays. WD Red Plus NAS drives give you the flexibility, versatility, and confidence you need for your important home and work files.

For Small or Medium Businesses

WD Red Plus drives deliver the speed and capacity business customers require to store, protect, and share increasing amounts of data with a growing number of NAS users. For NAS systems with up to 8 bays, WD Red Plus drives deliver uncompromising performance and unwavering assurance backed by a 3-year limited warranty.

For Home Office and Power Users

Whether you're a power user looking to store high-resolution videos or running a home office with thousands of electronic documents, WD Red Plus drives are designed to help you effortlessly organize, protect, and share your digital content.

Exclusive NASware™ 3.0 Technology

Built into every WD Red Plus hard drive is Western Digital's exclusive NASware 3.0 technology. NASware 3.0 is advanced technology that improves your NAS system by increasing compatibility, integration, upgradeability, and reliability. WD Red Plus drives with NASware technology take the guesswork out of selecting a drive for your NAS system.

Built for Optimum NAS Compatibility

Optimized for NAS systems, our unique algorithm balances performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. Simply put, a WD Red Plus drive is one of the most compatible drives available for NAS enclosures. But don't take our word for it. WD Red Plus drives are a reflection of extensive NAS partner technology engagement and compatibility testing.

3D Active Balance Plus

Our enhanced dual-plane balance control technology significantly improves the overall drive performance and reliability. Hard drives that are not properly balanced may cause excessive vibration and noise in a multi-drive system, reduce the hard drive life span, and degrade the performance over time.

Thrives in 24/7 Environments

Since your NAS system is always on, a reliable drive is essential. With an MTBF of up to 1 million hours, the WD Red Plus drive is engineered to tackle 24/7 environments.

Premium Support and a 3-year Limited Warranty

Confidently upgrade your NAS performance with the assurance of a 3-year limited warranty, coupled with world-class support services included with every WD Red Plus drive.

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Where Performance and Capacity Meet Gaming

With capacities up to 10TB, WD_BLACK™ Gaming Hard Drives let you download the latest AAA titles while also keeping your ever-growing catalog of classics and favorites ready to play. Don't compromise on your game collection. Store more and game more with WD_BLACK.

Gaming Performance and Capacity

WD_BLACK™ is purpose-built to enhance your PC gaming experience. Available with an impressive 256 MB of DRAM cache on higher capacity models, the WD_BLACK HDD is performance-optimized so you can spend more time gaming and less time loading. Combine a WD_BLACK HDD with a WD_BLACK SSD for a dual-drive configuration that maximizes your gaming experience while letting you keep more of your favorite games. The WD_BLACK HDD gives you fast hard drive speeds, high capacity, and an industry-leading 5-year limited warranty for an inspiring game storage solution.

Drive Your Game

The WD_BLACK™ HDD is the perfect storage solution for your gaming rig, offering large cache sizes plus large capacities to store your favorite titles and their downloadable content (DLC). Paired with an SSD, the powerful drive delivers exceptional system performance and capacity.

Store More, Play More

With capacities up to 10TB, WD_BLACK™ Gaming Hard Drives let you download the latest AAA titles while also keeping your ever-growing catalog of classics and favorites ready to play. Don't compromise on your game collection. Store more and game more with WD_BLACK.

Increased Reliability

The WD_BLACK™ Gaming Hard Drive is equipped with StableTrac™ Technology (2TB and larger models). This secures the motor shaft inside of the hard drive to increase reliability and help reduce impact due to system-induced vibrations from other components such as additional gaming hardware. Stabilizing the platters inside the WD_BLACK drive results in more accurate tracking in a particular sector during read and write operations, optimizing performance and reliability.

Commanding Performance

The WD_BLACK™ drive delivers high-speed read rates and transfers of your games with impressive cache sizes of up to 256 MB of DRAM on our high-capacity models. Western Digital's Dynamic Cache Technology improves caching algorithms in real time to allocate and optimize cache between reads and writes. Spend less time loading and more time winning.

Battle-Tested Dual Processor

When it comes to processing power, more is better for loading today's larger games. The WD_BLACK™ Gaming Hard Drive features a dual-core processor that offers twice the processing capability as a single-core processor to maximize drive performance for geting into the game faster.

An Industry-Leading 5-Year Limited Warranty

Compared to standard hard drives, our WD_BLACK™ Gaming Hard Drives pass more strenuous and aggressive internal testing over a longer period of time which is why the WD_BLACK drive is backed by an industry-leading 5-year limited warranty.

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