Western Digital Gold WD242KRYZ internal hard drive

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,1 engineered for demanding applications with a read-write workload rating of up to 550TB2 per year.

Enhanced Reliability
With a five-year limited warranty3 supporting up to 2.5M hours MTBF,4 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 26TB1 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.