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Are WD gold drives good?
This workhorse HDD can handle up to 550TB per year in 24/7 operation and has an impressive MTBF of 2.5 million hours. With a wide range of capacity options, the WD Gold also has the ability to leave a very small physical footprint per TB, especially when leveraging the top-end 10TB model.
Is WD Gold discontinued?
Goodbye WD Gold – Hello HGST Ultrastar DC WD Gold is announced to go end of life in just over a month and stocks are expected to have sold through before the end of the year. In its place, WD is releasing the HGST DC (datacenter) range of drives.
How long do WD Gold drives last?
All WD Gold HDDs are rated for 2.5 million hours MTBF to signal high reliability.
Is WD Gold worth?
Like most common desktop HDD’s, the WD Gold is 7200RPM. However, it does offer a nice benefit of 128mb buffer cache compared to the 64mb of a regular good drive (caviar blue or Seagate Barracuda for example). If you come across one then it’s great, but I wouldn’t pay extra for it over the regular choices.
What is better WD black or gold?
Considering Gold has better Internal Data Rate and Buffer Size (not sure how datacenter firmware will act for home pc) it’s still better to buy Black for home gaming and storage? As for the noise some say its louder than Black some say it’s quieter… “Thank you for your e-mail.
What kind of hard drive does WD 1200 BEVs use?
WD1200BEVS Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1200BEVS-00LATO Western Digital 120GB 5400RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Drive.
What is the capacity of the Western Digital Scorpio 120 GB drive?
Make sure this fits by entering your model number. Western Digital Scorpio 120 GB SATA/150 Notebook Hard Drive General Features: 120 GB capacity Serial ATA interface SATA/150 5400 RPM spindle speed 8 MB buffer 5.5 ms average latency WhisperDrive to yield on the quietest drives on the market 9.5 mm drive height
What is a WD Scorpio Blue Drive?
Register today With available SATA or PATA interfaces, WD Scorpio Blue drives offer high-performance, low power consumption, and cool operation, perfect for notebooks and other portable devices.