WD clearly believes that SSDs are the best solution for gamers, and for pure gaming that's absolutely correct, but gamers don’t just game. From boot servers to high end enterprise storage systems, WD Gold hard drives offer the capacities required for the most demanding datacenter environments. So, you can imagine how excited we were to slide them into one of our Supermicro servers, put them through our gauntlet of tests, and see what they are capable of outputting. With great performance and an industry-best CMR capacity point, the addition of the 22TB model to WD’s Gold line of HDDs makes this already comprehensive lineup even more impressive, giving organizations more flexibility for their data center storage systems.

WD Gold™ drives are available in capacities up to 24TB utilizing the OptiNAND™ technology's capacity-enabling feature.The extra 2TB in capacity over the 20TB HDDs certainly adds up if you’re using pallet-fulls of these drives in your data center. When operating in WCD mode, the drive will ensure that all user data in DRAM is safely written upon EPO, and the drive will operate with WCE-equivalent performance. What’s perhaps more important to our readers though is that it is optimized for NAS (network attached storage) devices with a five year warranty, a 550TB/year workload rating, a bunch of proprietary features and a mean time before failure of 2.

To easily reformat to Mac, plug in the drive, open your Mac’s Disk Utility application, and follow the steps from there. Seagate has its IronWolf Pro and Exos X22, also at reduced cost in comparison, but these do not have WD’s OptiNAND technology and also have no ArmorCache feature. Use of an internal HDD in a RAID configuration or device will void the Data Recovery Plan purchased with the product. According to Blocksandfiles, the drive should perform similarly to its rivals, offering a sustained data rate transfer of 284 MB/s compared to 291 MB/s for Western Digital’s 22TB Gold and 285 MB/s for Seagate’s 22TB IronWolf Pro drive.New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . pinnacle drive: Western Digital 22TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3. The wd hdd connects to a tv, monitor or projector with an avi port, and then you can enjoy the ultimate audio experience. I suspect our recent addition of some HDD testing has caught the interest of some companies and now they are sending additional drives for us to test. The primary actuator provides coarse displacement using conventional electromagnetic actuator principles.