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WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA HDD 18TB £299.99 or 20TB £299.99 delivered @ WD
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Update 1
Sadly, the £50 off doesn't apply anymore for the 20TB, however the 18 TB is still at the same price as before.
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Prices here look a bit interesting. 14TB for £ 323.99 but 18TB £299.99 / 20TB £349.99
So if you need a lot of TBs then this could be the time.
These highly reliable solutions for demanding storage environments provide up to 2.5M hours MTBF3 , vibration protection technology, and a low power draw thanks to HelioSeal technology (for 12TB and above). Specifically designed for use in enterprise-class data centers and storage systems, WD Gold SATA HDDs deliver the world-class performance you expect from Western Digital hard drives.
More Flexibility, More Freedom
WD Gold™ lets you build out your storage your way with a full portfolio of SATA HDDs from 1TB to 22TB1, engineered for heavy application workloads and designed to handle workloads up to 550TB2 per year.
Enhanced Reliability
With up to 2.5M hours MTBF3, WD Gold™ hard drives deliver enhanced levels of dependability and durability.
Vibration Protection
WD Gold™ drives have sophisticated monitoring electronics that help correct linear and rotational vibrations in real time using enhanced vibration protection technology for improved performance in high-vibration environments.
Plays Well with Others
Specifically designed for use in enterprise-grade storage systems and data centers, WD Gold™ HDDs are broadly compatible with major enterprise operating systems.
Scale Your Business
WD Gold™ drives are available in capacities up to 22TB utilizing the OptiNAND™ technology's capacity-enabling feature.
Helps Protect Your Data
The innovative ArmorCache™ feature (22TB only) provides enterprise power loss protection of your data in write-cache enabled (WCE) mode while increasing performance in write-cache disabled (WCD) mode.
Specifications
Capacity
18 TB
Cache Size
512MB
Interface
SATA
Disk Speed (RPM)
7200rpm
Prices here look a bit interesting. 14TB for £ 323.99 but 18TB £299.99 / 20TB £349.99
So if you need a lot of TBs then this could be the time.
These highly reliable solutions for demanding storage environments provide up to 2.5M hours MTBF3 , vibration protection technology, and a low power draw thanks to HelioSeal technology (for 12TB and above). Specifically designed for use in enterprise-class data centers and storage systems, WD Gold SATA HDDs deliver the world-class performance you expect from Western Digital hard drives.
More Flexibility, More Freedom
WD Gold™ lets you build out your storage your way with a full portfolio of SATA HDDs from 1TB to 22TB1, engineered for heavy application workloads and designed to handle workloads up to 550TB2 per year.
Enhanced Reliability
With up to 2.5M hours MTBF3, WD Gold™ hard drives deliver enhanced levels of dependability and durability.
Vibration Protection
WD Gold™ drives have sophisticated monitoring electronics that help correct linear and rotational vibrations in real time using enhanced vibration protection technology for improved performance in high-vibration environments.
Plays Well with Others
Specifically designed for use in enterprise-grade storage systems and data centers, WD Gold™ HDDs are broadly compatible with major enterprise operating systems.
Scale Your Business
WD Gold™ drives are available in capacities up to 22TB utilizing the OptiNAND™ technology's capacity-enabling feature.
Helps Protect Your Data
The innovative ArmorCache™ feature (22TB only) provides enterprise power loss protection of your data in write-cache enabled (WCE) mode while increasing performance in write-cache disabled (WCD) mode.
Specifications
Capacity
18 TB
Cache Size
512MB
Interface
SATA
Disk Speed (RPM)
7200rpm
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Edited by sisqoboy, 27 June 2023
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sorted byThese are literally designed to hard fail after only a few years. They are called 'enterprise' because you are supposed to thrash them for a couple of years, then REPLACE. But they do not fail because of the thrashing, but hours powered on, whether you are writing to them or not. For home users, who expect a HDD to last 'forever' with light use, they are money down the drain. And flash, which only really fails under max write conditions, will utterly destroy the HDD market.
PS hard drives can be engineered to last indefinitely under light usage, but they are not for highly cynical financial reasons (server farms happily replacing all HDDs after two years of ownership).
"Today, about 90% of the drives we own have lasted four years and 65% are living longer than six years"
And that's Backblaze, who absolutely hammer the disks (figuratively speaking).
Failure rate is linear up to 4 years, so any "server farm" (by which I think you mean storage farm) replacing every two years is just throwing money away. You may as well replace every 4 years. After that you start to have high failure rates and will end up spending more time doing failure replacements than routine replacements. (edited)
amazon.co.uk/dp/…c=1
Much lower cost per gigabyte.
(Edit: finally found what I'm referring to: arstechnica.com/gad…ds/ ) (edited)
Cheap would be sub £14/terabyte and you regularly see that on Amazon for enterprise class drives.
In the Eurozone they regularly get under £13/terabyte, but import costs usually erase the savings for UK buyers (except NI).
Beware when using in a NAS, after 3 years of power on, drive will report warning. And you won't be able to distinguish whether the warning is genuine drive issue or something else.
I will be staying away from WD drives for now. Crazy anti-consumer moves, one after another.
If you do order from WD HDD jump onto TCB or quidco and get some cashback. (edited)
Excellent price though.