20TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD201KRYZ

I've been lamenting the death of the Raptor line for some time now; but I think I know what happened to that firmware after buying this. It's not running at 10,000 RPM, but it sure performs like it does, and it's very quiet. You will likely have to initialize this the old fashioned way, which I did. It's not going to be just "plug and play" in the modern sense; more "plug and play" in the 2002 sense; but that's fine. It's easy to do and takes less than a minute. In that process, you know precisely how it's set up, which is a rarity with modern components. Don't worry, anyone can do this. It's not a headache; it's just something a new generation may never have done before. Performance is absolute insanity. I never thought a 7200RPM drive would shunt data around like this. I wouldn't have believed it if you told me. It's stupid fast. It's fast enough to edit 4K 10bit without moving the data to solid state. Edit right off the HDD if you want. Gaming? Absolutely. Watch those load times drop, and have a drive that will last a long time. Enterprise drives (the Raptor line was indeed enterprise) last a long time. I've got drives that are forty years old and still moving data. I've got similar WD drives that are twenty years old and have never been parked. The first Velociraptor drive ever released is ten feet from me right now and happily doing it's thing; clear top and all. I stood in the front of the line AT the release event AT the convention and and purchased it right there when the clock ticked over to release date. It still works. This thing feels like a refined Raptor (the improved 2.5 version of the Velociraptor) in use. It's not just for data centers and office complexes. This is for whoever wants a blisteringly fast hard drive that's got a long warranty and legendary reliability and longevity. Gamers, content creators, editors, archivists... Whoever you are, if you're looking at this and wondering if you should do it... Here's your answer: Just click "Add to cart" right now and get it over with. You'll end up with one eventually anyway, so just save the cash and buy it now before you have to buy it to replace a poor decision. Your computing life will thank you.

I've been using it for a couple of years, and it is indeed very reliable. Sure it's not so fast as SSDs in terms of speed, but it is worth the price.

Got it in 2022, registered it and the warranty lasts till 2027. Works pretty fast, on par with the black edition from what I can tell. But it’s not silent by any stretch of the imagination and it actually pretty loud. But the gold edition isn’t meant for basic desktop usage but for heavy server usage from what I have read where the noise isn’t an issue. If you are buying this for a NAS server or something like that, should be fine overall. But if you are buying it for desktop usage, I recommend you use it as a storage drive and not a boot drive. Definitely worth the money I got it for given the abuse it can take and keep the speed up. Using this to hold videos, pictures and small games that don’t need to load a lot won’t be an issue, but if you use it for big games or stuff that requires a lot of hard drive activity and it will let you know it if you are anywhere in the same room with it.

This is my 6th WD Gold Hard Drive. I love them. I have many dozens of hard drives. I know what it's like to suffer a hard drive failure. Even with backups it's a pain. WD Gold drives make that situation unlikely because they are the most reliable drive in the business. I recommend ALL users buy these enterprise class drives and to avoid so-called consumer drives. These will likely serve you with much less trouble since they have by far the best MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) figures on the market today. It's worth the few extra $$$. This drive also runs extremely cool. Unlike my WD Black drives, which are very HOT to the touch, these Gold drives even when being written too 100% of the time run very cool. I dumped nearly 9TB onto this drive in one fell swoop and the drive never exceeded 100°F and under normal heavy usage runs at 95°F and at idle about 90°F. This is in a room with a constant ambient temp of 77°F. I've used at least a hundred drives over the last decade. The first enterprise class drives I bought 10 years ago and which run at 10,000rpm have been running 24/7/365 and are still running to this day. These WD Gold drives have a MTBF 2.5 times higher than those early drives. I place a high value on reliability. ADDED Nov 9, 2020 I should mention that you should make sure you are buying retail drive and not an OEM. Western Digital will not warranty an OEM drive. OEM drives are usually cheaper, but getting support if you have an issue is entirely dependent on the seller's inclination to replace a defective drive. To ensure you get a retail drive on Amazon make sure the "seller" or "Sold by" and "shipped by" are both "Amazon".

I have a pool of 4 of these drives in software raid5 on a home server. Sequential reads are around 600-700 MB/s on the array which is REFS formatted windows 10. Write performance thanks to the large cache pool is 1.3 GB/s for about 10 seconds then it will drop to around 120 MB/s. Perfect for media streaming. Been running this set up for a total of 5 years now. Had 1 drive failure during that time, amazing warranty support from WD. Had another one right away no questions asked. Couldn’t be happier. HDD sentinel reports 0 bad sectors on any of these drives, 3 of which have been running 24-7 for 5 years. And also to be fair, the one drive I did loose was due to a power outage that caused seek errors and windows storage spaces dropped it from the array to maintain data integrity. Had I done my diligence and been running a UPS I do not believe that drive would have failed. January 2026 update- same set up, same configuration, 24-7 usage. No issues, disk performance remains the same. well done WD.

Para ser un disco mecánico su rendimiento a nivel de copiar archivos se asemeja mucho a un SSD en un puerto de 3 Gbps. El ruido para ser de 7200 rpm es bajo. El precio quizás es algo alto pero es un disco de calidad.

Kocht deze omdat we telkens opliepen tegen te weinig schrijfruimte op de HDD Snelle schijf maar erg luidruchtig tov mijn andere HDD schijven. Een beetje irritant rommelend geluid alsof je buik het borrelen is. Maar dat zal wel te amken hebben met het type schijf.

Works great

Good transfer speed WD Gold 4TB HDD Disk starting point speed Read speed : 254 mb/s Write speed : 253 mb/s Disk ending point speed Read speed : 171 mb/s Write speed : 169 mb/s I tested in AMD Ryzen 1700, asrock motherboard, Corsair 32 gb ram, Kingston ssd

Haven't been running them for long, but these 14TB drives seem solid. I've been running the WD Red 4TB drives for years with no issues and no failures, and I just decided to upgrade to something bigger. Very happy so far. Of course, 14TB really = 12.7TB, so don't be alarmed!