Your Data Is Gold
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 26TB1 engineered for demanding applications and read-write workloads 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
ArmorCacheTM 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.
More from the Manufacturer
Key Features
- No compromise storage for any application demanding the best in HDD storage.
- A wide range of capacities up to 26TB to meet your enterprise-class storage needs.
- Among the highest workload and reliability ratings of any Western Digital® hard drive.
- Peace of mind with a 5-year limited warranty.
Dimensions
| Height | 3 inches |
|---|---|
| Width | 6 inches |
| Length | 8.75 inches |
| Weight | 1.8 pounds |
| Product Type | Hard Drive |
| Buffer | 512 MB |
| Device Supported | Cloud Storage |
| Device Supported | Server |
| Device Supported | Storage System |
| Storage Capacity | 16 TB |
| Drive Type | Internal |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Brand Name | Western Digital |
| Country of Origin | Thailand |
| Product Family | Gold |
| Drive Interface | SATA |
| Drive Interface Standard | SATA/600 |
| Spindle Speed (rpm) | 7200 |
| Environmental Compliance | Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) |
| Buffer | 512 MB |
| Spindle Speed (rpm) | 7200 |
| Endurance (TBW) | 550 TB |
| Product Type | Hard Drive |
| Manufacturer Part Number | WD161KRYZ |
| Manufacturer Website Address | http://www.wdc.com |
| Manufacturer | Western Digital Corporation |
| Product Model | WD161KRYZ |
| Product Name | Gold Enterprise Class SATA HDD |
| Product Line | Gold |
| Brand Name | Western Digital |
| Drive Interface | SATA |
| Drive Interface Standard | SATA/600 |
| Country of Origin | Thailand |
| Environmental Compliance | Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) |
| Weight (Approximate) | 1.52 lb |
| Drive Type | Internal |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Height | 1" |
| Width | 4" |
| Storage Capacity | 16 TB |
| Disk Format | 512e |