WD Gold 8TB Enterprise Class Internal Hard Drive – 7200 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB Cache, 3.5″ – WD8004FRYZ
Wd Gold 8TB enterprise class internal hard drive – 7200 RPM class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB cache, 3.5″ – WD8004FRYZ Product Features Conquer tough workloads with enterprise-grade WD Gold HDDs. Available in 1TB to 14TB* capacities. | *As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending
Wd Gold 8TB enterprise class internal hard drive – 7200 RPM class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB cache, 3.5″ – WD8004FRYZ
Product Features
- Conquer tough workloads with enterprise-grade WD Gold HDDs. Available in 1TB to 14TB* capacities. | *As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
- Enhanced reliability with up to 2.5M hours MTBF
- Specifically designed for use in enterprise-grade data centers and storage systems
- Improve performance with our vibration protection technology
- Get peace of mind with a 5-year limited warranty
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WD selling Crippled Reject “Gold” drives with Red boards I ordered 3 from amazon and three from another vendor the week before. All 6 were terrible performing drives and uppon closer inspection they … have “red” boards (2060-771945-002) and report that they are gold .. so they are 5400 RPM diffrent firmware and diffrent features supported. After 2 days of WD support they said send back and try again .. or buy all new ultrastar drives for your array (nothanks…). I hope nobody puts this crap in thier arays… WD does not seem to care at all that…
Buyers be aware!! Its a shame, I love this HDD, have a 4TB of it running since April 2017 24hrs a day(except two short relocation of server) on a dell server and given zero issues, and I hate to leave one star for this product as it is such amazing part!Bought another one, this time from Western digital website, will update my experience, it was cheaper and free shipping with warranty!Bought 2TB for a new server building and ran the S/N on WD website to check warranty and it says out of…
Doesn’t seem to be compatible with Linux I tried every which way to have LINUX find GRUB to boot the OS. Absolutely no such luck or is the drive incompatible with LINUX. The drive itself is working fine as a slave, but as soon as you expect it to run as master for LINUX, it does not provide boot information that is needed to start the OS.I tried LINUX MINT (based on UBUNTU)I tried DEBIAN LINUX the original.I installed LINUX MINT several times without as reported failure, including the GRUB install.On reboot,…