Product details
WD Gold is enterprise iron for people building serious local storage: workstations chewing on 4K timelines, deskside AI boxes, or a home server that earns its keep. This 10TB model spins at 7,200 RPM with a big 512MB cache, CMR recording, HelioSeal and OptiNAND technology, and transfers up to 267MB/s. WD rates it for 550TB/year workloads and up to 2.5M hours MTBF, with rotational-vibration sensors for multi-drive enclosures and a 5-year limited warranty. Overkill for a game folder - perfect for everything behind it.
WD Gold is what you buy when the data on the drive is worth more than the drive by orders of magnitude: a workstation's active project store, a deskside machine learning box chewing datasets, a video editor's working volume, or the core of a home server that other systems depend on. Ten terabytes at 7,200 RPM with a 512MB cache and transfers up to 267MB/s is the fast end of spinning storage, and the enterprise engineering — HelioSeal, OptiNAND and ArmorCache technology — exists to keep it that way under load.
The rating that defines the class is the workload figure: up to 550TB per year, several times what desktop drives are built to absorb, with rotational-vibration sensors for stable behavior in multi-drive enclosures. CMR recording keeps long writes honest during ingest, replication and backup windows. This is not the drive for a game folder; it is the drive for the systems the game folder gets backed up to.
Fitment is standard 3.5-inch SATA, so it drops into servers, NAS boxes and tower workstations alike, and a 5-year limited warranty matches the service life it was designed for. For storage that earns its keep every day, Gold is WD's answer — enterprise iron, honestly labeled.
- Capacity: 10TB, 3.5-inch internal form factor
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s; transfer rate up to 267MB/s
- 7,200 RPM, 512MB cache, CMR recording
- HelioSeal and OptiNAND; workload rating 550TB/year; up to 2.5M-hour MTBF
- 5-year limited warranty
Specs: 10TB | 3.5in SATA 6Gb/s | 7,200 RPM | 512MB cache | CMR | up to 267MB/s | Part # WD103KRYZ
Full Specifications
Form Factor
3.5-inch internal
Interface / Connector
SATA 6Gb/s
Transfer Rate
Up to 267MB/s
Technologies
HelioSeal, OptiNAND, ArmorCache
Workload Rating (Endurance)
550TB/year
Dimensions (L x W x H)
147 x 101.6 x 26.1 mm (5.79 x 4 x 1.03 in)
Weight
750g (per WD product page)
Operating Temperature
5°C to 60°C
Non-Operating Temperature
-40°C to 70°C
Intended Use
Enterprise / data center and heavy workstation storage
Warranty
5-year limited warranty
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