WD Gold 24TB

No surprises, providing satisfactory performance for mechanical storage.

Shane Downing

“Who would want ArmorCache? Someone who needs data protection without losing performance.” PRICE $1,262 WEB www.westerndigital.com The WD Gold 24TB comes as the largest capacity hard drive currently available – other 24TB drives exist, but nothing larger can be purchased. It competes with the best hard drives primarily by offering more storage, but at a higher cost per GB. While WD’s Gold line does share the flash-based OptiNAND technology with its Red Pro NAS line of hard disk drives, it has a unique feature to help it stand out: ArmorCache. Who would want ArmorCache? Someone who needs data protection without losing performance. In an environment that can use write caching, the Gold can safely write data out on power loss. In a stricter environment where write caching is denied, the…

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