Western Digital WD Gold 24TB, 24/7, 512e / 3.5" / SATA 6Gb/s

Als erste 24-TB-Speicherplatz fassende Festplatte schauen wir uns heute die Western Digital Gold, 24 TB, WD241KRYZ an. Mit dieser Speicherkapazität auf gerade mal 10 Plattern konnte Western Digital die Dichte auf den Plattern nochmal deutlich erhöhen. Wie die Festplatte sich in unserem Testsystem schlägt, könnt ihr in diesem Artikel lesen.

In November 2023, WD introduced the 24TB Gold Enterprise HDD, offering a 2TB increase over its preceding 22TB model. While this update might seem modest, it represents a significant enhancement in storage capacity, particularly impacting storage density in large NAS and server configurations. Following our initial HL15 review, where we put fifteen WD Gold 24TB drives to the test, we’re now ready to revisit these drives in a standard 8-drive NAS system setup.

This new drive in the WD Gold HDD lineup comes without a real performance hit and adds 2TB over the previous largest drive. The WD Gold HDDs bring over double the MTBF that the WD Red NAS drives have with 2.5 Million hours compared to 1 Million hours on the Reds. This increase does make sense for an Enterprise or Datacenter drive over a typical NAS drive. An interesting aspect of the 24TB Gold, is it takes .3w less power while in use and .2w less while idling than the 22TB variant, while also tacking on a few extra MB/s in best-case throughput. The extra 2TB does bring an $80 price increase over the 22TB variant, but volume buyers probably won’t see much difference at all.