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Your cart is empty.WD Gold lets you build out your storage your way with a full portfolio of SATA HDDs from 1TB to 24TB, engineered for heavy application workloads and designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year.
D. Book
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2025
Drive doesn't spin up. Looks like others have had the same issue. Very disappointed in WD. Amazon must know these are junk as they only offer a refund, no replacement.
StS
Reviewed in Germany on March 24, 2025
Diese HDD gehört zur Business Class • einige sind seit Jahren in Verwendung • daher 5 SterneABER: Die letzte Lieferung kam in einem C4 Briefumschlag • ohne jegliche Umverpackung als Schutz vor Stoß und Schlag für den Transportweg • und sie war erwartungsgemäß defekt • ärgerlicher Weise keine Nutzung sondern retour • warum wird Geld nur auf diese Weise einfach sinnbefreit 'verbrannt' • es geht auf jeden Fall besser • vielleicht fehlt eine hausinterne Grundsatzentscheidung, wie Festplatten auf den Postweg gebracht werden müssen.
Michael Verhulst
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2025
It wont tun on at all - very disappointing
Simon M
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2025
I added two of these to expand my NAS RAID recently afte the RED PROS i bought were not recognised by the NAS. Worked like a dream as soon as I inserted them.
Moon
Reviewed in France on January 30, 2025
Acheté pour mettre dans mon NAS à côté de 2 disques WD red pro et d'un disque WD black, je conseille d'acheter du red pro si vous voulez faire comme moi. En effet, le gold vibre, et c'est d'ailleurs spécifié chez WD : le red pro est dédié aux NAS car il protège des vibrations. Pas le gold.Sinon c'est un bon rapport qualité prix, mais je pense qu'il va finir dans mon PC en remplacement d'un wd dark qui va aller dans le NAS à la place (pas de souci de vibration avec mes 2 wd dark).
Philippe B.
Reviewed in Canada on April 9, 2025
Item arrived defective (drive spin but communication interface is dead) and drive won't work neither in 2 different NAS or Windows PC. I personally own 10 of these drives and they work perfectly well...This is the first time a WD Gold fails on me, and first time it is DOA ... Although this can happen, i would have like a fast refund to buy a replacement, usually a refund is issued as soon as the packagenis dropped.But now it seems Amazon has changed it's rules and put a 16+7 work days before issuing a refund, which is 1 month ! I think this is abusive policy for a DOA item.But my concern is that this item has a lower price for 14TB than the actual 12 i wanted to match, and there were only 2 "left in stock" so i think these units, although sold as new, were previously returned as defective, although is impossible to proove due to defective communication interface, it is impossible tonread drive, SMART information.
shopper
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2024
You could probably get a better deal on an ultrastar drive. The gold drives are just rebranded ultrastar drives. It's loud but I love it. I miss that sound from the computer. For some reason, mine got lost in the mail and they had to send me another.
Dmitry Dudkin
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2024
Disk is dead on arrival and not spinning at all!!!
Gianluca
Reviewed in Italy on December 22, 2024
Tenuto conto della qualità indiscutibile della serie gold, il prezzo è contenutissimo: inutile spendere meno e rischiare di perdere dati.Il marchio poi è una garanzia.
G. T. O'Connor
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2024
I've had a WD 2Tb Gold drive for about 7 years and it has been flawless. Because it's now full, I wanted to replace it with a larger HDD with the same reliability. Bought this WD Gold 8tb HDD with high expectations. How disappointing that it was dead as a doornail right out of the box. I tested every way I know how (different SATA cable, different port, external reader, internal install) but it wasn't even recognized, and as best I could feel or hear, never even spun up.Might be time to switch to an enterprise grade SSD?
A. Mandeiro
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2024
Switched from "Seagate FireCuda Solid State Hybrid Drive Performance SSHD" to this.It is extremely fast even when dealing with very large amount of small files, the inbuilt 512MB cache is making a big difference.
James C. Fain
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2024
My 4TB WD hard drive was almost full (I take a lot of photos) and I had already tried a 12 TB Seagate drive that was DOA, so I decided to try a 8TB WD drive since my 4TB drive has been fine for several years. It initially was OK and I was able to copy the 4TB drive to it using a common utility (It's not my first rodeo). However, after less than two months I noticed it was taking a while to open files. I ran the CHKDSK utility and it found some bad sectors. I started using it again but after about a week it started acting flaky again. I removed the drive from my main computer and plugged it into one of my backups and ran CHKDSK again. This time there were multiple pages of errors. When it finished I tried to access the drive and the system told me it wasn't accessible. I ran CHKDSK again and it found MORE ERRORS but I ran into the same issue of it not being accessible, so I ran it again. This time it gave me the errors in the attached picture in an endless loop. I went to try to print it but it was over 300 pages. The good news is that I called Amazon (Since I had heard that dealing with WD is a nightmare) and they gave me a one-time exception refund but with a $48 restocking fee. I very nicely asked if there was a way to not pay that and he then got approval for a credit that could be used for a replacement drive. I am assuming this was a one-time issue so I reordered the same drive. I will update here if it also goes bad!
Iowa Traveler
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2024
Only two months operating so far but no problems with four drives and I didn't expect any.
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