Overview



Store your data with confidence on WD Gold.

WD Gold HDDs incorporate our latest innovations to handle heavy, continuous read-write workloads in the toughest of enterprise and commercial system environments. WD Gold drives provide the utmost in HDD storage performance, reliability, durability, and capacity-point flexibility to small and medium businesses and design professionals whose mission-critical data and creative output are essential to their success.

Built For Demanding Use Cases
Customize your business’s storage mix to fit your specific needs with hard drives in capacities of up to 26TB,1 engineered for demanding applications with a read-write workload rating of up to 550TB2 per year.

Enhanced Reliability
With a five-year limited warranty3 supporting up to 2.5M hours MTBF,4 WD Gold hard drives deliver enhanced levels of dependability and durability.

Protection and Performance Boost
ArmorCache™ technology (available in 22TB and above) is a Western Digital-only feature that provides enterprise power loss protection of your data in write-cache enabled (WCE) mode while increasing performance in write-cache disabled (WCD) mode.

Continuous Innovation
The WD Gold 26TB1 model is built on the world’s first 11-disk HDD platform and delivers the 10th generation of HelioSeal® technology, which has proven to be a vital foundation for continuous capacity growth for over a decade.

Robustness For Tough Environments
Our exclusive Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) uses dual sensors to anticipate and counteract disturbances, maintaining peak performance in high-vibration environments.

Flexibility and Peace of Mind
WD Gold has undergone extensive testing and validation in a variety of host bus adapters, servers and enterprise storage solutions employing RAID and other data resiliency configurations.




At-a-glance



  • HelioSeal delivers high capacities with low power draw (12TB & up)

  • Projected 2.5M hours MTBF

  • Vibration protection technology




Reasons to buy


  • HelioSeal delivers high capacities with low power draw (12TB & up)
  • Projected 2.5M hours MTBF
  • Vibration protection technology

Specification


Technical Description: Western Digital Gold WD242KRYZ internal hard drive 24 TB 7200 RPM 512 MB 3.5" Serial ATA III

Features
Mean time between failures (MTBF):Statistical model used to indicate product/mechanism reliability; expressed in hours and percentage of duty cycle. This number (in hours) does not indicate the mean time before failure for a single unit/mechanism.
2500000 h
Average latency:The average duration before a device can start with a job (for example reading a file from a hard disk).
4.16 ms
HDD sustained transfer rate:
279 MiB/s
HDD interface transfer rate:
6 Gbit/s
Storage drive buffer size:
512 MB
Component for:What this product is used as a part of (component for).
Server/workstation
Type:Characteristics of the device.
HDD
Interface:Interface ports to connect pieces of equipment. USB (Universal Serial Bus) has become the most popular wired interface to connect peripherals. USB 2.0 supports speeds up to 480 Mbit/s (USB 1: 12 Mbit/s). The interface FireWire is also known as the IEEE 1394 standard. Enhanced IDE (EIDE)is sometimes referred to as Fast ATA, Fast IDE or ATA-2.
Serial ATA III
HDD size:
3.5"
HDD speed:
7200 RPM
HDD capacity:
24 TB

Operational conditions
Non-operating shock:Environmental requirements for optimal protection from impact in non-operating mode
200 G
Operating shock:Environmental requirements for optimal protection from impact in operating mode
40 G
Storage temperature (T-T):The minimum and maximum temperatures at which the product can be safely stored.
-40 - 70 °C
Operating temperature (T-T):The minimum and maximum temperatures at which the product can be safely operated.
5 - 60 °C

Packaging data
Quantity per pack:The amount in each pack.
1 pc(s)

Power
Operating voltage:Defines the range of operating voltages available
5 / 12 V
Power consumption (idle):
5.6 W
Power consumption (read):
6.7 W

Weight & dimensions
Weight:Weight of the product without packaging (net weight). If possible, the net weight is given including standard accessories and supplies. Please note that sometimes the manufacturer leaves out the weight of accessories and/or supplies.
670 g
Depth:The distance from the front to the back of something.
147 mm
Height:The measurement of the product from head to foot or from base to top.
26.1 mm
Width:The measurement or extent of something from side to side.
101.6 mm


Product details


WD242KRYZ Western Digital 0718037904931

Western Digital Gold WD242KRYZ internal hard drive 24 TB 7200 RPM 512 MB 3.5" Serial ATA III

£661.00 and In stock

SKUWD242KRYZ

Western Digital Gold WD242KRYZ internal hard drive 24 TB 7200 RPM 512 MB 3.5" Serial ATA III

Quick Code: Q1924901 MPN: WD242KRYZ

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Key Features

  • Vibration protection technology
  • Projected 2.5M hours MTBF