Engineered for heavy application workloads and designed with an endurance of up to 550TB per year, the 24TB Gold 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal Enterprise HDD from WD is well suited for use in enterprise-class data centers and storage systems. This 7200 rpm drive utilizes the SATA III 6 Gb/s interface and a 512MB cache for data transfer rates of up to 279 MB/s. Moreover, as a professional-grade drive, it has an MTBF rating of 2.5 million hours, 600,000 load/unload cycles, a non-recoverable error rate of < 1 in 1015, and an annualized failure rate of 0.35%. Also featured are vibration protection for improved performance in high vibration environments, HelioSeal technology for a reduced power draw, and ArmorCache technology for power loss protection.
- Hybrid cloud and colocation storage for small and medium businesses
- Data repatriation efforts requiring rapidly scalable local or distributed storage
- Demanding applications running high uptime workloads and more complex storage arrays such as RAID and JBODs
- Adding an additional storage layer to strengthen business continuity implementations
- Storing AI training data sets and hyperparameter tuning data