With capacities up to 10TB1, WD_BLACK Gaming Hard Drives let you download the latest AAA titles while also keeping your ever-growing catalog of classics and favorites ready to play. Don't compromise on your game collection. Store more and game more with WD_BLACK.Gaming Performance and CapacityWD_BLACK is purpose-built to enhance your PC gaming experience. Available with an impressive 256 MB of DRAM cache on higher capacity models, the WD_BLACK HDD is performance-optimized so you can spend more time gaming and less time loading. Combine a WD_BLACK HDD with a WD_BLACK SSD for a dual-drive configuration that maximizes your gaming experience while letting you keep more of your favorite games. The WD_BLACK HDD gives you fast hard drive speeds, high capacity, and an industry-leading 5-year2 limited warranty for an inspiring game storage solution.Drive Your GameThe WD_BLACK HDD is the perfect storage solution for your gaming rig, offering large cache sizes plus large capacities to store your favorite titles and their downloadable content (DLC). Paired with an SSD, the powerful drive delivers exceptional system performance and capacity.Store More, Play MoreWith capacities up to 10TB1, WD_BLACK Gaming Hard Drives let you download the latest AAA titles while also keeping your ever-growing catalog of classics and favorites ready to play. Don't compromise on your game collection. Store more and game more with WD_BLACK.Increased ReliabilityThe WD_BLACK Gaming Hard Drive is equipped with StableTrac⢠Technology (2TB1 and larger models). This secures the motor shaft inside of the hard drive to increase reliability and help reduce impact due to system-induced vibrations from other components such as additional gaming hardware. Stabilizing the platters inside the WD_BLACK drive results in more accurate tracking in a particular sector during read and write operations, optimizing performance and reliability.Commanding PerformanceThe WD_BLACK drive delivers high-speed read rates and transfers of your games with impressive cache sizes of up to 256 MB of DRAM on our high-capacity models. Western Digitalâs Dynamic Cache Technology improves caching algorithms in real time to allocate and optimize cache between reads and writes. Spend less time loading and more time winning.Battle-Tested Dual ProcessorWhen it comes to processing power, more is better for loading today's larger games. The WD_BLACK Gaming Hard Drive features a dual-core processor that offers twice the processing capability as a single-core processor to maximize drive performance for geting into the game faster.
Lower Capacity and Cost Effective for Smaller Data Sets and Legacy ApplicationsData centers face growing pressures to manage costs. For affordable server boot drives, or applications that use smaller data sets, Western Digital offers the Ultrastar DC HA200 series, an entry-level, low capacity line of enterprise-class hard drives. Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year, the Ultrastar DC HA200 series delivers up to 2TB cost-effective storage capacity for data center environments. Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) technology utilizes sophisticated electronics to monitor the drive and correct both linear and rotational vibration disturbances in real timeâespecially helpful in multi-drive arrays and rack-mounted systems maintaining high read/write performance. Ultrastar DC HA200 series is offered with a SATA 6 Gb/s interface and native 512-byte (512n) sector size for compatibility with legacy data center applications.Entry-Level AffordabilityLow CapacityOptimized for server boot and smaller data sets.Legacy SupportNative 512-byte sectors with SATA 6 Gb/s interface.Enterprise Class2M hour MTBF rating.
Laying the foundation for a worry-free data center, HGST delivers capacity to conquer the data explosion â Ultrastar® He12 HDD. Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year, the Ultrastar He12 HDD is the industryâs first 12TB drive and uses PMR technology to make it drop-in ready for any enterprise-capacity application or environment. The stable internal environment created by fourth-generation HelioSeal® technology enables a new 8-disk design, increasing the capacity by 20% when compared to the 7-disk design of the prior generation. This highest capacity helium drive offers the lowest power profile in the industry to help data center architects meet eco-environmental goals and requirements. Targeted at 2.5M hours MTBF, the Ultrastar He12 HDD provides the highest reliability rating available of all HDDs on the market today by building on the successful design of itâs 10TB, 8TB and 6TB predecessors. Trust HGST and the Ultrastar He12 HDD to deliver more capacity, more efficiency, more reliability and more value to your data center.
As the industry evolves to develop purpose-built solutions for growing data storage requirements, IT managers continue to rely on lower capacity drives that are economical to acquire, yet deliver quick and reliable data access for traditional data center applications. Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year, Ultrastar DC HC320 is an 8TB HDD that helps address economic and access requirements of many traditional IT workloads. Lower capacity drives also help address architecture limitations. The Ultrastar DC HC320 is designed for traditional storage and server applications as well as distributed and scalable computing, including block and file storage architectures, providing fast 7200 RPM performance and lower acquisition cost to help ease budget constraints.