Western Digital announces WD Gold series 4TB, 6TB and 8TB drives – low endurance?

[Patrick Kennedy]

Western Digital announces "high-end" data center WD Gold series 4TB, 6TB and 8TB drives with annual life cycle ratings below mid-range data center SSDs

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[Patrick]

Let me know if my math is wrong on this one. "Up to 550TB/ year"
550 TB/year
1.51 TB/day
0.063 TB/hour
0.001 TB/minute
1.74404E-05 TB/second
0.0179 GB/second
18.29 MB/second

If this is true, we now have:

• Highest Capacity: SSD
• Highest Workload: SSD
• Highest Storage Density: SSD
• Highest Speed: SSD
• Lowest Power Consumption: SSD
• Lowest Cost/ Raw GB: HDD

The fact that WD says Up to 550TB without discussing access specification compared to a random 4K write DWPD figure for data center SSDs. Really makes you question the conventional wisdom using hard drives for writes.

 

[Deslok]

perhaps this is to avoid competition with the ultrastar drives? although the Ultrastar He8 appears cheaper than the 8tb wd gold right now...