Western Digital Gold WD261KRYZ internal hard drive 26 TB 7200 RPM 512 MB 3.5" Serial ATA III

Western Digital Gold WD261KRYZ internal hard drive 26 TB 7200 RPM 512 MB 3.5" Serial ATA III

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Vibration protection technology. HelioSeal delivers high capacities with low power draw (12TB & up). Projected 2.5M hours MTBF. 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.. Features. Mean time between failures (MTBF). 2500000 h. HDD sustained transfer rate. 285 MiB/s. HDD interface transfer rate. 6 Gbit/s. Storage drive buffer size. 512 MB. Component for. Server/workstation. Type. HDD. Interface. Serial ATA III. HDD size. 3.5". HDD speed. 7200 RPM. HDD capacity. 26 TB. Power. Operating voltage. 5 / 12 V. Power consumption (read). 6.7 W. Power consumption (idle). 5.6 W. General. Product family. Gold. Operational conditions. Non-operating shock. 200 G. Operating shock. 40 G. Storage temperature (T-T). -40 - 70 °C. Operating temperature (T-T). 5 - 60 °C. Weight & dimensions. Weight. 670 g. Height. 26.1 mm. Depth. 147 mm. Width. 101.6 mm. Packaging data. Quantity per pack. 1 pc(s)

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Marque Western Digital
Référence fabricant wd261kryz
EAN 0718037904948

Western Digital Gold WD261KRYZ internal hard drive 26 TB 7200 RPM 512 MB 3.5" Serial ATA III: complete technical analysis for 2026

With the Western Digital Gold WD261KRYZ internal hard drive 26 TB 7200 RPM 512 MB 3.5" Serial ATA III, Western Digital offers a solution suited to everyday needs in 2026. Available from 3 retailers on Compiral, this product benefits from real-time price comparison. Each offer is verified and updated several times a day to ensure you have the freshest information. Our platform calculates the total price including delivery costs, so you can identify the true best offer among all listed retailers.

Who is this Informatique for?

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Market price ranges in 2026

RangeIndicative price
Entry-levelUnder 384300 £
Mid-range384300 £ to 896710 £
High-endOver 896710 £

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Frequently asked questions about Western Digital Gold WD261KRYZ internal hard drive 26 TB 7200 RPM 512 MB 3.5" Serial ATA III

How does the Western Digital Gold WD261KRYZ internal hard drive 26 TB 7200 RPM 512 MB 3.5" Serial ATA III compare to competitors in the Informatique category?

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