WD Gold WD261KRYZ 26 TB Hard Drive - 3.5" Internal - SATA (SATA/600)

WD Gold WD261KRYZ 26 TB Hard Drive - 3.5" Internal - SATA (SATA/600)

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,¹engineered for demanding applications with a read-write workload rating of up to 550TB²per year.

Enhanced Reliability

With a five-year limited warranty³supporting up to 2.5M hours MTBF,⁴WD 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 26TB¹model 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.

• With 26 TB capacity you have ample space for storing millions of images, hundreds of hours of video or for music lovers, up to a million songs


• Have data stored faster with SATA/600 interface that optimizes burst performance


• Experience rapid processing speed with 512 MB cache buffer

Product Type: Hard Drive
Operating System Compatibility: Linux
Brand Name: WD
Drive Type: Internal
Form Factor: 3.5"
Length: 5.79" (147.07 mm)
Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Product Model: WD261KRYZ
Product Name: Gold Enterprise Class SATA HDD - 26TB
Device Supported: Server
Product Line: Gold
Manufacturer Part Number: WD261KRYZ
Manufacturer Website Address: http://www.westerndigital.com
Limited Warranty: 5 Year
Weight (Approximate): 1.48 lb (670 g)