WD Gold 16TB Enterprise Class SATA HDD 3.5-inch 7200RPM

The WD Gold 16TB Enterprise Class SATA HDD (WD161KRYZ) is a 3.5-inch hard drive engineered for continuous 24/7 operation in demanding enterprise environments. Built on Western Digital's helium-sealed platform, the drive employs multiple platters spinning at 7200 RPM with a 512MB cache buffer, delivering a sustained transfer rate suited to high-throughput data center read/write operations. The WD Gold line incorporates Western Digital's proprietary Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) technology and vibration compensation to maintain performance integrity in densely populated multi-drive server and storage enclosures.

Designed for enterprise NAS systems, scale-out storage arrays, RAID configurations, and AI/ML data pipeline infrastructure, the WD161KRYZ supports workloads requiring up to 550TB per year of annualized workload rating. The drive features enhanced error recovery controls (ERC) that are configurable to work reliably within RAID environments, preventing the drive from exceeding controller timeout thresholds during recovery events. Its SATA 6 Gb/s interface ensures broad compatibility with existing enterprise server and storage platforms without requiring proprietary host bus adapters.

With a mean time between failures (MTBF) rating of 2,500,000 hours and an operating shock tolerance engineered for rack-mount deployment, the WD Gold 16TB represents a proven storage medium for organizations building high-capacity primary storage, backup repositories, and data lake infrastructure across data center, cloud edge, and AI workload environments. Omnixon Global supplies this drive to enterprise buyers across the UAE, GCC, EMEA, and APAC regions.

Ideal for

• High-capacity enterprise NAS and scale-out storage array build-outs requiring dense, reliable spinning media
• AI and machine learning data lake storage where large sequential read throughput supports training dataset ingestion pipelines
• RAID-based primary and secondary storage tiers in on-premises data centers demanding drives with configurable ERC and vibration compensation
• Surveillance and video analytics repositories requiring sustained write performance across extended continuous-recording workloads
• Cloud edge and colocation infrastructure deployments where high annualized workload ratings reduce drive replacement cycles
• Enterprise backup and archival systems where 16TB capacity per spindle maximizes usable storage density per rack unit

Technical specifications

Available from Omnixon Global. Submit an RFQ and our team will confirm configuration and availability for your order.