WD Gold Enterprise 16TB 3.5" SATA Hard Drive [WD161KRYZ]
Your Data Is 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 26TB1 engineered for demanding applications and read-write workloads 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 ArmorCacheTM 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.
Your Data Is 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 26TB1 engineered for demanding applications and read-write workloads 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 ArmorCacheTM 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.
Your Data Is 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 26TB1 engineered for demanding applications and read-write workloads 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 ArmorCacheTM 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.
Your Data Is 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 26TB1 engineered for demanding applications and read-write workloads 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 ArmorCacheTM 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.
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The lowest price for WD Gold Enterprise 16TB 3.5" SATA Hard Drive [WD161KRYZ] right now is $434.41 at Amazon.com.au, compared across 5 retailers.
The all-time low was $379.00 on 13 Oct 2025 — today's price is 15% above the lowest ever. That's a little above the best price we've seen.
Prices last updated 30 June 2026.
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(Amazon.co.jp Limited) Western Digital WD Gold Internal Hard Drive, 4 TB, 3.5 Inches, SATA 7200 RPM, 256 MB Cache, 256 MB, Enterprise, 5 Years
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Western Digital Gold 16TB 3.5" Enterprise Class SATA 6 Gb/s HDD 7200 RPM Cache Size 512MB 5-Year Limited Warranty
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Western Digital WD141KRYZ Gold 14TB 7200RPM SATA-6.0Gbps 3.5-Inch HDD
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WD WD161KRYZ Gold 16TB 7200 RPM 3.5" SATA Enterprise Hard Drive
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Western Digital Gold Enterprise 16TB 3.5" SATA Hard Drive
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Western Digital Gold 16TB 3.5' Enterprise Class SATA 6 Gb/s HDD 7200 RPM Cache Size 512MB 5-Year Limited Warranty
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originally posted on westerndigital.com
I bought this drive because I was very mad about my lack in storage in my server, this was the best purchase that I have ever made. The drive is very reliable and has been through quite a few power outages and brownouts before I got a UPS and it's still trucking along like nothing ever happened. The performance of this drive is very quick as long as you have the system it is put into configured correctly. The only slight issue I have is the drive is quite loud while it is doing a SMART test, but I don't see that big of a problem with that because it is a standard thing that makes sure the drive is functioning correctly.
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This is my 6th WD Gold Hard Drive. I love them. I have many dozens of hard drives. I know what it's like to suffer a hard drive failure. Even with backups it's a pain. WD Gold drives make that situation unlikely because they are the most reliable drive in the business. I recommend ALL users buy these enterprise class drives and to avoid so-called consumer drives. These will likely serve you with much less trouble since they have by far the best MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) figures on the market today. It's worth the few extra $$$. This drive also runs extremely cool. Unlike my WD Black drives, which are very HOT to the touch, these Gold drives even when being written too 100% of the time run very cool. I dumped nearly 9TB onto this drive in one fell swoop and ... MoreThis is my 6th WD Gold Hard Drive. I love them. I have many dozens of hard drives. I know what it's like to suffer a hard drive failure. Even with backups it's a pain. WD Gold drives make that situation unlikely because they are the most reliable drive in the business. I recommend ALL users buy these enterprise class drives and to avoid so-called consumer drives. These will likely serve you with much less trouble since they have by far the best MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) figures on the market today. It's worth the few extra $$$. This drive also runs extremely cool. Unlike my WD Black drives, which are very HOT to the touch, these Gold drives even when being written too 100% of the time run very cool. I dumped nearly 9TB onto this drive in one fell swoop and the drive never exceeded 100F and under normal heavy usage runs at 95F and at idle about 90F. This is in a room with a constant ambient temp of 77F. I've used at least a hundred drives over the last decade. The first enterprise class drives I bought 10 years ago and which run at 10,000rpm have been running 24/7/365 and are still running to this day. These WD Gold drives have a MTBF 2.5 times higher than those early drives. I place a high value on reliability.
originally posted on westerndigital.com
Got the Gold for the size and speed, but video files are slower to load than I'm used to. I can't figure out if that's a problem with my new computer or the HD.Another problem is the loud grinding noises it sometimes makes. Maybe because of it's size? I ran checkdsk and it said it was ok, but I can't help but worry about it now. Sometimes it's normal HD sounds, but sometimes it's sounds like metal on metal grinding.Also, I wasn't expecting the 14tb to be only 13tb, so now I regret not getting the 16 because I'm running out of room already and my new computer only has one space for a 3.5 hd.I ordered directly from WD and it was shipped quickly.
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 16 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
(Amazon.co.jp Limited) Western Digital WD Gold Internal Hard Drive, 4 TB, 3.5 Inches, SATA 7200 RPM, 256 MB Cache, 256 MB, Enterprise, 5 Years
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Western Digital Gold 16TB 3.5" Enterprise Class SATA 6 Gb/s HDD 7200 RPM Cache Size 512MB 5-Year Limited Warranty
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Western Digital Gold 16TB 3.5" Enterprise Class SATA 6 Gb/s HDD 7200 RPM Cache Size 512MB 5-Year Limited Warranty
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Western Digital WD141KRYZ Gold 14TB 7200RPM SATA-6.0Gbps 3.5-Inch HDD
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Western Digital WD161KRYZ Gold 16TB 7200RPM SATA 6.0Gbps 3.5-Inch HDD
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I bought this drive because I was very mad about my lack in storage in my server, this was the best purchase that I have ever made. The drive is very reliable and has been through quite a few power outages and brownouts before I got a UPS and it's still trucking along like nothing ever happened. The performance of this drive is very quick as long as you have the system it is put into configured correctly. The only slight issue I have is the drive is quite loud while it is doing a SMART test, but I don't see that big of a problem with that because it is a standard thing that makes sure the drive is functioning correctly.
This is my 6th WD Gold Hard Drive. I love them. I have many dozens of hard drives. I know what it's like to suffer a hard drive failure. Even with backups it's a pain. WD Gold drives make that situation unlikely because they are the most reliable drive in the business. I recommend ALL users buy these enterprise class drives and to avoid so-called consumer drives. These will likely serve you with much less trouble since they have by far the best MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) figures on the market today. It's worth the few extra $$$. This drive also runs extremely cool. Unlike my WD Black drives, which are very HOT to the touch, these Gold drives even when being written too 100% of the time run very cool. I dumped nearly 9TB onto this drive in one fell swoop and ... MoreThis is my 6th WD Gold Hard Drive. I love them. I have many dozens of hard drives. I know what it's like to suffer a hard drive failure. Even with backups it's a pain. WD Gold drives make that situation unlikely because they are the most reliable drive in the business. I recommend ALL users buy these enterprise class drives and to avoid so-called consumer drives. These will likely serve you with much less trouble since they have by far the best MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) figures on the market today. It's worth the few extra $$$. This drive also runs extremely cool. Unlike my WD Black drives, which are very HOT to the touch, these Gold drives even when being written too 100% of the time run very cool. I dumped nearly 9TB onto this drive in one fell swoop and the drive never exceeded 100F and under normal heavy usage runs at 95F and at idle about 90F. This is in a room with a constant ambient temp of 77F. I've used at least a hundred drives over the last decade. The first enterprise class drives I bought 10 years ago and which run at 10,000rpm have been running 24/7/365 and are still running to this day. These WD Gold drives have a MTBF 2.5 times higher than those early drives. I place a high value on reliability.
Got the Gold for the size and speed, but video files are slower to load than I'm used to. I can't figure out if that's a problem with my new computer or the HD.Another problem is the loud grinding noises it sometimes makes. Maybe because of it's size? I ran checkdsk and it said it was ok, but I can't help but worry about it now. Sometimes it's normal HD sounds, but sometimes it's sounds like metal on metal grinding.Also, I wasn't expecting the 14tb to be only 13tb, so now I regret not getting the 16 because I'm running out of room already and my new computer only has one space for a 3.5 hd.I ordered directly from WD and it was shipped quickly.
I replaced two, 6TB UltraStar drives with two, 18TB Gold Enterprise drives in my RAID chassis, which I use as a Time Machine backup for my Mac computer. I've had the drives for a couple of weeks now and everything has gone swimmingly. The only complaint I have is the noise level of the drives. Since the Gold Enterprise drive specifications are similar to that of the UltraStar drive, I expected the same level of noise. What I found, however, is the Gold Enterprise drives are noisier. You can definitely hear the read/write heads shuttling around in the drive. There is definitely room to improve the drive design in this regard. Aside from the noise, I am satisfied with the drive performance and am hoping I get the same level of reliability with the Gold Enterprise ... MoreI replaced two, 6TB UltraStar drives with two, 18TB Gold Enterprise drives in my RAID chassis, which I use as a Time Machine backup for my Mac computer. I've had the drives for a couple of weeks now and everything has gone swimmingly. The only complaint I have is the noise level of the drives. Since the Gold Enterprise drive specifications are similar to that of the UltraStar drive, I expected the same level of noise. What I found, however, is the Gold Enterprise drives are noisier. You can definitely hear the read/write heads shuttling around in the drive. There is definitely room to improve the drive design in this regard. Aside from the noise, I am satisfied with the drive performance and am hoping I get the same level of reliability with the Gold Enterprise drives that I had with the UltraStar drives.In terms of ordering experience, I was very happy with the online shopping process through the Western Digital website. I chose to order directly from Western Digital to ensure the drives were covered by their 5 year warranty. The drives came within a few days of purchase packaged in a box that provided exceptional protection.
I have installed and used many of these drives. Not 1 has been DOA and several have been going over a decade (Including Black HDD). Only problem is that both times I got a warranty replacement (failing smart-but still working) they replaced them with lesser drives. Granted they were close to the end of warranty, but a blue drive is NOT a replacement for an enterprise drive. I haven't had problems with the RMA process and turn around was fast, just not equal replacements.
I would definitely recommend these drives, but they DO make some pretty loud noises occasionally. Almost like a head crash but seems that's just normal operating/initialization noise. Once they get going they're not all that bad and not much noisier than other drives. They just weren't made for silent operation. I had them in a drive carrier that stacks them in 4's while waiting for them to validate outside of a case, and started getting temperature warnings (60 degrees), but put a nearby fan on them just to get some air circulation and that solved the problem. Make sure to have circulation. Otherwise, they've gotten built into a home array with parity, and are currently loading up with data. Highly recommended.
I bought two of these when they were on sale for $250 off. I use them in a RAID0 array for a home server I have setup. The drives contain the large, infrequently accessed files the server serves. The drives perform well against all benchmarks I have thrown at it. I have had no data failures in the time I have owned it.I will however issue potential buyers this warning. WARNING: Not made of gold. Even though the drive claims to be gold, it is in fact made with the same non-gold materials just like any other drive. There may be gold inside, I'm no hardware engineer.Also, while the description of the drive says "Enterprise Class" I have yet to be called "classy" by anyone accessing the server. I assume this is because it will take time for the Enterprise Class to ... MoreI bought two of these when they were on sale for $250 off. I use them in a RAID0 array for a home server I have setup. The drives contain the large, infrequently accessed files the server serves. The drives perform well against all benchmarks I have thrown at it. I have had no data failures in the time I have owned it.I will however issue potential buyers this warning. WARNING: Not made of gold. Even though the drive claims to be gold, it is in fact made with the same non-gold materials just like any other drive. There may be gold inside, I'm no hardware engineer.Also, while the description of the drive says "Enterprise Class" I have yet to be called "classy" by anyone accessing the server. I assume this is because it will take time for the Enterprise Class to take affect. No stars taken away for this... yet!And one last bit of miscommunication about the drive, likely due to my ignorance about drive terminology, and upon which I hold no umbrage: The drive is advertised as 16TB, which of course I and likely any other buyer would assume is a reference to Terry Bradshaw and the Pittsburg Steelers scoring 16 points in their 1974 Superbowl win. It, however, refers to the drive having a capacity of 16 "terabytes."
This is my 4th WD Gold Hard Drive and I have no gripe for them so far. I have used almost all major brands hard drives. I have learned in a hard way what hard drive failure leads to. That's why it's imperative to have backup of a backup. I hope WD Gold drives are reliable as they claim. I'll recommend users prefer enterprise class drives consumer drives or performance drives. As of today(May 6, 2020) price for Gold drive 6TB is lesser than 6TB black HDD. Also, they've best MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) figures on the market today. If you ask me whether It's worth the few extra $$$ then definately. I'm a PC enthusiastic but I don't run my system 24/7. As this product is made by humans, it's susceptible to manufacturing default. However, according to my calculation ... MoreThis is my 4th WD Gold Hard Drive and I have no gripe for them so far. I have used almost all major brands hard drives. I have learned in a hard way what hard drive failure leads to. That's why it's imperative to have backup of a backup. I hope WD Gold drives are reliable as they claim. I'll recommend users prefer enterprise class drives consumer drives or performance drives. As of today(May 6, 2020) price for Gold drive 6TB is lesser than 6TB black HDD. Also, they've best MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) figures on the market today. If you ask me whether It's worth the few extra $$$ then definately. I'm a PC enthusiastic but I don't run my system 24/7. As this product is made by humans, it's susceptible to manufacturing default. However, according to my calculation if every thing goes fine, this HDD should last for 15-20 years or at max 30 years for me as my average PC run time is 4.8 hours per day(in the last 6 months). This drive hasn't produced much noise so far nor it get heats up. Literally, it remains much cooler than my Samsung 970 EVO + 2TB NVME. I dumped nearly 2TB of data at a room with a constant ambient temp of 67°F and the drive temperature was 98F. However, all these data is as of today and it's been just 2 days. There's a whole life ahead and will update my review. One of the important thing for users is how much user space we get in 6TB of HDD. So, I got 5.45TB of space in a 6TB HDD. For more don't forget to check my review video above. I'm unable to post picture of this HDD as due to some reason, Home Essentials Direct has disabled picture upload and when I contacted them, I got a really weird response as here "We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused. ? During the COVID-19 situation, we are taking steps to protect the health of our team members. As a result, there are some temporary limitations in how you can review products on Home Essentials Direct. We appreciate your understanding." One image upload option is available, I'll update the images as well.
This is the strangest hard drive Ive ever owned since the beginning of hard drives. Its very noisy on startup, with lots of thumping and chattering. It soon settles down and then just periodically chatters a bit. Its actual performance & capacity is outstanding. At first I thought this new hard drive must be defective with all this extraneous noise, but Ive seen several other reviews mentioning these noises. So now I dont know what to think. I would be very curious to read some more reviews on this hard drive.
Love it so far. With its long warranty, I have the confidence to trust this drive with my data. I purchased two and have them in a Sabrent JOB enclosure connected via USB 3.2.As long as it works and delivers the rated speeds in the years to come, what's not to like? I gave it 5 stars, although if I wanted to quibble, I'd probably take away 1 star for the unusual noises it makes during operation. It's not particularly loud, however, so it doesn't bother me much.
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 16 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
