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product_id: 607076282
title: "Western Digital 14TB WD Gold Enterprise Class Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5\" - WD142KRYZ"
brand: "western digital"
price: "R12956"
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reviews_count: 11
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# 2.5M hours MTBF reliability 7200 RPM high-speed spin 14TB massive capacity Western Digital 14TB WD Gold Enterprise Class Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD142KRYZ

**Brand:** western digital
**Price:** R12956
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 💼 Elevate your data game with WD Gold — where enterprise power meets rock-solid reliability!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Western Digital 14TB WD Gold Enterprise Class Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD142KRYZ by western digital
- **How much does it cost?** R12956 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.za](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/607076282-western-digital-14tb-wd-gold-enterprise-class-internal-hard-drive)

## Best For

- western digital enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted western digital brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Rock-Solid Reliability:** Engineered for 2.5 million hours MTBF, ensuring your critical data stays safe and accessible.
- • **Massive 14TB Storage Power:** Store your entire digital empire with ease and never worry about running out of space.
- • **Optimized for Heavy Workloads:** Designed to handle up to 550TB per year, perfect for data centers and professional archives.
- • **Enterprise-Grade Speed & Stability:** 7200 RPM and SATA 6 Gb/s interface deliver blazing-fast data access for demanding workloads.
- • **Vibration Protection & HelioSeal Tech:** Advanced vibration dampening and helium-sealed design reduce power consumption and boost durability.

## Overview

The Western Digital 14TB WD Gold is a premium enterprise-class internal hard drive featuring a 7200 RPM spindle speed, SATA 6 Gb/s interface, and 512MB cache. Built for heavy workloads up to 550TB/year, it offers exceptional reliability with a 2.5 million hour MTBF rating and advanced vibration protection. HelioSeal technology ensures high capacity with low power consumption, making it ideal for data centers, professional archives, and demanding business storage solutions.

## Description

WD Gold lets you build out your storage your way with a full portfolio of SATA HDDs from 1TB to 24TB, engineered for heavy application workloads and designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year.

Review: Best for the money - I have used most the top brands....over the last 10 years. I currently run just under 100TB in my desktop, which mostly consisted of the 6TB 12TB drives...and now updated to 18TB slowly. WD Black and Golds thus far I haven't had a single failure in 15 years..... with EVERY other brand usually being replaced due to failure. One thing..... I do NOT use these as working drives. I use SSD..... i DID use two 6TB ssd in raid 0 for about 5 years with no issues.... I JUST replaced it with an SSD, to gain some speed and another sata port back. 18TB is a LOT of data on one disk. As a photographer I shoot about 5-6 TB per year of pics and video. I have adopted my older 12TB drives as the backups in a box... and added the 18TB last fall and this spring as my onboard archive drives.... Thus far.. they have been great with no issues...and no noise... at least that I have noticed. I don't recommend these for much more than archive and backup..... they make FAST onboard archive drives.... hitting speeds regularly of 190-220MB/sec sustained until you get to the last 25%, then they slow down to the more average 120-150MB/sec Packaging. I have NEVER gotten a drive in an envelope, every drive came in an OEM box with the appropriate cardboard or plastic drive suspender that is in most store boxes. More recently they have come in that and bubble wrapped as well inside the box... with two drives even coming in a special box for two drives suspended. IF YOU SHOULD RECEIVE a drive that was just in some envelope and not in an suspended protector inside the box... most likely its not coming from this seller or is being fulfilled by another party. DOCUMENT The wrapping well and just send it back to avoid any issues. Don't even finish taking the drive out, and ask for one in proper packaging. In my current case of nearly 6 years..(Obsidian 800d). I now only have WD black or Golds... computer never shuts off no failures.
Review: Great for a NAS and an offline backup!! - I was using the HGST version but after Western Digital bought them out, the WD version has slowly come in under the HGST price if you catch them on sale. Its the exact same drive just different branding. WORD OF WARNING! these are data center drives and as such have the 3.3v issue preventing the drive from starting up until you block pin 3 (google it). my first of these newer drives, I was not aware of that and went back and forth with a different HGST vendor for awhile before finding the solution online. Two, I bought power extenders and cut the wire for, making a permanent change and one drive for an external bay I taped pin 3 as I was not about to permanently alter the drive bay. My MUCH older 10GB HGST version of these drives have been working 24 hours a day for 7 years now with not so much as a hiccup I can blame on the drive. I have other WD drives that are decades old and never had a failure (so far).

## Features

- Optimize your storage for your business with a full portfolio of enterprise-class WD Gold HDDs in capacities up to 24TB(1). | (1) 1TB = 1 trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.
- Quality and reliability with up to 2.5M hours MTBF(3) to help you store your data with confidence. | (3) Projected values for model numbers WD241KRYZ, WD221KRYZ and WD202KRYZ. Final MTBF and AFR specifications are estimated by statistical measurements.
- Specifically designed for use in enterprise-class storage systems and data centers.
- Improve performance with our vibration protection technology.
- HelioSeal technology delivers high capacities with a low power draw (12TB & up).

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0CM29WCLY |
| Best Sellers Rank | #14 in Internal Hard Drives |
| Brand | Western Digital |
| Color | Gold |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars (1,284) |
| Date First Available | November 20, 2023 |
| Hard Drive | 14 TB Mechanical Hard Disk |
| Hard Drive Interface | Serial ATA-600 |
| Hard Drive Rotational Speed | 7200 RPM |
| Hardware Platform | PC |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 3.94 x 1.97 x 0.5 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.47 pounds |
| Item model number | WD142KRYZ |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. |
| Processor | others |
| Product Dimensions | 3.94 x 1.97 x 0.5 inches |
| Series | Gold HDD |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Western Digital
- **Color:** Gold
- **Compatible Devices:** NAS box
- **Connectivity Technology:** SATA
- **Digital Storage Capacity:** 14 TB
- **Hard Disk Description:** Mechanical Hard Disk
- **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 3.5 Inches
- **Hard Disk Interface:** Serial ATA-600
- **Installation Type:** Internal Hard Drive
- **Special Feature:** Data Recovery Service

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best for the money
*by L***X on March 4, 2022*

I have used most the top brands....over the last 10 years. I currently run just under 100TB in my desktop, which mostly consisted of the 6TB 12TB drives...and now updated to 18TB slowly. WD Black and Golds thus far I haven't had a single failure in 15 years..... with EVERY other brand usually being replaced due to failure. One thing..... I do NOT use these as working drives. I use SSD..... i DID use two 6TB ssd in raid 0 for about 5 years with no issues.... I JUST replaced it with an SSD, to gain some speed and another sata port back. 18TB is a LOT of data on one disk. As a photographer I shoot about 5-6 TB per year of pics and video. I have adopted my older 12TB drives as the backups in a box... and added the 18TB last fall and this spring as my onboard archive drives.... Thus far.. they have been great with no issues...and no noise... at least that I have noticed. I don't recommend these for much more than archive and backup..... they make FAST onboard archive drives.... hitting speeds regularly of 190-220MB/sec sustained until you get to the last 25%, then they slow down to the more average 120-150MB/sec Packaging. I have NEVER gotten a drive in an envelope, every drive came in an OEM box with the appropriate cardboard or plastic drive suspender that is in most store boxes. More recently they have come in that and bubble wrapped as well inside the box... with two drives even coming in a special box for two drives suspended. IF YOU SHOULD RECEIVE a drive that was just in some envelope and not in an suspended protector inside the box... most likely its not coming from this seller or is being fulfilled by another party. DOCUMENT The wrapping well and just send it back to avoid any issues. Don't even finish taking the drive out, and ask for one in proper packaging. In my current case of nearly 6 years..(Obsidian 800d). I now only have WD black or Golds... computer never shuts off no failures.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for a NAS and an offline backup!!
*by J***M on January 18, 2026*

I was using the HGST version but after Western Digital bought them out, the WD version has slowly come in under the HGST price if you catch them on sale. Its the exact same drive just different branding. WORD OF WARNING! these are data center drives and as such have the 3.3v issue preventing the drive from starting up until you block pin 3 (google it). my first of these newer drives, I was not aware of that and went back and forth with a different HGST vendor for awhile before finding the solution online. Two, I bought power extenders and cut the wire for, making a permanent change and one drive for an external bay I taped pin 3 as I was not about to permanently alter the drive bay. My MUCH older 10GB HGST version of these drives have been working 24 hours a day for 7 years now with not so much as a hiccup I can blame on the drive. I have other WD drives that are decades old and never had a failure (so far).

### ⭐ Dead on Arrival (DOA). Could not be initialized
*by A***R on August 6, 2025*

I purchased a WD Gold Data Center 2TB in July 2017. The hard disk is still in use and works very well. I trusted the WD's brand, so I purchased WD Gold Enterprise 8TB on August 4, 2025 to expand my storage. I received the new drive on August 5 afternoon and installed it immediately to my desktop computer. Unfortunately, I could not initialize this new hard disk on my computer (Win11). I always got a "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" message in Disk Management. I switched different SATA and power cables to determine the issue. I even put my ear on the hard disk when starting my computers but did not hear any sound of spinning up. The computers' BIOS could not recognize the hard disk, either. It only detected a device attached but showed the storage capacity as "0.0GB" without show the manufacturer information. I put the hard disk to another desktop computer but the issue remained. I am sure the problem was not on my side and assume that the hard disk is dead on arrival, so I returned it. One thing I want to mention is that I chose the "Reduce packaging, ship in manufacturer's packaging" option when I placed the order, so the DOA might be caused by no extra protection in the package. I still trust the WD brand since I have been using its HDD since 2010. I will buy the 8TB Gold Enterprise again and select "Hide what's inside, ship in Amazon's packaging" and hope this will give the HDD more protection like some bubble packs.

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*Last updated: 2026-02-05*