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product_id: 696589370
title: "Western Digital 26TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5\" - WD261KRYZ"
brand: "western digital"
price: "R247"
currency: ZAR
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reviews_count: 12
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# 7200 RPM high-speed rotation 26TB massive capacity SATA 6 Gb/s ultra-fast interface Western Digital 26TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD261KRYZ

**Brand:** western digital
**Price:** R247
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 💼 Power your enterprise with gold-standard storage — because your data deserves the best.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Western Digital 26TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD261KRYZ by western digital
- **How much does it cost?** R247 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/696589370-western-digital-26tb-wd-gold-enterprise-class-sata-internal-hard)

## 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

- • **SATA 6 Gb/s Interface:** Maximize throughput with the latest SATA technology for faster data transfers.
- • **Blazing 7200 RPM Speed:** Experience rapid data access and seamless multitasking for demanding workloads.
- • **Rock-Solid Reliability:** Built for 24/7 uptime in RAID and JBOD arrays, ensuring your business continuity.
- • **Future-Proof Scalability:** Perfect for hybrid cloud, AI training datasets, and evolving storage needs.
- • **Enterprise-Grade Capacity:** Store up to 26TB of mission-critical data without compromise.

## Overview

The Western Digital 26TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive delivers massive 26TB capacity with 7200 RPM rotational speed and SATA 6 Gb/s interface, engineered for high-demand business environments. Designed for continuous heavy workloads, RAID arrays, and hybrid cloud storage, it offers exceptional reliability and scalability for small to medium businesses and professionals managing mission-critical data.

## Description

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.

Review: WD242KRYZ work perfectly in my Dell Precision T7920 and my Oyen Digital Mobius 5-Bay RAID Enclosures - The WD 24TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA HDD Internal Hard Drive HDD - WD242KRYZ were as described and work perfectly in my Dell Precision T7920 and my Oyen Digital Mobius 5-Bay RAID Enclosures (which is why I bought them originally).
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

- Hybrid cloud and colocation storage for small and medium businesses.
- Data repatriation efforts requiring rapidly-scalable local or distributed storage.
- Demanding applications running high uptime workloads and more complex storage arrays such as RAID and JBODs.
- Adding an additional storage layer to strengthen business continuity implementations.
- Storing A.I. training data sets and hyperparameter tuning data.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0DMBVGSZZ |
| Best Sellers Rank | #40 in Internal Hard Drives #2,541 in Computer Internal Components |
| Brand | Western Digital |
| Color | Gold |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars (1,299) |
| Date First Available | November 7, 2024 |
| Hard Drive | 26 TB Enterprise Class SATA HD |
| Hard Drive Interface | Serial ATA-600 |
| Hard Drive Rotational Speed | 7200 RPM |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 5.79 x 4 x 1.03 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.15 pounds |
| Item model number | WD261KRYZ-SPCMSB0 |
| Manufacturer | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. |
| Product Dimensions | 5.79 x 4 x 1.03 inches |
| Series | Gold Hard Drive |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Western Digital
- **Color:** Gold
- **Compatible Devices:** Server
- **Connectivity Technology:** SATA
- **Digital Storage Capacity:** 26 TB
- **Hard Disk Description:** Enterprise Class SATA HD
- **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 3.5 Inches
- **Hard Disk Interface:** Serial ATA-600
- **Installation Type:** Internal Hard Drive
- **Special Feature:** OptiNAND

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Size** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ WD242KRYZ work perfectly in my Dell Precision T7920 and my Oyen Digital Mobius 5-Bay RAID Enclosures
*by M***N on February 8, 2026*

The WD 24TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA HDD Internal Hard Drive HDD - WD242KRYZ were as described and work perfectly in my Dell Precision T7920 and my Oyen Digital Mobius 5-Bay RAID Enclosures (which is why I bought them originally).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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).

### ⭐ Died just after a month
*by A***N on December 6, 2025*

I’ve had issues with WD drives in the past and stopped using them for almost 20 years. This one was on sale and I figured after 20 years they might have gotten a bit better. And being a supposedly enterprise grade drive I should be ok. Just after a month (and outside of the Amazon return window), the drive is completely dead. Tried multiple external enclosures, one can’t even tell there’s a drive installed, the other let’s windows see there’s an un-initialized drive which it can’t initialize. There’s no sound from the drive at all when powered on or when Windows tries to connect to it. It’s dead silent and there was a smell of burnt electronics on the drive after only 4 power on/off cycles over the course of a month. It was off most of that time. I thought the smell came from a bad enclosure but it seems to work fine and buying a new second enclosure didn’t fix anything. Because I had the drive shipped outside the US, WD won’t honor their warranty. First WD product I’ve bought in 20 years and the last one I’ll ever buy. I should have stuck with the somewhat more expensive but well worth it Seagate Exos drives.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-09*