--- 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: "9334.92 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/696589370-western-digital-26tb-wd-gold-enterprise-class-sata-internal-hard store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # 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:** 9334.92 DT **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ’Ό Unlock enterprise power with WD Gold β€” where capacity meets unstoppable speed! ## 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?** 9334.92 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/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 - β€’ **OptiNAND innovation:** Enhanced caching tech for superior reliability and performance. - β€’ **Massive 26TB storage:** Store years of critical data, AI datasets, and archives effortlessly. - β€’ **Seamless integration:** Perfect for RAID, JBOD, and hybrid cloud setups powering your business continuity. - β€’ **Blazing 7200 RPM speed:** Accelerate data access and backups with rapid rotational velocity. - β€’ **Enterprise-grade endurance:** Built to handle relentless 24/7 workloads without compromise. ## Overview The Western Digital 26TB WD Gold is a 3.5-inch enterprise-class internal hard drive featuring a robust 7200 RPM spindle speed, SATA 6 Gb/s interface, and 512 MB cache. Designed for small to medium businesses and professionals, it excels in high-uptime environments, RAID arrays, and demanding workloads, delivering massive storage capacity with advanced OptiNAND technology for enhanced reliability and performance backed by a 5-year warranty. ## 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: fantastic product - β€ŒThe hard drive performs excellently, has no issues, and there are no problems with international shipping. 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. ## 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 | | Additional Features | OptiNAND | | Best Sellers Rank | #53 in Internal Hard Drives #2,561 in Computer Internal Components | | Brand | Western Digital | | Built-In Media | Internal Hard Drive | | Color | Gold | | Compatible Devices | Server | | Connectivity Technology | SATA | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 1,328 Reviews | | Digital Storage Capacity | 26 TB | | Enclosure Material | Aluminum | | Form Factor | 3.5-inch | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00718037904948 | | Hard Disk Description | Enterprise Class SATA HD | | Hard Disk Form Factor | 3.5 Inches | | Hard Disk Interface | Serial ATA-600 | | Hard Disk Rotational Speed | 7200 RPM | | Hard-Drive Size | 26 TB | | Hardware Connectivity | SATA 6.0 Gb/s | | Hardware Platform | WD | | Installation Type | Internal Hard Drive | | Item Dimensions L x W x Thickness | 8.9"L x 6.2"W x 3.1"Th | | Item Weight | 1.15 Pounds | | Manufacturer | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | | Mfr Part Number | WD261KRYZ-SPCMSB0 | | Model Name | Gold Hard Drive | | Model Number | WD261KRYZ-SPCMSB0 | | Number of Items | 1 | | Special Feature | OptiNAND | | Specific Uses For Product | Business | | UPC | 718037904948 | | Unit Count | 1.0 Count | | Warranty Description | 5 year limited warranty | ## 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 ![Western Digital 26TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD261KRYZ - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/714zkgSzVaL.jpg) ![Western Digital 26TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD261KRYZ - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81CfCjUft4L.jpg) ![Western Digital 26TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD261KRYZ - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71gQd6w1+eL.jpg) ![Western Digital 26TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD261KRYZ - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71jsoGQK7kL.jpg) ![Western Digital 26TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD261KRYZ - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81IAKlLjT2L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Size** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ fantastic product *by W***T on April 8, 2026* β€ŒThe hard drive performs excellently, has no issues, and there are no problems with international shipping. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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. ### ⭐ 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. ## Frequently Bought Together - Western Digital 26TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD261KRYZ - Synology 2-Bay DiskStation DS224+ (Diskless) - Western Digital 4TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" -WD40EFPX --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/696589370-western-digital-26tb-wd-gold-enterprise-class-sata-internal-hard](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/696589370-western-digital-26tb-wd-gold-enterprise-class-sata-internal-hard) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-07-12*