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Compare Western Digital Black 500GB WD5000BPKX vs Gold 26TB

Western Digital Black 500GB WD5000BPKX and Western Digital Gold 26TB are both hard disk drives with the same RPM (7200) and Interface (SATA 6 Gb/s). The main differences are in Capacity, Cache and Form Factor.

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Western Digital Black 500GB WD5000BPKX

Western Digital Gold 26TB

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Brand

Western Digital

Brand

Western Digital

Model

WD5000BPKX

Model

WD261KRYZ

Release Date

📅 August 2013

Release Date

📅 November 2024

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126th / 637

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Effective Value

102nd / 161

Effective Value

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Price/GB

$0.13

Price/GB

$0.04

GB/$1

7.69

GB/$1

24.53

Capacity

500 GB

Capacity

26000 GB

Cache

16MB

Cache

512MB

RPM

7200

RPM

7200

Interface

SATA 6 Gb/s

Interface

SATA 6 Gb/s

Form Factor

2.5"

Form Factor

3.5"

Options (1)

WD Black 320GB WD3200BEKX

320GB
$60.00

Options (9)

	2 TB $129.99
	18 TB $977.79
	4 TB $299.99
	14 TB $329.99
	6 TB $272.79
	16 TB $700.00
	1 TB $80.56
	22 TB $1,179.99
	8 TB $464.99

Comparison and key differences summary

Reasons to buy the Western Digital Black 500GB WD5000BPKX:

94% cheaper, you can save $994.99

Reasons to buy the Western Digital Gold 26TB:

Newer Product, it was released around 11 years later
More Capacity (+25500 GB available)
More Internal Cache (+496 MB available)

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