Western Digital 2TB Ultrastar DC HA200 SATA HDD - 7200 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 128MB Cache, 3.5" - HUS722T2TALA604

I ordered a Western Digital 8TB Ultrastar DC HC320 8TB hard drive which my computer detects as a Hitachi HUS728T8TALE6L4 8TB hard drive. After buying one of these drives, I was so impressed with it that I ordered two more. I've been using these drives as storage drives with a Samsung SSD boot drive for several months now in three different computers and they have worked flawlessly. I've always used Hitachi Ultra Star drives for their reliability and performance. This WD drive is a really Hitachi Ultrastar drive that now has a WD label since WD bought Hitachi's drive business. Besides being ultra reliable with a MTBF of 2 million hours, this 7200 RPM drive is also the fastest SATA drive that I have ever tested that wasn't a SSD. I had been using a Hitachi HUS724040ALE640 4TB hard drive for storage and when running the CrystalDiskMark test for Seq Q32T1 test, I got 155 MB/s Read and 147 MB/s write which I thought was pretty respectable. But the Western Digital 8TB Ultrastar DC HC320 blows those scores away giving scores of 263 MB/s Read and 263 MB/s Write for the Seq Q32T1 test. Just for reference my Samsung 850 EVO scored 547 MB/s Read and 512 MB/s Write on the Seq Q32T1 test. This drive has it all speed, reliability, runs cool, and is reasonably priced. I've seen a lot of negative reviews complaining about this drive not having a warranty from WD which is true. However I do feel more confident that the seller that I bought mine from, Platinum Micro, will honor their-5 year warranty after calling them on the phone. I had paid $212.87 for the last drive that I bought from them and two days later Platinum Micro dropped the price on Amazon to $187.50. After doing a search for Platinum Mirco, Inc., I was able to find that they were located in the Los Angeles area and I got their phone number. When I called the number, I got a menu and one of the options was for warranty returns. I selected sales and talked to the salesman there who was very polite and explained I was a little upset that I hadn't even received the drive I ordered yet and the price was now now $25.31 cheaper that when I ordered it. He said no problem that they would refund $25.31 back to my credit card; so I would rate their customer service as excellent. If you want to get really picky, the only thing you might complain about is that it is a slightly noisier that a WD Black drive but it's only slightly louder and I don't think most people will mind. It is so fast I can now transfer files from my SSD to this drive in about half the time it took before using my old 4TB Ultra Star drive. Just buy this drive you won't regret it.

HGST, once a separate drive manufacturer owned by Hitachi, was purchased by Western Digital in 2012. By 2018 Western Digital had dropped the name "HGST" from any of its drives. It did, however, continue to use the HGST brand name "Ultrastar" for drives made by the former HGST. This remains the case today as I understand the WD hardware lineup in which Ultrastar drives are the former HGST drives, but with HGST branding removed and now called "Western Digital Ultrastar." The importance of this is that according the the best source of information on drive reliablity (Backblaze's hard drive stats), HGST drives were the most reliable data center drives made with Western Digital drives not even being included in Backblaze's stats because they wouldn't use them in their data centers because of their terrible reliability issues. Western Digital's WD Red and Red Pro lines of data center drives have improved, but Western Digital's Ultrastar drives with their HGST heritage remain top-of-the-class for reliability. The reason they're cheaper here is that Ultrastar isn't generally sold to consumers in the USA, and thus you are likely buying OEM equipment from a reseller rather than buying direct-to-consumer products from Western Digital when you buy these drives. This means that you will probably not be getting a Western Digital warranty with these drives, but a reseller warranty which may or may not be worth anything. So what about the lack of warranty? Honestly, I want a drive that lasts, not a warranty. The cost of replacing a drive is nothing compared to the cost of having to deal with a failure and then rebuild of the whole RAID setup of my NAS. I far prefer a drive that will last to a drive that is more likely to fail, but has a better warranty for when it fails. These are absolutely the 8TB drives I wanted for my new Synology NAS. I don't care about penny-per-month differences in power consumption. I don't care about a few decibels here and there of noise variation. I want a drive that will last, and based on HGST heritage and technology, these are the drives I bought and am now using.

I have used Western Digital products for literally decades. They have always had a great product and have stood behind their products. Until now: I purchased this Drive (Ultradrive 14TB) last August (2019). This drive failed recently and it was necessary to contact support as I had done a handful of times in the past with much success. I applied for warranty 8 days ago --actually, I applied for an RMA 8 days ago and still no RMA. I have written their support team twice in the past three days without the courtesy of a response. I still have 12 other WD drives (70TB). I had a lot of confidence until now. Warning!!! Update: Received RMA today (May 6-20). WOW! That's two weeks to get an RMA. Can anybody do without 14TB of their data for two weeks? Rhetorical. This doesn't even include shipping time there and back. So, about a month. Ridiculous! When the warranty department of a major company like Western Digital Corporation (WDC) opens an email with: "Your RMA is being created manually, so it will not be able to be checked on the website. If you would like status for your RMA at any time during the process, please respond to this email and be sure to include your RMA number" I get a little concerned. This seems harsh but if you look at the number of bad reviews for this drive on this site alone there is evidence there is something really wrong with this drive. WDC has nothing to loose--on the other hand the end users have everything byte of data loose. Buy a different drive. I really like Western Digital Corporation as evidenced by the 70TB of their drives I have purchased. I hope they can get this worked out.

Flawless and quiet performance. It does come formatted for windows, however when I powered up my Mac Pro this was instantly recognized and in about 30 seconds the Mac reformatted the drive for the more efficient HFS+ (macOS). The performance is outstanding. The packaging for these drives is top-notch. The WD units are cushioned with end-brackets and each drive also arrives in it's own box. The drives are hermetically sealed and labelled individually, on the drive and on the Mylar vacuum bag. As for performance, their great! They are similar to WD Black for speed and performance. Actually like these over the black series. Just as fast but much more quiet and built sturdier. Something to consider regarding warranties from ANY hard drive manufacturer. Do you really want to use the warranty? Let's say the drive fails, do you really want to send all of your data off to someone else? In my many years with WD I've never had one fail so this issue is one I've never had to confront. I find this drive to be a good value if you need something reliable. However Bear in mind that I purchased my very first hard drive in about 1984, 5MB (5 megabytes) for $1700, so all drives seem inexpensive compared to the early days. If this review was helpful, please click on the link below.

Why I ordered this item: My NAS pool is getting old and I wanted a couple drives that could handle running all day without dying on me. These are enterprise drives so I figured they'd hold up better than desktop stuff. Likes: * Copying big files onto it doesn't feel like the drag I expected from a spinning disk. * It's quiet for a 7200 RPM drive. I was expecting a lot more clicking and whirring and it's pretty tame sitting in my rack. * The drive has some heft to it and doesn't feel flimsy at all. * This is built to run nonstop, not just a few hours a day like a desktop drive. I've got it doing constant read and write in a RAID array and it just keeps chugging along. * This one runs cooler than the other drives sitting next to it in my rack, even under the same load. No likes: * No mounting screws included, so double check what you have on hand before you start your install. * These are loud on spin-up. Not a dealbreaker but it caught me off guard the first time. * The price is outrageous compared to a desktop drive of the same size, even if it's enterprise grade. Would I pay full price for this product: Yes, for a NAS or server build Final thoughts: This is a server drive built to run constantly, not something you'd throw in a regular desktop. If you're building a NAS or pushing constant reads and writes, this is built for that. For casual storage it's probably overkill and you'd be better off with something cheaper.

I know people get that stupid idea in their head that they need a high RPM or even SSD drive for great performance, but that's a stupid idea because there's no such thing as a high quality or long lasting HDD in high-RPM or SSD packages. Motors wear out over time and solid state media just plain loses its ability to retain data every time it's written back to. I've been using Western Digital Enterprise Edition HDDs since that's what they were called. For awhile they were Red for some reason, then Gold (not actually sure which of those product names came and went first). Now they're Ultrastar or Datacenter editions. At any rate, these drives run at 7500 RPMs and if you don't stress them they keep doing that forever. The storage medium keeps holding data accurately. The motor never dies. Occasionally a control board will flop, but those can be easy to repair. About all you can do to actually lose data with a WD Enterprise or Datacenter HDD is drop it hard, hit it with a hammer, or pass a high intensity electromagnet really really close by. I use these drives in any system that's expected to last and keep performing at its original standard until it evaporates in a nuclear blast. Whether it's a multi-thousand-dollar gaming rig, a performance workstation, or a server expecting any amount of data-access-load at all, just get this drive and don't waste time and/or money on anything else.

UPDATE: 2 years later disk is still running error free. Added this drive to my home PC today. The drive runs extremely loud. I have a 2005 WD drive in my workstation currently. This drive runs louder than that drive when running benchmarks on each. I have heard sick drives many times. I give this drive 3 months max. It sounds absolutely horrible. Guess what? No warranty. Very disappointed in the product so far and I fear I wasted 250 dollars.

So far all of the drives (I bought 6) works. I used this to make a home server for the first time and truenas was able to detect them easily. As far as longevity, that part remains to be seen but knowing these are pretty cheap (50bucks/piece) if they last a couple of years that would be great. I guess the only problem is that I can already tell I need more storage as building up my Plex media library for just about over 24hrs I already took 6% of the capacity... Now I am looking for bigger drives already.

L'articolo è fornito in "purezza" nel senso che ti arriva in una piccola scatola anonima al cui interno c'è la busta ermetica che lo contiene. Detto questo, mi aspettavo di trovare, come avvenuto in passato, almeno la bustina con le viti di montaggio... macché per pochi centesimi di valore sarò costretto ad acquistare un intero set di viti per PC e per il momento l'ho dovuto legare con una fascetta di plastica all'interno del case. Onestamente temevo per il funzionamento dato che il l contenitore di cartone era inserito a sua volta in uno più grande di Amazon senza protezioni interne per cui sballottava parecchio e chissà quanti colpi ha subìto durante la spedizione ma per fortuna l'ho montato e funziona. Vedremo nei prossimi giorni. Sembra un buon prodotto, peccato non fornirlo con le classiche viti di montaggio che hanno un costo veramente irrisorio ma che sono indispensabili.

Je confirme que ces disques dur sont avec la technologie CMR et donc fiable pour du RAID, NAS, Serveurs. Trop bruyant pour un disque sur votre pc je pense. Même si ils le son n'est pas très fort, ils grattent de temps en temps ce qui normal. Test étendu effectué avec aucune erreur. Rapide, solide et efficace. Il vous restera environ 7.25To d'utilisable.

perfect product by wd

No Faults. Appears to Work Perfectly. Stays 2˚C lower than my other drives. (Western Ent. Gold)