HGST/Hitachi (HUA723020ALA641) Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 64MB 7200RPM 3.5 (Enterprise Grade) SATA III 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive

Save your money and your data. Somehow Hitachi has forgotten quality control completely. Six of these have failed in the last year, four of them within the last three months. Just not worth the risk, go with a better quality unit from a more trustworthy company. Sure their all built in Asia but at least stick with the Asians who are putting in an honest effort and deserve your business.

Hitachi brand is the most reliable hard drive, but this one is really noisy. Just had this one installed and seems to working OK, just hope we can get a few years use out of it.

It died half full of data last week. Thats less than 90 days functioning.

product arrived dead and had to be returned forced us to buy another unit at a local store in order to meet our needs

Upgraded from a WD enterprise drive that started to click. Does what youd expect, and usually HGST drive last longer than WD and SG anyway.

Pros: Plenty of space, had never power cycled before I used it, actual Hitachi hard drive (not rebranded HGST), fairly cheap for price. Cons: Can be loud when reading/writing intensively. But perfectly fine for a large Steam library, music library, video library, etc. Other thoughts: If using on a desktop computer with Windows, please look up Symbolic Links and Directory Junctions. Itll make installing games easy, since itll redirect C:Steam to D:Steam (example), so youll never have to modify the installation directory again (nor worry about registry problems). You can also do the same for certain programs (like game mod management tools), music and video libraries, etc. Symbolic links mean you can have folders that open in different devices (like hard drives or SSDs), but that all appear to have the same directory (C:Steam for example) even though the files are located on the hard drive. This makes keeping your OS on an SSD and your game libraries on an HDD much simpler and better. Itll save you time, be more convenient, and you wont have to move files around or tinker about with the registry (nor reinstall or repair existing installations of games or other programs).

Good product and service

So far so good! Its working great. Ran a couple diagnostics and all sectors were clear. Seems like I got a good one because mine didnt have any runtime on it.

Ive ordered a lot of these, and all but one have failed within a year. Over the past few months, I have ordered three of them. Two were DOA. The third lasted a week. Note that these went into a RAID 5 enclosure.

Running 10 of these in security system server and have been running almost 24/7 for 2 years and no failures! I install these now in all my cliends servers, great for NAS servers.