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

Work great in my Raid 5 setup. Running 24/7 for months and no errors. Highly recommend.

HDD has multiple reallocated sectors.

Been in a production use for less than a month, but no complaints.

I have reviewed on-line post regarding comparison of Hitachi drives (1 to 5 year) failure study and the Hitachi series out-last all the other major hard drive manufacturers. As long as Hitachi keeps up this standard they will always have my money for my ZFS servers.

Like other people said, it is a loud drive, works as intended tho.

Good for first time gamer. Installed pretty easily.

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

I havent done any speed tests, it just works fine. A little more noise than my Western Digitals or Seagates, but is ok.

Product Comments: Product itself is high quality, sequential write for empty disk tops out at 150+MB/s at the outside down to about 115MB/s at the inside of the spindles. The disk is an enterprise drive and has no Acoustic Management; when you have random read/writes the heads repositioning is noticeably audible. Seller Comments: Seller - goHardDrive All interaction with the seller was excellent, however: Drives have 1 year _Vendor_ warranty. Checking the serial at HGST yields a response to contact the vendor, ie. no manufacturer warranty. Both drives I received had previous SMART self tests at 8000-9000 hours, yet drive reports 0 hours of service. All other SMART data was clear leading me to wonder these drives have been previously used and cleared by TTL command. Single drives from seller come in small USPS Priority Mail box with double layer of bubble wrap and sealed anti-static bag, this is a bit sparse on padding. First drive I received failed after 11 hours of burn-in testing -wonder if shipping was to blame. Seller did respond promptly for RMA; offered pre-paid return shipping and full refund (or optional replacement). Replacement drive passed burn-in without trouble and is currently in duty.

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).