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

I needed this really bad. Im glad I could get one this quickly and it functioning a lot better than my other one.

It works well.

What a deal! . . . These Ultrastars sell at premium, as high as $355 each. Nevertheless, you are purchasing the best enterprise-grade hard drive on the planet according to a study. . The definitive research on the longevity of hard drives was published in EXTREMTECH on April 10, 2015. BackBlaze tested 41,000 units in a three year period. The results were very informative. The best was HGST with 1.4% failures. Hitachi followed with 2.0%. Western Digital had a respectable 7.6%. The worse was Seagate with 40%. For your information, HGST, Hitachi, and IBM brand hard drives are the same. IBMs hard drive division was purchased by Hitachi. In turn, Hitachi HD factories and technology were bought by HGST, a subsidiary of Western Digital. . From personal experiences in the past two years, I concur with the BackBlaze study. My 3TB HGST DeskStar has lasted six years and still works - this is a consumer grade, not enterprise level unit. My six 2TB Seagate Barracudas have expired between one month to 1.1 years. My four 2TB WD Enterprise Grade HDs have died between one month to 2.1 years. Three replacement hard drives from Western Digital and Seagate also malfunctioned within this time period. . Before buying, the user must visit three websites. GOHARDDRIVE sells on Amazon, eBay, and its official website. Models and prices tend to vary. In fact, prices change every two-to-four weeks. In October, the Ultrastar 2TB went down to $50. The price lasted only two days, and up it rose. . I hesitated - wrongly thinking that the cost would stay or go down. So, I missed the sale. When the price went down again in November to $50, I quickly purchased six. Like the previous experience, the price shot up within three days. . . ====================================================================================================== . . UPDATE: My experience with these hard drives do not reflect the research. Within three months of minimal usage, five went bad. On every occasion during booting, the units went immediately to check disk mode. The analysis stretched as long as an hour. The bad findings reported lost clusters, truncated files, lost files, bad indexes, and a host of other problems. Luckily, the units were under warranty and replaced.

died soon after purchase w/nearly terabyte of data

Normaly drives are supposed to last 20,000 hours before they start having problems however this drive only lasted 4,000 before it started slowing way down and making grinding noises when files were transfered on and off of it. Other than that it was a good cheap drive. You get what you pay for

Very high quality drive. Will last years.

The drive performs perfect no issues except that it is LOUD even when i put all the fans in my pc its a decent amount louder but thats not the reason i intend to replace this drive the main reason is it vibrates TON i have my pc on my desk 2+ feet away from my keyboard and i can feel the drive vibrating while i type this if you intend to have your pc on your desk or care a lot about your parts.

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

works well

The hard drive is a great buy at $60 Unfortunately it makes a loud sound when taking in a lot of data.