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

its noisy but i expect the rest to be 5 stars, has the best pedigree. so far so good

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.

Loved it so much I bought a couple more for RAID.

This drive failed after a year, lost alot of data, and now in the process of recovering.

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

I highly recommend

EXCELLENT VALUE for a high-quality 2 TB drive, even though you only get a 1-year warranty from the seller (not the manufacturer). My research leads me to believe that this drive has a better chance for long life and reliability, compared to your typical consumer-grade drive. The Hitachi bare hard drive arrived _extremely_ quickly from goHardDrive (across the country) and arrived safely. Packaging was a complete layer of _big_ bubble wrap around the drives anti-static bag, put inside a cardboard box, then another layer of big bubble wrap around the box, all inside a Priority Mail bubble wrap envelope. To me, it seems like quite an effective technique. Although I havent subjected the drive to the stress tests other reviewers have, Ive copied and read a ton of data to/from it, and it has performed perfectly. If I decide I need another 2 TB drive, I will definitely buy another from goHardDrive.

Great deal. I copied my old drive to this one. It was easy and quick.

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.

HARD DRIVE RUNS AT 53C WHEN NOT UNDER LOAD, WHICH GREATLY SHORTENS THE LIFESPAN. YOU MUST BUY A FAN WITH THIS PRODUCT, AND POINT IT DIRECTLY AT THE HARD DRIVE ENCLOSURE, OR ELSE YOUR HARD DRIVE WILL FAIL. NOT RECOMMENDED PURCHASE. ... On the bright side, after 3 years of continuous use with a fan, the hard drive continues to run.