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

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.

Bought this in 2014, and its still running like a charm. High performance with no issues. Highly recommended.

I actually ordered/bought a different drive (Hitachi 2TB HDS723020BLA642) but was sent this drive by mistake. I replaced the drive that came with my HP PC (it came with the Hitachi 2TB HDS723020BLA642 that I actually ordered). I used the Acronis 2016 cloning feature (terrible ordeal). This Ultrastar, as mentioned by another user/reviewer does seems a little slower--the time for booting Win7 from the Welcome screen to my Desktop screen seems at least twice as long as it previously took, so much so that the first couple of times I thought that my computer/Win7 had frozen up. Whats annoying--and I imagine Ill get use to it--is the loudness of the drive while operating. Lots of that typical rapid clicking, but so, so much more noticeable than with any drive Ive used in the past. As Im sitting here typing this, the drive continually makes loud, short, quick read/write operations; for me this is what is most annoying. I did email the seller before opening and installing this drive, wanting to make sure the seller would address any problem I might have with a replacement drive (i.e., the model I actually ordered) and he said go ahead and give it a try, that the seller would stand behind their drive(s). I only installed this drive yesterday but so far it seems to be operating OK, the slowness and noise notwithstanding. It was such a hassle to get this new and newly cloned drive to work that I am not going to mess with it unless it begins to fail. BTW, I opted to replace my old drive because the Acronis backup software repeatedly reported backup failures due to errors on my HDD; I had to run Windwos Check Disk with auto corrections to get the disk error-free again (takes about 4-5 hours). This occurred a few times; I thought Id better get a new drive before things got worse.

Great drives, very stable, GREAT price.

Arrived within a couple of weeks, was well packaged, and meets my expectations of a 2 tb hdd. Bang for your buck best deal Ive seen on this product.

Bought as a replacement for a backup drive that bricked. This is a great drive at a great price. Highly recommended.

Had a problem to start but the vendor was great and all is good. The drive works great.

Drives are USED! I did a SMART test and looked at the reports. All 5 drives I bought were used, each with over 10,000 hours. All had been reset so that the SMART Power_On_Hours read zero. Looking at the SMART self test log, I could see that offline self tests had been performed - one test on one drive was at 20,000 hours! Take a look at the test logs: smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p16 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 Serial Number: YFHNDUEG LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 223d75f0d Firmware Version: MK7OA840 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sat Jul 18 21:54:08 2015 PDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 248) Self-test routine in progress... 80% of test remaining. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (19452) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 325) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 054 Pre-fail Offline - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 155 155 024 Pre-fail Always - 371 (Average 435) 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 020 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 127 127 000 Old_age Always - 47 (Min/Max 25/47) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 2 Short captive Completed without error 00% 14046 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 13822 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p16 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 Serial Number: YGHRAVTA LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 224d84073 Firmware Version: MK7OA840 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sat Jul 18 21:54:14 2015 PDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 248) Self-test routine in progress... 80% of test remaining. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (19950) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 333) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 054 Pre-fail Offline - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 159 159 024 Pre-fail Always - 361 (Average 422) 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 020 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 133 133 000 Old_age Always - 45 (Min/Max 25/45) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 2 Short captive Completed without error 00% 14143 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 13915 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p16 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 Serial Number: YFHUW06A LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 223d9da29 Firmware Version: MK7OA840 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sat Jul 18 21:54:22 2015 PDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 248) Self-test routine in progress... 80% of test remaining. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (19116) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 319) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 054 Pre-fail Offline - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 155 155 024 Pre-fail Always - 371 (Average 435) 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 020 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 142 142 000 Old_age Always - 42 (Min/Max 25/42) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 2 Short captive Completed without error 00% 13970 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 13878 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p16 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 Serial Number: YGHU421A LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 224d9840b Firmware Version: MK7OA840 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sat Jul 18 21:54:30 2015 PDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 248) Self-test routine in progress... 80% of test remaining. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (19286) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 322) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 054 Pre-fail Offline - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 155 155 024 Pre-fail Always - 370 (Average 435) 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 020 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 136 136 000 Old_age Always - 44 (Min/Max 25/44) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 2 Short captive Completed without error 00% 14022 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 13793 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p16 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 Serial Number: YGGL7MSA LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 224c84b59 Firmware Version: MK7OA840 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sat Jul 18 21:54:37 2015 PDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 248) Self-test routine in progress... 80% of test remaining. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (20116) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 336) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 054 Pre-fail Offline - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 150 150 024 Pre-fail Always - 381 (Average 449) 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 020 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 142 142 000 Old_age Always - 42 (Min/Max 25/42) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 2 Short captive Completed without error 00% 20391 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 20138 - # 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 15826 - # 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 15804 - # 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 15269 - # 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 15043 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. I guess it was too good to be true. Amazon needs to crack down on vendors who sell used goods as new.

Purchased / Installed November 2014. Its March 2016 and the drive is dead !!!

Great value for the price! I switched from WD based on industry performance comparisons. So far so good. Note: they are owned by WD which is owned by Seagate.