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

No problems, works great.

Very nice HDD!

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.

ordered 2 drives, one was making a loud ticking noise and wasnt recognized by the PC. had to return it and they made me pay return shipping. Will never buy anything from them again

Just like it said in the listing. Fast Ship

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.

This appears to be a legit, new drive, at least SMART reports no age. With all the refurbs for sale here without label I worried, but it looks new and was exactly what I needed for a always-writing system.

The drives (Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000) are like new and they all scan and NTFS formatted perfectly. They sound and perform just like any other 7200 RPM server-grade hard drive out there.

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.

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