HGST Ultrastar He10 10TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch Enterprise Hard Drive (HUH721010ALE604) (Renewed)

I've been using the HGST WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB Data Center HDD (Renewed) for a few months now, and here's my honest take on it.Pros:Massive Storage: With 14TB of space, this drive can handle an impressive amount of data. Whether you're running a data center or just need a ton of personal storage, this HDD has got you covered.Performance: The 6Gb/s SATA interface provides solid data transfer speeds. I've noticed that large file transfers and backups are relatively quick, which is crucial for my needs.Reliability: Despite being a renewed product, it has been running smoothly without any hiccups. The HGST brand has a good reputation for durability and reliability, and this drive lives up to that standard.Cons:Noise Level: This HDD is a bit noisier than I'd like. During heavy read/write operations, there's a noticeable hum. It's not a deal-breaker, but if you're sensitive to noise, it might be something to consider.Heat Generation: It does run a bit warm. I've had to ensure proper ventilation in my setup to avoid overheating issues. Investing in a good cooling system might be a good idea if you plan to use this drive extensively.Renewed Product: While mine has been working fine, there's always a bit of a gamble with renewed products. Make sure to check the seller's return policy just in case.Overall, the HGST WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB HDD offers excellent value for its storage capacity and performance. It's especially great if you're on a budget and need a high-capacity solution. Just keep in mind the potential for noise and heat, and you should be good to go!

Anytime your buying something 'repurposed', especially computer equipment, it can be a bit scary because your relying on the intermediary to validate that they are providing a working product.I'm skeptical. I've worked a few years at a Datacenter (FAANG Company) and know the abuse that these devices get put through.I decided to purchase this product, but perform full benchmark testing, and do a complete read, read/write and distributive test. I bought two at different times to make sure I get different batches.All test passed, and both are currently in use as a RAID 1, hosting my personal, critical, family pictures. Dont be afraid, save some money, and buy this!!

My drive came with the clamshell cracked. It is NOT the drive as advertised, and has high use hours. There was no SATA power adapter included. Ordering this with confidence it would be as advertised with confidence in Amazon has cost me project work now.

I have been archiving old Mac computer hard drives, and storing music and other media along with applications and my art.I have most of these items backed up to Cloud drives and other hard drives. But for the price for the Terrabites, this was a deal too good to be passed up.I am able to shuffle files around, organize and sort files. Even sort out duplicates and way old, useless files.Came packed well, bare bones, came with only with drive, that's it, no extra hardware EXCEPT instructions and a cable (and even the tape) to make the drive usable with certain systems. No worries, instructions are clear via text and images. And is as easy as taking a small piece of provided tape, placing it over a few of the pins. Again, a piece of cake.After doing that initialized it for Macs, slipped it into an external enclosure and, I was shuffling bits and bytes all over the place.It is very quiet, pretty. Darn quick, with bunches and bunches of small files, or a many rather large GB files and folders full of hundreds and thousands of smaller files.Sorry not that into running speed tests. Just in my daily usage, happy with the speed.One negative so far is heat.Not smoking hot, but hot, not warm to the touch. Now that is after a few days of sling many, many files, backing up, optimizing, and syncing files and folders.Super happy with the purchase. Great secondary back-up drive.

I got this disk as Renewed, but, according to intact packaging and SMART attributes (never turned on and zero time on), the disk was absolutely new.Unfortunately, it uses new SATA interface that says the presence of 3.3V signal on 3rd pin now means "put the drive into sleep mode". Revelation: most power supplies do send 3.3V there. It looks like a dead disk. I shall say I blame mor... I mean, smart people from SATA committee who, in their infinite wisdom, required backward-incompatible change. It caused me a lot of time and effort to find the root cause and a solution: either get rid of pin #3 (e.g. by taping or painting it over) or use 4-wire -- 2 x ground (black) wires, 12V (yellow), and 5V (red) wire -- instead of 5-wire (same as above + brown or gray 3.3V wire). The thing is that hard disks do not need 3.3V power, believe or not, and never needed. So some 4-wire SATA adapters (very rare -- most use 5 wires) or Molex-to-SATA power adapters (always 4 wires -- there is no 3.3V wire in Molex connector). I went with Molex-to-SATA adapter route as cheap and bulletproof. And -- voila -- it solved the problem!I wish WD included 4-wire adapter with HC530 (14 TB, this model) like they do with HC550 (18 TB model). For failing to do so WD gets one star off.The disk itself is outstanding. Almost no vibration and so quiet -- even during operation -- that it is hard to tell that the disk is on. And it really fast, easily reaching 250 MB/s even when 40-50% full. Impressive. And it is doing it silently! Very impressive.14 TB size, combined with relatively expensive and fast conventional magnetic recoding (aka CMR) -- vs much cheaper and slower SMR, and reasonable price make it one of the best disks.I can only hope the HC series will be as reliable (the disk carries, AFAIK, 5 year -- not usual 3 year -- warranty) as other Western Digital and HGST disks. If so, it is a steal.