WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Enterprise HDD - WUH721414ALE6L4 (Renewed)

I bought this drive to move data from a dying exos, I made sure that I bought a reliable hard drive model. Make sure to look at backblaze so you don't end up with dead drives. Looking at backblaze a good majority of the these models are pretty reliable. As for this drive, I have around 3600 hours added to the whatever hours it had before. I ran this drive near 24/7 and its still good. I had this drive for about 4 months. It's a silent drive, a contrast to the exos that I bought before. So if you don't like the rumble and ear piercing screech of a seagate, this drive is for you. I'm not saying all exos drives are bad since I have a 2+ year old recertified drive with 12k hours on it. Last hard drive I bought it from goharddrive, this one as well I selected goharddrive as the seller. This is important since they have a 5 year warranty and good customer service. (warrantied a drive twice) Don't let amazon select your seller or you'll end up with a paper weight and 150 buck poorer.

I wanted to add storage to my 2020 desktop with an Intel motherboard and a 1 TB SSD drive running Windows 11. The $ per TB cost of this 14 TB HDD seemed almost too good to be true so I was a little skeptical and assumed there must be some downside. I am happy to report that so far I have found no downside and it has, if anything, exceeded my expectations. The drive is quiet, seems fast, of course not SSD fast, but HDD fast, worked with my existing SATA and PSU connectors, and didn't require anything other than the software that is already in Windows to initialize and do a quick format. I did have to Google "how to initialize and format a hard drive in Windows 11" to figure that last part out but once I did it was surprisingly easy. The drive is bare bones with no mounting hardware or screws. In my case, the mounting hardware came with my computer case so that was not a problem. For those that don't already know this, Windows uses the binary standard for a terabyte which equals 1,099,511,627,776 bytes so it will report the capacity as 12.7 TB but will also show that there are 14,000,500,764,672 bytes of free space available.

April 25, 2024 update: 1 of the 3 drives purchased has failed, just over a year of use. That seems a little short, even for recertified drives. 90 days isn't long enough to see if you have a good drive. Tech on Tech was the seller I bought the drives from for those who were curious. Original review: I bought 3 to use in a NAS. These appear to be fast data center factory recertified hard drives. They have "recertified" marked on the side, the label on the top of the hard drive is marked as such with late 2022/early 2023 recertified dates as well as a clean SMART info according to Crystal Disk Info. No error was detected from any of the drives. No warranty is stated but the 90 day return period should hopefully be enough time to weed out a faulty drive. Data center drives are one of the longest lived drives so hopefully these have a long 24/7 usage life. Will update if these end up being a disappointment.

Been going strong for almost a year

Received a drive with 19 hours on it and only ONE power on / off cycle. Okay, drive was powered on and tested and sold, otherwise seems like it was new old stock. The threads for the screw mounts aren't even scratched up, this drive looks brand new. Tested it VERY thoroughly since I recieved it, its been seeing 100% read / writes for 3 solid days, its been written to and read twice now in full with butterfly testing on HDD Sentinel. Drive works absolutely amazingly, I couldn't be happier. Will buy more of these as budget allows!

Arrived in good condition. I have been using it as a backup drive that gets written to twice a day. I have had no issues at all so far. It is currently holding over 6TB of data. Would buy again without hesitation.

At the time it was purchased a lot cheaper than what I would have to pay for it today. Used for storage..

I have purchased a few "Recertified" Hard Drives over the years, and this is the only brand that comes with ZERO Warranty. This drive lasted only a month, then started clicking and failing. When I contacted Western Digital they said although the drive is less than a year old, it has NO WARRANTY AT ALL since it was once used in a Data Center. So don't be fooled by the low hours these things show on Crystal Disk, they are not worth the price - even if they were free. You lose your data and the sellers keep your money.

Compré 5 unidades y 3 de ellas presentaron alerta de RISK DISK al realizar las pruebas SMART en NAS server TERRAMASTER.

Tiene sectores dañados difícil de recuperar el disco