HGST Ultrastar He8 Helium (HUH728080ALE601) 8TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5in Enterprise Hard Drive (Renewed)

I bought these to replace slower smaller ones in my nas. Some of the reviews warned about high hours, so I started with 2. They both had 40000+ hours, about 4.5 years, but both had only 20 or so power up cycles. Both are perfect, so I bought 4 more. All perfect. The seller has been around for a while and is guaranteeing them for 5 years AFTER YOU buy them!. They record the serial number when you buy them so nothing on your end is required. Time will tell but these are awesome so far ! Shout out to CrystalDiskInfo. Great program.UPDATE July 2023: Still happy. Nothing to report. Drives run 24/7 in a NAS and have not logged a single error. Working as they should. Great performance, quiet. Great price for data-center drives.

Very dependable. Drives last a very long time. I use them in a home server, and they rarely disappoint. Great buy.

Seller claimed to be selling an enterprise hard drive with <= 3 years of use. The drive I received had 8 years, 8 months, 9 days, 3 hours of continuous use. Not sure how much life a drive has after 9 years online, but at least 6 years less than advertised. Here is smartctl output for the drive I received:Model Family: HGST Ultrastar He8Device Model: HGST HUH728080ALE604Serial Number: 2EJXEYJXLU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 23be91dc6Firmware Version: A4GNW7J0User Capacity: 8,001,563,222,016 bytes [8.00 TB]Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physicalRotation Rate: 7200 rpm...9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 090 090 000 Old_age Always - 76059

I ordered two of these 8TB drives. Amazing price, and drives pulled from other data centers are usually ~5yrs used. The first drive had 3.8years of power-on time and the second drive had 5.8years of power-on time. Not super happy about the 5.8years on one of the drives because it said ~3years, but I don't mind. At this price, it's worth it, especially with the 5year warranty they come with. These drives are cheap enough to buy multiple, run in a mirror, and still be cheaper that a single brand new 8TB. The mirror adds redundancy if one of the drives fail. The packaging and shipping material was also what I like to see. They came in anti-static air-tight bags and shock absorbent packaging. Quality packing shows the care that the company gives these drives.

So far so good. Drive shipped to me was in use for just over 5 years, previously. I wish it was only 3 years in use as stated in the description but I'm hoping there is still a lot of life here. Can't be worse than the drive it replaced and the read/write performance as well as capacity are great. Buying used is a risk but at least I know this drive was happily functioning for 5 years and looks to be in good shape at this time.Ordered from "Worldwide Product Importer". Intended to buy from goHardDrive but I must have gotten my wires crossed somewhere.Edit Jul 2024: I got about a year and a half out of this before the sound it was making started to worry me. Drive was functioning fine (never gave me trouble) when I replaced it but I wouldn't be surprised if it had no more helium. Finances were a bit better at this point and I bought new to replace. I wouldn't get another like this unless I was desperate now that I understand better that the helium slips out over time.

New the drive was a gamble. Came with relatively low hours considering it is a renewed drive (24k hours) but ended up failing. Nothing they could have seen but they stood by their warranty, which is huge. Would buy from them again any day.

This is my 4th renewed 8TB HDD with the 5-year warranty. All are still working fine. I buy them especially for the warranty period. If a single HDD in the Media Center server dies, it's not a problem for me because I have duplication set on all the important stuff. New HDDs don't even have the 5-year warranty. So, this is a better value for my money.EDIT: 2023-12-10. I just went through receiving 2 defective 8TB HDD's from a seller. Both drives initially passed the Quick Format option, but both failed the Full Format which checks the entire HDD. You need to fully test these used HDDs with the Extended testing or the Full Format option to ensure the drive is healthy. I contacted the seller, twice, about the defective replacement drive I received, but they did not bother to provide any tech support or even a response. Fully test these used HDDs before it's too late.

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