HGST Ultrastar He8 HUH728080ALE604 0F23668 / 0F25721 8TB 7,2K RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB 3.5 inches HDD 512E (Renewed)

I was looking for a cheap drive to store some unimportant data. And was considering spending a little more on a new 5400 RPM 8TB drive. However I decided to take a gamble on saving $30 on a renewed drive. Pros: * Drive physically looks to be in excellent condition and was packaged very well. * It's a 7200 RPM and performance was better than expected for a mechanical drive. * Enterprise quality for budget price. * Seller provides an additional 5 year warranty and pays for return shipping. * Simple clear instructions provided in box for Mac and Windows for those that need them. Cons: * Drive is much more used and older than I was expecting. The description says "about 3 years" of use in a data center. Mine shows 6.5 years of power on time. Summary: It's a really great drive for a really great price, even despite it's considerable age. I was really close to taking a star or two off the review for the inaccurate description and used of drive. However I was not expecting an additional 5 year warranty with free return shipping, I missed that in the description originally, and figure that makes up how old the drive is.

Recieved what I ordered in the expected condition. It's a good quality Drive. My drive had less than expected hours and start/stop cycles. No SMART issues or anything noteworthy. Fantastic price too. These drives are a touch louder than regular drives. But that's to be expected. Drive doesn't make any funky sounds. Drive is smooth and makes no strange sounds. If you're considering it, just go for it.

Well-packed and easy to install. Already in use just 10 minutes after delivery. Note: February 9: Drive has failed. Windows (and LInux) can't access it.

Ordered two for us as a NAS RAID 1 array for a Plex/family server, along with local backups for business files, which are also backed up to the cloud. Generally positive. Good price, drives tested A-okay. Only negative: One drive had 69K (8+ years) hours on it, which is fairly long in the tooth. The second drive was 31K hours (less than 4 years), much more reasonable. Good packaging and warranty.

I thought I'd give these a go, since the price was right. Well, I shouldn't be surprised anymore. Once again, the old adage, "you get [much less than, in this case] what you pay for," holds. Neither of the two drives I received worked at all. They didn't even seem to power-up - although, honestly, I can't be sure of that, because I didn't get that far into trouble-shooting. Neither drive was recognized by four separate SATA controllers. For sanity, I connected a new WD drive at the same time - that drive was instantly recognized. I might have thought this was a weird "one off," but I bought two. BOTH are DOA. Side note: I really hope my return costs these guys a lot of money, because they sure wasted my time on this. There's no possible way "the drive isn't recognized at all" would pass any sort of (sane) "renewal" procedure. My guess is they're taking used, probably broken drives, repackaging them (without ANY testing) and hoping the new owner doesn't try to use the drives. Or something?? I'm actually not at all sure how this business model could possibly work. Certainly EVERYBODY buying these drives is going to try them, right!?

The drive is relatively quite but can get a little hummy under heavy load so the noise level is relatively low. Good data transfer speeds and good load time in Fallout 4 of all games. The slowest time I got while loading was around 50 seconds and the quickest was around 2 seconds. Functions as advertised and was a easy install and format.

Product description indicates these drives were removed from a datacenter after five years of service. Date code on the drive itself reads "SEP-2015" - over eight years old at the time I'm writing. Hard to believe a datacenter would have been installing three-year-old NOS in late 2018. This is a red flag. The unit is working as it should right now, but the date code suggests it has less useful life remaining than I might have hoped.

Purchased in January of 2025. It's now July and they have been running great. Would recommend.