HGST Ultrastar He8 HUH728080ALE604 8TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5in 128MB 512e HDD (0F23668) (Renewed)

Used IT server grade drive 8TB drive. HGST is the old IBM people who were bought ~2004. Low usage and treated well. This is a scratch pad drive I use for moving mass files around. I went 2x 12 TB used for mirrored RAID for my forever data. Price is up 50% from low. SERVER drives are locked inside a rack in Temp controlled lab and NOT seeking or power Up/Dn are a good bet. When money isn't tight they get replace just because 4 yrs old or a drive with 50% more size is available. HGST/Seagate provide >85% or more server drives. I've lost track #3 drive from ASIA

todo bien, llegó bien embalado a Chile, via chilexpress y bien cuidado, todo ok, funciona correctamente

These drives offer excellent value, providing enterprise-level performance with 50,000 to 60,000 hours of use at a very reasonable price. Despite their long expected lifespan, there is some inherent risk in purchasing used drives. I ordered two drives, and while one failed a self-test, the seller promptly replaced the defective unit. Overall, I believe this is a tremendous value, but buyers should be prepared for the possibility of receiving a less-than-perfect drive.

Works Well, but mounting pins don't line up on caddy.

Ordered two of these, after about 3 days one drive failed and was making a banging noise. Contacted the seller and they denied that the drive came from them based on the serial number on the drive. I sent them the order number and they stopped responding. I have not purchased this brand of HDD before so I know that it came from them. I ended up having to file a claim with amazon and amex to get my money refunded. Lets hope the other one does not fail!Update - the second drive failed. I never got the refund for the first drive because per Amazon, the refund comes from the seller and they chose not to refund it. Amex said the seller is claiming the drives returned did not match any serial numbers they sold. I also find it suspicious that in the box there was a card saying “we track all drive serial numbers if you have issues contact us”

I ordered two of the 8TB drives to backup information from 3 different mirrors I have (4TB, 2TB and another 2TB). I’m concerned about any one of the controllers failing and losing that data. While one of the drives fired right up and has been working great, the second drive powered on and was recognized by the OS but never spun up giving an IO error. I went through the easy to follow return/exchange prompts in Amazon and the company overnighted me a replacement! Amazing! I honestly thought something was wrong with the replacement drive when I received it as it only showed as 2TB in the OS but it turns out the older USB to SATA adapter I was using with that drive doesn’t recognize anything larger. I picked up a new adapter on Amazon which supports up to 16TB and the drive is now recognized as 8TB and functioning properly!

I doubted buying used hard drives, but these things were better than I could have imagined. They were wrapped extremely well, installed easily, remarkably quiet, and had fewer operational hours than the drives they replaced in my home NAS. I will be buying more.

I bought 6 of these 8TB used enterprise drives for my homebuilt Network Attached Storage unit. I have them set up as 3 mirrored devices, giving me a total of about 22TB data storage. I've been using them for over a year with no hiccups.