HGST/Hitachi (HUA723020ALA641) Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 64MB 7200RPM 3.5 (Enterprise Grade) SATA III 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive

I needed this really bad. Im glad I could get one this quickly and it functioning a lot better than my other one.

Purchased / Installed November 2014. Its March 2016 and the drive is dead !!!

No issues except if the drive powers down, it is very slow to power back up. Seems like it needs a little caffeine to get going.

It died half full of data last week. Thats less than 90 days functioning.

Always great hard drives and great price

Good buy, quick delivery.

Hitachi brand is the most reliable hard drive, but this one is really noisy. Just had this one installed and seems to working OK, just hope we can get a few years use out of it.

BackBlaze recently compared their server records on Hitachi, WD and Seagate. Hitachi beat out WD as the most reliable drive by a small but significant margin. Hitachi is also fast, though I dont have figures. Their quality control is still considered good in an industry prone to outsourcing its manufacturing. Seagate trailed a distant third in reliability. I researched before buying. I bought and installed four of these 2TB units in a single RAID 10 configuration, last month, through Amazon. The drives run 24/7 and are constantly accessed by me and a file synch program. For my money theyre as silent as any others I have used in Mac or PC installations, barely audible 2 away on my work desk. This RAID is really fast. I read the comments about head repositioning noise. It is a slightly noticeable curiosity I wouldt have identified without these reviews. I hear it only once in a while, but I dont find it distracting or objectionable. However this supplier is not Prime, and the time lag between order and delivery dates is of some concern. I ordered two more on Saturday and they still show as Preparing for Shipment Monday night. I may order bare drives from NewEgg when I need them to complete a project.

runs great really not that loud very snappy drive to store all my stuff on

As advertised, shipped fast, arrived OK.