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Although I did mark this product as being "quiet," I am one of the few people that enjoy a loud hard drive, due to my passion for mechanical computing equipment. This is the hard drive for those who enjoy sounds of clicky mechanical keyboards, and the crisp clicks of a beautiful 7N Omron switch. The sound from this drive is not over-bearing, and provides a mid-high tone while data processing. A motor whine can hardly be heard, and I find that to be a plus. In terms of reliability, Hitachi/HGST have produced some of the most reliable hard drives, and according to BlackBlaze, they are their top performing drives in terms of failure rates. The thing which sold this drive for me, was the error rate, it is by far more reliable than the standard desktop drive, and it appears to be built like a tank. The moment you pull open the package, you will feel the heft of this beast, it is not the typical desktop drive, increasing my perception that it really is built like a tank. For those who know about physics, objects that are in motion tend to stay in motion, objects at rest tend to stay at rest. The more mass an object has, the more energy is required to get it to move. It is my guess that as this drive contains more mass than a standard drive, it will maintain a stable environment within the drive. The performance of this drive is plenty. Most seem to be running for SSD's, but in reality if you are a gamer, most games are designed to use as much RAM as possible, as the hard drive is always the slowest performing component in the system. This may not be the best performing drive in terms of benchmarks, but in my system, it boots to windows 7 in under 40 seconds, and loads every game in a reasonable time frame, with no lagging. Finally, cooling is very simple for this drive. Running in a standard hard drive cage with a 120mm fan near by, this drive runs around 39°C. Reading online, hard drives should run warm, but never too hot, and seeing how this temperature is on the low end of the spectrum, this drive would be very easy to tune in your preferred temperature for it.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I was a little disappointed to find that the drive had 4 years of run time accumulated. Not a lot of power cycles but I normally replace my OS HDD's every four calendar years. I was going to use it as a backup drive but now I'm wondering if i need to backup the backup. It works OK, just a ton of hours. You get what you pay for.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
It's a heavy duty drive, quiet, and fast. This Drive is a tank. Like all Hard Drives moving parts do fail. So far no fails on these, I bought two and will buy more. WD doesn't compare to these Hitachi Hard Drives.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Massive storage for very little money. It is slow though so I would not use this as the primary drive. It is great as a second drive used for storage though. No problems with it.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I purchased this drive to replace a failing 1TB drive. This unit is a "used" drive pulled from a production machine. The one I received has a manufacturing date of October 2011 and has close to 45,000 hours on it. That means it's already nearing 6 years old. Hitachi rates this drive as 2 million hours Mean Time Between Failure. 2 million hours is approximately 228 years running 24/7/365... if 50% of the sample is on the low side of of the failure rate, then a bad scenario would see the average drive fail at around the 114 year mark. Half again would be 57 years... I don't think I'll live that long and I think it's unlikely that I won't upgrade to a larger storage media within that time. Seems like a great deal! NOTE: Some people have said that this drive is LOUD. I haven't experienced this. The only things that were noticeable before installing this drive, were my case fans (and they're pretty quiet). I haven't noticed any increase in sound since installing it and transferring around 600GB of data.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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