HGST Ultrastar He8 Helium HUH728080ALE601 8TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6 0Gb s 3 5in Enterprise Hard Drive

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. Read more

I have had terrible, terrible luck with a major brand of hard drives that is seemingly always on the deepest discount during sales -- I won't name names but let's say "water fence" -- so to replace these crappy drives as they inevitably fail, I started looking into refurbished enterprise-grade drives, thinking the higher build quality might offset the fact that they're used. I have yet to be disappointed by HGST; I have bought a few now, and while they do show runtime in their logs, they also show excellent performance qualities, too. They are simply built to a higher standard than the drives that will no longer tempt me every Black Friday. If you are curious, I'd say it's worth the risk, as I've got at least 4 of these things running now with no trouble or even warning signs whatsoever. Read more

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 He8 Device Model: HGST HUH728080ALE604 Serial Number: 2EJXEYJX LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 23be91dc6 Firmware Version: A4GNW7J0 User Capacity: 8,001,563,222,016 bytes [8.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm ... 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 090 090 000 Old_age Always - 76059 Read more

Updated: The 4 drives that I have purchased 2 to 4 years ago and older are still all running cool with no issues at nearly 60kh on one, 58,000h (6.5years) on another, 1200 power cycles with no errors or issues. These drives are extremely well made. HGST focused on reliability, something many drive manufacturers today seem unfamiliar with. They are not quite as fast at short transfers or transferring lots of small files as newer models, but I have been using two of these drives for several years. On transfers of video files between two of these drives, I see a sustained 140MB/sec. They are not very quiet, and they take a bit to spin up after being idle for a while, but otherwise good drives. Lost one star for my one complaint which is that of the 3 that I have purchased, 2 had 5 years of on time, though only about 50 power cycles. Read more

Great drives and great customer service, I originally bought in 2023 and one of the drives gave out in November 2025. I contacted customer support, they sent me a return label and sent me a new drive. Great service!! Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

Use this as the 3rd stage backup for blue iris videos, so it is month old video. If I have not reviewed and saved video by then, then it probably isn't that important. I would absolutely not trust this as my main or only storage for anything. It is cheap and the states hours are misleading. But careful monitoring in a more robust system should be fine. Read more