WD SE 2TB Datacenter Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb s 64MB Cache 3 5

I have used this, along with an enclosure, for a year. 2 TB has helped me clear up storage on my actual PC and Mac. Setting it up was easy; I just had to watch a video and partition/format the storage as needed. Knock on wood, but so far, no data loss. Everything has been safe. It's a little slow, but it's not excruciatingly slow. It is an HDD after all. I've transferred over hundreds of files at the same time, and it probably took me around an hour, so not too bad (maybe for around 50-100 GB worth of media). It's not too heavy. Pretty light. I want to say less than 5 lbs? When I bought it, it was $34, but now I see that its price has gone up to $99. Back then, I would've said it's a bang for its buck, but I think $99 is too much now. It's very durable and long-lasting. There are times when I need to edit off the drive, and it runs continuously for maybe 2-3 hours, and I've had no problems. It gets a little warm in the enclosure, but it's never blazing hot. Overall: very reliable. It took me around a year's worth of files (I typically record gaming footage) before it got full. Read more

I have a pair of these (2TB) in a tower server configured as RAID1 with mdadm. The server's in my home, where it occupies a sort of a halfway position - it has considerably more work to do than your typical home server, but less than a datacenter server would have. I replaced two Samsung 1TB drives not because they had failed (they hadn't) but because they were coming to the end of their warranty. Not wanting to do this again for a while, I picked the enterprise-grade WD-Se drive rather than the consumer-level WD Red, partly because of the longer warranty (5 years vs. 3) and partly for quicker throughput and better performance. So far they have not disappointed. The drives were operational out of the box and behave just like any other SATA device. The resulting array seems quicker than it did before. I don't know if the drives are noisy or not, because the server lives in the basement. Regarding the other commenter's note about the SATA connection, I didn't notice that. The cables I used seemed secure but I have to admit I didn't check that specifically. Now that I'm aware of it, I'll keep it as something to look at when (or if) I open this server up for physical maintenance someday. **EDIT FOLLOWS** Follow-up after 11 months: the drives are still performing flawlessly after 11 months in 24/7 service. SMART reports zero raw read errors, zero reallocated sectors, zero seek errors, zero bad blocks for both drives. In fact, all the error-related metrics are zero for both units, and the error logs are empty. I couldn't be happier with my purchase. These are solid drives, and have run perfectly since the day they were put into service. I would absolutely buy them again. **SECOND EDIT FOLLOWS** These drives have now been in 24/7 service for nearly two and a half years. SMART reports are still completely clean, as before. They have never given me a tick of trouble, ever. Highly recommended. Read more

I have a Seagate NAS device from probably back in 2009 which had 4 1TB drives in it. Just now, at the end of 2024, one of those drives failed. I purchased 4 of these 2TB WD Enterprise Class drives in the listing to replace the entire array (can't be too careful, especially when the original drives are probably on borrowed time), popped them in, and the NAS is back in action. No muss, no fuss. Easy as could be. Drives were well-packaged and in new condition. Read more

Unlike most standard SATA2, SATA3, and SAS drives, this series does not support locking SATA cables. The drives are intended for use in server RAID backplanes. Regular SATA2 and SATA3 cables with latching tabs on top of the connector will fit loosely, but older SATA2 cables with locking knuckles on the interior of the connector should secure much better, unfortunately these are harder to come by. I would not recommend these for RAID use in standard desktops, there is too great of a risk the cables will become loose over time and degrading the array. Update: 2013/09/15 Been using these drives for a while now and yes, the connection is too loose for none-backplane use. Every time I need to move the computer or open the side, I have to double check the cable because typically at least one will have become loose. I will likely need to use hot glue to secure them later. Update: 2014/02/07 I had benchmarked the drives at some point in December. I don't have the results of that handy, but I had run them as both single and 2 drive RAID0 and RAID1 on both Intel RAID and an LSI 6G SAS RAID card. Compared to a pair of same sized 15k SAS Seagate HDDs and a pair of WD Raptor 10k's, these WD Se's preform quite well. I wish I had a couple RE4's in that system, because I have the feeling these are preforming very similarly to an RE. This is a rather impressive drive considering the price point is under an RE4. I'm bumping my review up 2 stars for this reason, but still dining it at least one for the non-standard drive end connector. These are only suitable if use in a backplane (ie, not a normal desktop) or with good SAS cables that positively latch without a topside catch. Read more

For installation in a server these are working great. Haven't had any trouble with hardware recognition, data transfer rate or HDD tempature. Love them at this price point. If it's reliability is maintained long term I will be very happy. Read more

Why did you pick this product vs others?: I bought this product in November of 2024, and in June of 2025 the thing literally burst into flames. I contacted Western Digital to hopefully get a replacement via warranty, only to find out that the hard drive was built in 2014 and therefore six years outside of warranty. I would highly suggest against buying any sensitive computer parts from this seller. Read more