HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 HUS724030ALE641 (0F17731) 3TB 64MB Cache 7200RPM SATA III 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Enterprise Internal Hard Drive (Renewed)

I do a LOT of gaming (Battlefield, etc.), store a lot of digital information (documents, gifs, jpgs, RAWs, etc.), save music and videos and just use up disk space. I went into this purchase a bit tongue in cheek. I read all of the reviews and researched other reviews on the internet for a reasonable storage expansion option. I arrived at and decided this Hitachi HDD. 3 TB is a good "bump" to my old IBuyPower gaming computer. I upgraded the graphics, the RAM and even added a couple of onboard fans to the computer. I bumped the PSU to 850 and already had two 1 TB internal drives in the beast. My primary was getting filled and was close to being maxed out so I jumped online for a storage unit, nothing more. I poked around looking at some 2TB HDDs and saw this one.I thought I'd take a chance at the price. I ordered it up and it arrived several days before I expected it to. I did a simple install, fired my old computer up and dloaded the latest Windows 10 updates. I rebooted to BIOS and Windows recognized the HGST 3TB HDD. I rebooted and ran a quick scan of the drive... 0 hrs. use at install. From there I went into the settings section of Windows 10 and I formatted it for storage. After formatting the drive I got the better part of 2.9 TB's of usable space. I transferred a lot of programs and files to it and intend on transferring more as time goes on. I'm using it as my default storage (and some ops) now and things are much tidier on the other two drives than they were before this install. My whole machine appears to have sped up and things are simply running much smoother. Before this disk's install I was getting hitches in the dloads and storage events primarily because my available disk space on both 1 TB drives were in the red on one and nearly in the red on the other. Now, things are smooth and fast again. The only knock (and it ain't much) is the occasional clunking I get as the drive reads/writes the info. But, I've had several hdd's do that in the past so it's nothing new to me. The seller was up front about the product, ensured I realized it's a "refurbished" drive and they included a 1 yr. warranty certificate with it. The transaction was painless, it shipped fast, was delivered before it was expected to be, was very well priced, was a simple install and was recognized, formatted and up and running in very little time. The seller, goHardDrive even followed up with me to make sure I received the unit and to ensure I was satisfied. I'm thinking of grabbing another one just to keep around in case one of the older 1 TB HDDs puke on me but I'll set aside some bucks later on for that. My primary is a Western Digital (1 TB) and my old storage is a Seagate (1 TB). I'll probably move all of the files from the Seagate to the Hitachi and pull the Seagate just to keep things tidy. So, if you're kicking around the idea of grabbing one of these Hitachi drives I suggest, for the money give it a go. So far it works for me... it's working very well and I have no reason to believe it won't be working for me anytime soon. In my opinion it's a great bang for the buck and GoHardDrive is a great seller to deal with. Thanks!06/02/2017 I just thought I'd come back on here and update my comment. I'm loving this HDD. I'm going to be buying another one in the next day or two now that I know they're truly dependable. I just have to make sure the money's in the bank. Thanks again GoHardDrive for the great service and great product.

Got for my girlfriend's PC. She loves the extra space! The quality is great, which means it's nice on your wallet, and functional! Very very worth it!

So far so good. This was to replace a Seagate ST3000DM001 Barracuda drive that had failed. I have had three of those barracudas fail in the past ~6 years or so; it was time to try something different. Since I already had a failed drive I didn't have time to wait too long to replace it while my NAS raid array was operating in a degraded state. I had some concerns about using a different manufacturer's drive as a replacement in case of any incompatibility in the RAID-6 storage array with three of their Seagates, but it has thus far performed flawlessly. I have only had it for a couple months, so I can't speak to the longevity, but if it dies prematurely on me I will update this review. I also had some reservations about this drive being refurbished, but again, thus far it is preforming as expected and seems no worse for the wear (no increased noise levels or other oddities). My unit appears to have been reset so that I cannot see how many hours it has run total in its life before being refurbished and sold to me.All in all, if it continues performing as it currently is, I can easily recommend this as a cost effective option especially when you are needing a commodity drive to fill out or replace a failure in a redundant RAID array.

I purchased this drive as a replacement for a "green" barracuda drive initially used as our home network back-up drive, and then as an XBOX 360 external drive, which died just outside of warranty. The drive inside the box died, and after several attempts, the data was unrecoverable. I decided to gamble that the SATA to USB electronics were still good, so I bought this drive as a replacement, and then plan to use it as an external drive for our XBOX One. After formatting the drive using my desktop computer and a SATA cable, it formatted out to where it should for a 3 TB drive. Transfer speeds are right at 50 MB/S, via USB 3.0, and they stay stable during a group of large file transfers totalling around 6 GigaBytes. It's speed is higher and more consistent than the previous drive. While this drive is designed for continuous use in a server, I am expecting many years of trouble-free use from it . While I am not planning to use it to sleep on, it is quiet, and there is no objectionable noise coming from it, either in the Seagate case, or when I had it formatting outside my desktop case. As for heat, it will warm up. However, they are supposed to be good to 60 C, according to the online spec sheet from HGST. I also tried out this drive in a portable drive case, and the results were also favorable. If I need a portable drive, I will go this route instead of purchasing a portable drive. (I initially considered a WD portable drive powered through the 3.0 USB, however, the complaints and failure rates reported seemed high. However, after looking up the specs of the "green" drive this one is replacing 200 hours for MTBF, I can understand the customers grief. After formatting the drive, it was easy to get it to connect, format, and move data from the XBOX One.****ONE YEAR UPDATE*** Still works great, as it is where we dowonload new games from our Gold Account, and have all our XBOX ONE games and data on it.