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Pros & Cons
Pros
The he8-acs t13/1699-d revision 4sata version sata 3. Ata 8. The noise profile is typical, around 35 dba and you can hear the seek in a quiet room. The capacity is great and the added reliability of using helium in a enterprise class drive is an added... Read More
Cons
Avoid this seller. What if the seller no longer exists? Their quality control is terrible. According to the manufacturing label there are 6 1/2 years old.
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Quality
My order came packaged properly a box with the plastic things to hold the drive at the ends
Go with the 8tb you wont be sorry
Psbtw i decided not to go with the larger he10 10tb because i heard a few places on the internet that it uses a different new... Read More
Price
Dated 2016 but for the price i am happy
The only reason i tried a hgst is that i needed a 8 tb drive when toshiba wasnt offering one
Competitiveness
And my drive for games is a 1tb sandisk ssd model x400 also an excellent drive
No other drive i can think of near this capacity and price can even pose as competition to hgst
With my old drives in a softwareraid pool it could not handle playback of 20mbps video if i was doing a couple other readwrite opperations
And then retransfer all of my stuff back to my 64tb capable but only now 9tb full drobo
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 75 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 5 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The newer model wd drives under 10 tb are air no longer helium
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Helium drives are superior lower power requirement and longer mtbf 2
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Now that theyve gone up in price im regretting not buying the 4 i wanted for a home raid5 array
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
With my old drives in a softwareraid pool it could not handle playback of 20mbps video if i was doing a couple other readwrite opperations
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Just contacted hgst to verify the sn
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I want to ensure i have my full 5year warranty on these devices
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Customer support informed me that hgst would not do any warranty service
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I would need to return the drives back to the seller for any service request including rmas
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