HGST 0A39289 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" x 1/3H ULTRASTAR A7K2000 25.4MM 32MB Internal Hard Drive

Pros: - Bought it on 07/24/2012 and Now 4/6/2013 it still WORK!
- I don't know what is the deal with the other people bad luck. But I only buy 1 and it work.
- I buy this because of 1 reason I was fed up with Seagate baracuda and Western Digital green horrible Hdd 1Tb crash on me within 1 year. I lose so much data.

Let me give you a tip to get the best out of "this enterprise class hdd"

I ONLY put this "enterprise class" hard drive in this :
SNT SNT-125B Black 3.5" SATA Hard drive to 5.25" Bay SATA Mobile Rack Removable Hard drive kit
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817993031

Why?

Because this HotSwap Drive bay have a "FAN"!!! yes FAN.
You NEED this + the hard drive. Or else you would probably get a dead drive due to heat.

Cons: The drive is really Hot.
Like many other reviewer here complain.. Yes it's hot.

Solution: Go buy the HDD Bay that have A FAN. Then the drive shouldn't fail on you.

Beside It make sense right? Back then when I buy this it was 120$ while the Segate Baracuda was at 100$...

I paid more because I want this "enterprise class" hard drive to store all my important data. So I got to do all I can to keep hard drive from failing. and the number one problem in a PC is heat. So that's why I buy the Bay + Fan to cool it down for extra insurance...

Other Thoughts: 100% no doubt. High recomendation.

I never want to buy a Segate again.. Ever..
I have a Hitachi Desktar it never fail. But I wanted to go for the "extra high reliablity" I buy the Hitatchi Ultrastar.

So yeah up to you guys. I don't want be saving 20-50$ and then 2-3 year later I lose 500gb-1TB of data...

Pros: Cheap, and not in the good way.

Cons: I am receiving failure immenent in just over a month of use.

Other Thoughts: I had never purchased a Hitachi drive for my own use as a separate item. I've seen them as standalone or in laptops or desktops folks have brought to me for repair and must say they are uniquely difficult to work on. Shame on WD for allowing this product line to darken their name.

In response to the other poster here who does not like Newegg packaging - I can say I haven't had any complaints. They've always been at least double bubble wrapped, which I think should get through most shipping conditions. This particular drive I purchased from an in-store source in original packaging.

Pros: None Desk Star= Death Star

Cons: Garbage. I purchased a Hatchi External 1 Tb Hard Drive 2 years ago. The 1st one failed, after 1 year and after spending 9 dollars to return. I got another replacement. That lasted about 9 months and the external connection board failed. so I broke it out of its case and used it buy direct connections. That last another 4 months, then suddenly stopped. dead nothing. Now a door stop. When they replaced the drive they assigned it a 2010 serial number from orginal purchase. It was called the Desk Star but real name is Death Star. I don't know since WD bought them out, but the new ones have a better warranty the WD Blue, but not WD Black.

Other Thoughts: I don't know if WD has improved Hatchi, but I would be worried. Seagate my old favorite has warranties all over the place. Barracuda drive is the longest at 24 months. I would Get WD Blue at 24 months or WD black at 60 Months instead

Pros: Lots of space, fast shipping.

Cons: Came with loose SATA port. Broke on first attempt to install.

Other Thoughts: NewEgg didn't accept my RMA due to the damage. It was labeled my fault despite the fact the port arrived at my home this way. I will not receive a refund or the replacement I asked for from them, so I'll be contacting the manufacturer soon. If they refuse to refund me, then this product will NOT be worth the current price. I'm hoping it was a fluke.

Pros: -fairly fast
-over all good hard drive

Cons: -not formatted (it took me a couple of hours to figure out i had to format it... Im not a noob at all I just forgot)

Other Thoughts: I got it very cheap and below 80$ its a good value!

Pros: price, At $69 its unbeatable. works out from the box and not DOA as many reviews say (bought one because of bad reviews), should've bought more

Cons: none at the moment

Other Thoughts: lets see for how long it will last

Pros: Hope Hitachi has a good RMA system.

Cons: The drives seem to get pretty warm. We installed 3 of these drives into a disk array and we were seeing very high latency at times (600ms +). We pulled all of the drives and ran the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test and they all passed. We decided to troubleshoot the controller card. No problems there. Put these drives back into a different system and after 3 days the drive failed. Caused a lot of headache.

Manufacturer Response:

I'm sorry to read of your drive experiences. Please contact the Technical Support Center with the serial number of the drives, so that we can further explore this issue with you. Please let us know that you are responding to a Newegg review. Thank you.

http://www.hitachigst.com/contact_support

Hitachi Technical Support Center

M-F 8AM to 6PM PST at 1.888.426.5214

Pros: Solid Enterprise class drives. Quiet. Passed all badblock and SMART checks without issue on delivery. Been running strong 24x7 in my Server for almost a year. I was happy enough with these I purchased two more shortly after buying these.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: These drives have been running strong 24x7 in a Raid6 array without issue for 11 months. I am very pleased with Hitachi drives thus far.

Pros: NONE, Drive was DOA

Cons: Drive DOA

Other Thoughts: Still under warranty, sent to Hitachi with RMA. Had pruchased for backup drive for my desk top. When I went to install the drive it was dead.

Manufacturer Response:

I'm sorry to read of your drive experience. Please contact the Technical Support Center with the serial number of the drive, so that we can further explore this issue with you. Please let us know that you are responding to a Newegg review. Thank you.

http://www.hitachigst.com/contact_support

Hitachi Technical Support Center

M-F 8AM to 6PM PST at 1.888.426.5214

Pros: NewEgg shipped these in individual, very well padded boxes. I'm not concerned about damage due to handling at all. They're fast and work great so far. All 4 passed RAID initialization and verification.

Cons: Really loud. I have an Antec Sonata case which used to be mostly silent. Now whenever there is disk access I can hear it in other rooms!

Other Thoughts: Even if they're loud, I'm using the drives for long term redundant storage in a NAS. As long as the MTBF is true, I can deal with some noise.