HGST Ultrastar He8 Helium (HUH728080ALE601) 8TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5in Enterprise Hard Drive (Renewed)

Purchased a par of these hard drives for my NAS system, I am extremely pleased with them. They were advertised as refurbished so I knew go going in that I may encounter issues but they have been running fine in my NAS system. They are not noisey and have been durable. They arrived in bubble wrap and looked new. I ran a Smart drive utility on them and they both had 3 years of use. I would consider purchasing another set in the future.

A bit noisy but is comparable to many drives. Good performance

I purchased this hard drive knowing that it was used (from a data center). I figured with a 5 year warranty and having HGST drives from 10 years ago still running great this would be a reasonable alternative to a new drive. I am very disappointed. The drive failed to work straight out of the box. I could hear a 'thud' noise as it was trying to initialize and run. I ran crystal disk info which gave the yellow 'caution' due to reallocated sectors count (see photo). Attempting to use Disc Management, it would not allow me to partition or format the drive. The drive was well packaged so I don't think it was damaged during shipping. I am disappointed that the drive would be sold with known problems. Either the data center would have known it was bad or the seller should have verified it's functionality before shipping it as a 'renewed' working drive.

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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.