Review on 💽 500GB Western Digital WD5002ABYS RE3 SATA Hard Drive, 3.5-inch Enterprise with 1.2 Million Hours MTBF, 16MB Cache, 7200 RPM by Jonathan Fernandez

Name: 💽 500GB Western Digital WD5002ABYS RE3 SATA Hard Drive, 3.5-inch Enterprise with 1.2 Million Hours MTBF, 16MB Cache, 7200 RPM
Item: 💽 500GB Western Digital WD5002ABYS RE3 SATA Hard Drive, 3.5-inch Enterprise with 1.2 Million Hours MTBF, 16MB Cache, 7200 RPM
Rating: 2

October 28, 2022

NOT NEW Internal Hard Drives

I installed this hard drive in a refurbished server for a customer a little over a year ago, assuming it was a *new* hard drive as advertised. I recently brought the server back to my desktop due to an unrelated issue (power outage). I cloned the drive (clonezilla) to another hard drive to install on another system to get the client working again while waiting for the PSU replacement. Clonezilla detected bad sectors on the original hard drive - WD5002ABYS. I ran SPECCY on it and this drive has been in use for over 7 years, NOT NEW!

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