Review on 💾 3TB 7200RPM SATA III 6.0Gb/s Internal Desktop Hard Drive for RAID, NAS, DVR, Desktop PC by Angie Wooten

Why four stars? Because there are certainly "better" - ie faster and quieter - drives, but not in this price range. I bought two for a new Dual Bay Gigabit NAS RAID enclosure from StarTech.com that I recently received and set them to RAID 0 (striped). I had to return StarTech as the file management was badly damaged, but I removed two drives and they are now live in the new ZyXEL [2-Bay] Personal Cloud Storage for Home with Remote Access and Media Streaming [NAS326] where the drives are in RAID0 work fine, so the problems were not caused by the drives. In my case, I have a Hitachi HUS724030ALE641, an enterprise hard drive designed for use in very large data center RAID arrays. They're built to be reliable, bulletproof, not necessarily incredibly fast, not light, not necessarily quiet, and run at the highest temperatures they can, but my RAID box has its own cooling. I'm actually considering buying a spare drive that could live in my VAIO desktop that I no longer use so I can replace one of the RAID drives if it fails. For the price, it's better to be safe than sorry! They were rebranded, probably made for an array manufacturer, and probably spent a few years in storage - Hitachi's storage division became HGST a few years ago and has since been acquired by Western Digital. The drives were new, ie unused, and passed all my diagnostics with flying colors - I put each drive through a nine hour read/write/erase cleaning prior to installation because once they're on the 24/7 network array, they can Do not run the diagnostics longer than the system drive. So you want a powered Land Rover for cheap, this is for you, and Goog will point you with the model number to a spec sheet on the manufacturer's website that says you have a three-year warranty. Due to a faulty HGST laptop drive I know their WD reincarnation is fully guaranteed and as I said these are corporate products and therefore more reliable than consumer products. The RAID block causes the drives to stop after a timeout and I can tell they aren't fast as the array resync is clearly slow, but I agree I'd rather wait another three seconds than to risk losing my data due to speedy head falls from gonzalez.