💾 HGST DeskStar NAS 6TB 7200 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s High Performance Hard Drive for Desktop NAS Systems with Retail Packaging (Model: 0S04007) Review

Easy to install, nice and big. It makes some noise when accessing data. So if you're looking for a quiet drive, this isn't it. However, if it's reliable over the years, I'm satisfied. I buy HGST drives thanks to BackBlaze drive testing. It's a cloud backup service that uses thousands of drives. They track all the reliability stats of their drives and publish reports regularly. HGST drives are consistently more reliable than WD or Seagate drives. None of my HGST drives (there are four in my…

I bought 3 of these HGST DeskStar drives along with 3 Toshiba N300 drives to use in a RAID 6 configured NAS. My network consultant recommended that I use different brands of drives in a RAID array to minimize the chance of them all failing at the same time. They were easy to install and after more than 30 days of operation, they did not experience any infant mortality problems.

I have been a member of the Deskstar drive family for many years. A drive as fast as any other well-known brand and, more importantly, consistent reliability. The price of these discs is hard to beat. You work cool and quiet. I was talking about reliability. I have two table stars that are at least five years old. They are mainly used to store images. I will keep coming back, did I mention reliable?

Bought two for 2nd Synology Diskstation. zero problems. Extensive SMART testing performed on both prior to first use using factory drive utility. Hard drives of this size take several days. So if you plan to do this, don't plan on using them right away. Both passed and already had the latest firmware. So far zero errors. Worked fine with 6 4TB Deskstar NAS drives. Two of them have been running for about two years, while the other four are joining the new 6TB drives. They are installed on my…

I have been using the Deskstar family of discs for many years now. A drive as fast as any other well-known brand and, more importantly, consistent reliability. The price of these discs is hard to beat. You work cool and quiet. I was talking about reliability. I have two table stars that are at least five years old. They are mainly used to store images. I will keep coming back, did I mention reliable?

If you always use a NAS, then HGST drives are the best quality and value for money. Drive failure reports published by Backblaze show that HGST has the lowest overall failure rate in the product line, and 0S04007 in particular has a very low failure rate. Personally, I've been using them for about a year now and can report that the performance at transfer and read speeds is fantastic, the drives are quiet and cool, and I haven't experienced any SMART or ZFS pool errors so far. In addition, the…

Bought 2 pieces about a year ago. They make quite a bit of noise when my computer starts backing up to these drives. I set it up on my 5-bay Synology. One of the drives already has bad sectors, I'm not sure I want to risk it for a critical storage. The return period has already expired so I'll probably just delete and reset it - looks like a waste of time. I'm trying my luck with WD red-pro now.