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Review on HGST 10TB hard drive HUH721010ALE604 by Wiktor Krzysztof Kor ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Very high quality product, it's not the first time I bought it.

High speed. When streaming data from ssd up to 248 megabytes. Huge cache. Twice as much as the 8TB model. Weak heating. I was very pleased, after the 3TB HGST Ultrastar 7K4000, which did not drop below 44 degrees in my case with a fan and other disks, the helium series hdd had 37-40 degrees under load. Low powercomnsumption. The chamber is filled with helium, the resistance is lower, the discs are thinner, less energy is needed to spin the spindle. A new technology, namely helium filling, has the potential to cause problems, since there is not yet many years of experience with such discs. High price for 1 TB. Air disks with a 5-year warranty for 4 TB are cheaper by 800 per TB when buying in Hong Kong, but in other respects this disk is better. - powerdisablepin. Negative feedback about this feature from illiterate users canruin the sales of these discs and increase their price. DataSheet on the official website for this function says that this function allows you to restart a frozen disk programmatically without physically pulling it out of the basket and reinserting it into it. In systems where PowerDisablePin is not supported, the manufacturer recommends using a molex to sata power adapter. Actually, I successfully used this advice from the manufacturer. . Pdf - 512e Format described below by anothercommentator is the same 512e Advanced Format, which implies the use of 4k sectors, and which has been used by all disk manufacturers since 2022. The performance problem with such drives can only manifest itself in very old operating systems, such as Windows XP. - I hope this information helps someone. I have two disks from this series: he8 and he10. The first one is over six months old. Whilecompletely satisfied.

Pros
  • High speed. Huge cache. Weak heating. Low power consumption.
Cons
  • New technology. High price for 1 TB. powerdisablepin. Loud crackling sound during defragmentation. For the 8TB model, this was not noticed.