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🖥️ WD 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512MB Cache, 3.5" - WUH721414ALE6L4 Review

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Description of 🖥️ WD 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512MB Cache, 3.5" - WUH721414ALE6L4

Designed with a workload rating up to 550TB per year, 10X desktop rating (Workload rate is defined as the amount of data transferred to or from the hard drive; Workload Rate is annualized (TB transferred X (8760/ recorded power on hours); Workload Rate will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurations. Up to 2.5M hours MTBF with a 5 year limited warranty. Five generations of HelioSeal technology (10TB and above). Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) technology for vibration protection.

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

I am amazed at how well the product is made, just magically!

In my tests, the drive is connected to SATA-II, so peak line speeds are limited by the interface. As for the noise - I advise you to make a separate NAS and throw it out of the room, and in the main computer only SSD.

Pros
  • The volume is like all my old hards combined. No tile entry. Sharpening to work 24/7, 5 year warranty, 1 read error per 1E15 bit (for many 10E14, i. E. 10 times more often), MTBF 2.5 million hours - in theory it should be reliable. Low price per GB relative to all competitors in this class. Minimum heat and power consumption. Lying in its own package (! ) At the bottom of the server without blowing during formatting, it only heated up to 45 degrees. The ratio of GB per watt is generally superb. In smart there is such an indicator as the current level of helium. It won't leak out unnoticed. Maybe. Works seamlessly with older systems that do not support 4kn sectors and PowerDisablePin.
Cons
  • This applies to all modern hard drives: The real volume is 13 GB. Rounding on such scales is already felt. The speed has grown out of proportion to the capacity. Regarding my 10-year-old hard drives, this one is 2 times faster, and more than 10 times - full formatting takes a day. A RAID rebuild of a dozen of these can apparently take a month. The cost per gig hasn't improved in years. It's just that more expensive and more capacious hard drives come out. If you use it as the only disk, you need to come up with something with patrol read and backups. But I repeat, it is necessary for everyone and always. The durability of helium is questionable. I doubt very much that at least half of such hard drives will be able to work for 10 years. Noise as it should be for a server 7-thousander. In idle time and in linear loads it is quiet, in random access it rattles its heads very strongly. Sleeping in the same room with him is very problematic.

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Fits the description completely, very satisfying.

Excellent HDD - the evolution of WD-Hitachi technology. Performance in most scenarios is superior to analogs from seagate. In terms of price-performance-reliability ratio - the best at the moment. ps screenshots during operation

Pros
  • 1. Large volume 2. High transfer rate up to 273MB/s 3. Short access time for an HDD of this size (within the first terabyte = 7.5 ms, within 7TB = 9.5ms, 14TB = 12.5ms) 4. Slight heating up to 40C max at maximum load (used as a torrent dump). Installed in fractal r5 with light airflow) 5. Quiet (quieter than hitachi HGST HUS726060ALE614 6TB gelless) with the same declared noise characteristics. 6. Positioned as reliable (practice will show)
Cons
  • Not seen

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Well done, but I won't buy any more.

The disk was bought to replace another dead ST, a programmed crc failure for all disks of this manufacturer, of different sizes, bought at about the same time. Sprinkled together. The discs themselves are in excellent condition, no bads. But the controller won't work. Disk falls off under load. An even older 2tb WD is also installed in the system - it continues to work without problems. Therefore, it was decided to move away from ST. The disk is under the fan, as is the entire basket of disks…

Pros
  • The amount of disk space is the most important parameter in this choice. Completely silent.
Cons
  • I doubted, because. Much has been written about head noise and disk noise. I do not fully confirm this information. I absolutely can't hear it. And when I made a copy from a 4 TB disk, everyone tried to hear at least something that would interfere. But, complete silence and excellent speed. I will note one minus for a home system unit: the bolt holes for the rack. Not located for home PC. I have a lower mount, I tightened the two screws, the two holes did not match, so I put the disk on the rubber bands from the mount. Block by Fractal Design, tower. Price! Three months later changed and fell more than twelve thousand.

I must say right away that the experience of using it is 1 day! =) I bought 4 of these drives along with a Qnap D4 NAS to replace my old NAS. The bottom line is that 4 disks make a lot of noise. You can hear it well, the sounds are different for every taste, it’s hard to sleep indoors with this device, so I recommend using the disks for their intended purpose - for servers that are somewhere in the server room and there they even yell obscenities, it doesn’t bother anyone for now works.

Pros
  • Volume, speed and reliability characteristics - this is the reason why I bought this drive. Reliability will show time. Everything is ok here.
Cons
  • Silent? Seriously? No.

I could not defeat the noise inside the case. If you remove contact with the metal, it will turn out exactly, but I can’t do it in my case. Before the final installation, I had it lying outside, just on a book, while I copied a few terabytes from my old hard drives. And the sound was practically inaudible, but in the case during active work it’s already straight tyr-tyr-tyr. This sound does not bother me personally, let it rumble as much as you like, but it can infuriate someone else in the…

Pros
  • Large volume. All the same size.
Cons
  • Pretty noisy. I did not find the declared speed (maybe I'm doing something wrong?). The 5 terabyte partition was defragmented for almost a week.

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Disgusting, I don't recommend it to anyone!

The HC530 emits a click sound every 5 seconds when idle. On the same day of purchase, I handed it back to the store, they already sent it to the service. Already along the way I got acquainted with the reviews of the owners of the HC 530, as well as about smaller hard drives (WD of the same Ultrastar line). Some people write that they have a similar knock, but some people write that they don’t have this knock of heads every few seconds! In particular, we are talking about the HC 530. 1. "I…

Pros
  • fast and cold
Cons
  • knocking heads in idle every 4-5 seconds

Bought three of these HDDs here at Revain. They work on my file server. The note that came with it said that Western Digital had bought HGST so please register it on the HGST website as HGST still offers warranty. I entered each of the three serial numbers individually to register for the warranty. EVERY TIME the page said "not in our database", ie received a warranty claim.

Pros
  • Nice thing
Cons
  • Bad instructions

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Not retail. Clearly OEM. Hard drive turned off.

It took me few hours to overcome the power disable function problem. This is NOT advertised as an OEM drive so the sale is misleading. The Power Disconnect Feature (PWDIS) is intended for remote servers and is not intended for sale to general business and home computer owners. Instead, it is better to buy a retail version of the WD Purple or Red (7200 rpm) drive. I hope mine keeps working. (By the way, disabling PWDIS is quite simple, see photo). SELLER MUST PROVIDE AT LEAST ONE PROPER CABLE TO

Pros
  • Doping 🔥
Cons
  • Updates

Revainrating 5 out of 5

RETAIL Quality 8TB Drives at a Great Price

HGST drives have proven to be 100% reliable and these 8TB drives are no exception. (As far as I know, they're marked WD, but their HGST part number starts with "HUS". Note that you can't check warranty coverage on Western Digital's website. You'll have to google "HGST warranty" and scroll through the menu until you find the link to the HGST RMA disk, when you enter the serial number you will get a confirmation of the time left.One last point, I am talking about disks sold by Serverpartdeals who

Pros
  • Best
Cons
  • Almost Everything is Available

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Works great in the Mac Pro silver case. Installation time 60 seconds.

Perfect and quiet operation. It's formatted for Windows, but when I turned on my Mac Pro it was recognized immediately and in about 30 seconds the Mac formatted the drive to the more efficient HFS+ (macOS). The performance is excellent. The packaging for these discs is top notch. The WD units come with end brackets and each drive also comes in a separate box. Discs are sealed and individually labeled on both the disc and the Mylar vacuum bag. In terms of performance, they are great! They are…

Pros
  • Easy to use
Cons
  • Waiting time too long

Revainrating 5 out of 5

The best hard drive for everything

I know people get that silly idea that they need a high speed HDD or even an SSD for high performance, but it's a silly idea because it there is no such thing as high quality or durable hard drives in high speed cases or solid state drives. Engines wear out over time, and solid-state media simply lose their ability to store data on each write-back. I've been using Western Digital Enterprise Edition hard drives since they were called. They were red for a while and then gold for some reason (not…

Pros
  • Few competitors
Cons
  • are unreliable