HGST Ultrastar He8 Helium (HUH728080ALE601) 8TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5in Enterprise Hard Drive (Renewed)

A bit noisy but is comparable to many drives. Good performance

Great drives and great customer service, I originally bought in 2023 and one of the drives gave out in November 2025. I contacted customer support, they sent me a return label and sent me a new drive. Great service!!

I ordered two of these 8TB drives. Amazing price, and drives pulled from other data centers are usually ~5yrs used. The first drive had 3.8years of power-on time and the second drive had 5.8years of power-on time. Not super happy about the 5.8years on one of the drives because it said ~3years, but I don't mind. At this price, it's worth it, especially with the 5year warranty they come with. These drives are cheap enough to buy multiple, run in a mirror, and still be cheaper that a single brand new 8TB. The mirror adds redundancy if one of the drives fail. The packaging and shipping material was also what I like to see. They came in anti-static air-tight bags and shock absorbent packaging. Quality packing shows the care that the company gives these drives.

Seller (Worldwide Product Importer) lied about being used "for about 3 Years." S.M.A.R.T. report shows that the drives have have almost 60,000 hours!!! No errors reported on my drive, but it's a risk to buy from these people.

New the drive was a gamble. Came with relatively low hours considering it is a renewed drive (24k hours) but ended up failing. Nothing they could have seen but they stood by their warranty, which is huge. Would buy from them again any day.

I've ordered about 26 of these drives over the last couple of years. They have been fantastic in a Raid 6 moderate usage environment with low noise and reasonable heat generation (per spec). I have only had one drive fail in the 2 years, so had an opportunity to see whether the RMA process was going to be straightforward or painful. I'm pleased to report that (so far) it has been seamless. They asked for the drive details and the order, responded quickly with an RMA number and have been very responsive. I will likely buy more as time goes on. Very good deal and outstanding service.

Use this as the 3rd stage backup for blue iris videos, so it is month old video. If I have not reviewed and saved video by then, then it probably isn't that important. I would absolutely not trust this as my main or only storage for anything. It is cheap and the states hours are misleading. But careful monitoring in a more robust system should be fine.

I have had terrible, terrible luck with a major brand of hard drives that is seemingly always on the deepest discount during sales -- I won't name names but let's say "water fence" -- so to replace these crappy drives as they inevitably fail, I started looking into refurbished enterprise-grade drives, thinking the higher build quality might offset the fact that they're used. I have yet to be disappointed by HGST; I have bought a few now, and while they do show runtime in their logs, they also show excellent performance qualities, too. They are simply built to a higher standard than the drives that will no longer tempt me every Black Friday. If you are curious, I'd say it's worth the risk, as I've got at least 4 of these things running now with no trouble or even warning signs whatsoever.