HGST/Hitachi (HUA723020ALA641) Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 64MB 7200RPM 3.5 (Enterprise Grade) SATA III 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive

I first got this drive to be a backup but I liked it so well that I bought another for a system drive in a medium quality gaming computer. The first one is 3 years old and is rock solid. No problems at all from either drive. Over the past 15 years Ive switched back and forth between WD and Seagate drives, but I am becoming a quick fan of these Hitachi drives even though they are a WD product in essence. It may be mind over matter, but I do like this brand. Will buy again from Amazon when I need another one.

I actually ordered/bought a different drive (Hitachi 2TB HDS723020BLA642) but was sent this drive by mistake. I replaced the drive that came with my HP PC (it came with the Hitachi 2TB HDS723020BLA642 that I actually ordered). I used the Acronis 2016 cloning feature (terrible ordeal). This Ultrastar, as mentioned by another user/reviewer does seems a little slower--the time for booting Win7 from the Welcome screen to my Desktop screen seems at least twice as long as it previously took, so much so that the first couple of times I thought that my computer/Win7 had frozen up. Whats annoying--and I imagine Ill get use to it--is the loudness of the drive while operating. Lots of that typical rapid clicking, but so, so much more noticeable than with any drive Ive used in the past. As Im sitting here typing this, the drive continually makes loud, short, quick read/write operations; for me this is what is most annoying. I did email the seller before opening and installing this drive, wanting to make sure the seller would address any problem I might have with a replacement drive (i.e., the model I actually ordered) and he said go ahead and give it a try, that the seller would stand behind their drive(s). I only installed this drive yesterday but so far it seems to be operating OK, the slowness and noise notwithstanding. It was such a hassle to get this new and newly cloned drive to work that I am not going to mess with it unless it begins to fail. BTW, I opted to replace my old drive because the Acronis backup software repeatedly reported backup failures due to errors on my HDD; I had to run Windwos Check Disk with auto corrections to get the disk error-free again (takes about 4-5 hours). This occurred a few times; I thought Id better get a new drive before things got worse.

Flawless !.

As advertised, shipped fast, arrived OK.

Exactly as it was described, great buy.

Good performance and I think I will be buying one more shortly. only thing is this 7K3000 is not available on HGST website and this product was built only for specific server users like hp / dell for big company, but as they have spare such hdd comes out to individual customers.. this hdd is NEW non-used - sealed packed. new series is 7K4000 Ultrastar

This is a decent hard drive with 2tb of storage. I use it as a game drive and dont really have any problems. The only thing I encounter is loading problems when playing kingdom come deliverance but that game is pretty buggy anyway. It usually makes clicking noises that definitely arent quiet but it doesnt really bother me. Its not super fast or anything but it is a hard drive after all. Its a good value for 2tb.

Great drives, even if the 3000 series is a bit dated now. I have 12 of these drives in a RAID 6 array. Great performance, reliability and value for their class. Brad

After installing this in a machine build for Christmas for my son, we finally put some files on it a couple of days ago... the drive is non functional after putting a couple gigs of data on it, now I have lost those files. We got the click of death. I cant retrieve, save to, or view any documents on the drive. So disappointed.

Drive is working well. It is fast and quiet. Cant comment yet on longevity as I have only had it for about 2 months...