WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Enterprise HDD - WUH721414ALE6L4 (Renewed)

Been a year now. So far so good

Arrived in good condition. I have been using it as a backup drive that gets written to twice a day. I have had no issues at all so far. It is currently holding over 6TB of data. Would buy again without hesitation.

I've had this since March and seems to be a factory recertified drive! Runs smooth so far!

April 25, 2024 update:1 of the 3 drives purchased has failed, just over a year of use. That seems a little short, even for recertified drives. 90 days isn't long enough to see if you have a good drive.Tech on Tech was the seller I bought the drives from for those who were curious.Original review:I bought 3 to use in a NAS. These appear to be fast data center factory recertified hard drives. They have "recertified" marked on the side, the label on the top of the hard drive is marked as such with late 2022/early 2023 recertified dates as well as a clean SMART info according to Crystal Disk Info. No error was detected from any of the drives.No warranty is stated but the 90 day return period should hopefully be enough time to weed out a faulty drive. Data center drives are one of the longest lived drives so hopefully these have a long 24/7 usage life. Will update if these end up being a disappointment.

I wanted to add storage to my 2020 desktop with an Intel motherboard and a 1 TB SSD drive running Windows 11. The $ per TB cost of this 14 TB HDD seemed almost too good to be true so I was a little skeptical and assumed there must be some downside. I am happy to report that so far I have found no downside and it has, if anything, exceeded my expectations. The drive is quiet, seems fast, of course not SSD fast, but HDD fast, worked with my existing SATA and PSU connectors, and didn't require anything other than the software that is already in Windows to initialize and do a quick format. I did have to Google "how to initialize and format a hard drive in Windows 11" to figure that last part out but once I did it was surprisingly easy. The drive is bare bones with no mounting hardware or screws. In my case, the mounting hardware came with my computer case so that was not a problem. For those that don't already know this, Windows uses the binary standard for a terabyte which equals 1,099,511,627,776 bytes so it will report the capacity as 12.7 TB but will also show that there are 14,000,500,764,672 bytes of free space available.

Have been using these drives for a few weeks and have had no issues. Had bought smaller refurbished HGSTs previously from the same seller (GoHardDrive) and all have worked perfectly for a few years as personal storage/backup drives.

Both of the drives I received were listed at zero hours.Currently healing my array right now so it’s a bit early to tell how good these drives are.Believe me I will update this if I receive an error.

When I first received it, the HDD SMART information showed that it had been used for 18 hours, which was different from the 0 hours that other people had received, which made me sad, but today I confirmed that there were 100% no problems after testing the HDD for 18 hours and 40 minutes.It took a long time, but I am grateful for giving me a good product that I hope will be used after checking for errors.In addition, WD product registration is possible and product registration can receive a 3-month warranty.