I do not recommend purchasing used hard drives from any third party Sellers because there is no way to know how that hard drive was used (and possibly used so much that the service life is almost

This hard drive did the job in my dental scanner computer

Good price and excellent specs for this hardened server level drive

If the hard drive you get has had this packaging torn open previously and taped up, reject the shipment as that drive is NOT new

The hard drive is SEALED in a magnetic bag with a yellow Western Digital watermark on the bottom, and this bag cannot be opened without being physically torn or cut open

Sellers peddling used drives they advertised as new, & authenticating the real deal9 - Closing thoughts – justifying this kind of drive for home-use applications------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 - WESTERN DIGITAL’S Re/RE4 LINEUPThe Western Digital Re/RE line is Western Digital’s enterprise-grade hard disk drives available in both SATA and SAS interfaces

Between the speed, reliability, and affordability, these are absolutely fantastic drives for a RAID setup.----------------------------2 - THE

Great drive - great price !

caution purchasing hard drives on Amazon altogether

If you need a fast & reliable hard drive that is capable of virtually any application need, the Re is a solid pick

and I want to thoroughly defend my reasoning on why I think the Re is one of the finest hard drives made

Many used hard drives on Amazon are also sold as “refurbished” but in reality they are simply used drives marketed in a fashion to make it sound as if you

If you want to utilize the full read & write capability of this drive and you are using it as an external hard drive, you will need to use a high/super-speed port such as USB 3.0, Thunderbolt, or

As Google’s hard drive testing has shown, failure rates tend to be much higher at the 0-1 month mark and the 4+ year mark than they do during times in between

I have purchased has survived the initial stress testing to simulate the break-in time when hard drives with manufacturing issues tend to fail during...and those are pretty intense tests so this is a good sign

The RE4 was a highly successful drive ranging in capacities of 250 GB to 2 TB

It runs at 7200-RPM (which by default is considerably noisier than the 5400-RPM hard drives) and it was built with the intention for commercial usage, meaning audible sound probably wasn’t given much design attention since speed & reliability are the front-runners

I bought this to replace a hard drive for an IT customer and it works great.

and I want to thoroughly defend my reasoning on why I think the Re is one of the finest hard drives made

If you need a fast & reliable hard drive that is capable of virtually any application need, the Re is a solid pick

During the RE4’s run, Western Digital got a lot of business from people who swore by the RE4’s capabilities and used it for mission-critical applications in which poor hard drive performance or premature failure could come at a tremendous financial or human cost

If you open up most of the pre-packaged external hard drives, you will quickly see that most have the lower-end drives and these drives do not have the best speed nor do they have the best reliability

I am sorry to say that many Sellers are either intentionally or unintentionally misleading customers when it comes to hard drives

Great drive

After reading alot of reviews of Solid state drives I believe these drives are more reliable than the best current solid state drives.

HOME-USE APPLICATIONSA lot of people opt for a standard consumer-grade external (and internal) hard drive

You also know virtually no hard drive warranties cover data recovery, even if the drive was faulty

They are silent, cool temp drives, the programs measure their temperature.

If you get a Western Digital product in a bag sealed only with a sticker or tape, I would be sure to use the WD Warranty Checker to verify it is just in an older/different packaging rather than a repackaging used by a Seller to make a hard drive appear brand new when it is not

But if you are reading this review, it means you may be considering a different route: purchasing the hard drive and enclosure separately, putting them together yourself, and making your own hard drive

If that is what you are thinking of, I highly recommend it because you can purchase a much nicer enclosure and a much, much, much nicer hard drive for around the same price

The drive is fast, with noticeably greater transfer rates over my old drives.- Folks said the drive would be noisy, but I don't find that to be the case at all.

I just bought this hard drive from Amazon.

Due to the prevalence of fake performance hard drives being sold on Amazon, as well as the frequent sale of used hard drives that were advertised as brand new, I strongly caution buyers to be certain they are purchasing from a reliable vendor with good feedback (and a solid return policy), and that they utilize the tools Western Digital provides to authenticate their product as being genuine and new (I will discuss this in further detail later.)I apologize in advance for the length of this review, but I enjoy talking about hard drives and there is a lot to talk about with the

Virtually all hard drive makers produce both low-end and flagship hard drives because they need to produce products capable storing everything from the occasional home backup to the software used to operate a nuclear power plant

The drive is fast, with noticeably greater transfer rates over my old drives.- Folks said the drive would be noisy, but I don't find that to be the case at all.

If that is what you are thinking of, I highly recommend it because you can purchase a much nicer enclosure and a much, much, much nicer hard drive for around the same price