Went in place quickly and easily. Formatted it to make sure all ok. Then put 10+ terabytes data on it immediately, and have adding to that every day! Reliable. Odd problems with MS Windows as when I first click on the drive in my computer, it takes a short while to properly list the files... This seems to be a windows problem and nothing to do with the drive...

I don't often write reviews, but I took a chance on this one so I figured I'd help some other shoppers out. I had similar concerns about warranty / gray market / etc. I purchased a set of these from Oceanside and the drives came individually well packaged and in good condition. Serial numbers checked out on WD/HGST support site. I even went so far as to contact them via chat to confirm. All is good and they carry the 5 year warranty. I've been using them for a month in a Synology NAS and they seem great. Only con is they are quite loud when reading/writing but I think that's just the nature of the beast. Reason for my review is that the info is sparse and I figured this may help someone. It was between these drives and the Seagate EXOS x18, but I'm a long time WD fan so wanted to try these out.

Do. Not. Buy. These. Drives. I messaged the seller directly to confirm that these are retail drives with full retail warranty. I placed 2 orders for a total of 6 drives. 5 of them were OEM drives manufactured Jun 27, 2021, (under LIMITED OEM WARRANTY) and the 6th was an AMZNHE18 with NO WARRANT Y. Western Digital will not allow Retail customers to claim warranties on OEM drives because they are *typically* used fundamentally differently between homes and data centers. Do. Not. Buy. These. Drives. All 6 are promptly being returned at the sellers expense. I suggest everyone check every serial number of drives they purchase to verify warranty status. Western Digital makes incredible drives, but some do fail, especially if they're not used for what they're designed. I have a couple WD RED PRO drives that aren't compatible with my RAID controller.... Had them for 3 years and they're still covered by warranty.

I have 3 of these drives now and none have had a single issue. I bought this from Serverpartdeals as they had great reviews and shipping was delayed a few days but thats on UPS, not Serverpartdeals. I checked the warranty with WD and it is 5 years as i hoped. These drives are a bit on the noisy side when doing heavy writes but seem to quiet down significantly once broken in, in my experience at least. Will do business with Serverpartdeals again in the future for sure

First - the drive itself is a good drive - Backblaze Drive Stats rates the DC HC series highly, and they are solid high-capacity CMR drives. They make a little noise, but it's not unpleasant, and I've gotten used to it. I put them in Synology NASes, and they work well there. The last set of 2 I ordered were fulfilled by Amazon and shipped out in their little shipping boxes loose in a plastic bag like you get a t-shirt in, and they had obviously been through some stuff. One was DOA, I returned both because I had no faith that the other one would last. The replacements came the same way, but at least stacked so they didn't bang around on each other. The last two sets here I've ordered are either out of region or OEM no warranty. The warranty thing is an interesting call - if the drive is bad enough to require a warranty replacement, what are the chances I'd be able to wipe it before exchange, and would I exchange an unwiped drive? For $300 I might not risk it, so a warranty on a bad drive turns out not to be much of a warranty in practice anyway. So great drives, but purchasing this way has compromises, and go in with your eyes open...

If you want a data center class drive that will last forever and a day WD/UltraStar/HGST is the way go to. I literally dropped this several times swapping it between bays and it spun up afterward like "wut?" Only thing I would suggest to a prospective buyer is GET HDD LLF and do a full drive surface low level format before anything. It's just a safety measure to make sure any bad clusters are marked out (though I've never gotten a bad cluster on an HGST). Then when you format it use make sure to use something more advanced than windows built in format. You want the drive to be GPT and you want to format it as NTFS with maximum cluster size (64kB) this will reduce seek latency because max cluster size reduces MFT reference/seek time. And again, you want to do this is as a deep format, not a quick format; the LLF and deep format on the 16TB took me about 16.5 Hours for each operation; the drive does maintain a steady state sequential read and write speed of 256MB/s. (and in case you're like "where's my full 16TB?" when they say it's 16TeraBYTES they literally mean 16 trillion bytes, which works out to 14.55 proper TB [this is completely normal: 16,000,000,000,000 Bytes /1024 /1024 /1024 /1024 = 14.55TB]

Have been using this 16TB hard drive since 2021. Very happy with it. Very dependable, will buy another one soon for my new build. Western digital builds very good drives.

I bought 2 drives. One only lasted one year and then began to make horrible thumping sounds...fortunately, it was a backup disk and I could keep working.

Disco duro SATA de calidad empresarial, ideal para sistemas de almacenamiento. Instalado en un NAS Synology DS1618+ funciona a la perfección 24x7.

Produit neuf sous blister scellé, important quand on voit des comm sur d’autres vendeurs, crystaldisk me confirme neuf, 0 zéro heure d’utilisation, un bon produit pour avoir de la place Installé dans un Zappiti sans soucis copie des fichiers à 200mb/ sec ( dans mon pc sur le port sata de ma carte mère)

Runs cool, is very quiet and has massive capacity. Cant ask for better.

I was extremely lucky to grab a deal around 30K I got this. Normally the price varies between 40-44K. Works prefectly. Saved a lot of bucks, decent performance in Synology NAS

Tengo varios de este modelo en otras capacidades que ahí siguen dando guerra sin inmutarse 24x7x364. Porque no le pongo 5 estrellas? (Pq el producto las merece) por el embalaje. Un poco de papel burbuja y a correr. No quiero ni pensar los golpes que se llevan en el camino. Compré dos y uno ya llegó muerto. El otro por suerte (o eso creía) estaba bien, pero terminó cayendo a los dos meses. Mal por Amazon o quien sea el que los almacena y envía pq semejante producto con el valor que tiene y lo delicado que es, embalarlo así es de verguenza. Por lo demás como siempre devolverlos ha sido sencillo.