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About this product
Product Identifiers
BrandHGST
MPN0F12455
Ean0691160837874
GTIN0691160837874, 0829686001961
UPC0691160837874
ModelHUA723020ALA640
eBay Product ID (ePID)23034419065
Product Key Features
Storage Capacity2TB
Cache64MB
Form Factor3.5 in
Rotation Speed7200RPM
TypeInternal Desktop Drive
InterfaceSATA III
Product LineUltrastar
Dimensions
Weight1.52119lbs.
Additional Product Features
Custom BundleNo
Ratings and reviews
Most relevant reviews
- 29 Dec, 2015
Hitachi Ultrastar 2TB 64MB 7200RPM 3.5" SATA 3 Desktop Hard Drive
How I used this drive: This drive is used for backing up my ancient Seagate/Maxtor ATA Fat 16 and Fat 32 hard drives. Using Seagate Disk Wizard allowed me to back up most of these old drives to this Seagate hard drive. This software is available online at the Seagate Website but you must use a Maxtor or Seagate drive as the source drive for the Seagate software to work. I formatted this new HD a week ago on my Windows 8 laptop through my Vantec USB 3 interface. I used the MBR format option and NTFS using the Seagate Disk Wizard software. This formatting task was done in less than 2 minutes including activation of the one 2TB partition. Software loaded effortlessly on my Windows 8 laptop and my Windows 7 desktops. Windows 7 and 8 recognized the drive immediately after format. Full transfer and compression of one of my old 120GB NTFS ATA drive to the new Seagate took 2.5 hours. It is nice to finally have all my pictures and old documents backed up in one place. I am convinced that this drive would make a good boot drive for a typical desktop or a second drive on a fast gamer machine. Good: This is a good all around well balanced HD in size, price, and speed. Bad: Cannot be used in a Laptop. Thank you Hitachi for the decent price for this large sized hard drive!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 19 Dec, 2015
Best Hard Drive on the Planet According to a Backblaze Research Report
Of all computer components, the most critical is the hard drive. You have your OS, application programs, and work files stored. The latter is the most important. Spreadsheets, word processor files, emails, photos, homework, announcements, work related files, and anything important are saved on this device. When the hard drive crashes and there is no backup, everything is lost - many are not replaceable and some represent hours of work. Not as important is the boot drive containing your operating system and application programs. When they are gone, time is needed to reinstall the software. For these reasons, common sense dictates the purchase of a reliable storage unit. . So, which brand is the best and what is to be avoided? . The definitive research on the longevity of hard drives was published in EXTREMTECH on April 10, 2015. BackBlaze tested 41,000 units in a three year period. The results were very informative. The best was HGST with 1.4% failures. Hitachi followed with 2.0%. Western Digital had a respectable 7.6%. The worse was Seagate with 40%. . For your information, HGST, Hitachi, and IBM products are identical. IBM sold its hard drive division to Hitachi. In turn, the department was sold to HGST years later. HGST is a subsidiary of Western Digital. . From personal experiences in the past two years, I concur with the study. My 3TB HGST DeskStar has lasted six years and still works. My six 2TB Seagate Barracudas have expired between one month to 1.1 years. My four WD Enterprise Grade HDs have died between one month to 2.1 years. Three replacement hard drives from Western Digital and Seagate also malfunctioned within this time period. . . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . . UPDATE . The latest Backblaze report came on December 11, 2015. It detailed the failure rate among hard drives purchased on three years. Seagate had the highest. Among 1TB hard drives, this brand had the following failure rates: 2013 - 129.88%, 2014 - 66.01%, and 2015 - 222.77%. Among 2TB drives, the failure rates were better: 2013 - 43.08%, 2014 - 30.94%, and 2015 - 28.46%. . As a comparison, the highest failure rate for its 1TB competitors is much lower. Western Digital Green had the following: 2013 - 4.29%, 2014 - 3.90%, and 2015 - 9.91%. Toshiba claimed the record for competing 2TB drives: 2013 - 6.93%, 2014 - 3.68%, and 2015 - 2.80%.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 26 Apr, 2021
Reliable!!!
Have been using Hitachi Ultrastar drives since 2005 from eBay...Perfect, reliable never a problem.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 23 Dec, 2015
Can't beat it at this price
It's as quick a drive as you can ask for without getting a SSD, the only complaint I would have is that it is not quiet at all. If you're picky about that, walk away. But as far as performance, absolutely pick this up.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 22 Jun, 2017
Good drive...
The drive works as it should, nice speeds aswell.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 26 Mar, 2016
The Hard Drive is great
It what they showed it works good it's what I was expecting.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 31 Jul, 2020
Easy to install, quick boot up.
product was correct fit. booted right up.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 01 Apr, 2017
Works like it should
I was able to just plug and play with no issues.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Refurbished
- 07 Mar, 2017
Hard drive works good
I like it but is kind of loud ! But was is in good working condition. Thank you !!!☀Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 14 Jan, 2016
Drives Work Great
Installed the drives in a SATA SAN (4 drives in a RAID 5). All drives are working great and are very fast for SATA.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
