WD SE 2TB Datacenter Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD2000F9YZ

For installation in a server these are working great. Haven't had any trouble with hardware recognition, data transfer rate or HDD tempature. Love them at this price point. If it's reliability is maintained long term I will be very happy.

Instantly recognized by my system. I formatted this drive and transferred all of my movies and DVD collection onto it, from several different smaller drives, all onto this one drive. Nice. High quality storage drive. I look forward to many years use from this unit.However, one thing I see that surprised me is it is advertised as an "SE" drive but what arrived is an "RE" series drive. For Data center purposes, RE drives are the higher quality series with a higher durability rating and a longer service warranty. So that's a pleasant upgrade. Either series would be more than durable enough for home or small office use.DISCLAIMER: As a participant in the Amazon Vine Program,I rigorously evaluate new products and provide authentic,unbiased reviews based solely on my firsthand experiences and perceptions.Please note that I do not receive any compensation for my reviews.

I have a pair of these (2TB) in a tower server configured as RAID1 with mdadm. The server's in my home, where it occupies a sort of a halfway position - it has considerably more work to do than your typical home server, but less than a datacenter server would have. I replaced two Samsung 1TB drives not because they had failed (they hadn't) but because they were coming to the end of their warranty. Not wanting to do this again for a while, I picked the enterprise-grade WD-Se drive rather than the consumer-level WD Red, partly because of the longer warranty (5 years vs. 3) and partly for quicker throughput and better performance.So far they have not disappointed. The drives were operational out of the box and behave just like any other SATA device. The resulting array seems quicker than it did before. I don't know if the drives are noisy or not, because the server lives in the basement.Regarding the other commenter's note about the SATA connection, I didn't notice that. The cables I used seemed secure but I have to admit I didn't check that specifically. Now that I'm aware of it, I'll keep it as something to look at when (or if) I open this server up for physical maintenance someday.**EDIT FOLLOWS**Follow-up after 11 months: the drives are still performing flawlessly after 11 months in 24/7 service. SMART reports zero raw read errors, zero reallocated sectors, zero seek errors, zero bad blocks for both drives. In fact, all the error-related metrics are zero for both units, and the error logs are empty.I couldn't be happier with my purchase. These are solid drives, and have run perfectly since the day they were put into service. I would absolutely buy them again.**SECOND EDIT FOLLOWS**These drives have now been in 24/7 service for nearly two and a half years. SMART reports are still completely clean, as before. They have never given me a tick of trouble, ever. Highly recommended.

I have a Seagate NAS device from probably back in 2009 which had 4 1TB drives in it. Just now, at the end of 2024, one of those drives failed. I purchased 4 of these 2TB WD Enterprise Class drives in the listing to replace the entire array (can't be too careful, especially when the original drives are probably on borrowed time), popped them in, and the NAS is back in action. No muss, no fuss. Easy as could be. Drives were well-packaged and in new condition.

Unlike most standard SATA2, SATA3, and SAS drives, this series does not support locking SATA cables. The drives are intended for use in server RAID backplanes. Regular SATA2 and SATA3 cables with latching tabs on top of the connector will fit loosely, but older SATA2 cables with locking knuckles on the interior of the connector should secure much better, unfortunately these are harder to come by.I would not recommend these for RAID use in standard desktops, there is too great of a risk the cables will become loose over time and degrading the array.Update: 2013/09/15Been using these drives for a while now and yes, the connection is too loose for none-backplane use. Every time I need to move the computer or open the side, I have to double check the cable because typically at least one will have become loose. I will likely need to use hot glue to secure them later.Update: 2014/02/07I had benchmarked the drives at some point in December. I don't have the results of that handy, but I had run them as both single and 2 drive RAID0 and RAID1 on both Intel RAID and an LSI 6G SAS RAID card. Compared to a pair of same sized 15k SAS Seagate HDDs and a pair of WD Raptor 10k's, these WD Se's preform quite well. I wish I had a couple RE4's in that system, because I have the feeling these are preforming very similarly to an RE.This is a rather impressive drive considering the price point is under an RE4. I'm bumping my review up 2 stars for this reason, but still dining it at least one for the non-standard drive end connector. These are only suitable if use in a backplane (ie, not a normal desktop) or with good SAS cables that positively latch without a topside catch.

So far so good. Using for storing data as part of a crypto farm. No issues so far.

Did not work. Received prompt refund.

PRO I was impressed with the price . It fit perfectly in the DVR for our security system.CON. Delivery time was off by a week . Don't be in a hurry to get it