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Kevin
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2025
Wow! It stores files so well!
Julio Bermudez
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2025
Works as advertised; however, it is quite loud at times.
typicalcustomer
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2025
I am going to try to keep this as simple as possible. The hard drive you think is dead is perfectly fine; however, it will not run on some equipment, especially older equipment, due to a conflict caused by the PWDIS pin (the third pin on the SATA power connection). The PWDIS (power disable) pin on this drive will detect electrical current from some equipment that the drive will interpret as a signal to automatically power down. There is nothing wrong with the drive. It is behaving as designed. The connection to incompatible equipment is the issue.Fortunately, there is an easy solution. Prevent the PWDIS pin from connecting to your equipment and the drive will work. Covering the PWDIS pin with a tiny strip (1.5mm wide) of masking tape will work as a temporary solution. Kapton tape (which is non-conductive, thin, and heat-resistant) is an even better option. Nail polish might also work. There are many other methods, but all you have to do is physically prevent the connection to the PWDIS pin and everything will be fine. It’s really that simple.As for the hard drive itself, the housing construction is unimpressive compared to other drives, but that is not a big deal. The drive is not excessively loud and has minimal vibrations. It does not generate much heat. After a TB of data writing, I recorded the surface temperature of the housing as only 35.2 C (95.3 F). This was sitting in the open air with no fan. I have written a total of 5TB to the drive so far without any errors.As an added note, my 14TB drive had just 12.7TB of total space. That’s 90.71%. It is irritating how the memory storage industry calculates drive sizes. Just know your drives will probably always have less capacity than advertised.The drive is a fine drive, but I am giving it a weak rating because the PWDIS pin issue has not been properly revealed to the buyers. Almost no one buys a hard drive expecting to physically modify it before it will work. This information should be presented clearly in the item description. My drive did arrive with an adapter and a flyer with some general information about the power disable feature, but that adapter was not going to work with my particular application, and it may not work for yours. If you had to read this review to figure out why your drive is not working, that shows the supplier is not adequately describing the product being offered.
Ray
Reviewed in Mexico on February 26, 2025
Hasta el momento me ha funcionado muy bien
Kindle Customer
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2025
Love the fact that hard drives of this size are available at a reduced price. Though renewed, I have had no issues with this drive and others. Also, purchasing from Amazon, knowing your return policy, gives me confidence that I am protected.
Basix
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2025
Works fine as a NAS drive.
Stephen Newman
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2024
Ordered 2 of the drives, left them unopened for 4 months before I was ready to use them. Turns out they won't power up at all. Not installed, not on my external dock or any other format. The drives won't power up at all.Attempted to communicate with the seller, no support options available. Would NOT recommend buying these drives.
Eduardo
Reviewed in Mexico on July 8, 2024
Perfecto para respaldos o biblioteca digital
Kiyoshi Matsutsuyu
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2024
Uses slightly less power than many 14TB drives, has a bit of an issue with power delivery (get a MOLEX to SATA connector to side step this), but the price is great for the speed, 512mb cache, etc.
Joseph R Miramonti
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2023
Good trade off -- a lightly used enterprise drive to use for consumer purposes. No problems so far. I've bough seven of this model from different vendors and all seem like good value. 14 TB seems to be a sweet spot at the mining for cost per TB.A little louder than a standard consumer drive, but that's a reasonable for the lowered cost and slightly higher speed.
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