Western Digital 1 TB RE3 SATA 3 Gb/s 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Enterprise Hard Drive - WD1002FBYS

I bought two of these to use in a QNAP TS-212P NAS array, since it was on QNAP's approved drive list. I was a little nervous when I received the drives and the mfg date on the drives was in 2009, but they installed with no problems and I have burned them in for about 30 hours. They provide good response time in a RAID-1 set, and now my home files are secure and accessible from any device in the house. I get about ~400Mbps write speed to the drive pair on a GigE connection, and the full 100Mbps on a 100Mbps connection for a large file write. These drives are a little bit loud, but I like that they are an enterprise grade SATA drive, and I trust the Western Digital name since I have always had good reliability from their products. You really can't beat these for the price. I saved about $50 vs buying a pair of some other type of 1TB drive. UPDATE: Original post above was from December 2013. I just bought another pair of these drives in Aug 2021 to replace the two original drives that have been running flawlessly in my QNAP TS-212P for almost 8 years. I removed a drive, installed the new one, let it rebuild the mirror from RAID, and then did the remaining drive. Now I have two new drives and maybe another 8 years worth of flawless service ahead. Great product...

I had put together a RAID 5 array "just for kicks" on a workstation, but using the non-RAID "Blue" line of consumer 1TB drives which I had on hand. I decided I really liked the RAID set up so I determined to get real RAID drives (with the very important TLER set up for RAID) as that seems to be the biggest "uh oh" with RAID 5 using consumer drives. Ordered 3 of these based on the very good price. As other reviewers have noted, these are WD RE3 drives obviously produced for the DELL enterprise label. Mine were all sealed in static bags and brand new "raw" drives, without handling marks or use noted. The price was right and the product is good. I swapped the new RE3 drives one-at-a time into an existing RAID 5 array, which mean that each drive went through at least one or two full rebuild processes. Smooth as silk and great performance. Buyers' note A quick check of google will reveal this size of RE3 drive was introduced in 2008/9 so of course you should understand these are probably close outs and not likely full warranty units And at $50 a pop, that's just fine with me! The value proposition is very good. I'm so satisfied I just ordered three more just to have them on hand.

It's hard to get me to say I love anything or anybody, except my wife. So I will say I like these drives, they were a little dated, but work most excellently. Make no mistake they were designed as storage drives, on an enterprise level, at which they do the job fantastically. I am not going to go to the trouble of calculating the kbs but I did a big transfer just last night, 27 files, about 24gb total in under 3 minutes on an esata connected drive caddy. It doesn't matter how fast really that your processor is during a transfer of that size, its all in how fast the drive can write, I was impressed, but still not in love:)

I must be rough on my drives. Cooling usually is around 32C, but power-on times are 100%. Low activity, but I notice when there are failures. This drive, the WD1002FBYS, is one of the few drives that, with proper installation and active cooling, continues to run. I bought one in October of 2010, and it's just as happy as a clam. My WD15EARS and WD15EARX drives last about 6 months. This is on a decent UPS, surge protection, etc. So, it's a little more expensive, but it's more reliable. With the non-RE drives, you're looking at a much higher risk of data loss. Sure, backup copies and backups of backup copies, but there comes a time when even geeks like me tire of re-copying data, or even worse, losing multiple drives at the same time, and actually suffering loss. So save yourself the trouble. Spend the extra money and get a drive that is less likely to fail on you. My current "hasn't failed in over 10 months of power-on time" drive models are: * WD1002FBYS * ST32000542AS

***** UPDATE 5/29/2014 **** BOTTOM LINE IS WESTERN DIGITAL RE3 HARD DRIVES FROM 2 DIFFERENT VENDORS ARE BOTH USED SOLD AS NEW! I ordered another of these from a different supplier this time SD Peripherals. This hard drive is ALSO USED! OVER 19,900 HOURS, 830 DAYS!!!! Everyone is saying the hds do not have manufacture warranties. The Reason the hds do not have a warranty is because the manufacturs know the hds are USED so any warranty has to come from the seller. I will be contacting both Amazon and SD Peripherals. I already contacted the seller of the previous 4 hds 313 Technology and they made good saying it was just a mistake - they sold what they received but didn't test them. If you have ordered any of these, or are going to order, do yourself a huge favor and check the drives Smart stats with a tool like smartmontools. These guys are unloading OLD hard drives as NEW on Amazon. I actually had higher hopes for this drive because it came sealed in an anti static bag. So they are taking used HDs, resealing them and selling them as new hoping no one will check. This hd actually has errors reported in the smart dats as well as relocated bad sectors. "C:\Program Files (x86)\smartmontools\bin\smartctl.exe" -A -f brief X:\ smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [i686-w64-mingw32-win7(64)-sp1] (sf-6.2-1) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate POSR-K 110 110 051 - 2125500 3 Spin_Up_Time POS--K 253 253 021 - 1066 4 Start_Stop_Count -O--CK 100 100 000 - 14 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct PO--CK 190 190 140 - 80 7 Seek_Error_Rate -OSR-K 200 200 000 - 0 9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 073 073 000 - 19929 10 Spin_Retry_Count -O--CK 100 253 000 - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count -O--CK 100 253 000 - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count -O--CK 100 100 000 - 13 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 10 193 Load_Cycle_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 3 194 Temperature_Celsius -O---K 120 107 000 - 30 196 Reallocated_Event_Count -O--CK 143 143 000 - 57 197 Current_Pending_Sector -O--CK 193 192 000 - 1285 198 Offline_Uncorrectable ----CK 200 200 000 - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate ---R-- 200 200 000 - 0 ||||||_ K auto-keep |||||__ C event count ||||___ R error rate |||____ S speed/performance ||_____ O updated online |______ P prefailure warning Type <return> to exit: Copy of 1 of the errors from Smart stats. Notice the lifetime hours at this point were 19869 and the hd is now has 19929. When the hd was having errors it was pulled and sold as NEW. Error 355 [18] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 19869 hours (827 days + 21 ho urs) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle . After command completion occurred, registers were: ER -- ST COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC -- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- -- 40 -- 51 00 af 00 43 f5 00 3c ac 40 00 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x43f5003cac = 291 873242284 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FEATR COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- -- --------------- -------------------- 60 01 70 00 08 00 00 43 3c f4 db 40 08 14d+00:48:03.673 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 40 00 00 00 00 1d 45 e6 e5 40 08 14d+00:48:03.673 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 27 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 08 14d+00:48:03.673 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRE SS EXT [OBS-ACS-3] ec 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0 08 14d+00:48:03.672 IDENTIFY DEVICE ef 00 03 00 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0 08 14d+00:48:03.672 SET FEATURES [Set tra nsfer mode] ORIGINAL REVIEW**** I purchased 4 of these and all 4 are used with over 30,000 hours powered on. That is 3.5 yrs in use! Here is the smart info from one of the 4 hds. They are all similar. Look for the following lines towards the bottom of the smart info. 4 Start_Stop_Count -O--CK 100 100 000 - 58 9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 059 059 000 - 30581 === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital RE3 Serial ATA Device Model: WDC WD1002FBYS-18W8B0 Serial Number: WD-WMATV6075152 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 0acc18825 Add. Product Id: DELL(tm) Firmware Version: 03.00C09 User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 2.5, 3.0 Gb/s Local Time is: Tue May 20 15:13:00 2014 CDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled AAM feature is: Disabled APM feature is: Unavailable Rd look-ahead is: Enabled Write cache is: Enabled ATA Security is: Disabled, frozen [SEC2] Wt Cache Reorder: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (18600) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off supp ort. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 214) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x303f) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate POSR-K 200 200 051 - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time POS--K 253 253 021 - 1100 4 Start_Stop_Count -O--CK 100 100 000 - 58 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct PO--CK 200 200 140 - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate -OSR-K 200 200 000 - 0 9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 059 059 000 - 30581 10 Spin_Retry_Count -O--CK 100 253 000 - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count -O--CK 100 253 000 - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count -O--CK 100 100 000 - 57 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 47 193 Load_Cycle_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 10 194 Temperature_Celsius -O---K 120 107 000 - 30 196 Reallocated_Event_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector -O--CK 200 200 000 - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable ----CK 200 200 000 - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate ---R-- 200 200 000 - 0

When Windoze 10 wound up running very slowly with no viruses or malware found on my wife's machine I decided to move her over to Linux Mint 18. There were a number of issues with Windoze including a printer driver getting broken by a recent Windoze update. Linux on a test run properly identified her printer and worked perfectly. So I made a complete back up with an external 1TB drive but also wanted to keep the old drive with Windoze 10 on it as another backup just in case. I found this drive and it was a decent price. Received it yesterday and installed it in the HP desktop, installed Linux Mint and copied the data back to the new drive. The drive I received appears to be new, and doesn't show any errors so far but I'm going to be running some additional tests and will try registering with with WD for warranty. As always, make sure you have good backups since any drive can fail at any time, but so far this drive is looking really good and my wife's system is now running at least 10 times faster than it was with Windoze 10 on it. So if you are having performance issues with Windoze or just don't like Windoze checking in with the mothership you should check out Linux (Ubuntu or Mint) And this hard drive appears to be a very good deal.

Your usual Raid Enabled workhorse. Most of these have several years of service with only a fistful of power cycles on them. Which means they were used in data centers. That is what they were made for and now they get cycled out for newer 2.5'' or SSDs. They work just fine and probably have a few more years in them. WARNING: Do NOT get this sort of drive for use in a desktop computer. These have special firmware that is designed to work with battery backed RAID controllers. Their TLER feature (Time Limited Error Reporting) will report IO errors much faster than desktop drives do. The idea here is that the RAID controller is supposed to be able to recover the data from other drives and issue a write for the failed sectors, at which point the drive will reallocate the sector. This feature works very well if the drive indeed is a member of a RAID set (other than RAID0). It is extremely counter productive when used in a desktop.

I purchased this drive in March and it initially seemed to be relatively quick and reliable drive in the same class as the Seagate enterprise-class drives I normally use. I then began noticing that whenever I put a heavy load on the drive, the drive would "hang" for several seconds with no I/O activity as if it went to sleep. Moving the drive from a Marvel controller to an Intel controller had no effect so it's clearly a problem with the drive itself. I finally swapped it out for a Seagate NS drive and the problem disappeared. I use Western Digital Velociraptor drives as my boot drives and these have proven to be very quick and reliable, so it's a shame I had such a problem with Western Digital's enterprise-class drives right off the bat. I may have just gotten a bad apple out of the bunch, but I'll stick with Seagate for RAID arrays and data drives.

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Work fine, good deal!

L'HD è utilizzato nel vecchio NAS Readynas duo. Purtroppo scalda molto e fa aumentare la velocità di rotazione della ventola di raffreddamento, facendo così aumentare il rumore complessivo del NAS.

I replaced two inferior drives in my Netgear ReadyNAS with these Western Digital WD1002FBYS drives and finally I feel relaxed. They are extremely quiet by comparison to the previous drives and ...no lost sectors.

Ich verwende diese HDD in einem Alu-Gehäuse (bessere Kühlung) als externe Festplatte für meine Backup's (MAC, Time Machine). Schneller Zugriff über Firewire 800-Schnittstelle. Keine störenden Laufgeräusche. Zuverlässig, auch nach 3 Jahren keine Aussetzter. Bin daher sehr zufrieden. Kaufempfehlung.