--- product_id: 58611120 title: "HGST Ultrastar He8 HDD HUH728080ALE604 8TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5-inch Enterprise Server Data Center Hard Drive (Renewed)" brand: "western digital" price: "10242CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/58611120-hgst-ultrastar-he8-hdd-huh728080ale604-8tb-7200rpm-128mb-cache-sata store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # 7200RPM high-speed rotation 8TB massive capacity 128MB ultra-fast cache HGST Ultrastar He8 HDD HUH728080ALE604 8TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5-inch Enterprise Server Data Center Hard Drive (Renewed) **Brand:** western digital **Price:** 10242CFA **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > πŸ’Ό Elevate your data game with the future-proof Ultrastar He8 β€” where capacity meets cutting-edge reliability. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** HGST Ultrastar He8 HDD HUH728080ALE604 8TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5-inch Enterprise Server Data Center Hard Drive (Renewed) by western digital - **How much does it cost?** 10242CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/58611120-hgst-ultrastar-he8-hdd-huh728080ale604-8tb-7200rpm-128mb-cache-sata) ## Best For - western digital enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted western digital brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Massive 8TB Storage:** Store your entire digital universe without compromise. - β€’ **Blazing 7200RPM Speed:** Experience rapid data access that keeps your workflow seamless. - β€’ **128MB Cache Powerhouse:** Turbocharge read/write operations for peak performance. - β€’ **Helium-Sealed Innovation:** Cut power use & heat with industry-first helium technology for 24/7 reliability. - β€’ **Enterprise-Grade Durability:** Built tough for nonstop data center demands and mission-critical tasks. ## Overview The HGST Ultrastar He8 is a renewed 8TB enterprise-grade 3.5-inch hard drive featuring a 7200RPM spindle speed, 128MB cache, and SATA 6.0Gb/s interface. It pioneers helium-sealed technology to reduce turbulence, power consumption, and heat, enabling a seven-disk design in a standard form factor. Designed for 24/7 operation, it delivers massive storage density and reliability ideal for data centers, RAID, NAS, and professional-grade applications. ## Description HGST Ultrastar HE8 8TB HDD delivers the world’s first hermetically sealed, helium hard drive, the Ultrastar He8 for massive scale-out envi- ronments. Why does helium make a di erence? Helium has only one-seventh the density of air. Replacing air with helium inside a hard drive dramatically reduces the turbulence caused by the spinning disks, cuts power consumption and results in a lower temperature within the disk drive. The reduction in turbulence for the spinning disk allows HGST to deliver a seven-disk design in a traditional 3.5-inch form factor. In addition to being the world’s first helium-filled hard drive, HGST Ultrastar He6 is also the first hard drive in the industry to o er a 6-terabyte capacity. This design provides a 50% capacity gain and still reduces the energy needed to run the drive by up to 23%. Key Advantages/Highlights World’s first helium-filled hard drive Industry-first 8TB capacity in a standard 3.5-inch form factor HelioSeal process and 7StacTM design are keys to hermetically sealed drive with higher capacity TCOptimized design delivers on key elements of data center TCO: capacity, power, cooling and storage density SATA 6Gb/s models for configuration flexibility Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options for HDD-level data security Applications/Environments High-density data centers Massive scale-out data centers Containerized data centers Nearline storage applications Bulkstorage Enterprise and data center applications where density and capacity are paramount. ## Features - 8TB Capacity, 7200RPM Rotation Speed, 128MB Cache,SATA III 6.0Gb/s, Enterprise Grade, Heavy Duty - 3.5" Internal Hard Drive, SATA III 6.0Gb/s, Designed for 24/7 reliable operation - Works for PC, Mac, RAID, NAS, CCTV DVR - Passed Factory Diagnostic Software + RE-CERTIFIED by State-of-the-Art software - Full "Sector-by-Sector" test to ensure best HDD quality! ZERO Bad Sectors! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Additional Features | Portable | | Asin | B079TL4TDJ | | Best Sellers Rank | #15,560 in Amazon Renewed (See Top 100 in Amazon Renewed) #1,019 in Internal Hard Drives #5,206 in Renewed Computers & Accessories | | Brand | Western Digital | | Cache Memory Installed Size | 128 MB | | Color | Silver | | Compatible Devices | Desktop | | Connectivity Technology | SATA | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (183) 4.0 out of 5 stars | | Data Transfer Rate | 6 gigabits_per_second | | Digital Storage Capacity | 8000 GB | | Enclosure Material | Aluminum | | Form Factor | 3.5-inch | | Hard Disk Description | Mechanical Hard Disk | | Hard Disk Form Factor | 3.5 inches | | Hard Disk Interface | Serial ATA-600 | | Hard Disk Rotational Speed | 7200 rpm | | Hard Drive Size | 8 TB | | Hardware Connectivity | SATA 6.0 Gb/s | | Hardware Platform | Mac, PC | | Installation Type | Internal Hard Drive | | Item Dimensions L X W X Thickness | 5.8"L x 4"W x 1"Th | | Manufacturer | HGST | | Media Speed | 150 MB/s | | Mfr Part Number | HUH728080ALE604/CR | | Model Name | Ultrastar He8u00a0 | | Model Number | HUH728080ALE604/CR | | Number Of Items | 1 | | Read Speed | 6 gigabytes_per_second | | Unit Count | 1 Count | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Western Digital - **Color:** Silver - **Compatible Devices:** Desktop - **Connectivity Technology:** SATA - **Digital Storage Capacity:** 8000 GB - **Hard Disk Description:** Mechanical Hard Disk - **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 3.5 Inches - **Hard Disk Interface:** Serial ATA-600 - **Installation Type:** Internal Hard Drive - **Special Feature:** Portable ## Images ![HGST Ultrastar He8 HDD HUH728080ALE604 8TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5-inch Enterprise Server Data Center Hard Drive (Renewed) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/814c1D6Jz3L.jpg) ![HGST Ultrastar He8 HDD HUH728080ALE604 8TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5-inch Enterprise Server Data Center Hard Drive (Renewed) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81e4qGRIlfL.jpg) ![HGST Ultrastar He8 HDD HUH728080ALE604 8TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5-inch Enterprise Server Data Center Hard Drive (Renewed) - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91zcEDog7ML.jpg) ![HGST Ultrastar He8 HDD HUH728080ALE604 8TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5-inch Enterprise Server Data Center Hard Drive (Renewed) - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81fYKVcZsQL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great value, hands-down better than a new SMR drive *by on Reviewed in the United States January 9, 2024* Great value, I'd far rather have a used Ultrastar than a new SMR drive. Bought a couple of Seagate drives for a new NAS without realizing that they were SMR. Within 2 weeks, I was noticing performance issues, especially under heavy usage. Adding a new drive to the NAS took days. Running an integrity checkup on a backup? Yeah... painful.Wasn't sure about buying used/refurbished drives, but once I finished replacing the Seagates with these, I was a convert. Zero SMART errors on any of the 5 drives I've purchased so far, zero slow-down even after filling the drives to 75%+ of capacity. Only complaint I COULD make is that they are a bit loud, but they're enterprise-class drives and so I expected that. Mine are in a Synology NAS which is in the closet about 6 feet from my desk. I can definitely hear them, but it isn't annoying, and isn't any louder than the rest of the networking equipment in the closet with them.FWIW, Backblaze named these among the most reliable drives that they have in service. Hard to argue with that. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ High read/write speeds, low power consumption, even lower operating temperature *by on Reviewed in the United States April 6, 2018* Solid hard drive. I haven't had it long enough to say anything about its long-term durability, but here are some objective specs & details. (which for some reason were left out of the product description on amazon, as well as the actual data sheet PDF from HGST) Average speeds are in the attached photo. On arrival I tested for bad sectors and other errors. The drive was completely clean and safe to use out of the box. Physically, the drive (refurbished) was totally spotless as well. You always wonder why refurbished stuff got returned obviously but I haven't seen any sign to differentiate the drive from a brand-new drive. As for my opinions - I like the idea of helium drives for RAID arrays. They are technically denser, because helium reduces friction, allowing drives to be packed closer together, which in turn allows them to put SEVEN disks in this thing. But as of right now, HGST isn't really taking advantage of that, drawing fewer bytes per disk than normal 3 or 4-disk drives. In the near future that will probably change, and when it does helium drives will have the highest capacities you can fit into a 3.5" magnetic disk drive. But for right now, the highest capacity consumer helium drive from HGST is 12TB, so it's directly competing with Seagate's 12TB non-helium drives. And those 12TB drives are virtually impossible to find on retail. You can either order them wholesale or you can pay well over a thousand for a used drive on eBay or something. So that's obviously not the reason to pick up a helium drive.The area in which the helium drive wins out versus the Seagate drives is its mechanical efficiency. The drive requires less power per byte AND less power per byte per second. Up to about 20% actually. Not only does it require less power in operation, but even if it were set to operate at the same wattage, it produces less heat. This is really important if you're going to have lots of drives in close proximity, like in a RAID array. If you're looking for a drive for a NAS server or even a dense drive bay in your PC, this one's great because it allows you to run fans at a lower rate. For my applications, this was really important. I put three 5x3.5" drive bays in the front panel of a full tower, for a total of 15 hard drives, all running off just three small fans. Realistically, this setup could still safely cool regular drives, but the issue has been noise. I'm still looking into replacing the fans in the drive bays with quieter, higher-quality fans, but for the time being I'm stuck with these super noisy fans. The drive bays have a switch allowing you to swap between high fan speed, and low fan speed. The high is incredibly noisy, and the low is only slightly quieter. The noise quickly gets overwhelming on high speed, but in this setup, running non-helium drives on low speed is only safe for normal operation, where most of the drives are effectively sleeping. If you start any kind of major write operation (1TB+) on the RAID volume which recruits 5 or more drives, the temperature quickly goes up to 50-55 degrees celsius. This is a safe temperature for the drives themselves, but they're not just in a little storage enclosure. If you're using the drives for an NAS server or a massive PC like mine, your drive fans will likely end up blowing hot air all over the rest of your components. Since my system is air-cooled, the CPU and GPU are cooled by fans which pull air from inside the case. That arrangement depends on the air inside the case actually being colder than the CPU/GPU, obviously. You could say that means it's a bad setup, but 1) there isn't really another way to fit 15 drives into a PC tower case, and 2) most hot-swappable server systems position the drives in front as well, so in practice this is an extremely common cooling arrangement, just more for rackmount systems than for desktops.Anyway, the arrangement works just fine with the fans on low, and especially when the drives themselves only ever reach 40 degrees. Sorry it was so long-winded - that is the real benefit of the helium drives, in my experience. So the only concern I had left was the price. Helium drives are more expensive per TB than other drives, as well they should be, since the technology is more complicated. They aren't just pumping helium into the drive and hermetically sealing it. The main advantage of helium is that it allows them to put a completely different mechanism inside the frame. Like I said, 7 super thin disks, and thin write heads and arms. So the price jump is fair, since you're not just paying for the cost of pumping and sealing the helium inside, but also paying for 2-4 extra disks and the R&D that goes into designing the thinner mechanism. Still, the issue of price comes down to whether it's worth it to you, not whether it's technically fair for the manufacturer to charge more. That's why I bought the refurbished drive instead of the new drive. I started with just one because I wanted to test the quality and reliability. So we'll have to see if I have problems in the future, but based on my initial experience it seems like you get way more than what you pay for. This drive is less than $25 per TB, which is extremely low. In the ballpark of the lowest quality drives. Here you're getting better performance in just about every way than the top quality drives from Seagate, for at least a 15% lower price. The only issue is whether the drive being refurbished really matters. But what really sealed the deal was the 3 year manufacturer's warranty. If you buy this drive brand-new you only get a 1-year warranty. But because it's used, you get an extended warranty for free. Now obviously if your drive breaks down you're likely going to lose the data on it, so if you intend to use it as a simple volume, then the warranty may not matter, since replacing the drive won't replace your data. But if you're using it for a redundant RAID volume like me, this is just fine. If one of my drives breaks down, no worries, the other 4 can pick up the slack while HGST sends me a replacement... If this thing falls apart in the next 3 years, I'll be just fine. After 3 years I'll probably have moved on to a new system anyway.So for the money this is really the best value you can possibly get if you have any need for RAID storage. Obviously these read/write speeds pale in comparison to any SSD, but if you're trying to build a high-storage PC or storage server, you're going to need HDDs, period. I chose samsung 960 pro for the boot & cache drives, and there's no reason to go beyond that for me. For the high-capacity, relatively colder storage component of your PC, or for your NAS server, this is by far the best value I have seen anywhere. For all the other components in my system, their high quality and performance justified spending outrageous sums of money for the top tier parts. But when it came to hard drives, I was able to buy the best hard drives I could find, for a cheaper price than some of the WORST hard drives I could find. Really a rare deal, and I'm hoping it doesn't just go away immediately. ### ⭐ Not "Renewed" or "Refurbished", just used drives *by on Reviewed in the United States May 20, 2024* UPDATE: I had 2 drives start throwing SMART errors at the same time (not a full on failure yet). Used spare drives to rebuild my RAID configuration and sent the old drives out. 2 weeks later I received replacements. One of the replacements was one of my original drives. Avoid.Original reveiw:The good: Drives all work and function as you would expect. Full drive scan passes with no errors. Purchased 4 drives to configure a home NAS (nothing critical, but still don't want pure garbage)The bad: These do not appear to be cleaned up in any way shape or form, just a used drive that is error free.In face, running CrystalDiskInfo on each drive, they are all between 52,613 and 52459 hours of use, how precise that they are all 6 years and 2 to 4 days of use. They are obviously data center dumps. Wish I had checked more of the lower star reviews and noticed, otherwise I would have just purchased 4 brand new drives. ## Frequently Bought Together - HGST Ultrastar He8 HDD HUH728080ALE604 8TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5-Inch Enterprise Server Data Center Hard Drive (Renewed) - SABRENT USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD. 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