Toshiba 14TB SATA 512e 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise HDD - MG07ACA14TE

I purchased 5 of these HDDs, all arrived DOA. And later I noticed a Used HDD always became available on the listing when I returned mine... Then I started to check the serial numbers and realized I received the same previously known bad HDDs. More than once. Do not by USED HDDs here.

Il rapporto qualità prezzo ci sta.. sono tanti GB ad un prezzo ragionevole. Considerate che i 14 GB dichiarati in realtà sono circa 12 una volta formattato. È il primo hdd ad Elio che compro e onestamente me lo aspettavo silenzioso, ma proprio silenzioso non è. Non lo considero un hard disk che fa particolarmente rumore però l'accesso al disco si sente. Non posso ancora giudicare la durata perché ce l'ho da troppo poco tempo. Il mio utilizzo è come disco di backup che mi protegge dai guasti degli SSD che uso come unità principali e su cui ho salvato dati importanti come le foto della mia famiglia e queste cose. È il secondo hard disk della Toshiba che compro ed entrambi mi danno soddisfazione. La velocità di trasferimento dati è ottima e sembrano affidabili. Ve lo consiglio sicuramente come HDD di backup. Non lo consiglierei come disk principale perché non raggiunge ovviamente la velocità di un SSD ed è un po' rumoroso come tutti gli hdd meccanici.

I just got the drive for my synology NAS...so I can not say anything how the quality is right now. I was supprised about the price for this sized hdd. The package arrived in a good box with a smaller box inside. The small box was locked with crinkle paper inside the bigger box. The smaller box contained 2 layers of foam with the hdd between it. Well packaged,

I purchased this drive to use in my high end desktop rig (at home) mainly to store raw files of time lapse shots. The drive came in an anti-static bag inside a form-fitting airbag (see pic), which itself was snug inside the box, and is as protective as one can get in shipping delicate hard drives. After opening I immediately started a slew of stress tests before commissioning the drive in my computer. I first performed a 24 hour continuous random seek test (see pic) which showed an average seek time of 12 ms and no abnormal behavior. Temperature variations are within normal range, and only due to changes in day and night ambient temperatures (~85 F ambient temperature at the hottest). Next I performed 3 pairs of write+read tests on the drive where the data was written and read consecutively. This took 115 hours to complete (see last 3 pics, I left it running while on a weekend trip out of town) and everything passed with no errors. Again temperature variations were due to day/night time ambient temps, but overall stayed well below dangerous levels. Max read and write rates were ~265 MB/s (using the convention 1 MB = 1000 KB, not Windows which is 1 MB = 1024 KB) using Crystal Disk Mark. Noise-wise it is actually pretty quiet relatively speaking, about on par with my WD Black drives. In conclusion I'm quite pleased with it, will update if anything changes.

Reorganizing my backup system, and trying to save space in my safe, I'm using this as a backup drive for 4 other drives which reside in a Mac Pro (Early 2009) tower. I popped it into my Startech "toaster"-style SATA hard drive holder. It spun up and then I got a screen dialog saying the disk could not be read and needed to be formatted (this is normal with a new drive on a Mac). I used Disk Utility to first erase the disk and then to create 4 partitions of different sizes for the various drives I wanted backed up: an SSD boot drive plus 3 data drives which vary in size from 2 to 8 terabytes. I had no problems formatting, partitioning, or copying data to this drive in a few hours of use so far. At this writing this was the cheapest 14tb drive I could find at 529 bucks. I can't comment on its speed as this isn't an issue in my use as I will only use it for backups at night, but I will report here again if I have any problems with this drive. When received it was well-packed in a nice thick protective bubble-bag, inside a cardboard box, which inspires confidence that these drives will survive shipment unlike some I have received. I should add however that my drive has a different label than the one shown in the listing. Mine is a generic white label which does say "Toshiba" and "14TB" among other data on it.