Western Digital 20TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD203KRYZ

Switched from "Seagate FireCuda Solid State Hybrid Drive Performance SSHD" to this.It is extremely fast even when dealing with very large amount of small files, the inbuilt 512MB cache is making a big difference.

You could probably get a better deal on an ultrastar drive. The gold drives are just rebranded ultrastar drives. It's loud but I love it. I miss that sound from the computer. For some reason, mine got lost in the mail and they had to send me another.

Only two months operating so far but no problems with four drives and I didn't expect any.

My 4TB WD hard drive was almost full (I take a lot of photos) and I had already tried a 12 TB Seagate drive that was DOA, so I decided to try a 8TB WD drive since my 4TB drive has been fine for several years. It initially was OK and I was able to copy the 4TB drive to it using a common utility (It's not my first rodeo). However, after less than two months I noticed it was taking a while to open files. I ran the CHKDSK utility and it found some bad sectors. I started using it again but after about a week it started acting flaky again. I removed the drive from my main computer and plugged it into one of my backups and ran CHKDSK again. This time there were multiple pages of errors. When it finished I tried to access the drive and the system told me it wasn't accessible. I ran CHKDSK again and it found MORE ERRORS but I ran into the same issue of it not being accessible, so I ran it again. This time it gave me the errors in the attached picture in an endless loop. I went to try to print it but it was over 300 pages. The good news is that I called Amazon (Since I had heard that dealing with WD is a nightmare) and they gave me a one-time exception refund but with a $48 restocking fee. I very nicely asked if there was a way to not pay that and he then got approval for a credit that could be used for a replacement drive. I am assuming this was a one-time issue so I reordered the same drive. I will update here if it also goes bad!

I've had a WD 2Tb Gold drive for about 7 years and it has been flawless. Because it's now full, I wanted to replace it with a larger HDD with the same reliability. Bought this WD Gold 8tb HDD with high expectations. How disappointing that it was dead as a doornail right out of the box. I tested every way I know how (different SATA cable, different port, external reader, internal install) but it wasn't even recognized, and as best I could feel or hear, never even spun up.Might be time to switch to an enterprise grade SSD?

Disk is dead on arrival and not spinning at all!!!

I've ordered 4 of these drives. 3 have been DOA. Amazon ships them in the flimsy retail box, which must get thrown around by their delivery service because they show up in the BIOS as 0 B drives.