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Value For Money

Customers have expressed their satisfaction with the product's value for money. They appreciate the excellent packaging, good price, and great performance compared to new. Some customers were hesitant about buying refurbished but have had no issues after a month. The HGST brand and sealed antistatic packaging also influenced their decision to purchase.

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Data Reliability

Customers have mixed opinions regarding data reliability of the product with some reporting no issues even after extensive use while others experienced drive failure within a few months.

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Quality


The drive i have passes both short and long smart tests, no bad sectors.


Tested; 250 mb/s read and write performance.


Edit: one of the four drives has now failed after frequent but normal usage in the few months since i wrote this review; it cli...  Read More


Bought 4 of these a month back and they have been rock solid so far.

Price


Great price, shipped worked out to $11.

Shipping


Comes with a 90 days return policy.

Packaging/appearance


Drive was really well packaged which was great.


They came properly packed in boxes, with firm bubble wrap and anti-static bags, and the 3.


3v standby issue drive came with kaptop tape, instructions, and a data power adapter (to use instead of kapton tape)drive was w...  Read More

Competitiveness


Good price, great value compared to brand new.

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    good, bad, great, new and few.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 72 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 8 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I purchased after reading reviews and looking up the product


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Yes mine had 3yrs of hrs poweredon showing in the data


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    They gave good detailed instructions on how to get the drive operating in a normal sata connection and even provided the required kapton tape


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The first thing i do is scan for bad sectors


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    If i find any bad ones it gets sent back and replaced


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Bought 3 of the 12 tb wdchgst disks 1 month ago


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Great price shipped worked out to 11


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    They came properly packed in boxes with firm bubble wrap and antistatic bags and the 3

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