need to know if this hard drive is any good?

kaitlin4599 · February 18

can anyone tell me if this hard rive on amazon is any good i dont use western digital so no idea if its a good quality drive but the price seems too good to pass up i have only ever used seagate drives and while i have both a sata and nvme ssd drive i need this platter drive as a backup amazon says the drive is an older model whatever that means

https://www.amazon.com/WD-Enterprise-Hard-Drive-WD2000FYYZ/dp/B0090UFNR6/ref=sr_1_3?c=ts&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.F74YSNUQkWcCVHWyNdSNcdt6UOiX6_WulZsjjjAVnH_TdGSQHTI0I9kaToQzxYtoZ2p4GwAWNUqur9wUa9tBz7ywI8Rql7OW9R-pZ7gTQD-CQjB48eytK-TwqPd07niz2P-O7lZDRpQj-k0UeXWZkbA2Dd7Kl3fKqlXrxBAqFzwVhX2-46y5hUdyuVG1KRRcc6FDUvjIwutoHbBwI5Xv1_knGds4i2J_SsIMLjIdAvbSN-NT5gI8TCVPX-Yu2VAaM5yexgnHDwgzSV_DvbbHGXmdDLPVB3cE1GRPbIpaY_U.aEnRm0MecL4GbTHPOFVRQtEwRGDzk2T8u42eQuF6Hjg&dib_tag=se&keywords=Internal%2BHard%2BDrives&qid=1708252548&refinements=p_n_condition-type%3A2224371011%2Cp_85%3A2470955011%2Cp_n_feature_two_browse-bin%3A7817230011%2Cp_n_feature_keywords_six_browse-bin%3A6158683011&rnid=6145843011&rps=1&s=pc&sr=1-3&ts_id=1254762011&th=1&fbclid=IwAR1hNIyo0ny8ISNp7-BTeginPgXJqUTYQbBHeKCmZv5F4jVqJ1KX2PxvZrw

podkall · February 18

WD is good company, some of their HDDs and SSDs are very good price/performance choices for many PC builds.

20 minutes ago, kaitlin4599 said:

amazon says the drive is an older model whatever that means

I have no 100% accurate idea either, though it must be just a product that's not being made anymore?

it does list having a 5 year limited warranty

23 minutes ago, kaitlin4599 said:

i need this platter drive as a backup

as long as you trust the cheap HDD as your backup you should be fine, despite being older model it does have 64MB of Cache, so it's not something ancient

you can also occasionally like once a few months check the drive's or any drive's health with certain programs, I think CrystalDiskInfo is good program, not sure if there are any better or something..

mariushm · February 18

The drives are sold on Amazon by a third party, and they're basically either drives never used, or drives that were used in servers for a few weeks or months. They could be drives that were ordered by a company as spare drives in case the drives in their servers fail, and were never used, so that company sold them to this company that now sells them on Amazon.

The warranty will be the company that sells you the drive, WD may not replace the drive if it fails.

You can get enterprise SSDs on eBay for under 50-100$ with very few hours and writes on them - it's not 2 TB but in theory you get higher performance and more reliability

For example https://www.ebay.com/itm/121656971603 - Intel S3520 1.6 TB with 98% health for 70 UK pounds plus shipping. The 1.6 TB have 2925 TB of endurance, so 98% life means only around 50-100 TB were written on it, so still tons of life left.

or another example, 100% health, 45 uk pounds for 960 GB drive: https://www.ebay.com/itm/291480074477