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bds1904

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Heres mine, I have 3 in a system at home. As you can see I've had more trouble with a controller and a bad cable than I have the drive.

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=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     WL2000GSA6472E
Serial Number:    WOL240277206
LU WWN Device Id: 0 000000 000000000
Firmware Version: 07.01E.F
User Capacity:    2,001,399,128,064 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
Local Time is:    Tue Aug  9 18:03:24 2016 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00)    Offline data collection activity
                    was never started.
                    Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)    The previous self-test routine completed
                    without error or no self-test has ever
                    been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:         (25620) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:              (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                    Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                    Suspend Offline collection upon new
                    command.
                    Offline surface scan supported.
                    Self-test supported.
                    No Conveyance Self-test supported.
                    Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)    Saves SMART data before entering
                    power-saving mode.
                    Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)    Error logging supported.
                    General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:      (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:      ( 279) minutes.
SCT capabilities:            (0x70b5)    SCT Status supported.
                    SCT Feature Control supported.
                    SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   179   168   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       6041
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       2032
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   077   077   000    Old_age   Always       -       17437
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0033   100   100   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   253   051    Old_age   Always       -       0
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       99
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0033   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       3725
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   071   041   000    Old_age   Always       -       29
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       98
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       2336
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   121   091   000    Old_age   Always       -       29
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x0036   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   199   000    Old_age   Always       -       3725
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0009   100   253   051    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       112         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
 
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Fritz

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I have several. They are just as reliable as name brand drives if not more so. I get mine from GoHarddrive / Apehouse and their customer service is stellar. I've only had to use it a couple of times tho. The last one was a drive that was 2 weeks out of warranty and they honored it anyway. Good people to do business with.
 

SimpleTech

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Just bought 6 x 6TB 7200RPM 128MB drives from memorylabs. I asked the seller what the drives were based on and he said they were Toshiba MG04ACA600e. I was able to do $147/drive by paying via PayPal invoice instead of going through eBay. If they perform as expected, I think that was a pretty decent deal considering the drives are enterprise drives with error correcting.

Otherwise I was going to purchase a pair of WD My Book Duo 16TB which contain 8TB Reds (contain 2 year warranty).
 

SimpleTech

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Just wanted to follow up on the HDDs that I bought. They were, indeed, Toshiba MG04ACA600e. I ran some benchmarks and was able to get 220 MB/s read/write. Not bad.

Currently running badblocks to make sure they're fully functional.