Western Digital - WD Gold 12TB Enterprise-Class Internal Hard Drive - Class 7200 RPM, SATA 6 GB/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD122KRYZ

Perfect!

Nessun roblema di installazione. rumoroso.

I bought 2 drives and one worked fine the second was DOA. The one working fine is good and fast, I like it. I returned the damaged unit and order a new one. New one just arrive and again DOA. I don't know what is going on as these devices are supposed to be the best in class, I think they are not packaged correctly since they come just in a ESD bag in a carboard box. I will order a new one, but from other source.

Item arrived defective (drive spin but communication interface is dead) and drive won't work neither in 2 different NAS or Windows PC. I personally own 10 of these drives and they work perfectly well... This is the first time a WD Gold fails on me, and first time it is DOA ... Although this can happen, i would have like a fast refund to buy a replacement, usually a refund is issued as soon as the packagenis dropped. But now it seems Amazon has changed it's rules and put a 16+7 work days before issuing a refund, which is 1 month ! I think this is abusive policy for a DOA item. But my concern is that this item has a lower price for 14TB than the actual 12 i wanted to match, and there were only 2 "left in stock" so i think these units, although sold as new, were previously returned as defective, although is impossible to proove due to defective communication interface, it is impossible tonread drive, SMART information.

I’ve had issues with WD drives in the past and stopped using them for almost 20 years. This one was on sale and I figured after 20 years they might have gotten a bit better. And being a supposedly enterprise grade drive I should be ok. Just after a month (and outside of the Amazon return window), the drive is completely dead. Tried multiple external enclosures, one can’t even tell there’s a drive installed, the other let’s windows see there’s an un-initialized drive which it can’t initialize. There’s no sound from the drive at all when powered on or when Windows tries to connect to it. It’s dead silent and there was a smell of burnt electronics on the drive after only 4 power on/off cycles over the course of a month. It was off most of that time. I thought the smell came from a bad enclosure but it seems to work fine and buying a new second enclosure didn’t fix anything. Because I had the drive shipped outside the US, WD won’t honor their warranty. First WD product I’ve bought in 20 years and the last one I’ll ever buy. I should have stuck with the somewhat more expensive but well worth it Seagate Exos drives.