Paid $178.99 each for two of the 14TB WUH721414ALE6L4 drives during Black Friday 2022. Great price for a He drive this big, and Backblaze's quarterly failure reports show a very low failure rate for this specific model as of Q3 2022.
I checked the drive SMART data after opening the sealed anti-static bag, and didn't find anything to be alarmed about such as power-on hours or data errors.
The only thing buyers might want to be aware of is that the sticker on the drive indicates both of mine were manufactured in Sep 2019. That was over 3 years ago. So while I don't see any indication the drives were used, they also weren't newly manufactured when I bought them.
I'm setting this to 4 stars for now only because of how long ago they were made. Otherwise, I find nothing to be concerned about.
[Dec 17 2022]
These drives use that new SATA power standard. A standard SATA power connector fits, but the drives won't spin up unless you put tape over the 3rd pin from the left. I hear there are adapters you can get to adapt the power, but I did the tape trick. You may need to google this if you're not familiar with it. Otherwise I've got two of these in a ZFS mirror on Proxmox, and they're working great.
| RAM | 8 TB |
|---|---|
| Hard Drive | 8 TB Mechanical Hard Disk |
