MDD MAXDIGITALDATA (MD12000GSA25672) 12TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/S 256MB Cache 3.5Inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive

Shipped quickly, and in proper packaging for a hard drive. The box had additional paperwork talking about the importance of backups and how to actually mount it in windows, as well as printed out troubleshooting steps with various website links. They definitely care about their product and helping people properly use it!

Despite doing a preclear burn in of the drive, it never got that warm, which is surprising given it’s a 7200rpm drive that isn’t listed it as helium. I guess with so much aluminum (the images don’t do it’s chonkiness justice), it’s no surprise it can dissipate that heat so well. More random reads/writes will push it better, but so far this has kept cooler than other Seagate or WD drives I’ve put though this so far.

Reliability is going to be something that only time will tell, but given they back this drive up with a 3 year warranty, which is more than other, bigger players warranty their external drives, and they offer it at such a low price for the size? I admit I couldn’t resist trying this out. I’ll be updating this review if things go south.

UPDATE:
The drive is still trucking along just fine. I ended up buying another one of the same, and both drives are the best performing, and coolest running, of any other drive I have in my Unraid array. Honestly, I wish there were higher capacity versions from whatever manufacturer makes this, because I’d love to have 2 of them as my parity drives.
The first two pictures in this review are of the first drive when it was initially purchased, then the update in early November 2021. The second drive is one I bought a couple months ago, which is also still just fine. You mileage will always vary with used drives, but so far it’s been pretty good with these.

UPDATE 2:
Drives are still going strong! Uploaded 2 new images of what the current drive stats are after over a year of use for one, and nearly 1 year for the other.

I ordered three of these drives a few months ago and they all arrived in perfect packaging for a HDD. They had some accommodating documentation which was nice to see, but not relevant to my use case.

I bought them at a really good price for the storage capacity and performance of the drive, and knew I was going to use them for a not-so-standard use case. My use case is a Home NAS and I am running them in RaidZ. Thinking about the low price, I expected to have lower performance or results on these. I was wrong.

I was very pleasantly surprised that these disks actually outperformed my Seagate 12TB 7200 HDDs for Read, Copy on Write and Write. Thermals were all looking real good over the last few months, reaching a MAX of 39 degrees Celsius.

Fast forward 4 months and my NAS started to let me know that one of the three disks is having some trouble with frequent read errors. Did some diagnostics and it turns out the drive is definitely having some physical issues.

I reached out to the folks at goHardDrive and they responded very quickly. Asking only for the serial number on the drive, they sent me a pickup label to ship the drive back and have it replaced. That already being great service, I was a difficult customer because of the way I am using the disks. I explained my situation to them and they accommodated me completely. They went above and beyond what I expected would have been reasonable.

These drives are good, not the best, far from the worst. If for nothing else, I will definitely support Mike and the folks at goHardrive again based on their great customer support.

This is a solid buy at a good cost and is backed by very good customer support.

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