HITACHI Deskstar 5K3000

[Goride]

Does anyone have any experience with HITACHI Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3020ALA632 (0F12117) 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drives?

I'm looking for some less than $100 drives to put in a DS211j (I haven't bought it yet, I'm holding off until I can find a suitable HD). I don't want to go with the Western Digital Green drives or the Samsung F4 drives because of the problems everyone seems to be having.

My only computers are macbook pros (laptops). So I don't have the ability to do some of the patches/updates to the drives. I've heard the Hitachi drives work well, but I don't see this particular one in the compatibility list. I was just wondering if anyone else tried it out. The 7K2000 is on the compatability list but not the 5K3000 or the 7K3000.

[kappaknight]

The 7K3000's work great. If you look around the forum, a few of us have installed the 3TB version into DS1511+

[rodef]

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[zasy99]

The 7K2000 is on the compatability list but not the 5K3000 or the 7K3000.

The 7k3000 3TB just showed up on the compatibility list today.

[rodef]

Has anyone tried the 3TB version of the 5K3000?

[OAG]

Any news about DESKSTAR 5K3000 2TB?
Plan to replace with them my current WD drives in DS 1010+ but despirit by no any good feedback regarding 5K3000...

[huygens_25]

Just bought 2 5k3000 2TB. I will report here my own experience pretty soon (as soon as I get and test them).

[huygens_25]

I'm impressed, these drives are very discreet and reliable.

I've uploaded data (more than 20 thousands files, about 85 GB of data) concurrently. And I have verified after their integrity. For this I had computed SHA-2 512bit hashes for all those files before the transfer, and I've been checking it after. Not a single corrupted file.

[fishpatrol]

I have a single 5K3000 2TB drive in a DS207+. It's fine operationally, though the SMART readings for the spinup time and temperature in the SMART Info panel are absurdly high (34386346388 and 146030133279). The main HDD Management screen lists the current temp at 31 degrees C. I notice the fan running a lot more than usual. Otherwise, it seems to work normally. I do only have one hard drive in the NAS, currently.

[orinthical]

I have four of the 3TB 5400RPM Hitachi SATA3 disks in my DS411+ (DSM 3.1-current) and all is well thus far. Have a post in the HDD compatibility thread that is pending approval.

Model HDS5C3030ALA630 to be exact (per DSM.)

[FirstReflect]

Thought I'd chime in

Bought my first Synology product: DS411j

I went with four of the Hitachi 5K3000 3TB 5400rpm drives due to their impressively low price.

Despite that particular drive not being on the compatibility list when I bought them, I took a small gamble anyway.

I haven't tried every single feature (there are a lot of them!) that the DS411j offers, but so far, the Hitachi 5K3000 3TB drives have worked without any problems. All four show up perfectly as 2.79TB drives and I haven't noticed a single issue setting up the NAS or transfering files to and fro.

The drives and NAS both run quiet and cool, which is excellent. Obviously, the DS411j and these 5400rpm drives are not going to be the fastest NAS out there, but for my purposes, I'm not really concerned with top-level speed - I just need the space!

For the low price and high capacity, these Hitachi drives were perfect for me. I've already nearly filled the 12TB capacity so I feel very confident in purchasing a second DS411j and four more of these 5K3000 3TB drives in the near future.

[rodef]

orinthical and FirstReflect, thanks for both confirming that the 3TB 5k3000s work fine with the Synology.

That's the drive I want to get, and your reviews are helpful.

[FirstReflect]

I now have two DS411j and a total of 8 of these Hitachi 5K3000 3TB drives. They are working very well and I haven't had a single problem. I do not know exactly what the criteria are for Synology to add a certain drive to the official compatibility list, but I do not know of any issues that should prevent the Hitachi 5K3000 drives from being officially supported.

Under nearly constant use in just a basic JBOD setup, the Hitachi drives remain at a very stable 37-39 degrees Celsius and they are very quiet. As I mentioned, these are not the fastest drives, but neither is the DS411j the fastest NAS.

So, if you're just looking for lots of space at a low price (like I am), I feel quite confident in recommending these 5K3000 drives now. They are definitely serving me well so far, and it's simply awesome having 24TB of network storage for under $1700 total!

[lordofdarkness]

Well,
I am using since today a fresh 1511+ and 5 Hitachi 5K3000 / 2 TB - hds5c3020ala632.

There are still problems with 2 drives of 5! They are not recognised by my synology.

-- Update --
2 Harddisks will also fail in my PC
--> Back to the manufacturer

[sfbay234874]

For you guys that have good performance with the Hitachi 3TB hard drives (model HDS5C3030ALA630) 32MB cache, coolspin, how did you upgrade your NAS?

I have the DS410, RAID 5, upgraded 4 2TB, to 4 3TB, one by one, letting the NAS rebuild 4 times, then a 5th time to increase the actual capacity.

But it seems like things are slow when opening and listing directories, takes 10-15 seconds to list medium size directories, even after the drives should have "warmed" up as I did other HD operations to warm it up.

How did you upgrade your drives? 1 by 1? I'm wonder why my directory browsing and listing performance seems to have taken a big hit after the upgrade.

Thanks for any help!