HGST Ultrastar He8 8TB SAS 12Gb/s 3.5" HUH728080AL5200 Sun Oracle 7301588 512e

Used enterprise drive, pulled from a working ZFS mirror in a home lab NAS. SMART data below was captured on 21 Sep 2026. The photo shows the exact drive you will receive.

ModelHGST HUH728080AL5200 (reports as HGST H7280A520SUN8.0T)Product lineUltrastar He8 (helium-filled)Capacity8 TBInterfaceSAS 12Gb/sRotation7200 RPMCurrent sector format512e (512-byte logical, 4096-byte physical)Serial numberR5G6N7GVFirmware (as hours15,827SMART healthOKGrown defect list0Uncorrected read / write errors0 / 0Start-stop cycles15Load-unload cycles3,101SMART self-test log0 of 20 logged tests completed without error

Please read: this drive's SMART background self-tests consistently end with "Failed in segment". It reports SMART health OK, 0 grown defects and 0 uncorrected errors, and it was working in a ZFS mirror until it was removed. Priced accordingly.

OEM firmware. It worked as a plain SAS disk on a standard LSI HBA under Linux/ZFS; it is not tested in the OEM's own storage arrays.

Bare drive only: no caddy, tray, cables or screws.

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