If you are an avid gamer and any potential for lag is infuriating, just invest in a faster drive if you are uncertain how your games load its resources and assets into memory from your hard drive

immediately i thought it sounded like one my hard drives and indeed it

If you need a fast drive this is it.

The drives will go into a sleep mode when they are not being accessed and it'll take about 20 seconds for the hard drive to spin up

Good drive

The Seagate hard drive only lasted a year and 3 months what a pile of #$*&

Worst PC drive ever made since Seagate ST-238 RLL in 1980-something.

Normal "reliable" drives are under 5%

the hard drive is ok but every time i turn on my pc its at 100% disk

but I don't want to have to replace my hard drive every 3 or so years

I experience so many problem with it that I never experience with other hard drives (like watch movie pause, programs crash....).

Nice drive for the money.

By August my warranty had already ended and the drive was defective

I work with hard drives all day everyday and this level of quality at the consumer level is rather deplorable

This is a notoriously delicate drive and according to a reliable and well informed sources, one of the worst Seagate drive ever sold.

At that point, the warranty replacement drive went into cold-swap standby (i.e. it stayed in the box and waited for the next failure), as I already had my original 5th drive in place in the NAS following the first failure

This drive was purchased to replace a failed 2TB Seagate drive

I bought this hard drive back in August

The original drive was crap and failed less than a month after warranty expired

The benchmark below is from April 17, 2016 and the hard drive is almost

always trust seagate - great drive i have bought 4 so far

It did its job fine with my array of SSHD and second hard drive until about a month ago

Good hard drive

My advice is to order the cable the same time you order the hard drive from Amazon so you don't encounter the same problem.

After further inspection, it was determined that the product shipped to me was a 2TB Seagate desktop hard drive with all the specifications listed on the page details, but the serial number and product ID labeled on the drive itself was for a part they would not cover

Access speeds are as expected for a hard drive, copying this much data around takes forever

Their drives are not reliable.

Great hard drive, plenty of space

The drive failed after only four months

: After running Crystaldiskinfo, a few months after I made this comment, I found out my hard drive was failing

No Hard Drive Installed

It was a nice drive until today.

The drive is not noisy

never had a issue great 1tb hard drive would buy again

Having problems with the hard drive i hooked it up to my cameras that i purchased and said it is not found

Very nice drive and works as expected once spun up.

A note: this hard drive works, as

In exactly 2 years and 2 months this drive died and locked up my system

It's a hard drive and it stores things

These drives make a TERRIBLE, obnoxious whining noise

This purchase was intended to help allow me to store more photographs without having to disperse my files across different hard drives

good drive

3 months has passed, no issues, good Hard Drive!

1st HDD went out in May 2016, I started to hear what sounds like clicking noises from the Hard Drive, and ran S.M.A.R.T. a program to detect it's Health Status

a lil slow in transfer speed, yet a great drive....

these drives are good and durable, the order took a long time to get fulfilled but shipping was quick once it shipped.

The Seagate Faulty Hard Drive Class Action Lawsuit is Christopher A. Nelson v. Seagate Technology LLC,

Hard drive produces metallic noises

I've looked into the various possible causes and solutions for hard drive slowing

The drive went in without any issue and works perfectly.

Turned out the drive was bad

I can't recommend this when there are other hard drives out there that are less prone to early failure and will last you 4-5 years at the same price point.

hard drive failure with in a year.

and I misunderstood some of SMART results on my 3rd drive (the spare)

Great storage, speed i'd love from a hard drive, and plus it stays cool

To use this in an external enclosure, make sure it supports 8TB and make sure it supports desktop drives, because you will need an additional power source on top of the SATA connection for this in an external enclosure

One of the first two drives started to fail after about 24 months.

Anyway if the HDD health and performance of my hard drive is still 100% and without bad sectors after 5 years (starting from May 2015) I would rerate my review of this to 5 stars.-----------------------------------------------------------------------CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 x64 (C) 2007-

nice hard drive

Great solid error free drive.

It still works, and for me that is saying something as I always break drives

and I had to restore it, including wiping both hard drives

Don't buy this hard drive, I bought it at Newegg 2 years ago and it fail on me

Seagate used to be the de-facto brand, they made some great hard drives in the past.

I love this drive

Saved my data from another failing hard drive.

Good hard drive, pretty reliable for a cheaper drive

I have had this drive for just under a year and a half and it has already failed

Seagate replaced it with a "Certified Repaired" (so a used hard drive) that lasted less than a year

Hard drive works great

Good Hard Drive

(For comparison, my 5 year-old laptop has taken quite a bit of abuse, and its hard drive has been on for a year and 8 months

Nice hard drive

Used to add a second hard drive to NVR of security camera system

great hard drive

My other hard drives plugged into the same controller have absolutely no problems.

I have never been disappointed with the Seagate product when it comes to hard drives.

My only regret is not getting a drive with more space

Since some of the older software will not work on the new operating systems, I have a 51/4" hot swap drive bay for the 31/2" hard drives.

It's one big honking hard drive; I'll give it that

Early on, the drive was plagued by high pitched clicks at random times of the day while idle

but for $30 this hard drive has been working fine.

The drive was pretty and worked out perfectly for the job.

The drive was pretty and worked out perfectly for the job.

Worked fine when the drive was working but the hard drive failed within a year

This is the classic PC Storage Hard drive

First one I received made an incredibly loud 'whirring' sounds whenever the drive was at rest, just like the video another commenter posted.

Also, this hard drive can overheat fast, and starts to make noise.

the insurance is inexpensive and allows you to ship yours in for free and get a new hard drive back with your recovered data on it, which is just great.

I have uploaded a photo of this because I was amazed - just the drive in an antistatic bag, in the plain, padded envelope

Its a hard drive, it hasnt died yet, and it has 1tb.

Great drive.

]Now, before the Seagate apologists do, I will point out that these drives are not meant for "Enterprise" use, and thus, Backblaze's experience with the drives in that setting are arguably skewed from the expected usage profile for an average "Desktop" hard drive

I have used Seagate drives for several years without incident, and despite my most recent issues with 2 out of 3 of these hard drives, I am still considering replacing my 2 drives with a Seagate model.

Good price for a good hard drive

I usually get Seagate hard drives, I don't have that big of an issue with them, but I would like to know that any issue I have would be covered under the 2 year warranty mention; however, when I ordered two of them, both hard drives were expired by two years

but I remember other hard drives becoming unreadable if I breathed on them too hard.

The hard drive just crashed

This hard drive is not worth the money as it dies in less than a year

Great hard drive to have to backup almost anything you can think of

So far none of the 12 seagate NAS drives have failed, but I'm definitely losing confidence in seagate to make a reliable desktop drives.

I had a complete hard drive failure mid September.

Seems to be a decent drive for the price.

Fantastic drive

This is my 6th Seagate hard drive purchase, the cost per gb is amazing and seagate support has always worked great for me

Great Hard Drive, excellent delivery.

I installed the drive and cloned my 'dying' hard drive successfully.

After three years, one drive failed and was replaced a couple months later with another Seagate

6 months and the hard drive already failed on me

still going strong and it is a seagate,,, very good drive.

Hitachi brands are coming up as well, look elsewhere for a reliable drive.

Continues buzzing/humming sound when the drive is idle

Good, cheap hard drive for multimedia, game backups, and other bulk data usage where high speed isn't needed.

This is a fast hard drive that was easy to install.

These drives are stupid hot and will cook your unit

The drive broke after just a few months, and then when I tried to get it replaced under Seagate's two-year warranty, their customer service refused

I had purchased this drive for my Camera system that came with no hard drive

It wasn't a life/death situation, but the data was valuable, and I'd happily pay the price of this hard drive to get it back, but no one would do it for that cheap

It works fine and I cannot hear any excessive sound as data is being read/write and would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a 1TB hard drive storage for a camera system.

A lot more to save onto this hard drive, good value for all the things you need saved

Only one issue is that did a mass save and now some of the files aren't opening but this may not be the hard drive.

The hard drive was taken very well care of

Why doesn't any of these reviews mention how noisy this drive is

Will buy this same drive if one fails in the future.

So 2 months later after my 1st Hard Drive failed I thought there's a 1 in a 10,000 chance it happens with my other Hard Drive

but I haven't experienced a disproportionate amount of issues with their hard drives.

All hard drives fail eventually, and as a filmmaker I need big, fast hard drives

Good solid drive

Realizing that my hard drive is probably starting to fail, I decided the buy a replacement for it

Regardless, the drive failed after only 5 months of very light usage.

Shortest lived hard drive ever owned!

And that was the year I needed 2 hard drives for my NAS

I purchased the 8TB hard drive during a sale on Prime Day

But as a precaution, I bought a 3rd hard drive as a spare

Recieved it from a friend and the previous hard drive was fried

I love this hard drive

That's why I bought the large internal drive in the first place, to trust my backup files, which I thought was at least safe for the duration of the warranty.

Very fast drive for a spinning disk

Great drives from a great disk manufacturer

The first desktop PC I have purchased , a Dell dimension , had an installed SEAGATE hard drive

This drive failed on me within 3 months of purchase

Happy New Year you have a bad Hard drive and now your business is on hold until you can get a new one installed.

Seagate makes the best hard drives.

We went through everything with a fine toothed comb and discovered it was the hard drive that wasn't working

I installed it, copied Win10 and user files from the old hard drive and everything has been good.

I have not put a lot of strain on this hard drive yet, and I have put a lot more on my previous hard drive and it worked fine

If you have more patience then a normal hard drive will work just fine.

i had a bad drive and they replaced it with a better drive

Not recommended as primary drive as solid state drives are faster

Lowered my rating from a 5 stars to 4 stars, as the drive started to die just outside the Amazon return window

This is a great hard drive for extra files and music also games.

This enclosure fits the drive, supports the 8TB and is plug and play with both Mac and PC.I connected this drive via the enclosure to my iMac (Late 2009) via USB 2, and it recognized the drive immediately

I installed this second hard drive internally and have no problems so far

Samsung Seagate is the only way to go when you need dependable hard drives.

Good hard drive for the price.

Installed SeaTools v1.4.0.4 and the drive FAILS test.

The drive completed the backup error free.

Fast drive.

Hard Drive works fine.

When the PC recognizes the hard drive; only recognizes 746GB3.

This is a solid drive and performs as the specifications indicate.

Replaced a faulty drive in a Iomega NAS, working perfectly!!

I would highly suggest not buying these hard drives.

3 weeks after installation, the drive failed

While I don't know why a new drive would have this bad a of response time, it is clearly what is causing the drive to not be able to do anything,

It was only really used to backup some files from my other 2 TB hard drive (which is older than this one, and still working great).

Used to replace the hard drive in my Dell Optiplex 380

I will never buy a seagate hard drive again, the bad warranty and very poor product really turned me down from this company

This is my standard hard drive that I order when I am configuring a new computer or replacing a bad drive in another.

Hey I only had this hard drive only 4 months and all of a sudden it stopped working and now the window closed to return

Two drives, indicates a serious design flaw.

The only criticism I have, is that they assume you are replacing an existing hard drive and don't provide an internal SATA cable to connect with your motherboard and power supply

Great hard drive, really easy to install

That date code translates this particular hard drive was manufactured 06-29-06.

Stay clear of this hard drive

Unfortunately this drive failed shortly after the warranty expired

You must understand, that within a few years, your money you put into this hard drive "might" go POOF!This hard drive failed after 3 years

Good cheap drive!

seems like a nice hard drive for the price but

I really liked the hard drive during those 3 years

This Hard Drive seems to be running great so far

It sounds like some people got defective drives or something, but I guess I was lucky because mine is just fine.

Great desktop replacement drive or additional drive.

I'm glad I now realize there was a class action lawsuit against Seagate for faulty drives that had a high failure rate, which was this exact model

Excellent hard drive

Used mostly for storage of HD movies and TV series, the drive wasn't being thrashed nor was it being used to run resource greedy software

I bought this hard drive to go with my ZosI outdoor cameras

Seagate is my favorite hard drive

Need to replace corrupt hard drive on old computer.

substandard drive.

I bought this to put into my mom's pc as a replacement for her dead drive

It is after all a hard drive, and things can go

This was a replacement for a failed drive just like it

Just a heads up that at least some of the hard drives being shipped are very old.

They have a guarantee and their drives back that up by not failing as fast (ALL standard drives fail eventually, but you want it to last as long as possible, right?

Decent drive for the cost, runs little warm but well within parameters in my server.

solid hard drive got my pc up and running

Could not recover anything off of it and usually I can recover anything off of a hard drive specially mechanical

7 out of 8 drives failed

The drive was super easy to install and compatible with the Fredi Security Camera System

Needless to say I bought a WD hard drive to replace this one.

What can I say, it is a hard drive and it works

The second drive is working

I keep my OS on a solidstate drive for performance but this makes a great storage drive and is fast enough to work off of too.

Hard drive lasted 14 months.

Otherwise, it appears to be a solid drive.

Such a great drive, at such a great value.

THIS DRIVE IS DEFECTIVE!

I just received the drive today and noticed the packing isn't what a new drive looks like.

Understand, that if you buy this hard drive, you cannot depend on it, and must always use TWO of them, at least, to have a backup

This is one of several SEAGATE hard drives I have purchased for replacement or build over the years

The last of the replacements that was ordered came in and failed to pass installation tests, immediately started reporting drive errors, unfortunately I was stuck with a lame drive after RAID replication

Good hard drive

Most computers don't initially recognize hard drives that are larger than 2 TB, which makes installation a pain

Perfect replacement for my dying hard drive

Very good price for this capacity of Hard Drive

hard drive works great

I used this out of box no warranty included hard drive to replace a corrupted drive in my Netgear NASIt seems to be holding up and working correctly without issues

This is the worst hard drive I have ever come across

I was still 5 x 640gb WD Blacks that finally needed to be condensed, and this drive seemed like a great replacement that would allow me to have plenty of more space down the road

So now, after less than 3 years of use, my hard drive is causing me unbearable issues

Wow avoid this drive at all costs unless you want a paperweight.

It seems like the slowing is a "feature" of some drives designed to protect the drives from overheating

When installing the hard drive had old files in theIn the product details Always thought as new but is noisy and has vibrations that cause it off

Extremely noisy, sounds very sick and not like a normal hard drive

Under a hundred for an external hard drive beats losing all your stuff

They are almost as fast as a solid state drive with the capacity of a normal hard drive.

At this point and with hard drive prices normalizing you have to think of these as disposable and have backups of all your data

BOTH Seagate drives have now failed in the first 2.5 years while every other drive is still working without a problem - I am actually pretty surprised how poorly these drives performed.

It's a 1TB hard drive

This hard drive is working flawlssly in my wifes Dell Windows 10 machine and has been for several months now with zero issues so far

year.2 drives failing in a row

Just another hard-drive.. has not died, but I am using these for long term back up storage.

I have had 5 of these hard drives go out at my business in less than 2 years, all in different computers

My old hard drive was failing, and luckily I was able to save a backup and clone it to this new one.

I ran some QNAP tests several times when I got this hard drive, and it worked flawlessly.

I've been working with computer hardware for 25 years, and so far, this hard drive has worked like a charm.

RecommendationUse a solid state hard drive for windows and high demand programs (Photoshop, Autocad, High end video games, etc) then use this drive as a secondary drive to store all files and low priority programs (Office products, Messengers, low end video games, etc).This will save on cost of storage but still allow for great performance

On a ASUS Republic of Gamers mother board the BIOS sees this hard drive with 2.8TB instead of 3TB however windows 7 will not supply a drive letter so that the drive can be formated no matter what settings are used in the BIOS.

Absolutely great hard drive

Whether by mistake or design, I now have a dead hard drive with lost data, ostensibly no way to recover my money, and wasted time with various Seagate representatives informing me that the drive is simply "not theirs"

The hard drive it self is making noises that it wasn't making before and it has crashed my computer a couple time to where I have been forced to reload Windows again

I've bought many 8TB internal hard drives

These hard drives have a 50% chance to fail over a 2-3 year period and both of mine did

Otherwise the drive is fine

The 2 dead drives still worked for 3

A really good hard drive and still runs really well after a year

Recommend this drive for backups as well

Hard drive works great decent load time

Hard drive works great decent load time

The evidence is right on the hard drive.

they are decent drives... operate well, fairly quick for spinning platter drives

A really good hard drive and still runs really well after a year

Really bad coming from such a expensive drive.

Dead drive was supposed to be put in my mother desktop when she finally brought it over found out hdd was a dud

It seems to retrieve data every bit as fast as my smaller drives, and operates quietly.

Now I am stuck with a useless drive and no one to hold accountable.

Seagate's are wonderful drives that last a long time

Needed to purchase this hard drive for my Dell Inspiron One 2330

The 2 dead drives still worked for 3

Of course all this has already been done to include Spin Rite, the drive is a dud.

They sold me 4 year old hard drive

Hard drive had been used and was returned to Amazon.

Worked perfectly as secondary hdd, If you are going to use this hdd as your main hard drive, ensure that you have a motherboard and correct version of windows that can utilize more than 2TB.

Since i bougth it this has been my back up, permanently connected hard drive

I had two 3TB drives from this model and both of them died within a year.

A single drive makes so much noise it is utterly annoying like a giant mosquito and five of them in a Drobo sounds like a leaf blower in the room

Absolutely great hard drive

RecommendationUse a solid state hard drive for windows and high demand programs (Photoshop, Autocad, High end video games, etc) then use this drive as a secondary drive to store all files and low priority programs (Office products, Messengers, low end video games, etc).This will save on cost of storage but still allow for great performance

I've been working with computer hardware for 25 years, and so far, this hard drive has worked like a charm.

Good drive for the money

All in all though it's a great drive.

Date of manufacture for the disk is 2012 which means that the drive is pretty old and it is out of warranty (checked it on Seagate website).Simply, consider other (preferable newer) disk drives instead of this one.

Hard Drive manufactured in 2014 and out of warranty

I'm frequently tempted to buy a new hard drive, and I've only had this one for less than 5 months

Good drive performance when it

Just another hard-drive.. has not died, but I am using these for long term back up storage.

I failed to backup the drive, thinking surely a drive wouldn't fail in 3 weeks... my mistake

This hard drive is working flawlssly in my wifes Dell Windows 10 machine and has been for several months now with zero issues so far

Great drives.

Installed four drives into new NAS and to date have worked flawlessly.

Giving three stars because one of the two drives still works like a champ and SeaTools is awesome software, but I don't trust the other drive much anymore.

After 1 week it crashed and my computer wouldn't even boot because the hard drive kept screwing up

They are almost as fast as a solid state drive with the capacity of a normal hard drive.

It's not made for gaming or anything, but it's a great storage drive.

The drive is quiet

When the drive is ready to die, performance goes down the tubes, with reads hanging.

However, the amount of audible clicks and wines that this hard drive produces (especially while it isn't actively copying files) has me quite worried that I may have purchased a defective unit or it was damaged during shipping.

so she's got a new 3tb hard drive.

PERFECT ADDITION TO MY COMPUTER!I use this as an external hard drive, I bought a housing unit for it and carry it around

everything pointed to my hard drive

This is easily the worst hard drive I've ever owned, and I've had hundreds in various servers and PCs over the years

These are some terrible hard drives

Good hard drive

You don't get screwed with this hard drive and

Apparently Seagate is the least reliable brand for hard drives, which I didn't research.

I am now replacing the seagate hard drives with HGST hard drives with very good reputation in the industry.

(New Old Stock) that the manufacturer's warranty for hard drives usually starts on the day the drive was manufactured so when buying a 3+ year old new drive, there is probably no manufacturer's warranty left.

Replaced a failed drive.

Performant hard drive

Yes Seagate has the cheapest drives but what good is it if you can't rely on them

The price was right and Seagate has been as reliable as any other drive manufacturer in my experience

Took it out of my PC to return it, only to find out that I had received the wrong Hard Drive

Great drives

What can I say, it is a hard drive and it works

No dead drives, no clicking, just two hard drives that do their job, and do it well.

And even before the hard drive

solid hard drive got my pc up and running

I bought this drive and it failed after 1 month.

Seagate is my favorite hard drive

Excellent hard drive

It sounds like some people got defective drives or something, but I guess I was lucky because mine is just fine.

But like any hard drive, make sure you have an identical backup or you'll lose everything, no matter what size the hard drive.

I really liked the hard drive during those 3 years

Good cheap drive!

can't NOT recommend these drives enough, avoid the 3TB models like the plague.

seems like a nice hard drive for the price but

drive just died on me after 3 years

So here I am, with a failing hard drive and feeling pretty scammed

7200RPM speed ensures it will perform better than budget 5400 RPM hard drives.

It does everything that a hard drive should do pretty quickly

Hard drives just can't pull that off

I've been using Seagate's 2TB hard drives for four years now and they have not let me down once

I bought this to replace a 1TB Seagate hard drive that was starting to go out after three years

When you mount these in a normal "tin" hard drive cage in a machine they will vibrate the ever living shit out of the box on read

Would not recommend this hard drive and frankly, none of Seagate's products, after this experience

The 3 TB is a large capacity so you have to be careful not to leave viruses crawling for long in your hard drive as they can create bad sectors, and try not to shake the HDD while running may cause failure or data damageThe HDD

first computer I ever owned had an 8mb hard drive LOL

What worse is Dell would replace the dead drives with the same Seagate drive and those are dying now

Very slow drive

Great hard drive, really easy to install

but this a really good drive but add a

It's been making a terrible humming noise when the drive goes idle

This drive will fail soon

1 year warranty on a hard drive?

and now I am stuck with a failed drive and lost data.

So far this drive has worked well

I have a full tower case with hard drive mounting bays that can be pulled out with ease, so as I started pulling out the new drive the clicking and tapping started getting worse and it was obvious something was loose inside this drive causing it to not work

I purchased this hard drive at the end of June 2016, and it gave out with after 10 months (completely unrecoverable)

The drive is fine really freed up my

So far, the drive is stable, fast, and reliable.

Replaced a faulty drive in a Iomega NAS, working perfectly!!

no-frills HDD spinner drives straight out of a factory bin, however super fast on CrystalDiskMark5.

Its a hard drive.

The drive completed the backup error free.

Other than its size and price, it is hands down the worst hard drive I've ever owned

Good hard drive for the price.

Could no longer access my data on my old dying hard drive

Samsung Seagate is the only way to go when you need dependable hard drives.

The problem though is this drive, according to Seagate, was supposed to be sold as part of a unit and cannot be replaced as a standalone type item

And as of May 2017, the hard drive is dead and will not show up/

Seagate does alright with their other hard drives, but they really dropped the ball on this one

Not even the notorious IBM Death Star (Deskstar) drives were more reliable

I purchased this hard drive specifically to run PS2 games and so far so good

This is a great hard drive for extra files and music also games.

Not recommended as primary drive as solid state drives are faster

i had a bad drive and they replaced it with a better drive

suppose to be 3tb hard drive, that was a lie i ended up with a 700gb hard drive

great replacement drive

If you have more patience then a normal hard drive will work just fine.

Seagate makes the best hard drives.

Hearing the many horror stories here about failing drives, I'd like to offer a counter example

Great drive for multimedia

Always worried about getting drives with low price point

Drive has been working as expected in system

Very good a reliable drive

Outside of the failure it has been a good drive.

Less than 10 years ago a 300 GB hard drive was $300.

Drive is horrible slow to boot and randomly shuts off in the middle of PC use

Seagate hard drive, but I know it can happen to anyone.

I love this hard drive

It seems these aren't the most reliable drives, and I feel mine failed earlier than it should have.

Was a perfectly good drive until then, fast transfers and more storage than I really knew what to do with

Everything you should expect from a generic mechanical hard drive

Hard Drive failed in 6 months

They are Good drives, i am running 4 in a raid of 10... so far so good

The ST3000DM001 seagate hard drive is a ticking bomb, it will fail period

I've had a few hard drives fail on

Need additional hard drive space, then these units are a good buy and work well

All hard drives fail eventually, and as a filmmaker I need big, fast hard drives

Might as well just buy a different drive

Great drive at a great price.

Prior to this drive, this PC only had an SSD in it, so after installing this drive, I was able to hear some audible drive sounds.

My hard drive functions normally for a couple hours after booting up

I have NEVER had this kind of horrid reliability from ANY spinning platter hard drive in 30+ years

I learned two things, never wait to do a backup, I was literally minutes away from performing a backup when it dead, and look elsewhere for hard drives if I want to keep it for more than a couple of years.

This is a fast hard drive that was easy to install.

Good, cheap hard drive for multimedia, game backups, and other bulk data usage where high speed isn't needed.

This is one of six Seagate desktop hard drives that died on me this year, all purchased the same year

Great drive, works like a champ

This drive failed to initialize.

Packaging was great and the drive was well protected.

We've had this hard drive installed on my son's desktop computer for just over a month.

Great Hard Drive, excellent delivery.

Also, this hard drive can overheat fast, and starts to make noise.

I proceded to copy one of the hard drives I was replacing

I have been using this hard drive for months with no problem, good product.

Great hard drive to have to backup almost anything you can think of

This hard drive is not worth the money as it dies in less than a year

Best choice in hard drives!

Good price for a good hard drive

I'm sure this is a good drive if it works, but be cautious of potential defects and your warranty policy.

I am a moderate gamer and used this hard drive for most of my games and for misc

The second hard drive had the exact same issues, where it worked for about a week before exhibiting the same problems and symptoms

If this hard drive truly is to blame, it's been the bane of my desktop experience for years (bought in 2015)

Its a hard drive, it hasnt died yet, and it has 1tb.

As others have stated the drives seem to die right as the warranty expires

Reliable drive

Good place to dump your junk for you to keep your main drive fresh and clean.

This is the shortest period of time I've ever had a hard drive fail on me in ~20 years.

My computer build is only months old and this drive is already making grinding noises

I purchased 2 of these hard drives on January 2016.

I bought the 2tb seagate hard drive

This fixed the drive for about a day, then it started showing the same symptoms as the old hard drive again

This drive arrived in perfect condition and worked exactly as expected.

These drives haven't had problems

Now there is a class action lawsuit against Seagate for this hard drive's high fail rate (google it).

finally after running an extensive diagnostic testing for all my hardware and software, it seems the hard drive was the problem

Now you can't beat a SSD and use the much less expensive mechanical drives for storing a large amount of files.

I used this to replace the internal hard drive in a client's iMac

Worked fine when the drive was working but the hard drive failed within a year

This is the classic PC Storage Hard drive

Will buy another 5 TB hard drive to replace my smaller 2 TB hard drive; giving me a total of 10 TB of hard drive space.

but for $30 this hard drive has been working fine.

It's amazing how much hard drives have improved over the years

Considering I'm probably going to pick up the same exact model I see no reason not to recommend this drive

A good drive, solid, nothing bad to say about it.

great hard drive

DOA - poor packaging, also appears to be a used hard drive.

Nice hard drive

Bought 6 3Tb Seagate hard drives

Good Hard Drive

It was a good drive, while it lasted

Drive is unpredictable and undependable

Good hard drive, pretty reliable for a cheaper drive

the hard drive did not work when installed and I can't return it due to the fact that I built the computer February

Windows 10 doesn't seem to like second hard drives.

If you are building a powerful gaming rig or work station, I recommend you consider a faster drive for the installation of your operating system and programs as this will cut down on the time it takes to boot your computer and load your programs (including games) into memory

The hard drive fails to find itself every once in a while.

This hard drive has been in 4 different computers now and has performed great in all of them

Seagate used to be the de-facto brand, they made some great hard drives in the past.

Very good drive and easy to install.

It's a hard drive

Definitely recommend if you need a to replace your hard drive.

And it's quite fast for a mechanical hard drive.

Great drive for the price!

I installed this hard drive in June 2016

if at all :/ SMART tests and drive boot tests say the drive is fine

nice hard drive

Good drives.

Given their response to my inquiries about this failure rate, I will avoid purchasing Seagate hard drives for the foreseeable future.

a lil slow in transfer speed, yet a great drive....

Drive would randomly sound like it lost power3

3 months has passed, no issues, good Hard Drive!

This drive IS NOT suitable for RAID use, especially if the host server is going to be always on.

I'm always a fan of seagate hard drives

Then another drive just had the same issue

Three drives failed between 20 March and 4 April 2017

After 6 months of use its safe to say this hard drive works flawlessly

I heard about the Thai hard drive shortage (go google it)

Great hard drive, plenty of space

But, I'm hoping that I can get through the data transfer from the old drive to the new without the loud, crunchy drive having a catastrophic failure.

Bought this hard drive and have had nothing but issues.

The drive has performed well so far.

As a disc hard drive it has movable parts and should be handled with care, not just barely wrapped and sent through USPS

The hard drive that I have gotten started out great

Direct replacement for the hard drive in my Lenovo desktop computer.

Now that's a hard drive for forward thinkers

Nine months isn't an acceptable amount of time for a hard drive to last.

Good hard drive

Drive died a couple days after

For the first 6 months after I bought this hard drive there were no problems

In my experience, Seagate hard drives are worry free.

Really good drive, reliable, and fast.

She lost a 2TB drive (not this Seagate drive) in a single point of failure setup

It started telling me I had "Reallocated Sector Count" as I was trying to transfer all my files (about 2 Terabytes) the transfer speed slowed to a crawl and then my PC said the Hard Drive was no longer there

This is a notoriously delicate drive and according to a reliable and well informed sources, one of the worst Seagate drive ever sold.

DO NOT BUYSeagate is under a class action lawsuit for these hard drives failing at an insane rate

Unfortunately this drive failed shortly after the warranty expired

used as a backup/archive drive and it failed after a 1 year.

We have not had the opportunity to use it as yet, but since it is a hard drive, I am assuming it will be just fine.

This is the worst hard drive in the history of hard drives, just google ST3000DM001 failure and you will see for yourself

I've had a few Seagate hard drives, including the other, newer 3TB drive in my

The bottle neck for me is of course the interface, but the drive is the fastest external drive I've seen yet

The first drive I bought was working fine when I bought

Terrible drives

This is a great drive at a very competitive price

I bought this one to replaced a failed drive of exactly the same make and model

hard drive works great

Happy to have a good drive in my home PC.

Requires strict guidelines on how to mail a broken hard drive back.

I needed to replace a failed drive on my Iomega IX2 NAS.

If you are an avid gamer and any potential for lag is infuriating, just invest in a faster drive if you are uncertain how your games load its resources and assets into memory from your hard drive

Hard drives keep getting cheaper, but this is by far the cheapest per GB you can get while still in a reliable (or warrantied) package.

I kept having issues with my older 1TB hard drives failing and was tired of recovering my videos

This hard drive lasted roughly 2.5 years before it stopped being recognized by Windows and the bios from time to time

I don't like this drive anymore

I use this hard drive as an external storage for my Raspberry Pi 3.

Good hard drive no issue

Good drive at a good price.

This drive has worked out great!Of course the true test of any HDD is long term reliability

very fast drive installed windows 7 in 12.5 minutes

You must think of most of these modern drives as disposable and just have backups of your backups.

The drive failed after 1 day, which resulted in my RAID failing and me having to pay $7200 for my data to be restored.

This drive failed within a year of receiving it

I pretty much gave up on warranty because they keep replacing with the same bad drive

The read/write speeds on this hard drive are fantastic, making it an excellent mass storage drive for any PC

I plugged my old Western Digital drive into the same cables and it worked fine

I installed in in an external USB3 case and data transfer speeds are as fast as any spinning drive I have used

I brought it to our IT guy at the office who ran some tests and told me the drive had issues

Great hard drive

I used this drive along with a modified version of the network adapter so that it would work with the hdd and for the most part I've been able to run mostly every game that I've loaded onto the hard drive with very little loading time

Finally, the originally replaced first cold-swap (the 5th, extra drive on my original 5 drives I purchased), which had been put in service 18 months after purchasing, failed just a couple months ago, and has been replaced

The hard drive recognition by the PC is random.2.

I can barely hear this new drive as it spins up; whereas, my old drive is rather noisy

I would recommend Western Digital, I've had one of their hard drives as my primary for almost 10 years.

I had to pay for shipping of the defective drive (about $8) and they sent me a replacement drive

When attempting to contact Seagate to make use of the warranty, I was informed by their warranty team that the hard drive's warranty had expired in October of 2015, and it was an "OEM" drive that they could not service

2tb 7200rpm Hard Drive, but received a 2tb 5900rpm Hard Drive

Makes a slight noise in comparison to my other hard drives.

BTW the NVR is a 24/7/365 unit so this drive is very robust.

In my case I love the drive, but I need a different drive enclosure.

Purchased two drives, and in less than two months one has already failed

The hard drive is no longer working, I called a few people around town and they all told me the same thing that it sounds like the hard drive is bad

Seagate has always produced excellent hard drives

Seems to be a nice drive.

This drive stopped working and started clicking.

Good hard drive

Great storage, is not my main drive, but wonderful for pics etc.

Solid drive, used to replace my failed OEM 1TB drive from my 21.5-inch iMac

You are better off buying a better drive that will last longer

This is a great hard drive with a lot of space for most users

I will never buy or recommend a Seacrate drive to anyone

I wouldn't recommend using these in a storage server but just wanted people to know that the drives are pretty solid

I sent it off with a dead drive to be recovered and cloned.

The drive started to to slow down extremely fast, one day it was reading and writing around 30 MB/s and the next, it was around 4-5 KB/s

The drives are very loud, I'm hoping that's

Ot's a drive and it worked/

This drive failed within the two year warranty period that is specified

While 5900rpms is not the fastest drive one could purchase, I use mine for storage of mostly static data

I told myself that I would replace the drives with more reliable/better drives when they started to fail, and I will

I had an external hard drive die after year and a half

I bought a couple on eBay, used ($25-$30 is typical), which admittedly filters out the quick-to-die drives.

This drive is loud, I may have to return it.

Failing Drive - Resulting in LawsuitJust as others have mentioned, I purchased this in 2012 and it failed in 2016.

These are good, cheap hard drives for most applications

Not the fastest drive out there, but has been very reliable so far and holds a ton of stuff

very fast and quiet drives

There are very high numbers of failures reported on the websites for this particular hard drive

He needed a standard state of the art Hard Drive for his gaming computer

It's the best and one of the most reliable 4TB drives under $125.

There's something seriously wrong with this hard drive model.

This hard drive plugged in easily and worked perfectly with my computer.

I added this as a second hard drive to always have an operational hard drive if the primary drive crashes

When I ordered this exact 3tb model it ended up being a 2tb hard drive and worked fine at first, but be weary of this because it will DIE within a year

Lost all my data while transferring it to another more stable drive

Good solid hard drive for data storing, highly recommend it.

These are great drives, made better then all the others

I bought this recently, but owned the same hard drive that's been operating for nearly three years

this hard drive in win10 tells me its "working on it" for half a minute to a minute before it actually lets me into the driveI would not recommend buying this one

I even payed for the advanced option, only for that drive to be really noisy

I have had very good luck with all my Seagate hard drives over the years

At first I was only limited to 700GB because my previous external hard drive reader was unable to recognize anything larger than 2TB.So I had to buy new external reader so that I could use the drive's full capacity

I'll bite the bullet and purchase a more reliable drive.

Both drives suffered the same fate, in fact the 3rd drive is headed that way now also

Bought both from amazon warehouse deals, the first one I had bought when I reached at around a bit past half I have started to get lone bad sectors and Synology NAS has reported that the drive has crashed

Do not buy this model hard drive

Hard drives SUCK anymore, getting a consumer model to last three years is a long shot!

Priced well for a reasonably fast 3 TB rotational drive

The larger drives (4-6 TB) are still expensive

I made a mistake buying the same drive (I hoped for a newer batch which is fine).A couple of months ago that HDD failed (many thousands of bad blocks) and my NAS dropped it

Hard drive failed in less than 2 years.

I went online to Seagate website to register hard drive and warranty had been activated 3 months before my purchase.

I chose the old model Seagate 2TB hard drive since, it has always performed very well on my desktop.

Hard drive arrived on time, with 0 issues

These are good drives and are a decent price.

it within the time frame when showing the hard drive would be bad

My old hard drive crashed, and this was a major upgrade for under $80.

Quick and simply, the hard drive performs as expected

Fast hard drive but not worth the speed

This is a good hard drive.

An 80 gigabyte hard drive can only get you so far after so many years of

It is in a hard drive enclosure and so far I have filled it with 32GB of my YouTube videos

only way i can get it to work consistently is to have it in a hard drive dock connected to my desktop via USB.

Good solid hard drive

Very good hard drive very satisfied with it

Great Drive for a customer.

took a bit to narrow it down to this hard drive

They said it takes time to show when the hard drive is bad, so if it's

good hard drive

The drive had a complete and unrecoverable failure after 48 hours of use

I never thought that a fast hard drive can have such a good impact on the computer

I hardly used this hard drive it was basically just for storage and not used a primary partition

Excellent product, hard drive with great storage capacity.

Be very careful if you want a reliable hard drive.

Second, having just lost a drive and some important data, purchasing a drive with a low failure rate was of paramount importance

There are so many other makers of hard drives - avoid this nonsense.

I thought my old drive was failing because of the noise but this one sounds almost as bad.

Worked for the first few days then had a hard drive crash.

Be very careful if you want a reliable hard drive.

Labeling 2 star because of the amount of time it took me to realize its a bad drive

its cheaper to buy flash storage..great drive , but looks like the ASIN was changed bc when i bought my hdd ut was showing a NAS drive

Hard-drives follow the bath-tub failure curve, so I will update if this drive fails me

Though it is my fault for formatting my old drive too soon, I have now lost 17 years worth of music and documents

I have a 300gb+ external drive that is 5+ years old and it still works great

Excellent product, hard drive with great storage capacity.

This brand of hard drive I will recommend to anyone.

I bought this Hard Drive as of April 2016 and not only did it come as a 2TB HDD, but within 10 months made the dreaded clicking noises aka the death of a Hard Drive

I never thought that a fast hard drive can have such a good impact on the computer

good hard drive

My WD 1tb hard drive dieds after 3 years

good price, good drive

Hard drive works great

Very good hard drive very satisfied with it

EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $

Do yourself a favor and do a search on failure rates with hard drives and choose one of the brands with the least failures, as you'll see this drive has the highest failure rate being 40% failure for the 3TB model

Good solid hard drive

I recieved a hard drive that was not working.

It's the best deal I found on a 4TB hard drive, and so far it's working as expected.

First drive was defective and a replacement died in 2 weeks

This is a good hard drive.

Fast hard drive but not worth the speed

It's a hard drive.

(unfortunately the old hard drive crashed out of the blue so there was no retrieving anything)

I just lost another Seagate drive that was about 3 years old.

love the seagate drives. seems to be working very well.

I've had this hard drive for about 4 months and its already starting to break down

and it came out to be that the hard drive is failing or bad sectors

Purchased 4 of these 4TB hard drives for a desktop machine.

They refused to listen and insisted that they were not responsible for the defective drive

It turns out my hard drive was starting to fail

The old, almost dead drive is still

This is not in any way the drive's fault, but something to understand if you are expecting this to be plug & play

It's all luck anyway with hard drives

When you are buying a Seagate hard drive, you are basically playing a lottery with your data

great cheap hard drive nothing more to say about it, i mean its a hard drive

Bought the drive in March of 2016, only for it to die in a month and a half

I have a hard drive form 2004 Dell that is still going strong

m.2 so most likely this was my last mechanical hard drive ever ;)

It would take 15 seconds to boot up but since this drive is failing, my computer takes about 3 minutes to boot up

Drive is silent

Drive died after only 2 years of moderate use.

Be careful about picking the cheapest hard drive, folks.

Last year I picked up two and consolidated 4 hard drives into a RAID 1 array and after 3 days of synching, I was 100% backed up

This drive is great especially for the price

Original hard drive crashed (literally - the tower fell over), and this drive, along with the Acronis software that Seagate offers was a digital life saver.

I bought a 2TB drive (ST2000DM001) when I started college and as a VFX student, the drive has seen incredibly heavy usage because of my work and my study and it hasn't lost any data yet

this hard drive in win10 tells me its "working on it" for half a minute to a minute before it actually lets me into the driveI would not recommend buying this one

I think they sent me another defective drive, this one with a bad ball bearing... now I have to call that one in too.

The drive is good, when you get a working model

Good solid hard drive for data storing, highly recommend it.

Does exactly what I expected, used it to replace a failed drive in my home NAS

Great delivery and excellent drive

I needed some extra space for my video games, so I bought I second hard drive just for gaming

Great drive for backup usage in USB chassis.

They aren't the fastest or the highest capacity drives in the world, but they're big enough for me and my array

This hard drive lasted about 10

ive purchased over the last 2 years... about 80% of them are still running.so... its a cheap drive

My computer is working fine after upgrading to the 1 TB hard drive.

Get a cheap SSD or go for a different Make or Model Hard Drive.

This hard drive plugged in easily and worked perfectly with my computer.

drive dead about a month after i bought itThe Seagate Faulty Hard Drive Class Action Lawsuit is Christopher A. Nelson v. Seagate Technology LLC,

I'd personally rather pay more, for a more reliable drive.

However if you are looking for a faster loading Hard Drive pick up one of their hybrid drives.

I blanked the drive using dban and then requested an rma, to which Seagate promptly replaced my failing hard drive with a factory recertified drive and so far it appears to have no problems.

I have three hard drives in my workstation PC, 2 of these drives and 1 SSHD

I miss Maxtor drives and wish Seacrate was the company to go out of business

I purchased the 2TB version of this hard drive to use as a secondary storage drive in my gaming PC

After almost two years, the hard drive is starting to fail.

This is just the hard drive so no cables will come with this hard drive.

These are good, cheap hard drives for most applications

Its quiet and pass my hard drive tests.

I tried MiniTool which also said that drive was bad.

Hard disk drive was dead on arrival and did not spin.

I reinstalled the OS, trouble shot steam until i downloaded the seagate drive tools and the stupid drive couldnt pass a single test

:) Buy all the hard drives!

I've bought many hard drives from HGST, WD, and Seagate and

This hard drive is garbage

Always - 17959705I'm not sure if this a bug, or a defective drive, but one would think that SMART would be checked automatically on the way out the factory door.

I removed the drive, cleaned off the plastic and plugged it into a spare computer.

If your "hard disk" (not solid state) drives are over 5 years old, get a replacement before it's too late

The three week period was to ensure there were no drive errors or failures and neither drive failed nor had errors

I would hope that a hard drive would last longer than that

To me, it is a dead drive.

The hard-drive is not designed for raid configuration - raid is only for workstations and servers

This is a great hard drive with a lot of space for most users

I really regret bought this hard drive for try to save some money.

Good hard drive

The clicking is driving me crazy, Worse is the concern that this brand new drive is already failing

This is an amazing drive, for around 30$ a terra its great, no noticeable problems going into the seccond month and a steal for what it us.

This drive is fast and it works well

Almost all the drives from this brand has failed on me very disappointed.

This drive is fast and it works well

Seagate has always produced excellent hard drives

The hard drive is no longer working, I called a few people around town and they all told me the same thing that it sounds like the hard drive is bad

Just hooked up my second 1tb hard drive

I have the hard drives in a file server so when they have died I have replaced them in a few years.

Also of note, the packaging of the hard drives was sloppy: There was no static protection bag and no moisture absorber

I think that most people will find that a 500 fb drive is no longer the sweet spot for cost vs space in a hard drive, but for what this drive is it does a great job

If you're very confident that your system doesn't have this limitation, this could be a fine drive

So the drive isn't dead yet, but it's clearly dying, and I don't dare use it for anything

This was a great drive at a good price

Its a Seagate hard drive.

This drive is junk

I used this drive along with a modified version of the network adapter so that it would work with the hdd and for the most part I've been able to run mostly every game that I've loaded onto the hard drive with very little loading time

Great hard drive

This drive just died after having it over 3 years.

These aren't the fastest drives in the world, but for NAS-like purposes, they don't need to be.

Would highly recommend a backup drive to this one as in a mirrored RAID configuration.

I am on my third drive, my first one had to be returned immediately and actually damaged my other two drives in my computer, one I was able to recover and the other got damage beyond recovery of data

The read/write speeds on this hard drive are fantastic, making it an excellent mass storage drive for any PC

THIS DRIVE IS DETERIORATING

I checked hard drive with HDTune and it passed with flying colors.

Works great as a Win-7 system drive: BEWARE use another system to partition this into 2 full 1 terabyte partitions, if you let Win-7 itself setup those partitions stupidly it will make a small 100 meg boot partition and one other: the rest of the drive will be inaccessible.

Works great as a Win-7 system drive: BEWARE use another system to partition this into 2 full 1 terabyte partitions, if you let Win-7 itself setup those partitions stupidly it will make a small 100 meg boot partition and one other: the rest of the drive will be inaccessible.

Tip for Seagate - If I can hear an idle drive at 30 feet around a corner, there's something wrong with it

On a more positive note, I must mention that the drive (once the firmware is patched), is very quiet, and seems to perform fairly well

After ~3 years of use the drive died suddenly.

I bought this hard drive to replace a dead drive in a server that is configured with raid

I would expect more from today's hard drives.

I now hate this drive

My 2TB HDD now only shows up as a 3.8 Gb inaccessible unpartitioned drive on my disk management and throws an I/O error if I try to initialize it