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.

Google "seagate 3tb failure" without quotes to find articles on peoples' class action lawsuit over these ridiculous failures

Hard drive major issues & possible failure less than 1 year after purchase

Just Googling the model number st3000dm001 returns countless articles and complaints about this drive's failure rate and possibly even a class action lawsuit regarding the failures

DO NOT PURCHASE THESE DRIVES, THEY HAVE A RIDICULOUS FAILURE RATE THEY WILL FAIL ON YOU

Fast, and no failures yet!

Worked fine for 4 years then hard failure

The failure rate it abysmal, 3 out of 6 in my case

I can't remember a drive having such a terrible failure rate

Wish I had seen this article  which points out that these drives have a 40%+ FREAKING FAILURE RATE WITHIN 12 MONTHS

Been working as it should for 1 year or so.

They work as they should.

Works as it should right out of the box.

Do yourself a BIG favor, and get a Western Digital or HGST drive as they will honor from DATE OF PURCHASE.This is the last Seagate drive i will ever purchase again.

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

Works as it should, but it's pretty noisy.

Worked as it should.

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

It works as it is supposed to but if you get the 2TB, you're only actually getting 1.8TB

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