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    Seagate 2TB FireCuda Gaming SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Hard Drive (ST2000DX002)

    • Great hardrive space and more cost effective than a ssd, I did a clean install of Windows with no problems , and write speeds up to 200 mb/s
    • The Firecuda drive was a perfect fit and an easy install
    • Great product fast easy install
    • The project for which I bought it was a fresh install of Windows 10 in a foreign language that I wanted to immerse myself in to improve my vocabulary.
    • Install was easy , as w any hard drive
    • no problems...easy install...
    • Install is like any hard drive, and the speed is there on several fronts.
    • Wasn't a big drama to do a clean install of Windows 10 on it.
    • no problems...easy install...
    • Select the ADVANCED OPTIONS iconSelect the CMD iconEnter DISKPARTEnter LIST VOLUME to get a list of the volumesEnter SELECT VOLUME # (where # is the largest volume!)Enter ACTIVE to make the above volume the Boot VolumeEnter Exit to exit DISKPARTEnter Exit to exit CMDThis when the restore win10 works short of a clean install which looses the small Windows RE volume
    • For now, Windows 10 already boots faster on a fresh install
    • Also a fresh Win10 install didn't hurt either.
    • My computer keeps crashing since this was installed and I have had to purchase something many times expensive to do what this was supposed to do.
    • I performed a clean/fresh install of Windows onto this hard drive, then installed all of the Windows updates onto the hard drive
    • Easy install, plug and play.
    • WIN 10 installed with Linux, Unbuntu companion install.
    • Easy install
    • Used for a fresh install of windows
    • I opted to do a fresh install of OSX Sierra and then restore my backup
    • Perfect but cloning your os is sort of difficult for a first timer best to just do a fresh install of Windows
    • Great Drive, quiet, not sure if Win 7 takes advantage of the solid state part, it's not booting up any faster, (but this is from a recovery, not a 'clean install'...
    • Works as described, easy install.
    • Not as fast as I hoped
    • but I didn't complain I
    • Best alternitive you can get to expensive SSD’s
    • Good as it described
    • Maybe now as fast as a true SSD but client needed speed and space.
    • Not as fast as a
    • Awesome, perfect price point , perfect capacity, easy setup, not as fast as an
    • For the ones that would run in Windows, it would start and then at some point start moving so slow as to never complete.
    • I thought I would have to ante up $500+ for a 2TB SSD, but I have no hiccups with this drive and everything is as smooth and fast as I would dream
    • Again, not as great as my SSD, and not quite as great as I was hoping
    • Not as fast as a