cut this long story and conclude, I installed my Samsung M.2 2280 form of SSD, I am now using it as my primary hard drive for my computer, windows now load much faster any where from 6 to 12 seconds from the "power on" to the "log in screen"), and so I have relegated my 2TB hard drive as a storage media, and I could not be more happy

And now the third drive has failed as well

So now I am just stuck with a broken hard drive and no replacement from either Amazon or Seagate

but my server works constantly and the drive is a little loud.

A good buy if you want a hard drive for storing stuff on your computer.

I honestly only recommend this hard drive for solely storage.

I bought this Seagate 2Tb hard-drive to replace my old Seagate 1Tb hard-drive that was in my desktop computer

I will not buy another Seagate hard drive again

But since I sometimes have to use Win 7, and these drives are a bit old, I was looking to replace them with new faster hard drives

but when I first ordered it I received a dead drive

The size of the hard drive (2TB) is perfect, and it *should* have been perfect for me

I verified using known good cables and another drive that the SATA port in question works

great ps5 external drive

terribly annoying sounds coming from this hard drive

i began to load the backup i had of my old failed drive on it and began to hear the same sound my old drive made before it failed.

I got around to replacing this Hard drive because of the fact that it's pretty much outdated and there are better sources of faster and more reliable storage

Needless to say, I have since purchased one 2.5 inch Samsung 870 SSD hard drive, but by the next couple of days, purchased one Samsung

Very good hard drive

LOVE my hard drive

After using this for 2 years with no problems I then decided that I was also impressed with the speed compared to other hard drives and bought another for my main PC

When I need another hard drive I will got with the Seagate and next go up to 4 or 6tbs.

Connected this to a 16gb optane module that was $20 and its been an excellent drive for photo editing.

I asked him which hard drive, he said a Seagate

Amazing value, in fact it's probably one of the best hard drives for pc you can get for cheap and large capacity.

Well now i dont like hard drives because they keep breaking espessially

I had to use the Seachest (Seagates tools) to update the firmware on the last drive to fix head parking issues (frequent clunking heard that resembles failing drives).Overall, not a terrible drive if not using frequently

Decent speeds for a hard drive

Had some issues with the computer partitioning the hard drive, but once that was fixed the hard drive works perfectly

After I purchase this hard drive, it worked well for a while; but after installing some windows update and a a few old apps, I started to get a similar response of "bad sectors" again which left me frustrated

Shipped fast and was much faster in computer than previous hard drive

No complaints, it's exactly what a 2tb hard drive should be.

Hard drive was easy to install and it was my first time building a pc

Impossible to download games, as the hard drive simply disconnects from your computer.

Great drive, lots of space.

Hard drives store a lot and are fast in calculation

The 4TB hard drive did not arrive in very good condition.

If you take these tips into consideration then your hard drives will last longer.

This hard drive is very durable and is priced right

Basically, the bottom line, is buy your drives direct from the manufacturer or approved seller (i.e Newegg)

The hard drive is quite, can't even hear it running.

After years of trying to do design work for 3d printing, and working on video game design this hard drive has been a blessing.

Seagate Barracuda drives are good drives

After I bought the hard drive copier to go with it, SIMPLE!!!!!

Hard drive died after 4 months of usage

Good price for the storage, but if you're building your PC for the first time, remember: with hard drives, you get a lot more storage for your dollar, but with SSDs it's a lot faster to access the storage

all way say keep your main on a diffent hard drive and use for storges

Meanwhile the 3year old daily backup WD RED drives that these Barracuda drives were backing up once a week are still working perfectly fine.

The 2TB hard drive has enough space for what I need.

and the games on it load very quickly I am impressed with the hard drive

Removed the old hard drive and plugged in the new one

The hard-drive is really quite

great hard drive 10/10

I wasted a lot of time trying to get Windows 10 to recognize the Seagate 2TB Internal Hard Drive

I think it might be a good hard drive if I knew how to install it into my PC

It's plenty fast for gaming and makes an awesome drive for those games I don't play very often

Not mine anymore to slow of a hard drive.

I originally had a 1 TB hard drive and it was extremely noisy

It is a good middle of the road drive and I generally have nothing to complain about aside from getting a defective drive right out of the box.

Because the performance is worse than hard drive speeds of the 90s

I ORDERED A 4 TB HARD DRIVE

i own so far the old video seagate drive is lasting much longer than any of the cheap drives i am paying and getting also its makeing noise but still

So good for internal storage, but if you plan on moving it around and traveling with it, save yourself and buy a WD Portable Hard Drive.

I only trust Seagate drives for years now because I've found them to be the most dependable and hassle-free drives I have pretty much ever used

Well i am communicating on through the computer with the newly installed hard drive.

Bought this to go into a security camera system that doesn't come with a hard drive

there was a waning noise coming from the hard drive during use, but 2 months later all seems to be fine, good value if you need space for more games or files without breaking the bank.

so I RMA'd the two bad drives.

On the 1st NAS the drives were so noisy I thought someone was trying to break in the house!

So every time I restart my machine it pops-up and shows the actual disks health.*Hard drives will last depending on the user's usage

The hard drive was full because of the gaming on the inspirion 5680 and he needed to keep deleting files to keep the machine working

Run the program and it will find the Hard Drive so you can format it

I'm running Plex and Roon and the drives are perfect for my application

this drive for the transfer of large files results in speeds from 30MB/s to 2 MB/s, if you plan on copying any large amount of data to it, plan to spend at least a week or better yet, purchase a hard drive from a manufacturer who properly documents the technology used inside the drive.

There had been no physical trauma to the machine or hard drive in general, and a cable was very gently removed at the time that the piece fell off

Hard drive does not work, will have to return item

Greatly improved my aunt and uncles laptop’s overall speed (boot time, no more seeking constantly with the spinning hard drive.

Was it difficult, well I can say I did some research on YouTube first on how to open a Dell Alienware computer with a crashed hard drive.

I have been buying Seagate products for years and have yet to get a bad drive

Great drive, easy to install, low noise.

I've always had this problem with Seagate where their hard drives just start failing after a good year of use

I was having trouble trying to figure out how to set up the internal hard drive so I have to look up a video to set it up

The warranty did say explicitly that failing the SMART Drive Self Test was a valid reason to request replacement

It was actually the quietest drive out of all, and also the fastest with speeds up to 240MBs, also has 5 year warranty that I verified on the Seagate site

I put hard drive in

So the hard drive showed up and I was expecting a box with sata cables

The hard drive came with an anti static sleeve and no cables

The drives are pretty quiet, but that sort of comes at a

I got this because my old hard drive got my gaming pc was corrupt and couldn’t boot anything

Rather than asking for another replacement, we got a different drive brand it worked the first time around.

Came on time and it was my first time putting in a hard drive in my PC

Great hard drive, as expected from a brand like seagate

Its a large hard drive

Then I tried an old (good drive) in the new enclosure

I searched for laptop 2.5 inch HD and bought this desktop hard drive.

Drive died after a month and I'm very disappointed.

Plus M.2 SSD hard drive after finding out that my motherboard supported the M.2 format of

Courier dropped item at door and the first thing I heard after installing the product where shattered hard drive noises

I bought this because I needed a new hard drive for my pc

This drive failed in less than a year

I even swapped the drive to another port and power plug, but it still didn't work

Great hard drive, as expected from a brand like seagate

So this drive lasted 2 years, and died with extremely important files

I have two Hitachi 2TB hard drives that have been working without problem for about 7 years (7200RPM)

I ordered two of these hard drives only to find that only one of the two actually works

Great drive, running games and video editing software on it all the

That new drive failed within 5 months.

I would not recommend this hard drive with the shoddy drive i have gotten.

F3- marked the drive as a fake

After thinking and looking I decided on this hard drive

Very good drive!!

This hard drive makes loud noise whenever i click on it and try to access data

Needless to say, my information gathering took me further into the depths of SSD hard drives, and where I am now are the M.2 SSD hard drives

The new drive was dead on arrival

In my search for online solutions to my recurring problem, I happen to come across several articles about SSD hard drives which held my interest over several days

Other than these two complains the hard drive performs as expected and I’ve had no issues that completely stopped me from using the hard drive.

good drive but sometimes makes a little noise.

It’s a hard drive

Purchased and consolidated data from 3 smaller drives 3 months ago.... transferred approximately 2.5 TB to this hard drive

I installed the HDD 2 TB after formatting without having made any copies or file transfers to the hard drive yet, there is sometimes a clicking noise.

So good for internal storage, but if you plan on moving it around and traveling with it, save yourself and buy a WD Portable Hard Drive.

I've used Seagate hard drives for more than fifteen years and they have been very dependable

Meanwhile I have two Western Digital 8 TB hard drives that I bought in 2019 that are chugging along without a problem

The Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD arrived in excellent condition.

Very good drive

I think it might be a good hard drive if I knew how to install it into my PC

We bought this drive to add an additional hard drive to my son's computer

great hard drive 10/10

It's deffo a hard drive

Very fast and reliable hard drive

Hard drive does not make any noise at all extremely quiet don't know why else to say about it it works as intended so go ahead and buy it

This hard drive run very quietly but its costly and you get approximately 1.81TB space only.

So I can't really recommend this drive as a OS drive, but would be OK as a backup drive or just a data drive if you don't need fast performance

The drive works

Works like a hard drive should and the size is great for backing up

39 days is absolutely unacceptable for a hard drive lifespan

Noise LevelI have not heard this drive once in all the time I have owned

I had bought this hard drive to replace my 500gb, and rated slower, hard drive

Nice quiet drive

The drive itself works as intended and I haven't had any issues with it

As luck would have it I had to replace 3 hard drives, one was a 2T and w were a 1T and I replaced them all with this 2T drive.

This can be a great drive for experienced users and even first time folks building their first computer

I would say it is a bad drive but it does perform as stated. . . which is sub-par for 2021.

There is not a lot said here in the reviews about how quiet these drives are but let me assure you they are

After years of trying to do design work for 3d printing, and working on video game design this hard drive has been a blessing.

I plugged this hard drive in, booted up windows only to find that not only was the seagate drive not in my disk management console, but all my other SATA drives disappeared as well, showed as missing drivers in Device Manager

This hard drive is very durable and is priced right

I was told Seagate was reliable but this hard drive is far from it.

Very fast drive.

I would not recommend this hard drive at all.

That said, this is a nice drive for a good price

5000rpm drives are faster

It's functioning as well or better than the other three 2gb drives in my drobo

Keep in mind that having local disks require maintenance, and that hard drives do fail when they wear

Desktop hard drive.

The speed of the drive is slow, like hard drives from many years past, even though it's a SATA drive

And as of today, I have had to replace all 5 of them due to failure of the SMART Drive Self Test, which indicates a disk may be failing and should be replaced.

Hard drive was easy to install and it was my first time building a pc

I've had this drive for less than a month and the mechanicals have failed

Big hard drive for your

My daughter's Predator laptop hard drive crashed

I cannot stress the importance of backing up your important files or just clone the hard drive to prevent a loss of information

Built-in hard drives have absolute reliability

Wrong hard drive, had to give it to someone else because it doesn't tell you what it fits into and the pics don't show if it would fit in a hp laptop.

and it breaks the one i got recently made a loud start up noise and is not quiet and dose not operate like a normal drive so now i am pissed and i want my money back i much rather get a ssf then deal with every drive breaking or unreadable and makes me erase everything on my system ti realise its the hard drive thats defective like i already spent money on

I read reviews where they said that they could not get the hard drive to work.

I love Seagate drives and wished this fact were more obvious when buying on Amazon.

Solid drive

Worst hard drive I have had

I bought one SSD hard drive

Quality hard drive

Well now i dont like hard drives because they keep breaking espessially

This is a desktop hard drive and is basically useless to us as a main drive for my daughter's laptop

Amazing value, in fact it's probably one of the best hard drives for pc you can get for cheap and large capacity.

Quiet drive so far.

I received two dead hard drives in a row (both returned)

LOVE my hard drive

Very good hard drive

Its still a mechanical drive so a little noise is a fact of

this drive is SLOW

this hard drive will not fit a asus tuf gaming 504 labtop

Really impressed with this hard drive

The system seemed to work fine for a few months and then started blue screening for no apparent reason and after days and days of troubleshooting i found out it was this hard drive failing which was causing the blue screens

I use this hard drive in our desktop computer.

Despite the size the the hard drive

again the hard drive was defective

The drive is great for surveillance

But since I sometimes have to use Win 7, and these drives are a bit old, I was looking to replace them with new faster hard drives

I honestly only recommend this hard drive for solely storage.

that is why i say the drive is failing

Its a hard drive for my dell laptop

With sad hard drives out I would expect these to drop in prices more especially for the ones with higher transfer

I purchased this to replace a failing hard drive in a old desktop computer

And now the third drive has failed as well

Does exactly what I expect a hard drive to do.

Samsung 870 SSD hard drive in an external enclosure.

Could not get the Hard drive to be recognized on multiple PC's

Great drive, does the job fast and quiet!

The drive seems solid and appears to have no issues

I used this hard drive to back up files on my computer that I didn't want on my m.2

You can hear the hard drive when you're downloading something, but it's not that loud and its only annoying if you specifically don't like that (I guess)

Really nice hard drive.

Sometimes you just need a traditional hard drive and not a SSD

that's how hard drives are as I've always used SSDs

This hard drive was quite easy to install, just plugged in both old and new hard drives to my computer, opened my disk cloning software and cloned my old drive to the new one and it worked right away without a problem

My drive was dead on arrival.

It's a pretty snappy drive

The mounting brackets on my case aren’t fully compatible with the sata cable location on this hard drive and this made the installation process fairly complex and difficult

It also depends on the environment the hard drive is located and the airflow in your computer case

Its a great 2 terabyte drive.

But if you are not tech savvy please watch a vid or two on hows these work as I found even myself a little confused on how to get the hard drive to work(since you have to use their proprietary

Good hard drive for the price and works good

Tried cheaper drives and there have always been issues

The old drive works in the new enclosure

Find the one that tell you what to do after you have installed the hard drive

the 4 Seagate Barrada drives running, I cannot hear ANY hard drive noise or thumping and that's when they are very busy storing a backup.

I read a number of reviews that said that this drive is slow - and certainly compared to my RAID SSD, it is slow

Replaced failed drive in Synology.

And this was a good drive to use, especially since it was fairly priced when I bought it ($139).Expected return is too low now to invest further, but I'll use this drive for other things when I decide to give up on the farming idea.

It’s a hard drive... so far so good

I can't believe how inexpensive and reliable these drives are especially when I entered into this business when a 3 megabyte drive cost $2k in 1970

Original 4 year old drives in that same space are still going strong.

the drive has died already and not worth ever buying again.

Good internal hard drive for the price

It's a basic SATA drive, easy to install and set up

This drive is abhorrently slow

I dont know if hard drives are supposed to show up in task manager automatically or if you have to allocate

The hard drive works, but did not include any cables or screws, clips or anything

I wanted a large storage hard drive for my files and this one was the perfect size and deal

This "Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch

I move my PC around more than I'd like and I haven't had any issues so solid hard drive in my opinion

The drive lasted all of about two weeks before it died and now just keep making a skipping sound when connected

The drive is GREAT when installed, with my load speeds going from 0.5 mb/s to 80-100 mb/s (as measured by Task Manager).

very good hard drive, I have been working for more than 1 year and it is like new, super good hard drive, there is no better

Noise from hard drive, popcorn sound.

The Hard drive also has a fairly slow read and write speed

He currently is only on console because his computer caught fire after attempting a hard drive upgrade

I suggest you to buy an SSD hard drive.

I give it 3 stars because I'm sure it's a fine hard drive, but the discription of what it fits in is misleading.

Seagate is usually a very dependable drive

This is a excellant hard drive its functioning fine

It’s the largest hard drive I

i might have bad drive, but not going to return it too much hassle

I have this hard drive in my build it works good and stores a lot, however I recommend getting an SSD for your operating system, so your pc can boot faster

Very disappointed in this because I really needed to clone the old hard drive.

Maybe I just got unlucky and got two bad parts, but I wouldn't recommend this drive for daily use.

Like that it’s a hard drive and that it’s quick and has a lot of space in it and that’s it’s a breeze to install

You cannot access part of the hard drive you have to access the hard drive through the control panel to gain access to another part of the hard drive.

The original form of hard drives with their rotating platters have their place and are good for large volume storage, but they have to make way for these faster SSD M.2 form of hard drives as the main media for a computer's operating system because they are blazing fast in reading and writing data

The hard drive worked well until it failed in August (7 1/2 months). :-(

First off, I like these Seagate hard drives..great price to storage ratio..however, this being my fourth 4tb

I needed to clone an old hard drive and replace it.

I've checked the health of the drive according to it's SMART data, and always the data showed a healthy drive

Of course, you may have to sacrifice speed when buying a hard drive, but it isn't that bad in my opinion

My computer did let me know that the hard-drive is going to fail soon

The drive died after 2 years, very short life span

And when we speak on mechanical hard drives it's quite good

It isn't a fast drive by any means even if it is 7200rpm

This is not the drives fault but a windows issue

First off, I like these Seagate hard drives..great price to storage ratio..however, this being my fourth 4tb

I purchased this hard drive from a recommendation

and I didn't want a bad drive sitting in there.

You cannot access part of the hard drive you have to access the hard drive through the control panel to gain access to another part of the hard drive.

Like that it’s a hard drive and that it’s quick and has a lot of space in it and that’s it’s a breeze to install

Great drive when it was working, but barely less than a year and only one system change and the drive is on its way out

Took the PC in for troubleshooting and after multiple tests, was told that the hard drive was trash.

IBM hard drive.

The Drive is good, it's a nice solid, quiet drive

I have this hard drive in my build it works good and stores a lot, however I recommend getting an SSD for your operating system, so your pc can boot faster

This hard drive wont even spin up, cant detect it in the BIOS

This is a excellant hard drive its functioning fine

I never had this much problem just putting in a hard drive

Not sure what happened but was working fine for about 2 months transferred hard drive to a new case and never worked again tried switching sata data and sata power cables out for ones that I'm certain work and hard drive wont appear on partition list and doesn't seem to be working at all.

One drive has Win 7, Vista and XP on it, and the other drive is for Data (my main Win 10 boot drive is on SSD)

I give it 3 stars because I'm sure it's a fine hard drive, but the discription of what it fits in is misleading.

These hard drives are worthless

2TB label on Hard drive, 1.97GB detected

Guessing it is a controller failure, as the last surviving drive with the upgraded firmware is still working

This drive is slower than an external drive via USB

very good hard drive, I have been working for more than 1 year and it is like new, super good hard drive, there is no better

The package could use some improvement but other than that, excellent drive at a reasonable price!

This hard drive worked perfectly with the Windows 10 DVD that set my operating system running again.

I move my PC around more than I'd like and I haven't had any issues so solid hard drive in my opinion

and now I’m stuck with a brick of a hard drive

I'm using this drive together with a USB 3 SATA enclosure and it works great

I had a 400GB hard drive in my PlayStation when I bought it, I replaced it with this

The hard drive works, but did not include any cables or screws, clips or anything

Good internal hard drive for the price

the drive has died already and not worth ever buying again.

It’s a hard drive... so far so good

Hard Drive prices are back down

It’s louder than my old hard drive but not overly so

I initially bought this hard drive to use as a drive for my own server

It is not "if" the hard drive fails, it's "when" it fails.

When moving files from my previous hard drive ( about 1tb worth of files

It fits like any other hard drive.

Used this to replace my 15 year old Seagate hard drive that was going bad, hooked up easily and was able to download the operating system, hoping it lasts as long as my old hard drive did.

Good hard drive for the price and works good

Seagate doesn't list this product as an smr, which is really scummy considering the fact that they sell the 1tb which is cmr at $46, so instead of giving you a 2tb cmr drive they give you this slow outdated smr drive, unacceptable

and it failed saying the hard drive had errors on it

this drive is simply perfect, brings my old MBP to life again and works faster than ever, and is really easy to install

I started out acquiring this new 2TB hard drive because I wanted a replacement for my 1TB hard drive which was said to be having bad sectors (my computer is a Dell Optiplex small form factor 3310, purchased in 2017), which was preventing my windows 10 to load

This hard drive makes loud noise whenever i click on it and try to access data

This hard drive was quite easy to install, just plugged in both old and new hard drives to my computer, opened my disk cloning software and cloned my old drive to the new one and it worked right away without a problem

The drive is fast for a disk drive, makes a great companion drive to my SSD.

I don't expect to think about it much which is exactly how you want a hard drive to be.

Then I've noticed that the drive started to have a strange noise, a noise that belongs to defective drives that I know so good

My Toshiba drive that came with my prebuilt like 4 years ago is still going strong but the Seagate on bearly lasted a year.

Really nice hard drive.

It's a hard drive

Un buen producto y envío super rápido hasta Colombia, demoró tan solo 4 días