Works as advertised, using this as a server OS drive & partitioned to have the server use it as a storage drive

worked just as advertised!

I got this hard drive as a

Windows said, in detail, it was a mechanical failure with the read/write mechanism as well as with the Servo electronics.

Shorter load times for windows, programs, files than the hybrid drive (My old and new 1TB Seagate hybrids are still much faster than the 2TB maybe due to the same size 8GB SSD on the larger drive).Crystal disk marks topped 153 mb/s on both read and write performance besting my Seagate hybrid in every measure, however somewhat slower than I had hoped

Shorter load times for windows, programs, files than the hybrid drive (My old and new 1TB Seagate hybrids are still much faster than the 2TB maybe due to the same size 8GB SSD on the larger drive).Crystal disk marks topped 153 mb/s on both read and write performance besting my Seagate hybrid in every measure, however somewhat slower than I had hoped