it isn't as fast as solid state, but it's as fast as you're going to get for a drive with this size at this price
i have samsung solid state drives in a raide configuration for the main drives.
I have a solid state and this hard drive as my two drives
It didn't take rocket science to hear and feel the point source of the sound and vibration, apart from the fact that all my other hard drives are solid state, was this disk.
I understand that, statistically, at certain number of drives of any type - even solid state drives - will be DOA.
No HDD is 100% free of occasional manufacturing defects or failures, but every WD
Great HDD for loads of data, acceptable data transfer read/write access rate.
It wasn't until I noticed that downloading files would more often trigger the PC to freeze up that I began to suspect this HDD (I had originally changed the default download path on Chrome to it)
You are reading snippets from reviews of WD 4TB 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache, 3.5-Inch Desktop Hard Disk Drive (WD4003FZEX)
and it's not the drive itself but a software driver issue that does involve this drive and windows, I should mention that I had to uninstall Intel Rapid Storage Technology AHCI driver because during large transfers it was consuming all of my ram first then stalling to finish copying data but luckily not locking up the OS, however it does lock up the copy so the only way to continue is to reboot, then uninstall the Intel RST driver,then reboot, then you should be able to copy terrabytes at a time without any locking up
I replaced a 10000 RPM raptor and this is just as fast with 50 times the storage and its quiet!
Planning on running 5 of these in tandem (RAID config)for more redundant storage
The only thing I can get from the HDD is initialization and I/O errors
Does exactly what I need it to do - fast extra storage.
The drive arrived as OEM in an anti static bag, packaging was great.
Using large files and 64K sectors it will make seek times faster without working out the drive, plus it will also minimize fragmentation on the drive to almost nothing, however if you are storing lots of files smaller than 10GB then from 4-8GB range you should select 4096 and respectfully for mass amounts of photos you should select 512 or you will waste lots of space on this drive using 64K for random file types,sizes,etc
When not using A/C idle temps are 43-44 C but when A/C on it goes below 40
The drive was well packaged arrived a day ahead of the quoted delivery date.
Amazon does ship these well packaged, and take very good care of their customers.
Admittedly, the Seagate did have some bad sectors, but Windows 8.1 automatically fixed the drive and I can access all of my data on it now (in windows!!
Most drives adhere to the "bathtub" graph: if anything goes wrong with a HDD it will either die a spectacular death young or live a long life until there are too many bad sectors due to age
Lasted 8 days shy of one year before unreadable sectors started popping up
When not using A/C idle temps are 43-44 C but when A/C on it goes below 40