Seagate ST1000DM010 1 TB 3.5 Inch Barracuda Serial Hard Drive

It stores ALL of my games on Steam! Loading times are negligibly slower than an SSD, to the point where it's pretty much useless storing your games on an SSD which is more expensive per GB.Of course it's a hard drive and it has its limitations.If you intent to use this with tasks that require frequent read/writes of small data it can be very slow. I would recommend a hard drive for its cheap price per GB and large capacity. I recommend using it as a secondary drive, to accompany a faster medium that holds Windows and other small software. But... 3TB for this price is great and it's reliable.

I was a little cautious having read a couple of slightly negative reviews but I need not have been concerned. The drive was not initially seen by Windows 10 but after a little introduction it was fine. I carried out a surface check and the drive passed 100%. After partitioning into 2, 2TB drives I have loaded it up as a windows backup drive and a photo storage drive. All very smoothly done and no issues. Very pleased. I may now buy another 2TB drive to replace the ageing system drive. Good price for a good sized drive. All I need to do now is see how it lasts.

Great storage and no issues after using this for about 4 months (unlike previous Seagate disks I've used). It can get very audible during boot, defrag or if running jobs/apps with heavy reads/rights. As advice though, if you're using this in a desktop and copying a lot of data too it you'll find it's about 95% fragmented after copying - a boot-time defrag is then needed and with the 3-4TB I copied to it that took all night and most of the next day, with further defrags still needed after. Doing this reduced some (but far from all) of the load noises which were obviously from the need to read/write to too many disparate segments. Hope this helps someone!

Needed some more storage and I've been using seagate for years so picked this up for a good price. The drive is a bit thinner then my last one but still the same excellent quality and decent speed for a mechanical drive. Ticked all of the boxes for me. Arrived in an anti static bag inside a padded envelope which was enough to protect it. Been using it a few months now and it's running well with no issues.

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Ordered this drive as I was running out of space on my home PC. The first drive arrived but my system would not recognise it. After much fiddling about and testing I found the new drive was not spinning up. I sent the defective drive back via Doodle and recevied a replacement next day. This one works perfactly and was easy to install and format. Great customer service from this supplier!

Bought this to replace an identical one that had failed from a 2011 machine. The machines inbuilt recovery system re installed the operating system and original software, which left me to put on the software I wanted and the 200 odd updates required. The drive is quieter than the original one installed. I downloaded some free testing software and the drive passed every test. Good value for money.

I bought two of these because I read good reviews. However I have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out why they make so much noise! (There is a humming noise which is extremely loud when the discs are idle). It seems that they require a firmware update to get rid of it (they come with v02 but need to be updated to v03). I have spent two days trying to work out how to perform the update. I couldn't do it on a Mac (they require a PC), I couldn't do it on a Windows laptop (they need to be connected to the motherboard) - it's an absolute nightmare and for a non-IT person extremely troublesome to perform. So i took it to a specialist pc shop who agreed to do it for a fee. And I don't even know whether this will fix the noise issue.I think that such an expensive product should either work out of the box or the updates should be written in a way that does not require a degree in computing (most of the instructions are written in Linux code...). Otherwise it is probably a good drive. I just haven't been able to use it yet.