Seagate BarraCuda Pro 6TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC - Amazon Exclusive - Frustration Free Packaging (ST6000DMZ04)

Best small hard drive on the market I would say. My son has he steam game on these. No lag when playing games. You get what u paid for. So pay more for a reliable hard drive. Just put it in ur pc. Formatt it and works great.

The drive came in an OEM package, ie no documentaion/driver cd or even Manufacturers packaging. The drive was packaged in an anti-static sealed bag, with plastic end supports inside a plain brown card box with I think Polish language writing on a label, this package was then inside a well packed Amazon box. Due to the packaging, I was a bit apprehensive that perhaps the drive was not actually brand new but having checked it out with CrystalDiskInfo, the run-time hours were very low indeed - I first installed Windows 7, then upgraded to W 10, so I expected to have some uptime and all was in line with my estimation. So my fears that the drive was not new were unfounded I am glad to report. I chose this 'Pro' drive over the straight Seagate 500GB Barracuda because the 'Pro' spins at 7200 vs 5400 rpm of the non-Pro and is therefore slightly quicker, 160MB/s vs 140MB/s, but even more important is the 5yrs for the 'Pro' vs 2yrs warranty for the non-Pro. The drive is for use in a low power email server (fanless Gigabyte BRIX N2807 GB-BXBT-2807, 8GB RAM, W10 Pro) running 24x7 so reliability and low power are my key considerations. The drive is not silent, as in how silent an SSD would be, but you need to be less than 2 feet away in a quiet room to hear the spinning. I don't have a non-Pro equivalent to compare the Pro version to. The email server sits about 4 ft away from my desktop machine and I can't hear any noises from the email server. The cost uplift between the Pro and non-Pro versions is about GBP 10 or about 30%. For me, GBP 10 more for increased reliability, ie 5yrs vs. 2yrs (it's not quite as simple as that, but generally a manufacturer will only offer longer warranty period if they believe that one device has a better expected life than another), is easily justified for my application, and my peace of mind.

Excellent works great 5****+

The drive seems to be as advertised. I have fitted it in the Tapo Hub H500. It was easy to fit and format as I said it appears to be working as expected. I will edit this post if any problems occur. Hope this helps.

Fraud, these are used drives. In my case the warranty expired in 2021 and the drive failed in 3 months. But as others have said the warranty would never have worked, as these drives were part of something else and removed.

I wanted an SSD for archival purposes. Not blistering speed - reliability was my primary concern. Baracuda has 1.8m hours MTTF (on average it'll last 1.8m hours, 75000 days, 205 years). I did those calcs twice because I didn't believe it either. However, that's not the whole story. SSDs can only be written to so many times; Drive Writes Per Day. From a famous search engine: “Drive Writes Per Day” tells how many times you can overwrite the entire capacity of the SSD every single day of its usable life without failure during the warranty period. Baracuda=485 TB. ie you can rewrite the entire thing 485 times. As I just want to write 1TB ONCE that's me sorted. Many reviews of this SSD are average, stating it offers nothing new, its Phison S10 controller is 4 years old, newer SSDs with new controllers (eg Crucial MX500 et al) offer better performance for roughly the same money. Maybe, but any SSD outstrips an HD - including this one. This is WAY faster than my old 1TB clanky HD, uses far less energy and is silent in operation. The fact the Phison controller is still being used (not just by Seagate) means it's reliable. I looked at the 1* reviews for the Crucial MX500 and nearly all state "stopped working after a few months". That put me off so I bought this. I don't need boy-racer performance for an archival drive. But playing with it, it reads and writes plenty fast and the read speed would make it ideal for videos, audio, games in a PS4 etc. In fact anandtech.com states "The Seagate BarraCuda had great sequential read performance". Perfect for me. I installed this into Windows 10. Needed to format it using: Windows Admin Tools / Computer Management / Disk Management I formatted it using "new" GPT instead of MBR. Up and running within minutes. 1TB in 50g. Amazing how far we've come from lead brick 10MB HDs!

Really great value and works as I wanted it

Excellent replacement for memory drive

Il y a 2 ans 1/5, j'avais acheté les mêmes mais en 6To, 1 est tombé en panne (pour un produit "pro", ça la fout mal), en espérant que ceux-ci seront beaucoup plus fiables.

Ich war auf der suche nach einer leisen HDD für meinen Desktop-PC. Vorher werkelte eine 2TB 3,5" HDD in dem PC. Diese war allerdings unerträglich laut. Deshalb habe ich mich dazu entschieden, eine 2,5 Zoll HDD einzusetzen. Die Entscheidung fiel auf die 2,5" Seagate Barracuda mit 3TB Speicher. Der erste Eindruck ist super! Die Festplatte ist kaum hörbar. Kann die gegenteiligen Rezensionen hier absolut nicht nachvollziehen. Ich gebe nur jedem den Tip, die HDD beim einbauen vernünftig "abzufedern" (z.B. Gummi-Unterlegscheiben zwischen HDD und HDD-Einbaurahmen), damit die Vibrationen nicht auf das PC-Gehäuse übertragen werden - dann klappt's auch mit der geringen Lautstärke". Zur Leistung der HDD siehe Benchmark-Screenshot im Anhang. Ich bin vollkommen zufrieden.

Cloned the original spin drive in 30mins and it worked perfectly. Computer boots up in seconds and accesses information lightning fast. Well worth the price!

Good product , and of latest import date , with good price . Have used it for 2-3 days , no issues found . Since it is an SSD performance has increased drastically . Shutdown in 5 seconds , and bootup in 10 seconds max . Make sure this SSD is your primary hard drive with OS installed in it for bootup , otherwise using this SSD or any SSD will be of no use . I in person using Windows 10 OEM edition purchased along with the SSD from Amazon India . This product is Definitely recommend , even if you have to save money for more than a month to purchase it .

Its Good working for my system fcp