Seagate 3.5" 10TB Enterprise Capacity (Exos) SATA (ST10000NM001G)

I always come to Novatech for Hard Drives. Because they always arrive in a working condirtion! In this case I also rang in for additional information, to try and confirm the drive was CMR. The reason I doubted it was the PRICE! However, it IS CMR, and in fact it is the fastest HDD I have on my system. The M2 NMVMe as my System OS drive is obviously faster...!If you want a fast reliable storage drive this is great. It beat drives that are almost twice its price. And if you are getting HDDs, thgen get them from Novatech because they will arrive quickly and will ALWAYS be packed extremly well and arrive working.

Excellent drives

Upgraded two NAS drives to these Seagate EXOS 12TB and so far results are excellent. They run cool and quiet - noticeably cooler than Seagate 8TB Ironwolf Pro drives, and much quieter - perhaps due to the helium fill. Early days for reliability, but so far so good.

Fast and huge

I use two similar drives as part of my backup process. My other is the slightly older "X10 Hyperscale" version, and it whines and clicks much more loudly than this one as it spins up and seeks. This newer version is much quieter, on par with slower drives I have. It reminds me of my old Barracuda drive from 2005 that was faster and quieter than my WD Velociraptor drives and managed to outlast them by a year or two as well. It feels solid and works well. I have this in an external USB 3 enclosure, and I copy backup disk images to it every few days. I also keep a copy of my internal data drive's uncompressed files on it. For disk image copies (~2-700GB each) I get sustained write speeds of 220+MB/s (as high as 250 as it goes on). For my data drive copy, which has ... MoreI use two similar drives as part of my backup process. My other is the slightly older "X10 Hyperscale" version, and it whines and clicks much more loudly than this one as it spins up and seeks. This newer version is much quieter, on par with slower drives I have. It reminds me of my old Barracuda drive from 2005 that was faster and quieter than my WD Velociraptor drives and managed to outlast them by a year or two as well. It feels solid and works well. I have this in an external USB 3 enclosure, and I copy backup disk images to it every few days. I also keep a copy of my internal data drive's uncompressed files on it. For disk image copies (~2-700GB each) I get sustained write speeds of 220+MB/s (as high as 250 as it goes on). For my data drive copy, which has hundreds of thousands of small files like photos, documents, and mp3s, it's much slower but gets the job done overnight. I love that this drive has enough write endurance to keep all of my disk images rotating through every day, and long enough shelf life that I can lock it up at a friend's house for offsite backup for 6 months without worrying about it going bad like an SSD might.

Good size. Seems reliable.

I've had this running for three months, and so far it has given no problem. I run Hard Disk Sentinel to keep watch over my hard drives, and it has indicated no problems that my Western Digital drives haven't had, such as occasional reallocated sectors, etc. The price for this capacity hard drive seemed to be good.

Good, strong drives

The Exos drives have always been good for me. They're at a good price, faster speeds than the Iron Wolf or some other brand drives, not loud but not quiet (enterprise drives). I have several in my NAS and all of them have been performing well for several years now. Plus, drives from B&H have the manufacturers 5 year warranty with them.

Jack's review of SKYHAWK 2TB SURVEILLANCE 3.5IN 6GB/S SATA 64MB

Pros: Great drive, very fast transfer speeds in both read and write and cost effective for the capacity.Cons: Enterprise/NAS drives are much louder than standard consumer drives which can be a small annoyance when installed in a desktop computer. However this is a trade off for the capacity and performance.

Michael's review of SKYHAWK 2TB SURVEILLANCE 3.5IN 6GB/S SATA 64MB

Pros: Ability to get up and running fairly quickly and easily but takes a while longer to understand and set up more complex reqiuerements.Cons: CPU processor for DS218 is underpowered for video resulting in juddery playback on some videos.

R D's review of SKYHAWK 2TB SURVEILLANCE 3.5IN 6GB/S SATA 64MB

Pros: NAS seems faster to me than previous 5TB Red (but then again maybe I'm just wishing it to be faster). Its fast, huge and should be reliable. Oh and it's a disk drive, what else do you want ?Cons: 10TB still too expensive for an amateur but 8TB coming down in price as these things always do (early 2017). Had to doctor my Synology NAS disk tray to accommodate the drive - the central screw hole + certain indentations required by the disk tray are missing on this (super high capacity) disk design. After removal of the tray lugs there are now just 4 screw mounting points albeit they have high quality rubber shock absorbers. All seems secure but disk mounting is important in a high capacity NAS. Easy enough to fix but if you're less mechanically minded then this ... MorePros: NAS seems faster to me than previous 5TB Red (but then again maybe I'm just wishing it to be faster). Its fast, huge and should be reliable. Oh and it's a disk drive, what else do you want ?Cons: 10TB still too expensive for an amateur but 8TB coming down in price as these things always do (early 2017). Had to doctor my Synology NAS disk tray to accommodate the drive - the central screw hole + certain indentations required by the disk tray are missing on this (super high capacity) disk design. After removal of the tray lugs there are now just 4 screw mounting points albeit they have high quality rubber shock absorbers. All seems secure but disk mounting is important in a high capacity NAS. Easy enough to fix but if you're less mechanically minded then this might tax your grey matter.

Seagate Exos X16 ST12000NM001G 12TB

The disk is suitable for continuous operation, has a volume of 12 TB, which is pretty good. Ideal for mining chia coin. The rafts are generated fairly quickly, according to the analysis of programs that check the health of the disk, it works without complaints.

This is a good drive, not an SMR

Both Western Digital and Seagate, and others (Toshiba), have introduce new drives in 2019-2020, many of which are SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording). These drives are not only slower, they won't work in many RAID setups or inside a NAS. blocksandfiles.com wrote about this issue a year ago and lucky for me I read that article. Now on to the Seagate 12TB Exos X16: First, this is a CMR drive (Conventional Magnetic Recording), which I rechecked upon receiving the drives. It's one of the fastest HDD on the market and I bought two at a relative bargain price at B&H. Seems to be in high demand, as B&H ran out of stock and I had to wait a little. I'm using the two drives in a Linux software RAID 1 configuration and it works perfect. I can also attest to the speed as I had to ... MoreBoth Western Digital and Seagate, and others (Toshiba), have introduce new drives in 2019-2020, many of which are SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording). These drives are not only slower, they won't work in many RAID setups or inside a NAS. blocksandfiles.com wrote about this issue a year ago and lucky for me I read that article. Now on to the Seagate 12TB Exos X16: First, this is a CMR drive (Conventional Magnetic Recording), which I rechecked upon receiving the drives. It's one of the fastest HDD on the market and I bought two at a relative bargain price at B&H. Seems to be in high demand, as B&H ran out of stock and I had to wait a little. I'm using the two drives in a Linux software RAID 1 configuration and it works perfect. I can also attest to the speed as I had to copy lots of TB to these drives, all the while the transferred data was online and accessible. What surprised me most, however, was how relatively quiet these drives are. I consider buying more for my backup server, maybe some spares too. Packaging was simple but perfect. Of course, only time will tell how good these drives really are. So far they are great.