Seagate Barracuda Internal Hard Drive 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch - Frustration Free Packaging (ST1000DM010) (Renewed)

Seagate Barracuda ES is a very stable hard drive. The way it functions is just amazing. From my personal experience, I can tell that the speed and the storage capacity of the hard drive are just enough for me to be enjoying every moment when I use my PC. The fast loading time when I turn on my PC is just more than fabulous. However, even the noise of the hard drive can't disappoint you. Whether you play games or transfer files, the reading and writing speed which the drive offers is just so stable which makes it as quiet as a fan.

5th worst HDD I've bought...

I bought 4 Seagate 8TB "Archive" SMR drives in years previously (these are marketed as shingled [multiple tracks are read/re-written with a slight overlap to gain capacity] but with the knowledge they will be quite a bit slower to write) and I saw fairly terrible performance (USB 2.0 sort of transfer speeds). Having told myself never again, I bought one of these new Barracuda 8TB drives not knowing they are now the same, and have now seen the same sort of poor performance... 20MB/s on average for writing (or backup) operations. A quick research of the 'net shows Seagate have quietly moved this terrible tech into these branded drives now. They say they also now contain a bunch of "smarts" to speed up this poor performance for desktop usage, but it hasn't helped me at ... MoreI bought 4 Seagate 8TB "Archive" SMR drives in years previously (these are marketed as shingled [multiple tracks are read/re-written with a slight overlap to gain capacity] but with the knowledge they will be quite a bit slower to write) and I saw fairly terrible performance (USB 2.0 sort of transfer speeds). Having told myself never again, I bought one of these new Barracuda 8TB drives not knowing they are now the same, and have now seen the same sort of poor performance... 20MB/s on average for writing (or backup) operations. A quick research of the 'net shows Seagate have quietly moved this terrible tech into these branded drives now. They say they also now contain a bunch of "smarts" to speed up this poor performance for desktop usage, but it hasn't helped me at all - the HDD is a slow POS to save to. I can't believe I now have a 5th unit that can only be used for "archive" purposes, where you wait forever to save things, but then get sort of OK performance on reading back the data.

Goes nice with my 860 EVO

So far so good, it was easy to clone my old 2-TB drive and operating system to it. However, it is now my secondary drive because I cloned it to a new 500 gigabyte 860 EVO SDD which is now my primary drive. I named the 860 EVO SDD (Jill) and my Seagate 2TB BarraCuda (Betty) and if for some reason Jill fails to boot Betty will take over.My old 2-T is now a redundant boot and backup drive with two partitions one named Casper with a second partition called Wendy.If Casper boots up something is terribly wrong but as of now I am very pleased with the laptop Seagate 2TB BarraCuda SATA 6Gb/s 128MB 2.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive in my desktop computer, which shares the same 3.5" bay with my 860 EVO SDD using the StarTech Dual 2.5" SSD/HDD Mounting Bracket- 3.5" Drive Bay ... MoreSo far so good, it was easy to clone my old 2-TB drive and operating system to it. However, it is now my secondary drive because I cloned it to a new 500 gigabyte 860 EVO SDD which is now my primary drive. I named the 860 EVO SDD (Jill) and my Seagate 2TB BarraCuda (Betty) and if for some reason Jill fails to boot Betty will take over.My old 2-T is now a redundant boot and backup drive with two partitions one named Casper with a second partition called Wendy.If Casper boots up something is terribly wrong but as of now I am very pleased with the laptop Seagate 2TB BarraCuda SATA 6Gb/s 128MB 2.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive in my desktop computer, which shares the same 3.5" bay with my 860 EVO SDD using the StarTech Dual 2.5" SSD/HDD Mounting Bracket- 3.5" Drive Bay -Tool-Less, storage bay adapter. (The Mounting Bracket works it is okay feels cheap but it should outlast me and a little overpriced in my book.)As of now and for having Betty and Jill for just a short while in my old desktop computer everything is working in harmony and passed all tests. If you never thought about using a laptop drive and an SSD in an old computer like mine or even a new desktop computer I would highly recommend trying it.My old i7 2600 has a new life, and ready for newer games once I decide what new cheap GPU I want to buy.Cheers

Good drive, Great price, Not a speed demon

This is, without a doubt, a drive that is a great value choice, assuming you are choosing it for the right reason. It excels at providing a large amount of disk space for archives, backups, and other workloads that are NOT performance sensitive. It is NOT a good choice as a primary drive, or anything write intensive. I bought it for one reason, a local disc to store backups and archives before they are copied to NAS storage. It is installed in a near antique system running a now discontinued 2nd Generation Core I5, installed on a motherboard with a limited number of SATA 600 ports, hence the SATA 300 connection shown in the attached screenshot. Also shown are some Crystal Diskmark scores that highlight the near dismal write performance, likely because it uses ... MoreThis is, without a doubt, a drive that is a great value choice, assuming you are choosing it for the right reason. It excels at providing a large amount of disk space for archives, backups, and other workloads that are NOT performance sensitive. It is NOT a good choice as a primary drive, or anything write intensive. I bought it for one reason, a local disc to store backups and archives before they are copied to NAS storage. It is installed in a near antique system running a now discontinued 2nd Generation Core I5, installed on a motherboard with a limited number of SATA 600 ports, hence the SATA 300 connection shown in the attached screenshot. Also shown are some Crystal Diskmark scores that highlight the near dismal write performance, likely because it uses Shingled Magnetic Recording. That said, it does well at what I bought it for, a source of cheap storage (less than 2 cents per GiB) for processes that run in the background when I'm not using the system. So if you just want lots of cheap storage, give this drive a look. If you want any sort of performance, bite the bullet and get an SSD.

Great Drive, Awesome Support!

Works great so far. I got an external dock to connect this drive to my laptop, and it transfers files just fine. It's fast and it was easy to set up. I didn't really know how to format it, but a quick google search helped with that. Before I bought this drive I had a conversation with someone from support about if the drive would work in an external dock. I don't remember his name, but he was amazing and helped me iron out how it would be done. All in all, and amazing experience and I will definitely be shopping with Seagate again!

Terrible distracting vibrations as the head seeks. A loud (faster spinning) drive would mask that...

Terrible distracting vibrations as the head seeks. A loud (faster spinning) drive would mask that noise a bit, but this one being otherwise quiet really slaps you in the face with the noise when the drive is active. According to their technical specs, this thing is dead silent, but mount it to a case and the vibration turns it into a speaker, amplifying the head noise. You really need to suspension mount it with foam or similar. Performance would start okay for quite a while, then go horribly, horribly slow for a long stall out, before getting back to normal speeds again. I've tracked it down to the software I have probing the drive's temperature. Either there's a bug in the drive electronics, or it's just so underpowered that requesting that SMART data while the ... MoreTerrible distracting vibrations as the head seeks. A loud (faster spinning) drive would mask that noise a bit, but this one being otherwise quiet really slaps you in the face with the noise when the drive is active. According to their technical specs, this thing is dead silent, but mount it to a case and the vibration turns it into a speaker, amplifying the head noise. You really need to suspension mount it with foam or similar. Performance would start okay for quite a while, then go horribly, horribly slow for a long stall out, before getting back to normal speeds again. I've tracked it down to the software I have probing the drive's temperature. Either there's a bug in the drive electronics, or it's just so underpowered that requesting that SMART data while the drive is quite busy reading/writing will stall out the drive for up to a couple minutes at a time. It's horrid, and not something I've had any issue with, with other brands of drives. The read/write performance is pretty disappointing. An 8TB WD Red (not """"""""pro"""""""" either) with similar RPM rate, reads/writes 33% faster than this 8TB Segate. That's no small difference, but a huge bottleneck when backing up or restoring your data. I'd put up with it, if not for all the other problems. The warranty terms are pretty nasty, too. Not only is it just a 2 year warranty, but they have strict limits on how much data you can read/write to your drive in the warranty period. If you happen to backup your drive a lot, or regularly zero/scrub it for secure data deletion, or anything else like that, you can find your warranty void much earlier, for no good reason. And you'll only discover that after having paid to ship your drive back to them. And for all these drawbacks... Seagate drives are barely any cheaper than WD drives. I have no affiliation with either WD or Seagate. I used to prefer Seagate drive, many years ago, but they seem to have really given up and fallen behind their one major competitor. Even as I have issues with WD drives and decide to try Seagate again, I find they've only gotten worse along the way. AVOID!

Troubled Product

I bought the 2TB Seagate Barracuda Laptop 2.5" drive to update a creaking 1TB that was supplied with my laptop. Having backed up my drive to some off line storage I proceeded to use Acronis to clone my existing system drive to the new drive and create a second partition to use up the remaining space. Unfortunately the Barracuda 2TB drive was not able to complete the process due to multiple CRC read errors on the new drive. I then ran CHKDSK /b to clears the list of bad clusters on the volume and rescan all allocated and free clusters for errors. This also produced too many errors to be able to successfully complete. Having taken screenshots of these failures I returned the drive to my local store where the staff were superb and I took the choice of a store credit ... MoreI bought the 2TB Seagate Barracuda Laptop 2.5" drive to update a creaking 1TB that was supplied with my laptop. Having backed up my drive to some off line storage I proceeded to use Acronis to clone my existing system drive to the new drive and create a second partition to use up the remaining space. Unfortunately the Barracuda 2TB drive was not able to complete the process due to multiple CRC read errors on the new drive. I then ran CHKDSK /b to clears the list of bad clusters on the volume and rescan all allocated and free clusters for errors. This also produced too many errors to be able to successfully complete. Having taken screenshots of these failures I returned the drive to my local store where the staff were superb and I took the choice of a store credit which was with me before leaving the store. this allowed me to go home and order a Seagate Fireside 2TB Drive that had just come back in to stock. This is now working extremely well and error free. I have previously bought other drives and RAM with no issue and will continue to do so, especially as all items are warranted for 2 years by CEX.

Very nice

Great product. Went in easy. No issues...My issue, if you're an amateur you'll be lost. A little guide online PDF explaining the process of reinstalling your OS and downloading chipset drivers and other assorted WIFI, graphics and Bluetooth drivers Those are the basics on new rigs. I was completely lost, lucky I have techy friends. Other than that, thing is lighting fast, huge storage, great price. Got to me in 2 business days. Shipping a little steep, ad a USPS option will get that figure down. 👍

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I have gone through 4 of these. The first was a gift and lasted just about 2 years before failing, the second one I bought and failed instantly. the 3rd that was a replacement for the one I bought lasted a couple months and the 4th one I received via warranty also failed instantly. All arm reader issues! Do NOT waste your money on this model!