Seagate Barracuda Pro ST6000DM004 6 TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Best Feature:legitmatePerformance:bestValue For Money:great value. sulitI really enjoyed this hard drive because of its price and the capacity is great. Will buy again from this shop.

Performance:GoodValue For Money:OkayBest Feature:it worksBought 2HDDs. One for my pc and one for my NAS. This one works. But the other one doesn’t. Wasted my $200. They didn’t compensate and customer service is not good since we have a language barrier. They use a translator and cannot communicate properly. It was not a good experience. All I am hopeful for a refund now is the gadget protection from shopee. 👎

I bought 4 around 2013 to build an array of RAID5. Now in 2021 I bought another batch of 4 to exp...

I bought 4 around 2013 to build an array of RAID5. Now in 2021 I bought another batch of 4 to expand the array. First, it's good that they are still available to match what I already have. I don't think exact model matching is necessary for RAID, but usually there is less trouble to be so. Although bought new, they were still made around 2013. I did a surface test for each drive after receiving, which took about two days because each test ran 5-6 hours. Among the 4 units I received, two were made in Thailand and two China. Both units made in China detected bad sectors while Thailand ones were good. The tool for surface test is DiskGenius, which rates the sector health in a scale from excellent, good, etc. to damaged. So a bad drive not only has damaged sectors but ... MoreI bought 4 around 2013 to build an array of RAID5. Now in 2021 I bought another batch of 4 to expand the array. First, it's good that they are still available to match what I already have. I don't think exact model matching is necessary for RAID, but usually there is less trouble to be so. Although bought new, they were still made around 2013. I did a surface test for each drive after receiving, which took about two days because each test ran 5-6 hours. Among the 4 units I received, two were made in Thailand and two China. Both units made in China detected bad sectors while Thailand ones were good. The tool for surface test is DiskGenius, which rates the sector health in a scale from excellent, good, etc. to damaged. So a bad drive not only has damaged sectors but also contains many at the severe level. One bad drive even didn't finish the test. When I looked at it, there were physical scratches on the body and PCB. I returned the two bad ones and received replacements. In the mean while, I unplugged disks from the existing array and did a test one by one. It's interesting to see that the 4 drives bought previously were also two from China and two Thailand. They all passed the tests. When I received the replacements, I saw their origin were both from Thailand. Surface test results also indicated that they were on par with the other good drives. My experience is that one should immediately test hard disk drives after purchasing, return or replace those with bad sectors. There is likely a correlation between origin and quality. So far, I received and tested 10 drives, 6 from Thailand and 4 from China. All 6 from Thailand are good, and 50% of the 4 from China had bad sectors, 25% already malfunctioned. Using DiskGenius those good disks have mostly excellent sectors with a small portion in good level, but nothing below good.

I bought this drive, the Seagate 3TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Dri...

I bought this drive, the Seagate 3TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST3000DM001) in 2014 and installed it in my mid-2010 iMac. It worked fine until sometime later in 2018 when I noticed the iMac would not boot properly and programs were sluggish. I thought the problem was aging hardware not properly running newer software. But eventually it just stopped booting altogether. I tried various diagnostic tools, to no avail. I bought a replacement iMac, then after a few months getting tired of seeing my old iMac sitting there dead on my desk, I replaced the HD and bought a thermal kit from OWC. After installing the OS (High Sierra) and restoring some user documents from an old backup, the mid-2010 iMac works great. Not pleased that the ... MoreI bought this drive, the Seagate 3TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST3000DM001) in 2014 and installed it in my mid-2010 iMac. It worked fine until sometime later in 2018 when I noticed the iMac would not boot properly and programs were sluggish. I thought the problem was aging hardware not properly running newer software. But eventually it just stopped booting altogether. I tried various diagnostic tools, to no avail. I bought a replacement iMac, then after a few months getting tired of seeing my old iMac sitting there dead on my desk, I replaced the HD and bought a thermal kit from OWC. After installing the OS (High Sierra) and restoring some user documents from an old backup, the mid-2010 iMac works great. Not pleased that the Seagate Barracuda didn't last longer.

Love Seagate for the course of 4-5 YEARS

I bought my very 1st one back in Feb 2013 1TB (For Windows) Bought 1 Nov 2014 3TB (For MAC OS X) Bought 1 April 2015 3TB (For MAC OS X) Bought 1 Sept 2015 3TB (For MAC OS X) Bought 1 Feb 2016 3TB (For MAC OS X) Bought 1 July 2016 3TB (For MAC OS X) Not a single Issue so far, crossies!! Hope I don't jinx myself after typing all this down. I use 1TB for Windows The rest of the 3TB for my Hackintosh OS X. I'm sorry for those who lost there data, My guess is probably bc of your build, either you created or manufacture created the build and spiked the cord to fried the Motherboard or a component. My best guess is to change different sata cords and or connect them to another pc by sata or a converter to usb to check out the HDD. For me, I have heavy strong Gaming ... MoreI bought my very 1st one back in Feb 2013 1TB (For Windows) Bought 1 Nov 2014 3TB (For MAC OS X) Bought 1 April 2015 3TB (For MAC OS X) Bought 1 Sept 2015 3TB (For MAC OS X) Bought 1 Feb 2016 3TB (For MAC OS X) Bought 1 July 2016 3TB (For MAC OS X) Not a single Issue so far, crossies!! Hope I don't jinx myself after typing all this down. I use 1TB for Windows The rest of the 3TB for my Hackintosh OS X. I'm sorry for those who lost there data, My guess is probably bc of your build, either you created or manufacture created the build and spiked the cord to fried the Motherboard or a component. My best guess is to change different sata cords and or connect them to another pc by sata or a converter to usb to check out the HDD. For me, I have heavy strong Gaming Multimedia PC that I created for myself, I'm not saying in anyway you built yourself a low crapware. bc I myself built a low cost build and when I was cleaning up, My motherboard had died after completely booting off with the secure PSU switch off and disconnected from the power strip but anyway my same hard drives I used for my system for the broken motherboard above, went to that system and then back to my system and every hdd works with all my mounts of stuff is still safe. So anything is possible for me being so lucky. I recently bought a 8TB External Drive by EasyStore and backup the most important drive/files that I have and I secure that in a excellent place, can't wait to buy another one to backup the rest up. And yes, including the 1TB still works.

Perfectly Good Hard Disk Until the Warranty Expired

The disk was purchased on February 28th, 2019 and failed on November 11th, 2021, about eight months after its two-year warranty expired. Environment: Full-tower PC case, SATAIII bus, tested good EVGA 650w PSU, used as primary hard disk for work, school, media files (video, images, documents). Failure Narrative: User opens file manager in search of an image which resides on the disk. No files are locatable in any directory on the disk. On reboot, fsck takes far longer than normal but completes. SMART shows eight consecutive "uncorrectable errors in data" events logged at 9751 power-on hours. SMART shows very nonzero "offline uncorrectable" and "current pending sector" counts. DMESG displays a repeating pattern of I/O errors. Disk does not appear writable. Files and ... MoreThe disk was purchased on February 28th, 2019 and failed on November 11th, 2021, about eight months after its two-year warranty expired. Environment: Full-tower PC case, SATAIII bus, tested good EVGA 650w PSU, used as primary hard disk for work, school, media files (video, images, documents). Failure Narrative: User opens file manager in search of an image which resides on the disk. No files are locatable in any directory on the disk. On reboot, fsck takes far longer than normal but completes. SMART shows eight consecutive "uncorrectable errors in data" events logged at 9751 power-on hours. SMART shows very nonzero "offline uncorrectable" and "current pending sector" counts. DMESG displays a repeating pattern of I/O errors. Disk does not appear writable. Files and directories on disk enumerate properly, but attempts to copy any information off the disk results in a continuous stream of I/O errors. Each click of the "retry" button in file manager results in the MiB copied tally increasing slightly before the next I/O error. Conclusion: The failure is most likely on the controller board as opposed to inside the physical hard disk. I'll keep my eye out for another ST3000DM008 PCB to see if I can further isolate the failure.

Powered on without any issues

I needed a drive to replace a very old, failing drive in my unraid array. I had purchased a couple of these same drives a few years ago and they work great so I figured I would give it a shot. Speeds are consistent with my others at roughly ~200 MB/s max read rate. My only complaint, and this is what I paid for with it being refurbished, is the powered on hours is a little higher than I was hoping for. SMART stats show powered on hours at 1y, 11m, 12d, 23h. That means this drive is already 6 months older than the other similar model drives in the array. All other SMART values showed nothing out of the ordinary. Overall I don't regret the purchase. Buying the newer version of the same drive would have run $25 more and yielded no real performance difference (I have a ... MoreI needed a drive to replace a very old, failing drive in my unraid array. I had purchased a couple of these same drives a few years ago and they work great so I figured I would give it a shot. Speeds are consistent with my others at roughly ~200 MB/s max read rate. My only complaint, and this is what I paid for with it being refurbished, is the powered on hours is a little higher than I was hoping for. SMART stats show powered on hours at 1y, 11m, 12d, 23h. That means this drive is already 6 months older than the other similar model drives in the array. All other SMART values showed nothing out of the ordinary. Overall I don't regret the purchase. Buying the newer version of the same drive would have run $25 more and yielded no real performance difference (I have a ST3000DM008 in the array which tests at 1 MB/s faster). Update: Roughly 6 months later the drive has begun to show pre-fail results from SMART reports (reallocated sectors =16, reported uncorrect =3). There's not much I can do with it being outside of the 90 day warranty. Going forward, I won't buy another refurbished drive. Power on stats currently show 2y, 13d, 3h so I got about 60 days of work out of it since my last post.

Seagate Comes at it again.....

I'm hoping Seagate has tilted their budgets to better QA on products people trust their important memories to, even when they are foolish enough not to keep a full readable backup on an external drive. I guess we'll see how many people complain about issues on this new series of hard drives. The 3TB range is pretty optimal for a whole bunch of reasons and with prices hovering around $25-30 a TB this drive falls into the sweet spot of brand loyalty. You can populate an array without breaking the budget. Seagate drives appear to have had some quality issues in the past if you read the reviews, but consider all the working drives people don't care to write a review about. While today's manufacturing systems have reduced prices drastically, we're packing data tighter ... MoreI'm hoping Seagate has tilted their budgets to better QA on products people trust their important memories to, even when they are foolish enough not to keep a full readable backup on an external drive. I guess we'll see how many people complain about issues on this new series of hard drives. The 3TB range is pretty optimal for a whole bunch of reasons and with prices hovering around $25-30 a TB this drive falls into the sweet spot of brand loyalty. You can populate an array without breaking the budget. Seagate drives appear to have had some quality issues in the past if you read the reviews, but consider all the working drives people don't care to write a review about. While today's manufacturing systems have reduced prices drastically, we're packing data tighter then ever and even a minor fault will result in lost data. (like all the pics from your bachelor party!). Keep good backups. I consider today's drives sort of disposable; if you do also, have a look at the other drives in Seagates line, specifically the Firecuda, with it's five year warranty. Easily worth the extra costs if you can get by with a 2TB unit and do not have the budget to purchase enterprise level hardware. A five year warranty shows confidence. I need confidence. After two years my drives get replaced and I use the old drive as a long term backup and I have a box at the bank holding my drives from the last ten years. One of em wouldn't spin up during the annual review. I eventually broke the stiction (GTS) and was able to mount the drive and copy all the data back to my PC. What's a ten year old 80GB drive worth ? ( $10) The data on it?..well you don't want to know what that is worth now do you? I'm using this drive in a HTPC as the primary recording drive now, data rates are what I expected, your results will most certainly vary but in the 3TB drive segment, the Seagate puts on a good show at a competitive price. I'd rate it as a good buy with it's two year warranty and five eggs I'll update this review in the event of something noteworthy happens, but I expect it to be smooth sailing

Terrible for "Amateur" User

The hard drive they sent me was not formatted NOR was the DVR capable of detecting it. I sent HOURS on my phone with Amcrest tech support... (they were polite but offered NO help!). Amcrest's solution was for me to take my personal computer apart and connect the hard drive to it for formatting... Assuming the hard drive would've been detected and the formatting worked, I'm sure that would've voided the warranty on my computer. I've already returned this item...Side note, I tried to purchase a completely new DVR directly from Amcrest and everything system i wanted was out of stock. I found a third-party seller and purchased a new DVR from them expecting a "plug and play" setup... it wasn't CRAZY as it sounds! That HD was ALSO undetected by that DVR as well!! (Also ... MoreThe hard drive they sent me was not formatted NOR was the DVR capable of detecting it. I sent HOURS on my phone with Amcrest tech support... (they were polite but offered NO help!). Amcrest's solution was for me to take my personal computer apart and connect the hard drive to it for formatting... Assuming the hard drive would've been detected and the formatting worked, I'm sure that would've voided the warranty on my computer. I've already returned this item...Side note, I tried to purchase a completely new DVR directly from Amcrest and everything system i wanted was out of stock. I found a third-party seller and purchased a new DVR from them expecting a "plug and play" setup... it wasn't CRAZY as it sounds! That HD was ALSO undetected by that DVR as well!! (Also returned)...What is going on with Amcrest right now?! I've had my old system for the past 4 years with little to no issues (none that couldn't be solved by tech support). I've even suggested them to my friends and family but, after this painful experience, I'm swearing them off for good... I HOPE someone from Amcrest calls me about this review because every number I try connects me to "Colin" or "Amy" from India!Avoid this product unless you feel comfortable doing a lot more technical work than I do...Stay safe,George