Seagate BarraCuda 2 TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 256 MB Cache 3.5 Inch – Frustration Free Packaging (ST2000DM008)

Never had a problem with Seagate hard drives

Overall, I highly recommend the Seagate BarraCuda 2 TB Internal Hard Drive HDD to anyone looking for a reliable, high-performance hard drive for their desktop computer. It's definitely worth the investment for anyone who needs a lot of storage space and wants fast, reliable performance.

Great brand, I haven't had an issue with it yet

I have no idea what frustration free packaging is. But it was shipped with no protection around it. Fortunately it arrived safely and in working order. The drive wasn't pre-formatted so it didn't show up in "This PC" to begin with. After it was all set up and checked for errors it was absolutely fine and was able to restore my backup of my failed drive. I can now access all my games again. It performs well and is reasonably quiet for a mechanical drive.A word of advice..If your going to ship it without the box at least put some bubble wrap around it next time, or there's going to be a lot of broken drives being returned.

It obviously won't be as quick as a SSD but the cost vs storage capacity made this worthwhile for me. I bought this exactly two years ago today and its been working great ever since, even when moved about from PC case to case. Simple plug and play with Sata data and power, computer should then recognise it.I've got this set up as a secondary storage drive in my PC and not used this as a boot drive for Windows but my brother has in his pc and it is noticeably slower starting up and general usage. I wouldn't recommend it for a boot drive but like I said cost-capacity might put this into the PC for most people.

It's been a long time since I built a PC from scratch, so the physical size of this drive was surprising. It's about half as thick as the old drives I was working from. I'd previously been using one terabyte drives, so having double the storage is great.It was easy to install, and the BIOS and Windows had no problem recognizing it. So far (after a week) the performance is solid, with no problems.I can hear it from time to time, but it isn't obtrusive, and it's certainly a lot quieter than my old drives.

Installed a 2TB HDD to act as an archive drive. I used SSDs as the active disks. Once the photo has been edited or the video encoded, the raw files are transferred to the HDD as they will not be accessed very often so fast read/write speed is not needed.With that being said, if you're only using it for MS Office files or other non-intensive purposes, it would be perfectly adequate as your main or only drive.SSD are obviously better as they are silent and faster but these HDDs are great and good Vue per MB space.

Died for no reason don’t buy just buy an ssd