Seagate 2TB Enterprise Capacity HDD SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST2000NM0033)

Twenty years ago Seagate made the best drives then their quality went down as well as warranty. Warranty used to be five years on all their drives. So last several years WD drives had been much better. Now it seems all the manufacturers are selling drives that are cheap in more ways then one. WD Black and Enterprise level drives are ones which the manufacturers actually will have warranties of five years which leads me finally to these drives.Very large cache - 128meg. Short seek times. Performed very well for platter drives when I tested both drives before adding them to my LVM array. The cost is what lead me to purchasing these over WD.SSD still light years faster and more reliable but for price per GB these drives are worth it. I digress further - I run different Linux distro's so what works for me is that I add swap and OS and main programs on SSD set up with LVM. (Swap will probably never be used with amount of memory I use but SSD's work better over time with space left on them.) Then I add new drive to LVM vg and add all my media.

After having bad experiences using both consumer drives (bad I know) and low power drives in budget NAS solutions, I decided to go with enterprise level products for a new NAS. I have yet to have any SMART errors or erratic behavior. They are in a QNAP TS-269L that handles media and file serving (three macs, two PCs) and Time Machine backups (for three macs). They are a bid louder than your typical hard drive all around and are clearly audible during access, but for a device with that many power-on hours the piece of mind is well worth it.These are in a RAID-1 configuration and even during I/O intensive tasks such as time machine backups, throughput is excellent. If I were to do it all over again with the same number of bays or more, I would get more of these but in a higher capacity. All the enterprise drives I've had from Seagate have been excellent whether a 15k.2, 15k.5 or even the Constellations.

Over the years the quality of Seagate's consumer hard drives has declined precipitously, but despite their inability to produce affordable and reliable consumer hard drives Seagate's enterprise line, most notably the Constellation series, has continued to be a good solution for enterprise data storage needs. If you're purchasing a hard drive and you give a damn about the data stored on it then spend the extra money to purchase a Constellation over a Barracuda or whatever junk Western Digital is selling these days. Yes, Constellations cost more money than Barracudas and yes, despite their increased reliability they occasionally fail, but for the extra money you spend they do deliver on reliability and performance.

I got 3 drives for my computer. I wanted 1 internal one and 2 externals for backups. The transfer rate is good. I'm able to get at least 6.4GB per minute using my external USB 3.0 cases with the drive in them. My cases will also handle E-SATA and I was able to get about 5GB. The internal drive is connect internally in the computer on a SATA II or it may be an SATA III port. I do not have them connected to an SATA 6 port yet. I'll do that when I get some sited help being I can't see. Then rerun my backup copy to se how much difference there is. I'm not expecting a lot of difference.

The drive is noisy.The drives were wrapped in bubble wrap and not in the proper hard drive boxes that usally used by the manufacture.

Works great in my Playstation 4 with the Nyko Data Bank! The PS4 and games load super fast now. The drive is somewhat noisy when under load however if this is being used in a desktop PC I doubt you'd hear it. The drive I got was brand spanking new as well and came packaged nicely. These are one of the best mechanical HDD's on the market right now! 5 Stars! Will update my review if anything changes.

I normally don't review items, but this one deserves mention. On the original item page, it NOWHERE mentions a re-certified or used drive. In the upper right corner it says "Buy New". I did a one click purchase and moved on. I received this drive today and immediately hooked it up to one of my Linux servers and ran smartctl. For those who do not know about smartctl, it reads ALL the S.M.A.R.T. tables in the drive. This drive had over 28000 power on hours. Save the math. 3.23 years of power on time. Also show a ton of errors of various types. Seagate drives show smart different than most. The errors could be because of buffer overflows etc. However, power on hours are a sold count not to be ignored. After heading to the order page to return the drive, I saw this at the bottom of the order details page.Seagate 2TB Enterprise Capacity HDD SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST2000NM0033)Sold by: ANYHDD$96.99Condition: New - NEW 0 HOUR RECERTIRFIED - INSTOCK - SHIPS TODAY - 1 YEAR WARRANTYMy one click did NOT show this. Beware of this seller or of this drive. It is an obvious scam! It is on the way back.Seagate 2TB Enterprise Capacity HDD SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST2000NM0033)

Purchased 4 Pc 3 years ago...all ran well. Purchased additional 4 units for backup, 5 months ago. One failed and the rest starting to fail. All had excessive hours. Advertised as new, but, clearly the were used. No warranty from Seagate.