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It's everything you want from a hard drive. Nothing. No hick-ups, no errors, no connection issues. And, as usual, it came quickly, well packed and ready to roll. Thanks B&H Coach Kat

It's hard to review a hard drive when you just got it, but I do have to say that I had a full drive scan done on both HDDs that I got and neither had any bad sectors out of the box so that's good news. Furthermore, they aren't very loud which is something that you have to think about with these faster rpm drives.

it is the best hard drive I have :) I would recommend it.

I got e of them to use for my internal- hard drive.

It's a reliable hard drive.

The best mechanical hard drive I had ever used.

Used this first time this week. Made a couple of mistakes ( my errors ). Every thing worked well. I like the "hard wire" approach for tripod usage.

First some negatives, which are not an issue in my case: As you may have read elsewhere, these drives are not suitable for a NAS. They spin slowly at 5400 RPM. They use Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR), which makes them unsuitable for write-intensive use. (A few years ago I thought one of my earlier Seagate SMR drives was defective when the write speed slowed to a crawl, perhaps 10 MBS/sec. However, everything was fine; I paused my writing and let the drive move data into it's final position, and the speed picked up again.) In my case I use the drives to store backups and video, and read from them much more than I write. My three drives were well packed in OEM packaging. I used Seagate's verify website to check that the drives were genuine. I used the HDTune utility ERASE function to write random data to the entire surface of each drive and then read data back to verity each byte written. (A 30-hour process per drive.) During these tests the SMART data showed many seek errors and many CRC errors, all of the latter being correctable. I assume that these errors are normal for drives of this sort, as has been the case with similar drives that I've used for several years with no problem.

Good drive at a good price. had an 8 year old seagate develop errors. Replaced it and installed windows 10 on half and debian 10 on other half.

The transaction with B&H went perfectly and the drive is working well without any problem I ran tests on the drive and there were no errors and it works properly.