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Quality
Haven’t had any issues at all with this product.
Works as expected, no issues since install.
I never had any problems with the hardware whatsoever like i've heard a lot of people say had happen to them.
Price
However, i noticed the price really increased since then!
Shipping
Very happy works great and is fast.
Packaging/appearance
(normal drive)possible read paths:direct from the plattersfrom the platters (cached in flash memory)from the platters (cached i... Read More
Competitiveness
Quiter than my wb black and cheaper.
You may need to lookup how to get windows to recognize a greater than 2tb volumed hdd, however seagate software will help with that.
2 years of use and still going on excelent price and use
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- How are reviewers describing this item?
great, still, good, first and flash. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 9.
- Previous analysis of this listing was an C grade.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 3,661 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 16 2020.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
No smr no mtc the drive doesnt do weird shingled writing doesnt write cache to other parts of the platters and move it later
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I dont know what seagate is trying to do with other drives they make that are newer than this but smr belongs in archive drives and maybe not even there
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Possible smrmtc read pathsdirect from the plattersfrom the platters cached in ramfrom the platters cached somewhere else on the plattersfrom the platters cached in flash memory if drive includes flashpossible smrmtc write pathsto the platters but first we need to read up to 256mb and write it somewhere else then write it all back with the changescached and maybe consolidated for a more efficient write in ram then written to the platters possibly needing to do the above linecached and maybe consolidated for a more efficient write in flash then written to the platters possibly needing to do the first linedata sitting on the drive platters which you arent changing at all may be read rewritten somewhere else then rewritten back to where it was
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Each of these readswrites is subjected to the 1 bit per 1014 readwrite error rate every time
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You may need to lookup how to get windows to recognize a greater than 2tb volumed hdd however seagate software will help with that
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Had an issue after the warranty ran out where the hd died
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Not sure if it was due to the forced win 10 upgrade where the hd was corrupted of not
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
No matter how much you pay for a harddrive they will fail
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