That's a little disappointing for a device with a 5 year warranty, rated for 24x7 usage in an enterprise setting (ie, a high-vi...  Read More

That's a little disappointing for a device with a 5 year warranty, rated for 24x7 usage in an enterprise setting (ie, a high-vibration setting), but mechanical failures do happen so i only reduce my 5-star rating to 4 stars.  Read Less

Seems to be a very well built, fast hard drive.

Seems to be a very well built, fast hard drive.  Read Less

Through a plugable usb-3 dock, the drive sustained write speeds of 133mb/s averaged from overwriting the whole drive.

Through a plugable usb-3 dock, the drive sustained write speeds of 133mb/s averaged from overwriting the whole drive.  Read Less

Although a well-tuned operating system or raid controller can offset that degradation, it's really physical limits of a single drive.

Although a well-tuned operating system or raid controller can offset that degradation, it's really physical limits of a single drive.  Read Less

Good price, great drives, does the trick not sure what else to say

Good price, great drives, does the trick not sure what else to say  Read Less

It is a bare drive, so you don't get anything but the drive in a plastic shipping container.

It is a bare drive, so you don't get anything but the drive in a plastic shipping container.  Read Less

They've send books in better packaging than this.

They've send books in better packaging than this.  Read Less

I had an issue with the packaging.

I had an issue with the packaging.  Read Less

Specifically, the predicted error rate ("nonrecoverable read errors per bits read") goes from 1 per 10e14 (for consumer seagate...  Read More

Specifically, the predicted error rate ("nonrecoverable read errors per bits read") goes from 1 per 10e14 (for consumer seagate drives) to 1 per 10e15.  Read Less

If you care about your data and have the budget, enterprise drives are the way to go, and seagate's enterprise capacity are top-notch.

If you care about your data and have the budget, enterprise drives are the way to go, and seagate's enterprise capacity are top-notch.  Read Less

The other specs match all this beefy performance; it has an unusually large 128mb cache (64mb is the largest i've seen before),...  Read More

The other specs match all this beefy performance; it has an unusually large 128mb cache (64mb is the largest i've seen before), and runs 7200rpm instead of the slower variable-rate (or 5400rpm) drives common in large consumer drives.  Read Less