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Pros & Cons
Cons
After 10 years of using a nas, this is the 2nd drive that ever failed. Noise when operating. Sending it back for a refund.
Highlights
Quality
Exceller product easy to install and reliable item.
Drive has minimal power on hours (~12 days) and performs as expected.
Hard drive luckily is running smoothly for 3 weeks now running 24/7.
I have these set in a hard drive bay that holds 5 drives and you only get 2-3mm of air clearance between each drive, plus you w... Read More
Price
For a 7200 rpm hard drive + price = good deal!
Looked like a good deal for a good price for my project.
70 instead of the new price of $104.
I'm keeping the drives because they are authentic exos drives at a great price and at around 100 bucks it's not a huge loss if ... Read More
Shipping
It arrived with only 22 power-on hours and a 4-year warranty from seagate.
At the very least contact the vendor and inquire about the warranty.
I had to return my 1st drive because the shipper sent me a dell drive.
But then, seller ships the right product and delivers a full week sooner than we expected.
Packaging/appearance
It all arrived in a nice protective, box everything was great thank you
The drive was repackaged as described in a cardboard shock-resistant box, coming with no accessories.
Update:i purchased a second drive through amazon warehouse for the same price which came in the same packaging.
5" sata form factor-i thought they were packaged very well and of course had the anti-static wrap included.
Competitiveness
These drives themselves are quite good, offering good performance and rated for demanding 24/7 usage applications, and with muc... Read More
Some sellers claim to offer their own warranty, but there are a lot more questions with those (what replacement product you can... Read More
These drives are not even on seagates product listing because they are specifically sent to the maker of said storage device (t... Read More
The thing to note though is that if you care at all about the warranty (which you should if you're buying an enterprise-grade d... Read More
Overview
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- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 1695.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 974 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 30 2024.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Swapping this new drive in took about 5 minutes but i forgot that these new drives need to be formatted so i spent a few minutes being confused about why it wasnt showing up and rebooting the computer 🤦♂️
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Dont be like me type disk management in the windows search bar and click create and format hard disk partitions select your unpartitioned drive assign a letter and format
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Drivers were not exos but still brand new seagate enterprise capacity v5
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
No warranty from seagate but includes a warranty card from seller 5 years
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
My purchase was through rackit solutions which when contacted after the sale offered a 30 day warranty
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
When purchased through an authorized reseller the warranty length on this drive is 5 years
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Were it not for the fact that my nas had a drive that was failing bad blocks i would have sent these back and purchased elsewhere
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
According to the seagate web sitei entered the serial numbers for the four drives i purchased to find out the length of warranty
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