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Pros & Cons
Pros
Hard drives are a toss of the dice. These do fine for spinning disk.
Seagate drives run fast for running a file server and domain controller. Can be used in an external drive case for backup, or in a tower pc. Amazon quotes five-year limited product warranty protection plan and three year rescue data recovery services ... Read More
Cons
The recertified drive was made in china. Called amazon---talked to india. Soooooo, what happens to the $149. You have to pay for shipping to ship the drive back to them.
The drive is incredibly noisy whenever it is idle. If i run an extended smart test the noise ceases while the test is running. However as soon as the drive is idle it begins making constant head seeking noises that cycle on/off every 30 seconds or so ... Read More
After trying 2 sets of drives, and hours troubleshooting, it is obvious that either seagate has a bad batch of 10tb drives, or they are incompatible. Lost 8tb of data with no way to recover it. Never seen this with a wd hd. It wasn't recognized by nei... Read More
I just wish it lasted longer than a month. Returned the drive promptly. Despite this drive not making it even 1 year into it's 5 year warranty.
Tried a different raid array and analyzed and again same result failed to analyze. Ata errors insyslog and smartctrl sees the drive and shows basic info but gives scsi parameter error on health info.
Highlights
Quality
I am very happy with the price and the performance.
Overall, i'm super happy with the cost-per-terabyte and performance.
This is a labeling issue with the manufacturer, which i hope amazon will address with the manufacturer.
Just stick with the standard software raid 5 capability built into windows.
Price
The price was a little more than a standard hard drive.
The cost has dropped roughly in half since the drives were purchased.
Yes solid state drives are faster, but they also will cost you more money.
Shipping
Works really well on my server and it is pretty fast.
Competitiveness
I use these in a synology ds418 four-drive unit.
I bought this drive several months ago to replace an aging 5tb toshiba and 4tb seagate drive in my alienware machine.
Looking at the prices for a 4tb ssd, i decided to go with a much cheaper hdd.
The intention is to build a synology nas exposed securely over apps for family memories.
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- This product had a total of 21,157 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 15 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If setting up a nas try go for the 7200rpm units like these there is quite a speed difference between them and the slower drives
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However they are loud in my tabletop array when they are working hard
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I will have to relocate it to the rack eventually
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The media could not be loaded
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I am not sure if that is the drive alone or because it is used in conjunction with a powerful nas device on a 1 gig network
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However it took only minutes to copy thousands of pictures from an external ssd attached to my laptop to the drive array in the nas
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I have done this from one pc to another and it was painfully slow
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But just like any other drive they can be prone to failure
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