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Pros & Cons
Cons
Hard drive started knocking after a couple of months. The actuator is noisy. Therefore warranty not valid in us.
Highlights
Quality
Quiet, great storage capacity and quick - it's what a hard drive should be.
No issues so far and it’s performance is excellent.
Have been using seagate drives for a long time now and so far what few times have had trouble the company has very quickly repl... Read More
Doing the data migration, the 12tb disks are doing 300-500mb/sec in read/write performance, best hard drives i have ever owned.
Price
I was able to find 2 drives for $300 each during the black friday sale.
Shipping
The product arrived faster than i expected.
Not happy to receive what was, at the time, labeled as st12000vn0007.
Competitiveness
I have always had good luck with seagate products and this one seems to be as good as the others.
I will say the ironwolf pro drives are far superior but these are a great choice in the right uses.
It's really sad nowadays we only have more or less two brands to choose from and this being one of 'em.
I used this as another parity drive for my unraid server which i already had 3 other 12tb ironwolf pro’s (and 1 12tb toshiba) a... Read More
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 78.7% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 205 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 5 2024.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
All hdds are measured in the original si unit of terabyte tb in this case the drive has 12 1000 1000 1000 1000 12000000000000 bytes
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Operating systems report this size in tebibytes tib where 12 tb 12 1024 1024 1024 1024 10
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However if you plan on using this drive in a desktop or nas that is close by be warned this sucker is loud when accessing
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Ive never heard a hdd make such a commotion when its being accessed
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Sounds like an alarm going off to be honest
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Took about 20 hours for the drobo to make it part of the team of drives already installed
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I have 5 of these in my new nas in a raid 10 array that had a live spare
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