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Pros & Cons
Pros
It's clear that seagate has put serious thought into both the performance and longevity of this drive. Specs are identical to old drives with exception of size and cache. Quiet operation ensures a pleasant environment in my home server setup.
The performance is top-notch, with the 7200 rpm spinning speed ensuring swift data access and transfer speeds. Knowing that my data is backed by seagate's data recovery service provides peace of mind that's truly priceless. Raid 5 is default so you ju... Read More
Tb seems a bit louder than the 4tb ironwolf drives i had but liveable. These 12tb drives are 4k sectors with emulated 512bit sectors. These new drives are a little noisier than 4tb’s but the density is wonderful.
Cons
Amazon says they are allowed to substitute used and refurbished drives as new but there's no disclaimer on web site. While checking out the warranties for the other 11 drives, they claim that one of them is a child of an enclosure, and they will not h... Read More
When attached via usb dock, computer freezes. Tried to connect it to different sata ports, got same results. I suspect the apple private relay is causing a problem.
Seagate only offers support through their understaffed chat system. Their support is chat only with off-shore individuals who give lots of platitudes but little results.
Highlights
Quality
Product is great,been running iron wolf drives for many years.
Drive works good, cool and transfer speeds are about 250 mb/s, as expected.
Should they after 1 year, no, but anything electronic can fail.
This 4t seagate drive however, has died after purchasing a year ago.
Price
Not cheap but i'm hoping that they will pay off long term.
Shipping
Got seagate's discwizard to take care of the problem.
I got on seagate's website and their online chat and within 15 mins, had a new drive coming to me.
Packaging/appearance
Well packaged, product was in like-new condition.
The packaging was really nice, i felt fancy while opening it haha (purchased at 79.
I'm glad they had the foresight to bag the drives and pack them well because i'm certain ups punted it as the box was wet when ... Read More
Competitiveness
Sold by all4computers at the best price i could find here or at other merchants, including the "egg" one.
If you are not sure or have a problem instating drive i strongly suggest going to seagate and get discwizard.
(many problems with seagate prior to that.
Not a major issue since these are in a cabinet but i was concerned at first since all of the other 10 drives in the server are ... Read More
Overview
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- This product had a total of 27,158 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 3 2024.
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Im glad they had the foresight to bag the drives and pack them well because im certain ups punted it as the box was wet when i signed for it luckily everything was fine
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Its been a month so far it has been stable
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Put two of these in my ubuntu home server
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
They have been working great but are much noisy than the previous wd red nas drives they replaced
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Not a major issue since these are in a cabinet but i was concerned at first since all of the other 10 drives in the server are virtually silent in comparison
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Even though they are noisy they have been working as intended
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I avoid wd like the plague ever since that smr nonsense so it’s good that seagate makes these high quality cmr nas drives
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
So after a year i started to hear 3 clicks and a lower tone that i knew was the hard drive since everything else in my pc is solid state
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