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These have had mixed reviews on the Internet, Many DOA, but these were used with some hours on them. So far I have had them over a month and they seem to be working well in a Raid 1 environment. Also they hibernate in the Synology NAS until needed. You can take a little more risk with Raid 1, as if a Hard Drive dies you should have time to get another one installed and rebuilt in a few days. Still I have an external USB drive that automatically makes a full folder backup every 2 days. All units are on a UPS and I have never had an issue with Synology products, or a HD failure, in the last 8 years.
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This drive will please you if you have ever had a hard drive that runs hot as many older ones do. Relatively speaking it runs cool and quiet compared to drives two or three years older. For this reason I give this drive a recommendation. I can't speak to its durability as I have only been using it for a couple of months. Time will tell, hope it lasts a long time. One thing to keep in mind about spacious hard drives like this, since they hold a lot of data they require a lot of space for back ups too. Don't expect it to last forever and back up your files on other drives or to cloud accounts. The day will come when you will be grateful you did.
Here is what I use it for: Storing dvd movies The Good: Very quiet Great price Large drive and easy to modify for what I needed it for. The Bad: The drive formats into 2.62 so plan on losing about 300 gigs The Ugly: I had a heck of a time getting my computer to recognize it. I have a windows 7 64 bit system and they tend to have a lot of issues recognizing a 3tb drive but especially with seagate. Once i changed some files around and made some modifications it was fine but you will need to do some research. Overall: A 3tb HD for about $140 is a steal of a deal. It is almost the same price as a 2tb but with so much more storage. I am backing up my entire movie collection of over 1000 movies and i am using 2 3tb externals as well. All seagate brand. Western digital is a better brand hands down but for the difference in price I would choose seagate anyday (however for a main drive I'd go with a western digital because if I had put this drive in my main and couldn't recognize it I don't know what I would of doneRead full review
I have had this drive about a month. Didn't realize there is a 2tb limit on non-current computers as I was putting this into a 3 yr old Dell Precision T7400 Workstation and needed to run a Seagate DiscWizard to install the drive and create two separate partitions one at 2tb and another at 750gb but all went well. The drive does make an audible sound whenever first accessed by the system. Others have mentioned this also. Doesn't seem to bother performance, and note this is not my boot drive but a data storage drive. My experience in the last few years with Seagate drives has been excellent so I am expecting the same with this drive. The price for this drive is an excellent bargain.
Drive works great for my modded Xbox. Just split the drive partitions equally. You get 2.2 TB of usable space, enough for 800 xbox games and CoinOps 8.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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