Seagate Bare Drives BarraCuda 1TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC ...

I've been using nothing but these 1TB Barracudas since they came out in 2007 when they were super expensive. I'm currently using three of these in a Synology DS416. I have two of these Synology boxes, which replaced my HP MediaSmart EX490 boxes, which I ran for about ten years. I did not by new drives for the Synology boxes, but rather gradually moved over my 10 year old Barracudas. I started with two used 1TB Barracuda drives in the Synology which were hot spares from the old Wintel servers. Then I copied the data from my other drives, and then plugged in one of the old data drives just liberated. After the volume rebuilt itself, I got a report that one of the drives had a bunch of bad sectors. So I ordered this new one using Prime, and the next day replaced the failing drive. Ok, now it gets interesting. Synology claims you can hot swap a drive without it being in some sort of special hot swap tray, so I tried it. It worked perfectly. The Barracuda spun up and was added to the available farm. I used the Synology utility to then add it to the volume and told it to "repair" the volume. It all worked perfectly. From the time I opened the Prime package until the drive had been replaced was all of ten minutes. The Seagate Barracudas are super reliable. The other two, which are also ten years old, are still going strong, but I'll start swapping them out for new drives, one at a time any way. I think after running continuously that long, that just maybe I've asked enough of them - just maybe. Gotta love these drives. And, if you haven't tried the Synology boxes and you need NAS or a small home or SOHO server, you really can't beat them for ease of use. Yes, you don't get an AD with them, and you can't load a WinTel database server or mail system on them, but if you don't need those, they're great.

Craig E. Dupler · 2019-07-15 · via amazon

It’s not a bad hard drive, but that’s all it really is. It’s a fast hard drive, but that’s because it’s 7200 RPM. It’s not as fast as an SSD, but that’s because it’s a hard drive, not an SSD, it’s cheaper than an SSD and I use it as a secondary drive to my SSD, for mass storage. The first week or it made a couple interesting noises, but that was probably from the spools being initialized for the first real time. I have no idea what software people are using, just use Disk Management (Windows 10 at least, maybe 7/8) to initialize, then add a partition, usually spanning the full drive. So all in all, it’s a hard drive, that’s all it is, nothing special, but that’s what I purchased. I’m sure in 7 years I’ll need a replacement if I’m still using it, but that’s the case with all hard drives.

Arthur Craker · 2019-06-26 · via amazon

This week I decided to get a new SSD cause I didn’t have enough storage on my PC, and I found out that I forgot to activate my old SSD when I first got my PC and only had HDD active on my PC, installing Window 10, all my heavy programs, and everything else on this HDD. I got this five years ago, and it was working perfectly fine until today despite the terrible abuse.

Yujin Chung · 2024-11-22 · via amazon

FINALLY, have it set up as a share drive between a Fedora/W11 , a Mint/W11 pc, a MInt pc, and a W11 laptop and it works great, I keep in on on the weekend so its been off since Friday inside a sabrent external drive enclosure and its running cool and quiet(for a HDD). I wish i would've gotten a 2 tb but for $24 im good

Ronin · 2025-09-28 · via amazon

Working perfectly great in my Ideacentre 5i , it was super easy to install. This product is affordable too.

Orson · 2024-07-19 · via amazon

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550MB/s

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