
Keeping in line with Western Digital’s other newer drives, this one is a lot quieter in terms of vibration. Speeds are pretty decent overall and on par with what I would expect (see other for speeds). Cheaper than the Red drives with most of the benefits. These drives don’t appear to experience the same slow spin-up that some full on NAS drives do. 1TB drives are extremely cheap these days so you can buy a bucket load of them compared to even a few years ago.

Great value for the overall cost

I bought 2 of these drives to run inside a home theater PC case. I could always here the previous drives (WD) spinning. These slow spinning Seagate drives are just what I wanted. Very quiet and the temps stay very low. I run these drives using Intel SATA RAID 1 off the motherboard controller. No problems after 40 days of heavy use copying 50GB files to and fro.

4 tb = 7200 rpm, nice cache size too, 4 heads on the platter means that the i/o is always flashing




works as intended. works great so far. labeled this as my E: drive. first 2 are SSDs. hope to do a raid config soon.

I had a problem with an order but this seller worked with me to address the issue appropriately and in a fast manner. I was very pleased with their customer service and will definitely do more business with them in the future. I had a great experience.

- Huge - Fast - Reliable

Very fast for a mechanical hardrive. Test at 175/mb's/s. No its not as fast as the ssd's I have in my rig but its not suppose to be. For a 1tb mechanical drive its fast. Five yr warranty a plus. Totally happy with this drive.

Performs very nicely on Fedora Linux. No issues installing in EFI mode using all of 3 TB capacity. Runs quiet, includes a 5 yr warranty.


3tb cheap on sale works as intended


Shipping was much faster than expected


Bought 2 of these drives in 4TB size for a hikvision video surveillance system thats been running just short of a year.The drives run cool to the touch and are very quiet.The video play back after months of storage is crystal clear and the drives are very responsive.

GOING ON 9 MONTHS OF WORKING FLAWLESSLY