
Passed a full battery of diagnostics, no bad sectors.

2tb at 7mm for under $100. 128m cache? Really? Absolute work horse for quick file dumps, backup jobs, etc. Quite and relatively low heat.



This is a nice 1TB enterprise Seagate drive in a 2.5" form factor. I'm running this drive in a workstation. It came with a 5 year warranty. (Please note, this most likely will not fit in a laptop, if that is what you are seeking to do. It is much taller than a typical laptop drive.) So far, I'm very happy with it.,

The drives were very well packaged. Transfer speeds are good for what they are (see below in ‘Other’). Every 2.5” enclosure I put them in they fit without issues. Two of these drives perform very well in a RAID 0 configuration as well as on their own (both of which I tested). The drives themselves seem pretty well made and have large bearings in place of something smaller for basic drives. For 2.5 drives, they are heavier than normal, which I attribute to their construction. During operation, they stay very cool even in tight spaces. Also, the noise level is very very quite. Much quieter than previous NAS drives. The heavier construction seems to make most of the drives in this category more clunky and loud on spin-up. With these drives, this isn’t the case. They definitely shine in a RAID setup more so than alone (which is what is expected).