Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC Laptop (ST2000DM006)

Bought it direct from Amazon and the drive came packaged very well. I installed the drive and ran a extended surface test on it which took about 4 1/2 hrs. The drive passed the test with no errors. Hopefully i can get 5 yrs of good use out of it before replacing it with another new unit. I will update this if any issues arise but so far so good.One thing to note, When i installed the drive it had no active partition out of the box thus it will not show up on windows explorer until you look under disk management, devices or look under diskpart in the command prompt to see in fact that the drive is being detected but isn't active with a partition. This will make someone who doesn't know much about computers think the drive doesn't work and i've seen a lot of reviews where people say the drive didn't show up when they hooked it up and thinking it was broken. Reason being that you need to format and create a partition for the drive to become active. Here's the simple steps to make it happen on Windows 10 which is what OS i use this drive on for media storage.01 - Open command prompt in Windows 10 by pressing Winkey+S02 - Type CMD in search box and right click Command Prompt to run as Administrator.03 - Now when in the Command Prompt type "DISKPART" (without quotes) and hit Enter.04 - Type "LIST DISK" (without quotes) and hit Enter.05 - A numbered list will now show with all the drives that are attached to the system. Simply identify the number of the new Seagate drive in this list and make sure you choose the right drive or you could wipe out data on an existing drive with data. If your unsure then you could turn your PC off and unplug any existing drives with data on them, leave your main system drive and your new Seagate drive attached to the PC. Then boot your PC back up and repeat the steps back up to this point and continue on with the listed steps.06 - After identifying the disk number, type "SELECT DISK 0" (without quotes and also replace 0 with the number that your drive identifies with in the command prompt, i only used 0 as an example.) and hit Enter.07 - After you've made your selection type "CLEAN" (without quotes) and hit Enter.08 - Type "CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY " (without quotes) and hit Enter.09 - Type "SELECT PARTITION 1" (without quotes) and hit Enter.10 - Type "ACTIVE" (without quotes) and hit Enter.11 - Type the following command to format the partition using NTFS and to set a label "FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL=SG-Drive QUICK " (without quotes) and hit Enter. Remember to change the SG-Drive in the command with the drive name you want to use.12 - Almost home now. Now you can choose what letter you want your drive to show up as in windows. Type "ASSIGN LETTER=F" (without quotes and use whatever letter you want, i used F for example, just make sure another drive isn't already using the letter you chose.) and hit Enter.13 - Type "EXIT" (without quotes) and hit Enter. Close the command prompt.14 - Turn your PC back off and plug back in any drives that you unplugged earlier as a way to prevent wiping the data on them by mistake.-----> Hope this helped someone out there. Enjoy your new drive <------

Purchased this drive 6 years ago and it's beginning to fail (clicking noises started a few months ago and within the last week there have been performance issues that coincide with periods of more clicking than usual, so I'm pretty sure it's on it's way out). I'm still rating this highly because up until now it's performed very well and 6 years of good performance for a 60 dollar hard drive seems completely fair. Plus it's giving me plenty of warning rather than going out suddenly, so I can make a smooth transfer to a replacement drive before this one goes out.To give you an idea of the wear I've been putting on it, I do game daily, but generally not the kinds of games that are super resource intensive and that would put an extraordinary amount of wear on the hardware. If you're just looking to use this for internet browsing, file storage, and/or office software you'll probably get a little more life out out of it than I did, but if you're into hardcore gaming it will probably wear out sooner so I wouldn't recommend it.

Until now, I've only ever read about it, but I had to go through 5 HDD's before I finally got one that worked. The first one never made it to me. It got lost in the mail or something and was stuck in the same place for a week according to tracking so Amazon sent me a second one. It was making funny noises. I tried to go through Seagate but couldn't for numerous reasons. After a few days and a bunch of people on online chat, I got Amazon to send a third one but it was making funny noises, too. Then they lied and said they were going to send me a fourth one which they never did. I ended up having to settle for a refund. Found a third-party seller on Amazon that had almost the exact same HDD (same drive, just a smaller cache size}. It didn't make any funny noises so I thought I finally had a good one. About a week or two after installing it, it crashed on me. I lost everything. Fortunately, most of the stuff on it I had backed up. I sent it back and got a replacement that has been working fine for about a month now. It took me about a week to get everything that wasn't backed up. All this took place over about a 3-6 month period.

still have it to this day