Product ReviewsSeagate Barracuda 3TB,Internal,7200 RPM,3.5 inch (ST3000DM001) Hard Drive

Using in Synology DS212j - Raid 1

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.Read full review...

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Cool, quiet and spacious. Hope it has a long life as well.

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.Read full review...

well worth the money if your tech savy

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...

Excellent Bargain, would buy more of these drives in a heart beat.

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.Read full review...

Works great for modded Xbox

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.

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Windows, Makes a good D: apps drive and/or a good storage HDD

May 2017 PC Windows, To use the complete 2.8 TB, this drive has to be changed to GPT and formatted as Basic. Its a good D: drive for PC games, A/V files and miscellaneous backups

If you want to boot Windows from it, you may encounter some bootable issues, even if you set-up it as MBR, as it will only read 2TB and the remaining 700GB are inaccessible/unusable. It may not even boot correctly even with a sector by sector cloning, so that's just a heads up.
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PS4 Nyko Data Bank <3

I've been using this hard drive for about a month now. It's a great product! I am using the hard drive for my Playstation 4 and I am able to save all my digital games on my hard drive! All the free Playstation Plus games fit on the hard drive. Great product. Read full review...

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So far so good

I bought 2 of these drives to add to a new Seagate ST3000DM001 so I could make a storage pool for my new Skylake build. Running an Asrock Z170 Exteme 7 with an i7 6700 chip and will be using the system for my Plex server and for photoshop and video editing.

I setup the storage pool with parity and am very pleased with my speed...the write speed runs a solid 45MB/s and the read speeds run a consistent 380 MB/s. Most of the reviews on a Parity Pool Storage was predicitng 30/250 MB/s.

I have an 512gb ssd for messing with 4k, so the pool is just for the plex storage, photos (I have over 100,000 loaded onto it so far) and streaming 4k. fyi. Out of the 9tb's between 3 drives, I ended up with 5.4tb available using Parity...my understanding is that when I add another 3tb drive, I will just lose around 300mb overhead and would put me up to around 8tb.
Very pleased with my setup right now..
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Great Drive!!!

Just received these drives in the mail today. Well packaged. Drives booted right up and now formating them. Using them for a cloud and media server. Will work perfectly. Hope to buy more!!

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Good product; would buy again

The item performed to my expectations, it is as fast as advertised and had the amount of space that was advertised as well. No false advertisement.

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