I have had this HDD for a while now. It is affordable and has served me well. It has started to slow down in present times, but that is to be expected. I would certainly buy it again.

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.

Very bad item. It's made bad sector after 2 month only

Produto muito bom, fui atendido rapidamente e recebi o produto em bom estado.

I am pretty satisfied with the product and seller. At first I had received a HDD which was faulty, I had requested for a replacement and the very next day pickup was arranged by the seller. Within 4 Days I had received a fresh piece. I plugged it in and no problem whatsoever from the HDD. Works pretty silently as expected from a Optical Drive. Totally recommended.Additional Feedback: I had ran some benchmarks and I am totally stoked. I am attaching the benchmark score compared to a Western Digital 1TB HDD. I totally recommend.

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

Produto de ótima qualidade.O produto chegou no prazo combinado. Trata-se de um produto de fácil instalação e ele não é barulhento.

using this seagate product since 7 years...So I trustedSeagate Barracuda 2TB SATA, Reliable HDD which I use for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Server-Fast Response,-Massive space (using Virt-Manager-- Virtualize..using 18 Operating system , Windows, Linux)-Its working fine-BarraCuda fastestRecommanded to all ..........Please go for it , blindly without hesitateThanks Amazon Team

I just got my hard drive a few days ago, but it's working like a champ. One thing to note, you will most likely have to initialize and format it for it to be read by your OS if you're using Windows. This is done through the partition manager, which in Win 10, when you launch it, it will automatically pop up with a window stating this hard drive needs to be initialized. You also have the option of formatting the hard drive through the classic format, or the newer format which supports over 2tb in Windows 10. I do not believe the support for higher than 2tb for an internal hdd is supported in earlier versions of Windows, but this is my first 2tb internal drive, so I am not 100% sure.Speeds are definitely faster than my WD Blue drive, but not quite as fast as my primary SSD with the OS on it. I normally have 1 game installed on the SSD, but with this installed, I no longer want to do that. I may be a bit old fashioned, but I prefer having a large buffer on the primary drive for pagefiles :)Anyway, Seagate makes quality products, and you will not be disappointed with this. I do think a lot of the reviews talking about DOA drives are from less tech savvy people who did not initialize and format, as I described above. I don't know for certain, though.Another note: The drive comes in a smaller package with bumpers, wrapped in an anti-static bag. It looks like an OEM drive, but it DOES come with a warranty, for those curious. IIRC it's a 2 year warranty :) Hope this helps!-CymTyr