(Old Model) Seagate 3TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST3000DM001)

To the point : Buy these drives! Excellent for home Raids/NAS/Server/Other. Price per value unbeatable at the moment. It is cheap! Sale price I have seen personally on Amazon ($89/$99/$109) elsewhere I have seen it for $119. All of these are great price per value if you catch the sale. Detail review: These drives to not have TLER (built-in time-error recovery). TLER is usually available on enterprise drives which are far more expensive than these model/similar type drives. That said, there is no reason why you should not consider this drive model or any non-enterprise type for any home built system/NAS/Server/Raid setup. I have two custom-built servers; A Raid-5 NAS (Five 2TB Green WD drives) and a backup server where I used twelve of these 3TB seagate drives for my backup server in Raid-6. Regardless of what other reviews will say, the only reason you should consider enterprise drive is if you really have a business or corporation to have this extra layer of redundancy in place or if you have the money for these type of drives. But if you are trying to save a buck and are on the ledge of if I should buy an enterprise drive or not? ... go for the non-enterprise-drives. For home usage, non-enterprise drives will work just as well with the same performance. Don't read into the hype you need raid specific drives. Unless you are a DBA managing tons of data you do not need it. Yes, drives do fail but no less than an enterprise drive. I got twelve of these drives from Amazon for the price of $99.00/$109.00. The drives went down to $89.00 during the lightening sale but I missed out on that. The price/value is worth it... so shop around when there is a sale. At the time, Amazon limited one drive sale per account. I called in some favors from a few friends to order the drive for me as a gift. If needed, I can return the item in the case of DOA. This is the best way to take advantage of the one item per account bind limitation sale. All drives of all brands has the potential to fail or DOA regardless of where they are made. Anyone says different have no idea what they are talking about. These are sensitive hardware with precision moving parts... you would be surprised how items are bounced around during shipments. You really can't blame all DOA's on shipping but its something to take into consideration. There is also user fault for failed drives as well as many other viable reasons. Of the 40+ drives I have ordered across 2 decades from multiple brands I never had one failed. Does this means or verify anything? No! but maybe people should not get too worked up about failed drives. RMA the drives for a free replacement in most cases. You must not have done something correctly if you cannot RMA for a replacement drive. Annoyed that you have to RMA a drive because it was DOA or failed? ....Knowing the nature of drives or any equipment for that matter there is the potential it can be DOA ...and if the thought never came up that the item could be DOA/defective? you are delusional and should not pretend you know what you are talking about. These drives and my other branded drives are working 24/7 without breaking a sweat. The random reads and write speeds are 112MB/sec for Raid 6. This is without any sort of tweaking... just a straight raid-6 setup without any SSD cache. For the raid 5 setup I am using software raid. For the 12-drive array I am using an Adaptec 16-port raid controller. Some tweaking it will be easy to bump up the random reads and writes. For those that complain they are seeing less space on drives when installed: All drives will have less usable space than advertised. For example, without going into too much detail a 3TB once installed will grant you just over 2.7 TB of usable space. Also be sure your Mobo can support/see larger drives over 2TB.

I bought 2 of these 3TB Seagate drives with the intent of populating my Synology DiskStation 2-Bay DS212j. I was using a pair of WD 1TB Caviar Black drives in a Raid 1 configuration. I was simply running low on room and opted to make a jump to 3TB in Raid 1. I chose these Seagates which were stocked and fulfilled by Amazon. More on that later. I was opening the anti-stat bags and noticed the prominent sticker "The Content is Made in China". Well that was a surprise. I wasn't aware of countries other than Malaysia and Thailand. I just flipped it over a couple of times to check the drive out and verify that yes, the label confirmed what the wrapper stated. Other than that, the drive looks much like any other hard drive. I followed the Synology Raid capacity increase procedure and within a couple of hours, both drives were installed and running. Moment of truth when I examined the system information and verified that yes, the system now had 3TB of storage. That upgrade went smoothly. Thanks Synology! Now for the packaging. I've ordered quite a few drives in the past but usually from a well known online competitor. Problem is that I don't think they are quite up to par with their shipping and packaging - namely protecting the drive in shipment. It is typically wrapped in bubble wrap and the open space filled with crumpled heavy brown paper. When the drive gets to me, one side of the bubble wrap is completely flattened which indicates pretty rough handling and the drive's cushioning failing. Western Digital had an interesting way of shipping their RMA drives from quite a few years back. The drive is suspended at each of the narrow ends by sliding it into a form fit piece of flexible plastic and then placing it into a box sized to body of the the plastic suspension holders. What this does is protect the drive in all directions and withstands and cushions against all but the most abusive impacts. I was excited to say that these drives (and two Western Digital drives in the same order) were packaged in this manner. Two thumbs up for Amazon and their packaging! All 4 drives are up and running. So, no DOA from shipment and no premature failures. So, if it makes a difference to you, I recommend that if available, select the stocked and fulfilled by Amazon as chances are they will use this packing technique for their bulk OEM drives. The Seagates run extremely quietly and no hotter than the previous WD or the ones in my 4 bay unit. Fast, cool, quiet, working and yes, made in China. Still, I can't knock it as it works just fine in a Raid 1 configuration. I give this product 5 stars and Amazon 2 thumbs up for listening to customers and responding in a way to lower the chances of a DOA drive. Thanks Seagate and Amazon.

WDの1TBが音楽ライブラリーでいっぱいになったため購入いたしました。購入してもうすぐ1ヶ月ですがSMART上は問題なく動作しています。回転数がWDより早いのに静かでアクセススピードも比べものにならないくらい早いです。大量のライブラリーをお持ちのヘビーユーザーにおすすめです。

Io lo uso in coppia al Synology DS 431, ormai è qualche mese che ne faccio uso intensivo!!!! Perfetti e senza alcun problema!!!!

Produit conforme en bon état

Works excellent, added this to my sons gaming pc and he loves the extra space! Fast reliable and quiet. Plugged it in without issues, formatted without problems and runs very fast. had no issues with this at all and I wold recommend this product!

En el momento que compre este disco duro era la mejor opción con respecto a la relación precio/capacidad, es un buen disco duro y ya he tenido antes discos de esta marca y no suelen fallar.