Seagate BarraCuda 1TB, Internal Hard Drive, 2.5 Inch , SATA, 6GB/s, 5.400 RPM, 128MB Cache for PC Laptop, FFP (ST1000LMZ48)

The Seagate 2TB 2.5-inch Hard Drive is a perfect companion for gaming consoles with double the capacity of most stock consoles. I bought the 2TB drive for my PlayStation 4 as it is the largest capacity I could fit into my console (without resorting to an SSD) and has proven to be a reliable drive for my games. Highly recommend for any use case. (WARNING: If you are considering looking at larger capacity Hard Drives for your device, check the height of the drive since any capacity above 2TB makes the Hard Drive double its lower capacity counterparts. Making them unusable for Xbox and PlayStation consoles).

Bought this with a new SSD (also 2TB so it could total to 4TB) to work as a backup drive to store lesser important files and older games that wouldn't get improved since a modern solid state.Its cheaper than a SATA SSD (using the same port) so i chose it over a second solid state as it would be put under heavy stress often if ever making it ideal as a secondary drive that can still fit in morden laptops as it is a smaller 2.5inch (which ramps up the cost, if your on a desktop I’d recommend a 3.5inch as it wouldn’t make much if any difference).I wouldnt launch windows off a hard drive like this though, M.2 would be ideal for that but if your motherboard doesnt have a M.2 port a sata solid state drive would still be lots better than a hard drive but as a backup or spare space drive it would be better as it wouldn’t be as dear.

This hard drive was easy to install and worked immediately without any issues.

Using 4 of these in my Synology DS416slim enclosure. They are fantastic. Great set up. Excellent speed. Brilliant.

The packaging was just an antistatic bag! Okay - it was part of a multipart order in a jiffy bag but I had hoped for at least a cardboard sleeve. (Amazon??! :o)Anyway - no SMART errors and a pleasing spinup count of 0.It's a little slower than its 3.5" 7500rpm cousins but I'm just teaming this up with a 500GB 'system' SSD so I'm not too bothered. In the USB caddy it's hard to see what transfer rate I can really get. It will be internal soon so I will try and get back to the review and update it.Update - internal on a SATA connection it managed about 60MB/sec continuous write for a very large file on a partition that's towards the inner part of the platter (Win10, NTFS, default settings). It peaked at 110MB but that's just on-disk cache filling up.Not brilliant but perfectly adequate. If you want higher transfer rates, pay more - this was a budget purchase and it ticks that box. There are some good bytes/pound deals amongst the 2-4TB 2.5" spinning disks this summer (2020) if you're after a backup drive.

Initially frustrated as was unable to install. If you are installing by yourself, you may get a hitch with little bit older laptops as it is 2 TB. You need to understand UEFI and legacy system and their writing way (e.g. MBR/GPT) as BIOS may come in different ways. However, youtube was there, I taught myself a lot of things (spent a whole day) and finally was able to install.

Remember this is for a laptop I missed it that said works realy well in desktop

My 1Tb Baracuda HDD 2.5 HDD works straight from the box (almost). You have to initalise and format the Baracuda and then I removed Two partitions into one files volume. Honestly, Follow the simple instructions. I am using a Minipc on Win11 and I'm an antique novice but it was straight forward. It works alongside a 1Tb SSD and their interdata transfer works well.