Seagate BarraCuda Mobile Hard Drive 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 2.5-Inch 7mm (ST500LM030)

When I decided to upgrade my micro PC, I knew I needed a hard drive that could keep up with my digital ambitions. Enter the Seagate BarraCuda 5TB Internal Hard Drive – a behemoth of storage that promises to turn your mini machine into a data-swallowing shark.First off, let me say, this drive is no lightweight minnow. It's a chunky boy, not suited for the delicate confines of a laptop. Trying to fit it into my micro PC was like trying to squeeze a sumo wrestler into skinny jeans—tight, but ultimately successful!Performance-wise, this drive swims circles around the competition. Speed and reliability are as advertised, making it a true powerhouse. Loading files, booting up, and transferring data feel like a breeze, even when dealing with massive amounts of information. It’s like having a turbo-charged engine in your tiny car.However, be warned, this BarraCuda is strictly for the mini machine crowd. If you attempt to put it in your laptop, you might end up with a device that resembles an overstuffed suitcase. But for micro PCs and other small form factors, it's the perfect catch.In summary, if you need a storage solution that's both speedy and spacious, the Seagate BarraCuda 5TB HDD is a reel-y great choice. Just make sure your device can handle its chonky design, and you'll be riding the waves of data with ease!

Works perfect for a OOSSXX dvr system, our original hard drive took a dump and this worked perfectly however they stated the original harddrive was a 2.5" sata hard drive and this was a fraction of the size as the original hard drive bur it worked perfectly, simply plug and play and format the hard drive, and the price was great as well for 2TB, couldnt ask for more

I'm running five of these in my virtual storage pool (Windows Server 2016 storage pool) for my home server, four months so far. One drive developed two bad sectors, a reformat mapped them out. Maybe in another six months I'll trust them as much as the WD Red drives they replaced - until then all my volumes are three-way mirror, and I have offsite backups.Temperatures are low, of course - a main advantage of going to 2.5" drives. And these are pretty much silent. Not the fastest kid on the block - no surprise there. Still, I see less impact from SMR than I expected.It's interesting to note that the external version of this 5TB drive contains the exact same drive. Everything except drive serial number is exactly the same externally, as well as firmware and any other params I could inspect with HD Tune. At the time of writing the price for an external drive is 119 vs 189 for this internal version. Of course, pulling out the drive from the external enclosure voids any warranty, so it's really a question of how much the warranty is worth. Will more than one out of three drives fail during the warranty period?UPDATE 8/17/2018: All five drives have been running well since January. I wiped and reformatted them back then before redeploying. I have a spare drive but am not bothering with hot swap as uptime is not critical for my home server - I can accept a day's downtime if a drive fails hard. These little drives are performing as well as can be expected. Raising to five stars.UPDATE 12/16/2018: It's been a year now for most of my drives. Still running well. One drive has disconnected from my SAS card twice, hard to tell if it's the drive, card or cabling. In the process I got to see how well double redundancy works - the storage pool didn't even flinch, no downtime, no readonly mode, just rebuilt redundancy using free space on other drives while on single redundancy for a few hours. I ejected and reinserted the disconnected drive, and everything was back to normal again (albeit a bit unbalanced free space).

My neighbor's laptop stopped working because the hard drive got bad sectors and that stopped windows from booting I was still able to get some data off of it like pictures and stuff like that. This drive is much quicker than the original and the system runs great with it however for the technically minded I noticed that the performance when copying a large file from one part of the drive to the other part of the drive was very very slow it starts out fast but after about 15 seconds slows down to a speed up like 20 megabytes a second or less this won't matter to most people unless you need to move large files on and off your laptop but for regular desktop performance the cache on the hard drive makes things speed up except for really large files where the cash runs empty and things really slow down.Also, I'm really glad I bought this and not an SSD drive which I thought about because SSD drives can start to corrupt files are silent so you don't hear any noises or Warnings that the drives are getting ready to fail they work great one day and the next day they're Stone dead and I feel like the performance of this is good enough to create a nice desktop experience in Windows well it would be great to have the extra speed I am not willing to sacrifice reliability or a sudden failure out of nowhere that leaves all of the data inaccessible even the old drive that failed which I was replacing I could still read a lot of stuff off the drive after Windows ran a Check Disk scan. With an SSD it's it's super fast and everything's great one day and it's game over the next day with no warning also if you do get warnings and you run some repair operations are you willing to trust that drive with your data or you going to back it up every single day which is a waste of time and something no one's going to do.

I have a server running in small case maybe 12"x9"x5 and have two of these drives in there. 10tb is more than I ever though I could fit in a case this small, and there may be room for a 3rd if the need arises. Definitely worth purchasing - no issues or drive failures yet!