Seagate Barracuda 6TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 5400 RPM 256MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC (ST6000DM003)

I bought the 6TB version to upgrade my PLEX server. Based on other reviews I immediately checked the warranty. Just search for "Seagate Drive Warranty" in your search engine and enter the serial number. Mine checked out with warranty valid for 2 years and 1 month. If you are installing a drive larger than 2TB (in windows), you must use GPT disk partitioning instead of MBR to recognize the full size of the disk. MBR is an older partition style used in legacy bios'. You must switch to the newer UEFI bios and then convert the disk to GPT partition using the windows disk management system. (I'm not sure about iOS). Since W10 v1703 you can convert to UEFI without reinstalling. Just search for "switch to uefi without reinstall" and follow the instructions. It only took me 10 minutes to switch to UEFI, then partition the disk as GPT instead of MBR. Full drive size recognized and running great so far.

Seagate drives have always been very reliable for me and I expect these to also prove to be so. The capacity for the price is excellent, and the vendor, all4computers, delivered the product quickly. Would highly recomend.

Worked with out any issues. Died 5 months before the warranty expired. Contacted Seagate and I'm told to contact the seller. What a hassle.. Seagate used to be a great company to order hdd from. I should ua e paid more attention to the reviews on this one!

Every easy to install. No problems. Will purchase from this speller again.

A good quiet drive, but tricky to set up as a storage drive with a Linux filesystem. Ordinary relabeling and repartitioning with "parted" or "cfdisk", followed with formatting to ext4 or xfs at first appear to work, but the disk will not reliably mount and throws off NTFS signature errors. The small Windows/mbr partition at the head of the drive seems invisible to Linux partitioning tools and must be cleared first with a specially formatted "dd" command. Once the small Windows/mbr partition has been converted to ordinary "freespace" visible to Linux partitioning tools, then the drive can be partitioned and formatted normally, and works well.

From the outset this drive seemed like it would be a great RAID option. I ordered a bunch of them. Within 18 mos of very limited use they’ve failed almost in synchrony. 2 at a time which allowed my RAID 6 to continue operations. Contacted Seagate. Paid $12 per drive to get the 2 drives replaced of at 16 drive backup system. First refurbished drive was DOA. Second same. I now have to send those back and wait a couple of weeks for yet more replacements. Given the others are likely to fail too I’m ordering from another manufacturer with better quality standards. Normally I’m a pretty happy customer even when things fail (Because things will fail) but at under 5000 hrs op time and to be sent dud replacements twice I’d strongly encourage buyers of enterprise drives to look at other manufacturers. Truly a terrible experience.

My 1.5 TB drive started coming up with errors. So, I looked for something high performance that would allow me to store more working files before archiving them to the redundant server I have access to with unlimited storage. I do primarily photo and some video editing on this station, so large capacity is critical, as is faster response times of retrieving and saving images expedites the process immensely. After a couple of weeks, my preliminary evaluation is excellent.

I had issues on my qnap with a bunch of cheap drives I'd purchased. Over the span of a few months I slowly replaced all of them with these. I'd replace a drive, let it rebuild and quiet down, then replace another drive. After doing that with all 8 drives, no more errors or bad sectors.