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This is an SMR drive shucked from a cheap external drive. It's a great, very cheap way to fill 2.5 inch 15mm bays with a lot of storage. But know and understand what you are getting and your workload. SMR drives are good at reads and sequential writes, and are very bad at random access writes because they have to re-write a lot of data even if all you do is change a few bytes in the middle of something. Good for media or one-time backups, but bad for incremental backups, lots of small files, or some filesystems like ZFS. They have part of the disk that works in a conventional way and then transfer it to the slower SMR section later on when they can. If you are using it sparingly enough that it can keep up, you won't even notice. But if you are hitting it hard with a workload it isn't good at, it will get really slow. Be aware. Know your workload before you buy.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I've purchased 12 of these drives to put into a home unRAID NAS I built out of an old HP Proliant DL380 G7. I use 2 parity drives with 10 of these drives for data. The drives are about as thick (15mm) as the SAS 2.5" drives from HP and produce close to the same level of heat and noise. Also, with unRAID, it spins up drives on demand and keeps other drives spun down when not using them. I've been using these drives for several months with little issue. The only problem I had with them is that 2 of them developed some sector corruption that were uncorrectable. The likely cause for this corruption was an abrupt power kill on my server while files were being written from the cache drive to the disk array. I now have my server on an UPS to gracefully shutdown in case of a power failure. I have a mixture of other drives installed in the remaining drive bays, but the plan is to outfit all 16 bays with one of these drives. I feel fairly confident in this 2U SFF build, but this drive configuration is certainly not supported/endorsed by Seagate or HP. Nothing on the system is mission critical as it's primarily used for home media. I would say to build something like this configuration at your own risk and build gradually so you don't have all drives fail at once. It's going to take active maintenance to ensure that my drive array stays healthy.Read full review
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Although it is twice a thick as a regular 2.5" drive, ti works perfectly in a standard PC case but not in any laptop. Using as a back-up drive to me NMVe 2TB boot drive and for photo, video, music & MP3 storage.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I truly like the form factor and the capacity. It is quiet and performs well for now. I wish I could find the same form factor with even larger capacity. Razı kaldım abi.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Works with HP DL380 G9 (and probably G7 G8 as well). Does not have the "thermal runaway" condition that causes the fans to spin at 100%. Beware, the exact same drive of this model but in 4TB causes this problem!
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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