Seagate Barracuda - 500GB internal hard drive (7200 rpm, SATA3) silver color,ST500DM009

I recently purchased the Seagate BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive HDD and I must say that I am impressed with its performance. The hard drive is easy to install and offers excellent value for money. I have been using this HDD without any bad sectors, and it works perfectly. This Drive is designed to provide reliable and fast performance for your PC, whether you use it for gaming, music, video, photo editing, or any other computing task. It also features Seagate's Multi-Tier Caching Technology, which optimizes data flow and enhances read and write speeds. It uses the latest 6Gb/s interface and runs at 5400 RPM. It has a cache size of 256 MB and a data transfer rate of up to 190 MB/s. The product comes in various capacities, from 1 TB to 8 TB, depending on your storage needs and budget. ----- My pros and Cons ------ **Pros:** 1- The HDD is an affordable storage solution that provides excellent value for money. 2- The hard drive is easy to install and use. 3- It offers a large storage capacity of up to 8TB. 4- The hard drive is highly versatile and can be used for general school purposes, important business files, and overall general media files that we all have. 5- It has a data transfer rate of 190 megabytes per second (190MB/s) and a load/unload cycle rate of 300,000. **Cons:** 1 - The spindle speed is only 5400 RPM which is a considerably slow speed for external hard drives with this amount of storage and price. ----Reasons to consider buying it:----- The Seagate BarraCuda Hard Drive is an excellent choice for anyone looking for an affordable storage solution that provides excellent value for money. It offers a large storage capacity of up to 8TB, making it ideal for storing all your important files, media files, and more. The hard drive is easy to install and use, making it an ideal choice for both novice and experienced users. ----Potential reasons to avoid it:---- The spindle speed of this Internal Drive is only 5400 RPM which is a considerably slow speed for external hard drives with this amount of storage and price. ----Conclusion:---- Overall, the Seagate BarraCuda HDD is a reliable and affordable storage solution that provides excellent value for money. It offers a large storage capacity of up to 8TB, making it ideal for storing all your important files, media files, and more. The hard drive is easy to install and use, making it an ideal choice for both novice and experienced users. I would highly recommend this product to anyone looking for an affordable storage solution that provides excellent value for money.

I've had 2 lots of 4 of these drives running in my 4 bay NAS units in a RAID5 configuration (I know, I know, not recommended).. but the uptime of these drives has been outstanding considering I'm pushing them way beyond the recommneded boundaries of use. Until 2 days ago, they've been operational for 8 years with solid use with zero downtime. One failed 2 days ago, so 8 years for cheap drives is pretty good.

Great product

I will start off by saying that the drive I received is a 4TB Seagate drive and does (after a full format and surface test) seem to work fine. S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics report the drive as "GOOD." However it was manufactured in May 2015 and has been used/powered on for 32,826 hours which is 3.75 years. The drive is a Seagate "Skyhawk" Surveillance drive model: ST4000VX000, with a quoted MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of 1,000,000 hours. So, all being well, I could expect to have about 967,172 hours or 110 years of use out of it before it dies. For the price I paid this seems reasonable. However, it wasn't clear to me on Amazon (which may be down to me not reading things thoroughly) that I was purchasing a similar or equivalent drive to the BarraCuda, rather than an Amazon customer returned "like new" BarraCuda drive. If that is the case I think the seller could make make this clearer to customers. I sincerely hope the drive lasts for many years to come. However, if I do need to purchase a replacement from Amazon I will be paying very close attention to any 'returned', 'used' or 'like new' offers that might appear.

I’ve had this drive running in my Homebase 3 Eufy security setup for a while now, and it’s been working perfectly fine with no issues at all. It’s quiet in general, feels like nice quality, and performs smoothly. The only small downsides are that it does vibrate a fair bit and makes a bit of a sound that’s hard to describe. It can also get a little hot at times, but that seems perfectly normal. Overall, it’s been reliable, fast, and solid well worth it and I genuinely enjoy using it.

Good drive, easy to install with a few screws. A replacement drive for an existing drive that failed

I've had 5 of these drives since early 2020, and the last one has just failed with an abnormal power supply issue. The others all failed for a combination of bad sectors and disk errors that caused my Synology NAS system to reject the drives. Whilst I did plenty of research on cost per GB + reliability + compatibility (these came out top) prior to purchasing these drives, and have had good results of with older Seagate models in other systems, I'm now very disappointed in this drive and manufacturer. I would highly recommend you look at the Toshiba N300's which have I have been using successfully for (18 months for the oldest so far) to replace these drives as they have failed. Out of the first 4 I bought to fill my DS920, one failed within a few days, so I bought a 5th as a quick replacement whilst I began the warranty replacement process (always slow). That ended up being refunded rather than replaced, and drive prices being volatile, it had gone up in price by £50 between buying and being refunded - so the seagate warranty of a like for like replacement was a joke from the start. Special disreputable mention is reserved for CCL Computers. 3 of the 5 drives were bought via Amazon from them. When it came time for those drives to fail and be replaced - the first was refunded, eventually, not replaced as Seagate's warranty claims; the second suffered an administrative mixup (two drives had failed in a similar time frame but from two different suppliers) where I checked with them in advance about the serial number of the drive that had failed (which I thought was theirs) and they said to send it to them, only for them to later decide that I'd mixed up suppliers and the failed drive I'd sent them wasn't one of theirs. It was eventually returned and the other failed drive (that was one from them) was sent on (over two weeks wasted on that). Over a week after getting the correct drive they declare that be working fine and thus returned it again - only for my DS920 to reject it in short order (the Toshiba drive it was then replaced by has been working fine for three months now in that same bay, so not the NAS at fault). This last drive to fail is also from their batch - ironically a month after its two year warranty has expired. Side note, the above drive that wasn't from CCL was apparently taken out of another OEM system and sold on via a retailer on Amazon (as a new, warrantied drive). It wasn't until it failed and I ran the serial number through the Seagate Warranty checker that I discovered this. However, praise for Amazon support here, we attempted to contact the supplier, but because they didn't respond within a week, Amazon refunded the money for the dead drive themselves. This drive had developed >1200 bad sectors before it finally dropped out of the NAS volume. Upshot of all this, 5 Seagate Barracuda 8Tb drives bought from 3 different suppliers on Amazon, all died within 25 months, and only about half the cost of replacing them recovered. I'm also thinking that the I in RAID is perhaps a tad misleading at these capacities and costs! ;-) Buyer beware with this brand and model (and suppliers!)

A good company and a good product. Easy to install. It works without any problems. I can only recommend it.