
- cheap $/GB - Does what its supposed to


Upgraded a Tivo Premiere with this drive. It works great. I did some research and some people at the tivocommunity forums were bashing the purples, but at least on paper, it looks like the purples were basically purpose built for this application.



The external drive does what it is supposed to do and I'm satisfied.

Small 7mm drive, will fit ultra slim laptops. Fast drive. 7200 RPM with 32mb cache Quiet Runs cool

-Very respectable performance for a 5400rpm drive -Trusted manufacturer, offering a decent warranty -Good thermal and acoustic properties

Very well built, hard case. They have a latch that I do not see ever wearing out. They are padded inside, and grip the drive when closed so the drive does not move around. They sit very nicely on my shelf like DVD cases (siting vertically) :)

Running this drive is ESXi file server. Storing Veeam backup data on. Using Deduplication. Finished transferring 14tb image back to drive. Was able to hold 1.8-2.1 Gbps write speed.

price compared to other brands which are equal in size (buying/bought 10 drives)



This is the 12th Seagate External SDD I've acquired over the past 5 years or so, and the first of this capacity. Just as with the others - 8TB, 6TB, 5TB, and 3TB - the drive was very straightforward to configure and start migrating data to. It's great to have the extra capacity.


great price fast service no problems installed like a dream

Used them as mirror drives in Mac Minis (models from when Apple still let you service them). Packed individually (OEM style) and all working great. Small size, huge capacity, and low power usage.



You must immediately upon receipt check with Seagate that there is at least 4 yrs 10 month left of the Seagate warranty. If so register the drives. If not or no warranty at all as there are a lot of bad drives out there immediately return to Newegg. Only accept 5 year warranty from Seagate itself. If all is well then do a raid 0 with two drives or a raid 5 with 3. Your score will be at the top of the Passmark Web Site that scores hard drives. Obviously you need a 12 gb/s SAS Enterprise Controller like say Intel RS3DC080 or equivalent and correct harness and battery for the raid controller.