Seagate ST2000DM001 Desktop HDD
Versatile. Fast. Dependable.
This 3.5" HDD offers the performance you need to handle all your PC needs fast, such as working, playing, storing your movies and music, and more. It boasts 7200 RPM spin speed, SATA 6 Gbps host interface and 64MB high-speed cache, enabling ultra fast access to your data. It also offers unbeatable dependability for your peace of mind, courtesy of Seagate's decades of expertise in engineering and manufacturing high-quality, highly reliable hard disk drives. This drive is suitable for use in desktop PCs, all-in-one PCs, home servers and entry-level direct-attached storage (DAS) devices.
Key Advantages
- Double your capacity and drive down costs with the industry’s first 1TB-per-disk hard drive technology.
- SATA 6Gb/s interface optimizes burst performance
- Seagate AcuTrac servo technology delivers dependable performance, even with hard drive track widths of only 75 nanometers.
- Seagate OptiCache technology boosts overall performance by as much as 45% over the previous generation.
- Seagate SmartAlign technology provides a simple, transparent migration to Advanced Format 4K sectors.
- Free Seagate DiscWizard software allows you to install a 3TB hard drive in Windows, including XP, without UEFI BIOS.
Best-Fit Applications
- Desktop or all-in-one PCs
- Home servers
- PC-based gaming systems
- Desktop RAID
- Direct-attached external storage devices (DAS)
- Network-attached storage devices (NAS)
Eggxpert Review
Pros: What can I say, its got a ton of space! It actually reminds be of back in the day when we were just getting into the Gigabyte size drives when the talk was “you will never need a bigger drive” well we all know what happens after that... I am very impressed with the speed of the drive for it only being a 5900 rpm drive. So I decided to compare it to all of my other drives in my system, I will keep the results short. All of these drives are hooked up to the same controller, I was going to add SSD marks too but that would be unfair... Seagate ST4000DM000 (This Drive) – Avg Read 140.4 Mb/s – Avg Access 16.8ms Hitachi HTS725050A7E630 (500GB 7200 6Gb/s) – Avg Read 100.6Mb/s – Avg Access 16.9ms Samsung HD203WI (2TB 5400 3Gb/s) – Avg Read 88 Mb/s – Avg Access 15.5ms Western Digital WD360ADFD (36GB 10k 1.5Gb/s) – Avg Read 72Mb/s – Avg Access 8.5ms Western Digital WD10EACS (1TB 5400 3Gb/s) – Avg Read 67.4Mb/s – Avg Access 15.1ms I want to say for the slow rotational speed and such a huge amount of disk space this drive does rather well, I really wish I had another 6Gb/s drive to test for a closer comparison (other than the 500gb one), but the rest of my drives are all SSD. As for installing an OS on this drive I easily got Ubuntu 12.04 LTS install and functional on a single 4TB partition without an issues, so I assume any other Distro will be just as easy.
Cons: Well even though my motherboard supports booting from a drive this size, Windows 7 64 Ultimate will not install on it, it simply refuses as it does not like the GPT (GUID Partition Table) you need to use to make a single partition on this drive. You can however make 2 smaller partitions and everything would work fine, although this is not really the drives fault. I have benchmarked this drive multiple times in Linux and have yet to see the average seek time get anywhere near 8.5ms. I am unable to get the Average Write Rate any faster than 109Mb/s and the specs boast the average read/write as 146Mb/s.
Overall Review: All testing done under Ubuntu 12.04.2, using Gnome-Disk-Utility. (I want to point out I was using a different computer that supports GPT booting for the Windows 7 Install) This drive does rather well, and unfortunately I do not have a copy of Windows 8, to test if that will allow me to install onto a 4TB partition. I can not really fault the drive for any installation issues as the drive is not at fault for Microsoft not adding GPT support. I tested the drive on a Highpoint Rocket 640L, and it lets me Verify that although Highpoint says this card only supports up to 2TB, I have this drive working flawlessly in one large partition, under Ubuntu 12.04.2. Amahi (Ubuntu 12.04.2) Home Server: EVGA x58 SLI Mobo Intel Core i7 9200 @ 2.67Ghz 24GB Mushkin Enhanced Silverline DDR3 1333 Highpoint Rocket 640L 4 port SATA 6.0Gbps Pcie 4x Currently 7 TB Space...