Seagate Exos Enterprise Capacity 3.5'' HDD 10TB (Helium) 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache Hyperscale 512e Internal Hard Drive ST10000NM0016

Pros: - High Capacity - Energy Efficient - Quality

Cons: - Pricey but it is relative. See below.

Overall Review: While there are less expensive 10TB drives, most of them don't have the speed and the five year warranty. Those that are similar in quality and speed tend to be more expensive. I have two of these in a five bay NAS, and will buy three more to finish an upgrade to gain more space. So far so good. The dashboard report for the NAS confirms these drives run cooler, typically 8 to 10 degrees cooler. Has a solid feel and appears to be well constructed. Very satisfied.

Pros: These drives are the best and probably last hard drives I will ever own. I purchased Two drives and have them in a RAID Mirror now as a redundant backup location for my fileserver. They have worked flawlessly for the last 15 months. They are also quite fast - faster than any other hard drive I have ever owned and even in the redundant write array, they are faster to write than anything I have ever had. So, Fast and Reliable, 24/7/365. They run cool, they feel very cool to the touch in my chassis, but they are usually fed 72 degree air by a pair of 200mm fans, so I would expect this.

Cons: They are not Solid State Drives. I wouldn't mind a couple 10TB SSDs for the price. :-) Other than something silly like this, there is NOTHING that would stop me from recommending these drives. And the price is even way down since I purchased them. If you need spinner capacity for storage of your less than fast class data, these are the drives you are looking for. They simply are best in class.

Overall Review: If you need the storage space, and you are looking for a great hard drive to provide that space, then you really don't need to look anywhere else. Just remember, they are mechanical drives, they are ALWAYS going to eat your data! If you do not properly respect this aspect of any hard drive, you will be unhappy in the end. If you properly back them up and have them in a redundant array, you simply cannot go wrong with these. Sure, there will be bad ones, no amount of quality control can help that, so expect them to fail. And be happy when they never do. These have the best possibility of making you happy when you retire them to the shelf of drives that still works after their life is over.

Pros: Seagate's 10TB drive runs quiet and cool - 8C while active lower than a comparable Western Digital Gold in the same rack and the same as an HGST Helium drive. Transfer speeds are impressive. Sustained data transfer rates are comparable to previous generation 15K SAS drives without the noise and heat. This drive can happily live in a quiet office environment rather than just a server rack. The price of these drives is very good compared to similar capability drives from WD or HGST.

Cons: Our past experience with Seagate drive reliability (~30 drives over the past 15 years) has not been particularly good. The 5 year warranty is encouraging, the reliability reports from Backblaze even more so. It appears that Seagate has managed to fix many of their reliability gremlins.

Overall Review: Overall, this drive offers a great combination of speed, capacity, low noise, and price. Yes, it's more expensive than slow, NAS-targeted drives. Transfer speeds blow lesser drives away, however, and Seagates Helium tech makes for quiet storage you can live with.

Pros: Bought a pair. The first one is still working after two and half years of moderate to heavy use. It's used as a backup drive. It spends days being idle then has constant reads and write for 24 hours.

Cons: Second drive I put away because I didn't need it until the end of last year. It died after 7 months of light use. The first hint of a failure were writes with a long delay. Couple days later it has the click of death.

Overall Review: I'm not sure if I trust these drives now.

Pros: - Much quieter than I expected, much more than my old Toshiba drives - High capacity - Helium filled - Heavy Duty! I use in a daily video editing rig (Samspace81)

Cons: - NONE

Overall Review: Highly recommended if you want a fast 10TB hard drive for your home PC or business.

Pros: They are nice looking paperweights I guess... And so far Neweggs RMA process has been decently painless.

Cons: First one was DOA, lots of grinding and scraping and sounding like an electric razor and SeaTools fails. Got an RMA and the replacement I received a week later was also DOA, no grinding and just the occasional scraping but immediate SeaTools fails again. Where did the QC go?

Overall Review: I've been buying hard drives since the 90's. WD, Samsung, Seagate, and the occasional Hitachi or Toshiba, and this is the first time I've had a bad drive. Maybe it was my time... This was to replace the 4 2TB Samsung drives I have in raid right now (that are still going strong) that I bought about 10 years ago. I literally have drives that I bought ~20 years ago that ran 24/7 for a couple years before I upgraded that are still accessible. These can't even make it past the test bench. And it being two in a row... I'm getting a refund and looking for something better.

Pros: Capacity, five year warranty, and wanted to give the helium technology a try. Purchased to consolidate data from smaller capacity drives to this disk. Only time will tell regarding reliability.

Cons: Price may or not be a con. The initial expense may be off putting to some, yet the price works out to approximately $40 per terabyte, which is quite a value.

Overall Review: Unsure how much disk space was utilized for formatting. Disk management in Windows 7 showed drive would be approximately 9.5 terabytes in size after formatting. I formatted and checked in Windows Explorer and it showed 9.09 terabytes. Checked in command prompt and capacity shown as slightly over 10 terabytes after formatting. All are minor points, just wonder which of the three is correct. I tried the Newegg will call service at the City of Industry warehouse location. This worked nicely, waited less than one minute to pick up the drive. They also have a small display area adjacent to will call with around 30 state of the art desktop and laptops plus peripherals on display. Here is the link: https://www.newegg.com/hybridcenter

Pros: None

Cons: Failed after 8 months of light use.