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Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5'' HDD 4TB 7200 RPM 512e SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache Internal Hard Drive ST4000NM0115
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- 5 years Manufacturer Limited warranty
- Industry-leading CMR technology, for maximum storage per storage slot
- Advanced Write Caching feature utilizes enhanced algorithms, industry's highest nearline storage workload performance efficiencies
- Reliable access to unstructured data in bulk storage applications
- 12Gb/s SAS and SATA 6Gb/s interfaces in industry-standard formats (512n, 512e and 4Kn) for easy integration into replicated and RAID multi-drive storage servers and systems
- Consistent performance in dense multi-drive systems
- Engineered for 24x7 workloads of 550TB/yr - 10x that of desktop drives
- Robust performance with dual processors, ramp load technology, top-cover-attached motor and humidity sensor for optimum performance in all chassis
- On-demand PowerBalance feature available for lower power/performance in random read/write environments
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Warranty
- Limited Warranty period (parts): 1 year
- Limited Warranty period (labor): 1 year
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Return Policies
- Return for refund within: 30 days
- Return for replacement within: 60 days
- This item is covered by E.O.L. Tech Inc,. Return Policy
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- Support Phone: 1-800-SEAGATE
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Pros: Drive is a better price than most consumer 6TB drive and has much better specifications. This drives is rated for 600k load/unload cycles, most other drives, even some with 5 year warranties are rated for 300k. This drive has a read error rate that is 100x better than most consumer class drives. 1 sectore per 10E15 vs 10E14 for consumer class drives like the Barracuda or WD Blue. Mean Time Before Failure of 2 million hours. Rated for a workload of 550TB per year. Annualized Failure Rate of 0.44%. Advanced Write Caching via internal NOR flash. 5 year warranty. Specifications allow for 24x7 operation of the drive. Some other drives including Seagate Barracuda are only specced for 40 hours power on time a week! 8,760 hours a year versus 2,400. This drive uses Perpendicular Magnetic Recording and not the horrible Shingled Magnetic Recording that Seagate's consumer class drives use. SMR has such a bad reputation Seagate has changed the name to TGMR, but make no mistake TGMR means SMR.
Cons: Not the quietest drive ever made. If you are doing a lot of random read/write operation it is very likely you will hear this drive outside of your case. That being said, this is the case for most higher capacity drives, although if you get one that is Helium filled that will reduce the amount of noise. The noise isn't an issue unless you plan to use the drive for a lot of random read/write activity like d/l'ing torrents or installing your OS on it. For me personally, the noise is not an issue when compared to the incredible reliability and performance of this drive. One downside is the warranty starts from the date of production plus a couple months Seagate adds on. The drive had 4 years and 9 months of warranty left on it when I received it from NewEgg. This is likely a result of these drives not moving at the same volume as the consumer and consumer pro drives. This may or may not matter to you.
Overall Review: If you can afford it I'd recommend going for one of the 10TB or 12TB Exos Seagate Enterprise drives. Those two are filled with Helium which lowers the wind resistance for the read/write heads and as a result lowers both the noise level and operating temperature. If you can't afford those (I couldn't) then this drive is IMO the one to get. It's rated for twice as many load/unload cycles as the WD Black yet costs less. If you do decide to purchase this drive you are going to need to use SeaChest utilities to turn off the idling feature, assuming you don't want the drive to idle. If you are OK with it idling then you don't need to bother. If you want to buy a good HDD that will last you need to do the research and compare the specs of one drive to another. By Googling the model name of the drives you are interested in you can find their manufacturers spec sheets and compare them. Sometimes you even have to download the drive's manual to get all the pertinent information. If you don't have time for that... then just buy this one, lol.