Question 1

does this drive include mounting brackets and cables?

Accepted Answer

I believe it only came with mounting screws. It will fit any 3.5" Bay without any brackets and motherboards usually come with the cables so the drive wouldn't.

Question 2

Hello! Will this hard drive work in a 2010 Macbook pro (aluminum unibody) i7 2.6 ghz?

Thank you!!!!

Jeff

Accepted Answer

If the 2010 Macbook is a lap top computer then the answer is NO. This HD is designed for Desktop computers and its about four times the physical size used in lap tops.

Question 3

Will this fit into a DELL XPS 7.1 System?

Accepted Answer

Any SATA 3.5" drive, including the Seagate drive you indicated will fit into the Dell Desktop XPS computers.
However, the data transfer rate for this drive is 3 Gb/s, which is half of the 6 Gb/s SATA bus.  You may want to look at a 6 Gb/s drive for best performance instead.

Question 4

does this drive come formatted or with a formatting application appropriate for replacement of a tivo hard drive?

Accepted Answer

I did not you use in a Tivo. The drive appears to be standard drive that requires formatting by the operating systems or a programs to transfer the format, OS and data from a previous drive.

Question 5

Does this drive fulfils the requirement for video editing purpose? I am replacing the Seagate ST2000DM001 2tb Hard Drive as it got corrupted.

Accepted Answer

This drive works just fine in my computer and if you know how to do video editing, it will meet the requirements the same as any other good drive would.

Question 6

This is advertised as a 3GB/s hard drive but in the description it says a 6 GB/s hard drive,
I have ordered from two different companies, including you that is advertising a 3 GB/s hard drive and when I get them they are 6 GB/s hard drives, My question is do you sell new 2 TB 3 GB/s hard drives?

Accepted Answer

Seagate has update the drive interface from 3 to 6 GBs during the last year.  The 6 and 3 GBs work identically with data transfer rate being the lowest rate common to the motherboard and hard drive.  Usually you want the fastest data transfer rate available, but the disk surface to data transfer interface on these drives is lower than usual due to slower spin speeds.  The overall data throughput would likely be same on the 3 and 6 GBs drives.

Brand	Seagate
Series	Video
Model	ST2000VM003
Packaging	Bare Drive

Interface	SATA 6.0Gb/s
Capacity	2TB
NAND Flash Memory Type	Hard Drive
RPM	5900 RPM
Cache	64MB
Average Latency	6Gb/s

Features	Cool. Quiet. Low-Power Video Performance. - Optimized for high-definition consumer DVR applications - Low power and fine-tuned for consistent, dependable delivery of multiple high-definition video streams with capacities from 250GB to 4TB - Designed to meet Energy Star and other strict consumer power consumption standards - Quiet drive operation to enhance customer viewing and listening experiences - Easy-to-manage multi-room video delivery of up to 16 simultaneous HD streams - Qualified for operating temperatures up to 75 degree C to meet the rigors of the consumer electronics set-top box market - 24 x 7 operational profile to meet the always-on demands on the DVR market Best-Fit Applications - Consumer digital video recorders - Media servers and centers - Home theater PCs and servers - Cable, satellite and IPTV set-top boxes
Usage	Ideal for Servers

Form Factor	3.5"
Height (maximum)	26.10mm
Width (maximum)	101.60mm
Length (maximum)	147.00mm

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