Seagate BarraCuda 6TB 3.5" Internal HDD

The drive is slow 90-110mb/s write so took ages to back everything up to it.
But you're getting 6TB for the price so you cant complain. The drive is slow 90-110mb/s write so took ages to back everything up to it.
But you're getting 6TB for the price so you cant complain.

Works well and great price. Using for games and haven't had any issues.. Works well and great price. Using for games and haven't had any issues..

I bought two of these for a small Nas server at home. They seem to work well, with a cool temperature, quiet operation and good transfer rate. I am waiting for a network card from China to test actual transfer rate, but judging from torrent download rate it appears that these work well. I bought two of these for a small Nas server at home. They seem to work well, with a cool temperature, quiet operation and good transfer rate. I am waiting for a network card from China to test actual transfer rate, but judging from torrent download rate it appears that these work well.

Just make sure you know how to initialise the drive as windows will not see a 4tb drive! Just make sure you know how to initialise the drive as windows will not see a 4tb drive!

great value great value

Expanding storage space. Warranty only 2 years. What happened to the 5 year warranites? Would have got 5 stars if it had 5 year warranty. Expanding storage space. Warranty only 2 years. What happened to the 5 year warranites? Would have got 5 stars if it had 5 year warranty.

I installed this in a file server to be used as backup storage - setting up was easy, Linux is able to start/stop the drive when access via NFS from other machines in the network is called for then power down after a period of inactivity, but I'm getting slow transfers across my gigabit home network, much less than what I expected, way less than the network can handle. I doubt my NFS setup is to blame as another smaller HDD that is my main active NFS share gets 100MB/s+ over gig ethernet - this Seagate is at barely 10% of that during a test copy of a pile of 80MB RAW files from a camera. I cant help but wonder if SMR is to blame, and I'll...view more I installed this in a file server to be used as backup storage - setting up was easy, Linux is able to start/stop the drive when access via NFS from other machines in the network is called for then power down after a period of inactivity, but I'm getting slow transfers across my gigabit home network, much less than what I expected, way less than the network can handle. I doubt my NFS setup is to blame as another smaller HDD that is my main active NFS share gets 100MB/s+ over gig ethernet - this Seagate is at barely 10% of that during a test copy of a pile of 80MB RAW files from a camera. I cant help but wonder if SMR is to blame, and I'll agree with others that more effort should be undertaken by Seagate and/or PBTech to differentiate this from CMR drives - had I known this was a SMR drive I would have ponied up more coin for a CMR drive to begin with. Never mind, its installed and its working, but backing up is going to take more of my time than hoped for - EDIT - I returned the drive to PBTech because the random write speeds were just far too slow due to SMR - to manually backup approx 3TB at 2 hours per night would have taken 3 months at the speeds I was seeing - PBTech deducted the usual 20% restocking fee and credited me with the remainder, so I ended up buying a 6TB CMR drive to replace this one.

Need cheap storage? This is a cromulent option.

The unit I bought has 48595 Hours and 74 spin-ups on the clock. It does still work, kind of, but it's having episodes of incredibly slow reads and writes while it clocks up thousands of ECC error corrections, so it's off to the farm. This is just a single data point, so take with a grain of salt.

S.M.A.R.T. still reports good, strangely enough.

For the record, I've got WD Black 2TB drives in the same box which have been running 15 years. Even the 'weaklings' lasted at least 10 years. From a large batch of Constellation ES (Enterprise Storage) drives I have seen running, 8 years seems to be a...view more Need cheap storage? This is a cromulent option.

The unit I bought has 48595 Hours and 74 spin-ups on the clock. It does still work, kind of, but it's having episodes of incredibly slow reads and writes while it clocks up thousands of ECC error corrections, so it's off to the farm. This is just a single data point, so take with a grain of salt.

S.M.A.R.T. still reports good, strangely enough.

For the record, I've got WD Black 2TB drives in the same box which have been running 15 years. Even the 'weaklings' lasted at least 10 years. From a large batch of Constellation ES (Enterprise Storage) drives I have seen running, 8 years seems to be about the average lifespan.

Performance wise, perfectly adequate for a desktop HDD, but definitely slower than the Constellation ES or WD Black drives in the array.

Decent disk capacity and performance at a reasonable price point. Decent disk capacity and performance at a reasonable price point.

No fuss, easy to install - holds data! Just what you want in a hard drive.... No fuss, easy to install - holds data! Just what you want in a hard drive....

this was a fantastic value for money mass storage device, easy plug and play installation, surprisingly fast enough read write to be used for running installed programs as well. highly recomend this was a fantastic value for money mass storage device, easy plug and play installation, surprisingly fast enough read write to be used for running installed programs as well. highly recomend

Not much to be said, I Bought this drive as a replacement backup storage drive, the drive has higher cache than my old 2013 drive and serves the purpose.
Arrived promptly and functions as it should. Not much to be said, I Bought this drive as a replacement backup storage drive, the drive has higher cache than my old 2013 drive and serves the purpose.
Arrived promptly and functions as it should.