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Quality


Haven’t had any issues at all with this product


Works as expected no issues since install


Very quite and the install is easy or that’s what i would say if they included screws or the cable it needs it only came with the harddrive

Price


However i noticed the price really increased since then

Packaging/appearance


Normal drivepossible read pathsdirect from the plattersfrom the platters cached in flash memoryfrom the platters cached in ramp...  Read More

Competitiveness


2 years of use and still going on excelent price and use


I bought this back in 2014 when 256gb ssds ran for 250

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    great, still, good and first.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 3,667 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 3 2021.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    No smr no mtc the drive doesnt do weird shingled writing doesnt write cache to other parts of the platters and move it later


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I dont know what seagate is trying to do with other drives they make that are newer than this but smr belongs in archive drives and maybe not even there


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Possible smrmtc read pathsdirect from the plattersfrom the platters cached in ramfrom the platters cached somewhere else on the plattersfrom the platters cached in flash memory if drive includes flashpossible smrmtc write pathsto the platters but first we need to read up to 256mb and write it somewhere else then write it all back with the changescached and maybe consolidated for a more efficient write in ram then written to the platters possibly needing to do the above linecached and maybe consolidated for a more efficient write in flash then written to the platters possibly needing to do the first linedata sitting on the drive platters which you arent changing at all may be read rewritten somewhere else then rewritten back to where it was


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Each of these readswrites is subjected to the 1 bit per 1014 readwrite error rate every time


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I bought this back in 2014 when 256gb ssds ran for 250


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Had an issue after the warranty ran out where the hd died


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Not sure if it was due to the forced win 10 upgrade where the hd was corrupted of not

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