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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    great, still and flash.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 14.
  • Previous analysis of this listing was an C grade.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there may be deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is low.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 68.7% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 3,413 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 22 2020.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    No matter how much you pay for a harddrive they will fail


    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


    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

    You may need to lookup how to get windows to recognize a greater than 2tb volumed hdd however seagate software will help with that

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