What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
The 5tb 15mm drive fits inside my mac mini late 2012 with a samsung 850 evo ssd, and an owc dual drive kit. You need to be very careful installing the drive cables, putting the ribbons facing inwards so the ssd ends up as /dev/sda on osx. Works well i... Read More
External 2. Is thicker than a standard 2. Drive. It's fatter than thestandard 2. Drive, but not as fatter as the 2. Version. The 2. Is the thinnest, but it's not the thickest.
Cons
Seagate advertised two-year warranty on the usb drive. The faulty drive is not fit for an ultrabook. Seagate also sent a refurbished drive which is also detestable.
Highlights
Quality
Very good quality and very good for the price
You need to install it with the shield from the original drive but without the mounting screws electronics side towards the bot... Read More
Packaging/appearance
Exactly what i needed and worked straight out of the box
Do not work straight from the packaging
Competitiveness
I recently replaced the default 1tb hard drive in a ubiquiti cloud key g2 and everything was as expected
Needed more spacecurrently had 2tb drive installedso thisat 4tbwas perfect
Be weary as this drive is thicker than 2tb 2
5” drives however there’s clearly a shortage of competition for this capacityform factor
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Would be nice to see more prominent warning on this
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
When i first got it the hdd did not work all the time
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Caution this drive is 15mm thick and wont fit most laptops
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The size of this drive is approximately 15mm so it wont fit in a standard laptop but it should fit in a caddy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Be weary as this drive is thicker than 2tb 2
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This isn’t compatible with consoles or very small form factor pc’s
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I was intending to use in the node 202 but there wouldn’t have been enough clearance in the drive bay
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