Not much more to say. It wasn't DOA, and it's been working fine for about a month now. HDs are basically a commodity now, not a huge difference between brands. If you care about your data, RAID your drives and make regular backups.

-Good value ($/GB; -Performance as expected

-A little loud..; like most 7200RPM drives

Bought two of these for my NAS. They arrived in a timely manor and work great. These are bare, unformatted drives and don't come with hardware, but if you're looking for a solid drive and a good value, theses should certainly fit the bill. Very pleased.

I have 4 of them spinning 24/7 in my server in RAID 10 since November last year and they have been rock solid. I also have 4 * 2TB Seagate drive and same thing, no problems. Seagate released these drives before they released their NAS compatible drives in order to compete with WD Red drives but...

Lot of space (2.7TB after format!); speedy (7200rpm); SATA III; upgradable firmware; good balance of speed/latency; perfect for server (RAID) or desktop application; run cool

MTBF is lower than most Enterprise class drive or NAS drive; warranty is 2 years

The price was right and it works great. I copied 1.5TB between this drive and a comparable Seagate 3TB model. I reached continous write speeds of up tp 200MBs. By the time the drive was half full, the speed was down to 150-160 continous.

None so far

I bought this hard drive in january.have been very pleased with performance and price all in all an excellent deal all round.delivery was only 3 days on cheap post aswell

i liked the price was the cheapest 2TB HD i found at the time; the performance also very good i would recommend this product to anybody

nothing bad to say about this product

This hdd was quick enough but the spinning must have been janky because it caused my case(s) to vibrate and make a lot of noise! I used this hard drive in multiple cases and had the same problem!

Very good drive and has plenty of space!

Ive had over 5 Seagate drives die. The proof that its a cheaply made drive is proven by the fact that they cut their 3 year guarantee down to a year. Need I say more?

Back on March 2011, Seagate debuted their original Barracuda XT 3TB hard drive , model ST33000651AS, which used five platters to supply 3000 gigabytes of capacity over a SATA 6Gb/s interface.

Very good 162 MB/s read bandwidth with ATTO Benchmark; 3rd-generation SATA 6Gb/s compliant controller; Massive 3-Terabyte storage capacity on three platters; Outstanding total-package value; 64MB Cache buffer improves burst transactions; Low-power standby conserves energy; 2-Year Seagate product...

2.1TB Barrier not removed via native hardware instruction on older O/S's; Previous Barracuda XT series offered 5-year warranty

This is excellent. It is just what I hope for, and it works extremely well. I have it on a very fast external connector hooked to my Mac Pro, and I use it to backup files when I want to reduce my storage.