Seagate 1TB BarraCuda 2.5" Hard Drive ST1000LM049 (SATA 6Gb/s/128MB/7200 RPM)

I bought this to replace the stock 60GB memory in my PlayStation 3 to increase it to 1TB. It fits great into the machine and works brilliantly. It has definitely improved the console and loads faster.

I did a strait swap with a defunct drive in my Humax to recorder, far cheaper than buying a new recorder.

Good stuff: Delivered promptly, on time, as described. It's a fast HDD, as I'd expect from a 7200 RPM drive from a top brand such as Seagate."Not so great stuff" (still in progress -- have sent an Amazon communication to seller): The HDD is now being recognised as a SSD. Bizarre, yes. Not at all sure why. Never in my many years in computing have I come across this prior.Thus far, have communicated via Amazon to the Seller and await their response.Have also spoken to Seagate themselves via their on-line Chat box. They, also, did not understand why this has happened and asked me to download "SeaTools" and use this to scan the new Seagate drive and deliver a status report on the drive. I've completed this and have the files / read-out's and am due to re-connect with Seagate to progress this issue with them via the Case # provided at the end of our first chat.So, still work-in-progress -- no clue whatsoever as to the cause at this at this point in time. So, make your decisions accordingly for the moment.Apart from this odd situation, the drive works perfectly and is fast.Will update as we move ahead with the investigation...

If you're after a small form factor mechanical drive for data storage / supplementing an SSD then this is a decent option. 7200rpm and large cache means it performs at least as well as the old WD Black 2.5 750gb it replaced. Not audible from the small desktop but can't speak for laptops. File access times are as good as one can expect of a spinning drive.

Hdd is now corrupted and keeps failing. Only just over 6 months old.Wouldn't buy again

I use these (I have several of them) as replacement internal laptop hard drives and as external backup drives (with a suitable caddy). I've never had problems with them. No problem in recommending them. Manufacturer has a very long history for product quality and reliability.

No idea what happened to my order listing, it points to Colloidal Silver when I click on it, anyways in 2020 I purchased the hybrid SSD/HDD Seagate 2.5" Firecuda, very fast drive, worked until today when it failed & became unreliable, I had Windows 10 installed on it.Seagate are a bit of a mixed bag, I had also another HDD fail on me purchased a few years ago.It is claimed HDD can last up to 5 years & more.If so they should have warranty for five years, not one or two.Lucky I backed up all my important data before it failed.Next time for important stuff I will pay more to get better life length of product, maybe Sandisk, Samsung or Toshiba.

I installed this HHD into my PS4, it fits great, very fast compared to standard.