Seagate BarraCuda 2TB, Internal Hard Drive, 2.5 Inch , SATA, 6GB/s, 5.400 RPM, 128MB Cache for PC Laptop, FFP (ST2000LMZ15)

arrived early exactly as seller described ,would buy form seller again A++++

The packaging was just an antistatic bag! Okay - it was part of a multipart order in a jiffy bag but I had hoped for at least a cardboard sleeve. (Amazon??! :o)Anyway - no SMART errors and a pleasing spinup count of 0.It's a little slower than its 3.5" 7500rpm cousins but I'm just teaming this up with a 500GB 'system' SSD so I'm not too bothered. In the USB caddy it's hard to see what transfer rate I can really get. It will be internal soon so I will try and get back to the review and update it.Update - internal on a SATA connection it managed about 60MB/sec continuous write for a very large file on a partition that's towards the inner part of the platter (Win10, NTFS, default settings). It peaked at 110MB but that's just on-disk cache filling up.Not brilliant but perfectly adequate. If you want higher transfer rates, pay more - this was a budget purchase and it ticks that box. There are some good bytes/pound deals amongst the 2-4TB 2.5" spinning disks this summer (2020) if you're after a backup drive.

Before i talk about this drive i just want to say that i am not using this drive in a conventional way, i have it installed with a separate SSD that are linked through AMD's store MI technology, using the SSD to accelerate the hard drive and act as a cache and if you are on a 2nd or 3rd gen AMD CPU i would highly recommend doing this especially for a game library as it massively increases loading times to more SSD levels of speed.As a driver for a steam library, this is nearly perfect, i personally bought the 3TB variant and it should give me more than enough storage for a good while yet. now i will say DO NOT BUY THIS AS A BOOT DRIVE, it might be tempting as youi get a ton of storage for little money compared to an equivalent SSD but it is not worth it. running an OS ANY hard drive will be infuriatingly slow and low capacity SSD are so cheap (256GB for £30-$50) there is no reason to buy this as a boot drive. but for a games drive or just general storage fro things you don't need to access often this is perfect. it was easy to install in my gaming rig and the store MI setup was easy as welli would highly recommend using store MI for AMD and optane acceleration for intel to get the most out of these drives, they make a significant difference in access times and general speed. also do not believe the "190MBPS read and write" claim on the product page, that is sequential reads and writes which don't usually apply to most people as most people dont work with single large files, for most programmes you'll be lucky to see more than a few MBps. all in all, for the price, these are a great buy and the warranty is nice as well

Purchased for my CCTV inside a Eufy Homebase 3. A few months in now and all good

Bought this with a new SSD (also 2TB so it could total to 4TB) to work as a backup drive to store lesser important files and older games that wouldn't get improved since a modern solid state.Its cheaper than a SATA SSD (using the same port) so i chose it over a second solid state as it would be put under heavy stress often if ever making it ideal as a secondary drive that can still fit in morden laptops as it is a smaller 2.5inch (which ramps up the cost, if your on a desktop I’d recommend a 3.5inch as it wouldn’t make much if any difference).I wouldnt launch windows off a hard drive like this though, M.2 would be ideal for that but if your motherboard doesnt have a M.2 port a sata solid state drive would still be lots better than a hard drive but as a backup or spare space drive it would be better as it wouldn’t be as dear.

Remember this is for a laptop I missed it that said works realy well in desktop

Initially frustrated as was unable to install. If you are installing by yourself, you may get a hitch with little bit older laptops as it is 2 TB. You need to understand UEFI and legacy system and their writing way (e.g. MBR/GPT) as BIOS may come in different ways. However, youtube was there, I taught myself a lot of things (spent a whole day) and finally was able to install.

After getting one before I've got one that works with the eufy home hub