About this item
- SATA 6Gb/s
- 7200rpm
- 3.5 inch internal hard drive
- 16MB buffer size
- Operating Temperature: 60 degrees
- Average Operating Power: 9watts
Technical Details
- Brand Seagate
- Manufacturer SEAGATE
- Colour Silver
- Form Factor 3.5 inches
- Item Height 0.8 Inches
- Item Width 4 Inches
- Product Dimensions 14.73 x 10.16 x 2.03 cm; 460 Grams
- Item model number ST500DM002
- Hard Drive Size 500 GB
- Hard Disk Rotational Speed 7200 RPM
- Wattage 50
- Are Batteries Included No
- Manufacturer SEAGATE
- Item Weight 460 g
- Warranty 1 Year
Amit kr. –
Nice working performance..
Anuj yadav –
Good product from barracuda but read and write speeds are not so good as mentionedThis is good quality product but I face some difficulties to install this because my motherboard is not detecting the SSD so that’s why I face so many problems after that I know what’s the problem and I fix it and it’s good SSD
6 people found this helpful
Anurag Singh –
The Product delivered to me is 💯% Genuine 🙂I confirmed it with official Seagate website 🙂
One person found this helpful
Shubham Shah –
Barcuda SSD is beyond my expectations it is so great that now i am using my laptop twice as much as what i used it before installingInstallation of SSD is also easy you can find a couple of videos on YouTube
Debu Roy –
superb prformane. 🤘🏻
Placeholder –
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Really worth for money 4tb I need space for video editing, it’s really helpful for storage I have little fear to buy because of bad review but they send me new product and good one. installation cable want to buy separate it’s not included the cable in the box Thank you
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Saurav Sarkar –
Hard disks are used for storage of data so cache memory is not needed still good product.
Pranay Sharma –
First of all, I would like to tell you that the hard drive came in a plastic case and there was no bubble wrap or any kind of protection for shipping purposes. This really gave me a shock and I thought that hard drive would not have survived its journey. But luckily, the hard drive worked just fine. I am writing this review after 6 to 7 months of usage. Already I can tell that the hard drive works really good. I am using it to backup my data. Please note that the hard drive can be used for the operating system installation but is not recommended and will lead to shortening it’s life. I use it along side a 250gb m.2 nvm express SSD (model A2000).The hard drive provides adequate data transfer speed. It is also darm easy to install in the hard drive 3.5inch bay of a normal ATX cabinet. The price that I got this for is 4999 Indian Rupee.Overall, I would recommend this hard drive to everyone.But if you want more redundancy, than look of a Seagate ironwolf NAS drive(network attached storage drive) with a capacity of 4 tb. It would cost you around 10000 rupee so the price to storage ration remains constant.The picture included is the plastic case that I got the hard drive. The hard drive inside it however is a different one as I have installed the 2tb seagate hdd in my pc cabinet.
3 people found this helpful
Somesh Pandey –
Bought this drive for Rs-3455/- only, retail shops are selling it for 3500 to 4000 here. Since it is a 5400 RPM 2.5″ drive don’t expect world class performances, it works fine for storing data and playing games that don’t require fast storage device, it’s an HDD not an SSD afterall. You can easily play any multiplayer games without any issues but GOD of WAR 2018 and Resident Evil series loves fast storage devices like an SSD because these type of games loads the map on the go so on an HDD whenever the game loads the map you will face huge LAGGG. But its not a Seagate problem it happens on all HDD so keep this in your mind before buying and please pair this HDD with a 250-500 GB SSD and install the OS on the SSD for optimum performance.
5 people found this helpful
Sangeeth –
The product is good. Fast enough data read and write. But the only drawback is that they doesnt provide mounting screws. The mounting screws are so hard to find. I had to disassemble an old SMPS to get mounting screws for the same. Received a used product initially. Seller replaced with fresh product.
rid3r_ji+ –
After reading a lot of negative reviews I was not confident of buying online. I finally took my chances and bought the 4TB variant. Product was well packed and worked on 1st boot.Immediately put it on extended 7 Hrs. diagnostic test to check for any bad sectors. Lucky enough to find NONE.Read speed during tests found to be 100-150 MBPS. Write speed is 60-80 MBPS.This is decent for a desktop drive considering the amount of storage you getting for price. Good VFM.This is not for gaming, although you can run games from this drive but loading times will be higher.Skip this HDD and buy an SSD if gaming is your preference.
3 people found this helpful
Hitesh Anand Bhengra –
Bought the seagate model for the first time. Works flawless without any issues. 7200rpm sure is the best in HDD
satyajit pradhan –
Best in budget product
Mayank Dutta –
Good
Neo –
Seagate has always been my personal favourite when it comes to storage device, never been down In any scenario, the form factor of this drive is pretty small and light in terms of size and weight. Worth it if bought over sale.
One person found this helpful
𝐈 𝐌 𝐓 𝐈 𝐘 𝐀 𝐙 🇮🇳 –
I can’t say It is good for gaming or not because I hanvn’t a gaming processor.You can literally feels the speed when you move from HDD to SSD, booting and shutdown speed increases and file transfer and application opening speed too.Almost a good entry level SSD
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VAJA RAKESHKUMAR KARSHANBHAI –
Best hard disk
Harsha Irugu –
It is really affordable and good hdd
JOHNS.F –
Good quality hdd for this price,but packaging is worst I didn’t expect this cheap packaging
Rohit Raja –
Recieved the product in good shape and immediately installed it in my ROG Zephyrus M15. It was very easy to install. Note: Seagate doesn’t provide a screw to mount the SSD onto the slot. Luckily, the laptop manufacturer was kind enough to leave a screw in the empty PCIe slot which I used for installation. The available memory was 931.5 GB and I could configure it without any problems. I’m a heavy gamer and installed many games graphic intensive games like PUBG, Microsoft flight simulator 2020 onto the new drive and it was really smooth to play. It has more than enough speed for gaming. I feel this is a better option than the overpriced Samsung 970 and 980 Evo series. The read and write speeds are higher than Crucial’s and WD’s SSDs.
3 people found this helpful
Laveesh Tomar –
Ezy Pzy to install and perfect for storing Battlefield V , Borderlands 3 , Warzone, One piece (1080p) ^_^
Arun AJ –
First of all, I got the package on the promise date itself. I was not at all satisfied with the way the HDD was packaged because it was torn and was slightly damaged. Anyway, no visible damages on HDD have been found so far.Some of them have mentioned that they got a refurbishment or non genuine product. So, I visited Seagate website for checking warranty. I entered my serial key and found that the product is genuine. But the warranty period is only 1 year. In the product description, its given as 2 or 3 years.Now about the product. I have installed it. No problems so far. Did a chkdsk and found no error. I’m getting an average write speed of 100MBps and above. Will update after some week.Thanks for reading.
One person found this helpful
Surajit –
Good item
Ginesh –
Seagate is always best.After sales, when it comes to customer service – Seagate is always the best for last 15years in Chennai to my knowledge. I have never faced issues with Seagate while replacing the drives under warranty. Five years ago, I’ve replaced a drive where it’s warranty is going to expire in two days, still Seagate has replaced it without causing any delay/hassle – amazing support from their team as always.
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Shree –
Value for money
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shubham –
Speed is slow go for 7200rpm drive
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Venkatramanan –
There seems some problem in windows 10 when HDD connected internally. Of 2 partitions, 2nd one could not be accessed for formatting. Had to return for replacement. This time did not connect internally. Bought a sata to usb hub and used it. No problem encountered. One thing: Initialise HDD with GPT and not with MBR. Because firt partion is 1.99 tb.Gaming : did not try.
One person found this helpful
Vishnu K. –
Actually when we buy electronic item, it is needed to work but this item i buyed not worked after installation. And now is a waste of all my money .Tried return option found out item not returnable. Can’t lie to anyone to show that item is broken or damaged because on face it doesn’t have a single scratch. But this hardware is not working. So literally a waste of money really disappointed.
Siva –
Ok
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Vickey Rajpoot –
The media could not be loaded.
Gud.
MD ASGAR HOSSAIN –
the first hard disk i recieved was curropted and my pc didnot recognize it then replaced it and now works properly ,installed warzone and apex running smoothly loading time is similar like ssd
ABDUL SALAM PK –
Easy to install
Sughoshananda –
Cost wise cheap as compared with SSD. I hope it comes at least die 10 years..
Sunit Varada –
Working great!Found no performance issues.
Mayank Kumar –
Good quality SSD. Been using in NAS Drive, working great!
Govind Bagora –
Original product bheja hai lkin hdd ki safety me dyan nhi diya hai agr aap glti se bhi pin cross krdi to fuse udd jayega or fir nyi leni pdegi lkin agr shi install krdi to apko fir salo saal dekhne ki jrurt nhi hai or iski speed bhi fast hai bahut
2 people found this helpful
madhu –
Harddisk is not recognised but by the time I check, replace option was also not there…wasted the money
Athul SG –
Adv. Deepak Kumar Nair –
Being an SSD Drive, please do not defragment this disk. It reduces the life of the disk. Actual size comes to only 440 GB. This is being used as OS ops disk and needed to be freshly installed. Worked smooth as a whistle.
Manoj KS –
Decent product for the priceAverage transfer speedUse only for media and files storageNot suitable for gaming
Bhavya Anil Jani –
I’m not going to comment about the transfer rates since there are a lot of reviews for that. I’ll tell tou this: Its is good for the price but note that its an older model (ST2000DM005) which is 5400 rpm and has a 256mb cache size. the newer 1 ones (m006 or m008) are better. With m006 having 64mb cache and 7200rpm and performs 10% better while the m008 has 256mb cache and 7200rpm. I got this because it was significantly cheaper so a 10% performance hit wouldn’t matter. Besides, I’m using ssd for the os and important programs so if you too are going to have a similar setup and find this one a lot cheaper then go for it or else consider the others like i mentioned.P.S. The packaging was pathetic.
14 people found this helpful
Uzair Mukadam –
My old hard disk failed and I had to get a new one. I saw this and seeing the price without any delay ordered it. The hard disk has a good read and write speed and I haven’t felt any change in performance. I game on my device sometimes and even that hasn’t felt and performance degradation. The only bad thing about the order was its packaging. I came inside a flexible flashing enclosure which was wrapped in bubble wrap, nothing more.
Meghadri Koley –
Biggest issue is the screw for installation. Seagate should provide it. Don’t migrate or clone os to ssd but install a fresh one beacuse if u clone or migrate u will only get 60-80% speed. Overall performance of laptop which had oy hdd previous increases by 50% and smoothness can also be noticed. If u have more budget ho for Seagate Firecuda or Baracuda 510 which will give more speed. My laptop was Lenovo Ideapad S145-15IIL. Suggestion:- If u want to know whether ur lenovo laptop will support ssd then simply schedule a call at lenovo and they will help.My boot time with hdd:- 60secs – 2minsBoot time with Seagate Baracuda:- 3.5 Sec and even less(my boot code got corrupted somehow which is easy to fix).For gaming this ssd is not too preferable but go for Samsung or Baracuda 510 or Firecuda as they are faster. But U can definitely enjoy many games in this ssd.The 500gb varient gives 2300/900mbps speed and the 2TB varient gives 2400/1800mbps.
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kishan kumar –
It heats up a little after exploitation of 1-2 hrs. I think heating is a thing which is not good for laptop Otherwise everything is ok.. I got a good speed when transferring data.
Vinoth –
Good product
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Ishrat parveen syed mohammed idris –
Seagate speed best all over hard drive
Aarthak –
If you know how to install then its very easy, otherwise take help dont damage the drive.Fast read and write speed in this price and gives a new life to your laptop
Ranendra Nath Mondal –
I liked its look and writing speedI disliked its nominal discount.
Keisham Roshkumar Singh –
Thank you so much, seller for the awesome product. Thank you for allowing me th exchange. The first product was not able to create partition.
Reema –
Good and recommended to buy
Sutti payal –
Like very much in this product because segate only one
CR –
Received hard disk properly. Its working nicely. Only issue is warranty date is old. Warranty received is 1 year 4 months as per the Seagate website, instead of 2 years since its manufacturing date is old. May be it is due to pandemic. However, hard disk is working properly. No issues at all. Thanks.
Bunny Bag –
The Hard Disk was just thrown into a big box along with some brown paper.If bubblewrapping is too much to ask, Atleast you could’ve wrapped that brown paper around the Hard Disk, rather than just placing it aside.I don’t know how many times that Hard Disk would’ve toppled inside the container.For now it works great and no issues and worth the price, but internal physical damange could’ve been there due to poor packaging which might lead to the Hard Disk failing much sooner than expected.10/10 for the Hard Disk which I got at 3.9Kgreat value.But 3/10 for the packaging.Please improve it, atleast for fragile devices like a HDD.
Sudarshan –
Overall a great experience. Went for the notebook drive as I already had an SSD in laptop.ProsEasy to installVery easy to paritionGood as a secondary storageConsRead write speed limit to 120-130 Mbps, which raises a concern as this speed will degrade over time.I would highly suggest to use this as a secondary storage and install your windows on a SSD which makes the system way more fasterPackaging was pathetic, could have damaged the HDD but luckily delivery person took care of it
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Prasun Sarkar –
Pradeep Kumar Manappully –
Seagate HDD are always good
Fazil –
It really helped speed up my PC . 2 year old Ryzen 3 laptop was very slow and did upgrade the RAM first to 16 Gig which didnt help . It was taking almost close to 2 minutes to bootup and opening up the apps also was pretty slow .bought this SSD and now the laptop is really fast ; takes less than 20 secs to bootup .
Faisal Wani –
I had installed this HDD on my Inspiron 5520 and it works fine. No issues so far.
Adv. Deepak Kumar Nair –
Being an SSD Drive, please do not defragment this disk. It reduces the life of the disk. Actual size comes to only 440 GB. This is being used as OS ops disk and needed to be freshly installed. Worked smooth as a whistle.
Gopala Krishna Bhamidipati –
Good ,smooth,noiseless,overall verygood product
ravi –
When I seen the review of this product I was little worried that how it will come to me like all are saying that packaging is not good but when I finally received the packaging was not good, anyway I checked the disk 1TB was new and just I installed in my CPU and it’s really working nice, I am writing this review after using for 3 month, so i happy.
zubair –
Best
Ashpak Shaikh –
Good
Roshan –
Got Faulty one and returned it .not very satisfying experiance
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Andro –
I installed it on my pc. I don’t play games on that. But it boosted my pc. Although there are some more product who gives better speed and price. But as a brand it’s a good item.
manav –
Well even though seagate is a trusted brand, I was a little disappointed this time. The hard disk arrived on time but the shock proof package was left unsecured and the hard disk was bouncing all over the place. And its not just this once. I had also ordered a 3.5 inch disk for my desktop seperately. They both arrived with the packaging loose. Its quite good luck that the hard disk survived such a harsh journey. Hence the reduction in stars. Its working fine as of now.
2 people found this helpful
Sam –
Good hard drive for adding additional storage to your PC rather than as a system drive i.e. boot drive. The operating system or the drive where windows is installed will write small amount of data very frequently to the drive and a drive not designed for such use case will sustain damages to the drive and may not last longer. Use an SSD or a faster hard drive that uses CMR technology for boot drive and then add more storage with this drive.
One person found this helpful
Sonic –
Works as advertisedNothing good nothing badSata cable , screw, stand not providedUse SSD if you want games to load faster, but fps won’t improveUse SSD for faster operating system (system drive where is os installed is ssd )
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Vipul singh –
If you planning to buy a hdd for gaming donot think about it , i bought it to keep extra files in it so that my ssd performance should not get effected. If you ask me buy 512 gb ssd for gaming and other software usage it will be worth you spendings and keep harddrive to keep other trash 😅
Udit Sengar –
I ordered Seagate barracuda 4TB.I found it useful when we have to do many repetitive I/O based computational tasks or HDD is continuously doind I/O for user. Actually it was specifically designed for this scenario hence we call ‘barracuda’.It boasts fast speed and economicIts 7200 rpm spin speeds, 64MB cache, and SATA 6GB/s transfer rates minimize lag and load times al in terms of it selling price.
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Pranjal Joshi –
Does it’s job as per the item description.Usually provides consistent 180-190 Mbps while writing.This can be used as secondary storage for gaming PC where you can keep Media and Game setups.Prefer SSDs as installation drive as this drive is 5400RPM and will show some loading time if used for game instalations.
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Bhupendra Singh –
Bad
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Madhav M. –
HDD is not working. Dont order online as packaging is not good. Received internally damaged package and hdd
Aruna –
The seller gave it like it was used, but it is brand new, and the packing he used is for another hdd and the box was also not fitting this HDD I ordered (Seagate 2TB HDD 5400RPM). I will upload the rest results also within 1 week
Manoj Prajapati –
When received the product I haven’t got it tested due to SATA cable shortage and postponed testing this product. But when I tried that attaching in the computer after a month I arranged the SATA cable, this HDD doesn’t work for me and I have got 2 years warranty of this product so I am going to in touch with the support of the product and let’s see if they can help me in that case or not.Comment For Seller: It’s your responsibility to ensure the working condition of any product before sending it to the buyer. In my case, you haven’t tested the product from your end and sent me a defective product which isn’t good for your sales and reputation. I got the product replaced by the company not feom the seller.
Manu –
Great
K M –
I bought this for my Acer Nitro 5 laptop which is 3 years old. The laptop came with a 128 gb Sata M.2 SSD. I was not sure whether this Seagate Barracuda NVMe M.2 SSD will work for my Laptop, but i took a chance and it works well. The bench mark test shows 2300 MBps read and 1050 MBps write speeds. Though it is faster than the orginal Sata M.2 but i did not find any considerable change.Anyways i wanted to upgrade the storage size of C drive as 128gb was not enough.Overall its performance is good. No complaints. But should have tried the Crucial or Samsung brands.
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Ishan sharma –
Product has some scratches when it came to me but it works fine and wonderful. It is value for money at this price range.
Manish Kumar Pandey –
If you want to save your data and then read at fast speed, then this HDD is for you at low cost.But If you want to install windows 10 on this HDD, then you will face lag issue. Becausethis drive is not made to handle much faster write speed. Also if you planning for RADthen it’s not for you because in RAD config, lot’s of write operations is there.This HDD is SMR, SMR is best to store data and read any time. If you planning to install windows then go for CMR HDD.You can identify SMR and CMR HDD drive by looking Cache memory, if it 256MB then it’s a SMR and if its cache memory is 64MB then it’s CMR. Remember less cache memory doesn’t mean it’s slow, CMR HDD are faster then SMR HDD. Advantage of CMR HDD is it’s both read and write speed are equal in Seagate barracuda its around 180MBps.Look in image, Benchmark show its read is 161MBps but I bet you will also get 190MBps speed.write speed in benchmark is 156MBps but you will not always get that much speed, write speed is near about 128MBps.Final word, It’s good HDD but only for storage/Archive.
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Satyaraj Padhi –
This is the best product in 3640 only. I got 2 TB at the price of 1TB hard disk
desai ankit –
Amazing ssd
Gokul –
HDD is not even detecting. Worst
srilakshmi –
nice and good but in crystal diskinfo it is not showing cache sizeoverall nice and best product
Sheeraj Ahmed –
Go for it. Good harddrive.. speeds ranges from 20mb/s to 250 mb/s. While copying from ssd to hdd i got 250 mb/s max speed and while transferring from hdd to hdd i got usally an average of 50 mb/s.. it wont disappoint you go for it..
Srinivas –
Good product
Akash 💘 –
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I have installed it just today and so far so good. While ordering I was little worried about the reviews and if they will deliver brand new product or used one. But after I received the nice package and brand new 2 terabyte Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive and after installation I recommend to buy this product. Note: last time I had ordered 500 gb Barracuda Hard Drive but it was not Barracuda so becareful and look if it’s the same product which you have ordered or different one.
Prithvi S. –
This hard drive model is more faultier than any other type
Kashi Ram Chauhan –
Good Product
Sourabh Verma –
I bought this HDD for extra storage but looking at HDD it is feeling like I got used one because there are some type of oil marks present in HDD. It is working fine but by packaging and look and feel wise I am not satisfied.
One person found this helpful
balakrishna –
No issue till now
Freddy Ralte –
After seven days, heard ticking sound at start-up, and it’s dead 😢. Called for replacement, they told me to go to seagate service station(which is 1000kms).
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Yogeshwar Bala –
I have an Acer Nitro 5, i5 8th gen, GTX1050 with 1TB HDD. Basically only the hard drive speed was the issue with my laptop as I joined a WFH coding job. Every task from installing software to running IDEs and browsers ate up significant time.Decided to go for the 500GB model for peace of mind. You can blindly go for a lower capacity one if you’re only going to be installing OSes (yep multiboot Linux distro users, I see you) on the SSD.Definitely worth it on a sale, the speeds aren’t going to vary too much between different brands in this price range.
Ace –
It’s working good so far, by looking at the other reviews i decided to use this as my secondary external storage device, it’s build quality is a little bit weak compared to my other Hitachi hard drive, i initially wanted to get Hitachi hard drive but i couldn’t get it anywhere online so i went for this Seagate hard drive even though it has bad reputation by other reviewers. i tested this drive with some tools and it doesn’t show any errors so far and no unusual sounds from the drive either, since i know hard drives can die out anytime only time will tell how long this will last.p.s- my Hitachi hard drive lasted more than 7 years as a primary drive, it doesn’t have any errors and its still going strong. 😀
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Mahesh Vaghela –
Good read write speed
Janakiram Singh –
Good product
SHEKHAR GUPTA –
Great SSD from Seagate. I installed it on my “MSI GL63 8RD” and it’s working flawlessly.At the end you will get only 930GB of storage from 1TB.which is OK, but this SSD is a bit pricey.
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diganta –
Nice performance
Soubhik Pal –
I am using 8 months and above but, I have no objection in this product.Overall Good product and working properly.It’s my honest review.
SUMAN DEY –
It is light weight and very easy to install.it has a unique looks.
Ram Singh –
installed it to increase the speed. Cloned C drive on it and it worked well, speed increased.
giavs –
Seagate Hard drives now a days became worst in quality that suddenly fails resulting in data loss. Many years ago Seagate was sturdy and durable. I had hard drives for 10 years of this brand without issues. But now failures rate are high than other brands. Suddenly it fails and become useless. All data lost because of these crap hard drives. If not 10 years, Hard drives must last atleast 3 to 5 years. But Seagate is just a crap in durability. Don’t rely on these hard drives for your valuable data.
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Abhishek Kumar –
Got for 2399 mint fresh Oct 2020 mfg.As another reviewer has written that Adata Su650 has 2M hours of Op btw failures (officially) but this seagate has only 1M …..but that is wrong, the official statement for this model is 1.8M Hours in the description and secondly I have had seagate 500GB HDD for 10 years now and it has been used quite rigourously and finally it is failing after 33000+ hours of usage while the official stats was only 20,000 hours.From personal use and given Seagate’s rep and experience, I would prefer the tested and experienced. Seagate also gives a free tool for monitoring etc..At a given price range all SSD’s would perform for the similar period of time with similar speeds……speeds dependent on other factors as hardware, usage etc.So cost, experience, preference is all that matters really.
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Hitesh Mahajan –
Good drive. Gives 110mbps to 120mbps depending on the task. Sometimes very rarely makes creaking noise when booting but apart from that no issues yet.
Neel –
The Seagate Barracuda 1 Tb drive ST1000DM010 is performing really fast after cloning the HDD of an old desktop. It gave an instant overall performance boost and breathed new life into the Desktop PC. It’s now happily running Windows 10 21H2 the fastest ever in this machine. Happy computing and online learning for the kid who uses it.
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Senthilnathan R –
Fine product at this rate, speed is good 👍
Sarthak Charjan –
Good Material
vikash kumar –
Good
abdul kadir –
Previously I was using an HDD which had the rpm of 5400. As you can imagine it was pretty slow. Initially it was just a few random stutters here and there but the problems started occurring way more than I expected.That’s when I switched to an SSD, and believe me when I say this, it has drastically improved speeds, loading times, boot up process, and any other function that requires disk usage.Q. Is it good for gaming?Ans. Definitively, ((given you have the right hardware))Q. Is it good value for money?Ans. I tried to wait out for a sale and managed to get this at Rs 5100. Your mileage may vary. But at this price segment you won’t get anything better than this. There is an option to go for crucial or WD blue sticks. All of them differ slightly but the read and write speeds are best on the Seagate One.Q. How do you install it? ((Is it easy to install?))Ans. It is very easy to install. First you locate your M.2 drive slot. You remove the screw already threaded in place. Carefully take out the drive from the packaging. Insert the SSD in the M.2 slot at a 45° angle. Once it’s in, slowly lower it so that you can screw it down. Be gentle don’t apply too much pressure.[Try to be in a static free environment. If you don’t have any equipment that you can use to ground yourself then just go outside and hug a tree. It might seem funny but it does the job.]Final review.Q. Is it worth buying it?Ans. Absolutely yes.The difference in speeds is astonishing. You’ll notice it the moment you boot up.If you’re looking for an upgrade, look no further, you’ve got it right here.Cheers. Happy gaming.
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K M –
I bought this for my Acer Nitro 5 laptop which is 3 years old. The laptop came with a 128 gb Sata M.2 SSD. I was not sure whether this Seagate Barracuda NVMe M.2 SSD will work for my Laptop, but i took a chance and it works well. The bench mark test shows 2300 MBps read and 1050 MBps write speeds. Though it is faster than the orginal Sata M.2 but i did not find any considerable change.Anyways i wanted to upgrade the storage size of C drive as 128gb was not enough.Overall its performance is good. No complaints. But should have tried the Crucial or Samsung brands.
6 people found this helpful
Malik infosystem –
Good
Ansh Berry –
Reliable product. Stress Test for atleast 2 days for performance as well as bad sectors. Value for money if you can get it for 6-7k. There is not much difference between WD or Seagate. Get whichever is on more discount.For more durable drives go for Seagate Ironwolf/ WD reds. They maybe on the higher sides but you won’t regret spending that much.
3 people found this helpful
Lalruatkima Sailo –
Totaly death, not working
Shiven C. –
Hard Disk is very goodBut my parcel is fully open, hard disk is open before delivered to me
JOHNS.F –
Good quality hdd for this price,but packaging is worst I didn’t expect this cheap packaging
Shyamal S. –
I like it, am using in my P.C.
Suman Bakshi –
Previously I used wd elements HDD, this time buying Seagate bcoz of a discount. This also has the same speed and same free space (931 GB from 1 TB HDD) as wd.
Yogeshwar Bala –
I have an Acer Nitro 5, i5 8th gen, GTX1050 with 1TB HDD. Basically only the hard drive speed was the issue with my laptop as I joined a WFH coding job. Every task from installing software to running IDEs and browsers ate up significant time.Decided to go for the 500GB model for peace of mind. You can blindly go for a lower capacity one if you’re only going to be installing OSes (yep multiboot Linux distro users, I see you) on the SSD.Definitely worth it on a sale, the speeds aren’t going to vary too much between different brands in this price range.
srilakshmi –
nice and good but in crystal diskinfo it is not showing cache sizeoverall nice and best product
Thunderbolt –
Best internal Hard Disk, specially for laptops
John Paulose –
The Defective product is now with me. Appario Retail Pvt. Ltd. is requested to collect the item through your courier. I have purchased a similar product from a Computer Accessory shop as “online” purchase of Fragile items like HDD is not safe, my experience shows.Please Refund the paid amount (INR 3799.00) early.
Anasuya Devi –
One of the best HDDs in the market. Can’t go wrong with this one
Ketan –
nice product
Kartikey Singh –
My TUF Gaming FX505GT laptop came with a single 500GB SSD. My uses were primarily gaming, coding and watching movies/series. As expected, I soon ran out of storage and decided to get a 1TB HDD.It was super easy to install and got working in one go. I’ve using the HDD for the past 11 months now and have not faced any issues. I place the games that require a lot of fast loading and online games in the SSD and the rest in the HDD, and so far the combo has worked perfectly.Would recommend.
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Ajeet M. –
😩😩😩
Suraj Das –
My laptop was so slow during startup but the boot time is less than 3-4 sec. The program laging was solved. Perform search very fast. Best part is I am using it in my dvd rom slot using caddy. The performance will increased when it putted in the pci express 1 slot 😻😻😻.I am giving this review after 5 months of usage.
Rohitsinh Parmar –
I am using it for last 2 year, few months ago it was not working properly.Was in warranty period so I exchanged it and company provided me new one.
Rohit Kumar –
If you have an old laptop and it doesn’t have any m.2 port then you must buy this. It’ll make your laptop runs faster than before. It will boot in just 3-5 seconds and also applications load faster. No lag issue came since I installed SSD in my laptop.
Siddhartha Priya –
I have couple of years old hard disk and thought of replacing it with this but was quite disappointed as far as speed is concerned. Both work with same speed. Hence returned it.
Rohit –
It is fast & best hdd.
Antony Franco –
Is this an original product? because it is a 5400rpm drive but the package says otherwise, I have some doubt that is this a original or refurbished product, who knows. Working perfectly until now, but making squeaking noise now and then while running, well that is a matter of concern. I have already returned 7200rpm Seagate drive that wont even start, then when I looked up to try that product again, that product price got 900rs. more within a day, so I ordered this one. Seagate’s qc is getting little low I guess.
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Bhavishya –
I received it quite some time back and used it for almost 2 months now.No issues. With 5400 rpm, big data can be transferred easily and not an issue for gamers as well.Although in gaming, 7200RPM will have an upper hand.Great and genuine product. Came with good packaging and safely delivered.Recommended!
Prakhar Modi –
So far a good product..If your laptop is slow and you are thinking to change it consider changing the hard drive to ssd.I have 7 yrs old Dell vostro3546 laptop working perfectly but from past few months facing issue and damm slowness tried formatting it as well but didn’t workout.Ao consider changing the HDD to SSD.And as I thought its again started working like a charm…
Ankur –
4 stars because I received the drive with torn packaging. Someone probably returned it. Works perfectly fine and was the cheapest 4tb drive I could find. Satisfied with my purchase!
Antony Franco –
Is this an original product? because it is a 5400rpm drive but the package says otherwise, I have some doubt that is this a original or refurbished product, who knows. Working perfectly until now, but making squeaking noise now and then while running, well that is a matter of concern. I have already returned 7200rpm Seagate drive that wont even start, then when I looked up to try that product again, that product price got 900rs. more within a day, so I ordered this one. Seagate’s qc is getting little low I guess.
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hi
Fazil –
It really helped speed up my PC . 2 year old Ryzen 3 laptop was very slow and did upgrade the RAM first to 16 Gig which didnt help . It was taking almost close to 2 minutes to bootup and opening up the apps also was pretty slow .bought this SSD and now the laptop is really fast ; takes less than 20 secs to bootup .
John Lalruatsanga –
It’s okay.
Jhunjar –
This 2tb HDD is really best for more storage..for Gaming and for storing files,photos…only thing i dont like is my HDD was not properly packed but shipping box was properly packed…But HDD works fine and fast.
Shafi –
First Product:The packaging was not good, for a fragile product no extra protection was provided apart from a thin layer of bubble wrap. The drive started to provide clicking sound at the first install install. The drive was also not getting formatted properly. The format will stop saying “The format didn’t get completed properly”. Also after each restart of computer, disk management was asking to Initialize the drive every time with an error message as “The drive which does not exist is specified”.Second Product: Got a replacement, this drive came without any damage and this drive was shipped from haryana. Product is great value for money.Please check and return the product once you find its faulty.
Jagannath C. –
Good
Aditya K. –
One of the best value for money product from Seagate, I thought that the ssd is not correct, then I went to computer stores for comparision, compared with WD ssd, HP, samsung, Kingston ssds. They sell sata m.2 ssd on 5000, HPs nvme ssd on 6500, what would I tell about samsung and kingston, both them are skyrocketed on prising. Also compared on online computer stores, they are little 200,300 cheap but last they include tax on it and make it more expensive, lastly thought, chalo kharid lete hai, kharab hoga to wapas ho jaega 😅😅.. But gajab gajab, best in class, used QLC nand chip, speeds are such nice, tested several times, no issues in large files transfer, speed are constant. Best 👍
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hanmant –
I can say this product is really worth buying. Data transfer is very fast.No issues have been observed
bharathbunty –
Reviewing it after 4 1/2 months usage.It’s value for money purchase with 2 years warranty.The installation is very easy and performance is good as per the expectation . Speed to access the files is very fast.Kindly do not forget to register your device with manufacturer ‘Seagate’ to claim the 2 year warranty.Finally satisfied with the purchase.
Aca.alokkumar –
Perform as expected but first time received the faulty drive. Got replacement which is working fine now.
Gourab Biswas –
V. V. V. V. V. V. V god
Amit patil –
Easy to install and fast
BHABANI –
Good
Suraj Das –
My laptop was so slow during startup but the boot time is less than 3-4 sec. The program laging was solved. Perform search very fast. Best part is I am using it in my dvd rom slot using caddy. The performance will increased when it putted in the pci express 1 slot 😻😻😻.I am giving this review after 5 months of usage.
praneeth –
If there was a 0 option on gaming i would gladly give it that. This has got to be the worst hdd ever. Forget gaming it cant even run your pc in daily usage well. they charged 6 k for this ancient 1990 hdd . They are stealing your money ,. for 6 k you can get atleast 7200r pm or an ssd , dont waste your money on this. seagate is a good brand my ass , dont fall for it, they are overcharging you and underperforming in this department . Go with any other brand, its way better than seagate
Prashant Bhardwaj –
love it
dhiraj –
Feel gradually fast from normal HDD. I can’t say good for gaming. But yeah cheapest in market can try this.
Hamees N. –
In spite of all the negative reviews, I decided to go with it. I was extremely worried given the number of bad reviews. But thankfully, my HDD was in perfect condition, both internally and externally. Go for it.Edit. The HDD has started making some sounds. I don’t like the feeling of it.
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Suraj Kumar –
Data storage is very good product not gaming
Roop Bajaj –
Hruaia –
The HDD works Fine but I’m not happy with how it was packed. There were no Cushion at all, No Styrofoam, Bubble wrap or airbags. It was simply put in a cardboard box with its plastic cover.I was expecting the seller to pack it with full of cushioning.Thankfully the HDD works Fine.
Rajat V. –
Previously i purchased Toshiba x300 and both are installed in the same pc yet the speed of toshiba is slightly better than seagate.
Sreekanth Reddy Kolagatla –
Smooth working, my pc working fine and fast.
Rupeshkumar –
Nice
nisha sony –
Good
Subhash Kumar –
Good
Jacob Durairaj –
After a lot of research and reviews I made my choice to buy this particular model. 2.5 inch 1tb hdd. I am using it in my acer nitro 5 an515 45. The thing I don like is the packaging. It didn’t even have bubble paper. Hdd was inside an cover and placed inside an plastic box but when received it was out of that box. But hdd cover was not tampered so didn’t return. And after installing all the steps followed from acer website my hdd didnt showed up in my laptop. Then booted to BIOS and checked and I could find my hdd 😁 now again rebooted and went to harddisk partitions and found the hdd in unallocated format. Then followed simple procedure to create the new hdd with new partitions. Viola it’s now accessible and usable. Using Seagate wesite downloaded tools to check the hdd health and info and found to be “pass” and info is same as printed in the hdd. As of now no issues and problem. Let’s wait and see 😁👍
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Vishal Mahato –
ita very good i love it
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