what can be special about a hard drive? Well I've read only one other review of this particular one saying it failed on the first day. So I decided to run a few tests to see if it was really a bad drive like the other user said. First I replaced another drive in my system with this one and started up Paragon Hard Disk Manager. If you have never used it before it is a very good program to test and verify Hard Drives. First I did a surface test, you have 2 choices normal and extreme, I choose extreme and ran the test. It takes a while so go do something else and come back in a few hours. What it does is writes to the entire drive and verify what it wrote is the same. One thing worth mentioning is this one tested much faster then an older drive I had of the same size. Then I did a wipe of the drive and all went fine. I have always had very good luck with the reliability with Seagate drives and after 4 hours of read and write non stop tests I don't expect this one to fail. Write speed impressed me so much so I had to do it a couple of times. I was coping from a OCZ pciex4 ssd so read speeds are about 795MB/s limiting the read bottleneck. Write speeds on a 7gb file started at 320MB/s and tapered off to 165MB/s for the last few seconds and coping the same file back to the ssd was 1.5TB/s at first then dropping to 280MB/s for the last third of the write suggesting this Drive could maintain a 280MB/s read speed and a 165 MB/s write speed. Not bad for a $50 drive. Worth mentioning is this drive is thinner then most drives and lighter also, suggesting it is using high density platters, thus fewer of them. Update 11/16/16 Sorry to say the drive failed a week after this first review. Tried on both a PC with windows and a Mac. Under windows seagates "seatools for windows" would just hang trying to id the drive after windows finally booted after it seemed like forever trying to id the drive. Unders Mac os 10.9 disk utility came back with a failure as unable to read the last block. Also tried to format with a windows 10 setup cd, also failed. Went to Seagates website and did a RMA. Found out I had to pay return shipping and if they don't find anything wrong then they will also charge me for return shipping to me. Very poor in my opinion. When a product fails I believe the manufacturer should be paying shipping both ways especially after less then a month.
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Brand |
Seagate |
Manufacturer |
SEAGATE |
Model |
ST3000DM007 |
Model Name |
BarraCuda |
Model Year |
2017 |
Product Dimensions |
14.73 x 10.16 x 2.03 cm; 430.91 Grams |
Item model number |
ST3000DM007 |
Memory Storage Capacity |
256 MB |
Flash Memory Installed Size |
3 |
Digital Storage Capacity |
3000 GB |
Hard Drive Size |
3000 GB |
Hard Drive Interface |
Serial ATA |
Hard Disk Rotational Speed |
5400 RPM |
Hard Disk Description |
Flash_memory_solid_state |
Hardware Platform |
Desktop |
Hardware Interface |
SATA 6.0 Gb/s |
Compatible Devices |
Desktop |
Buffer Size |
256 MB |
Mounting Hardware |
Seagate Barracuda Model No. ST3000DM007 3TB Hard Disk Drive 1Pcs. |
Number Of Items |
1 |
Colour Screen |
No |
Aspect Ratio |
Unknown |
Wattage |
3.7 Watts |
Batteries Included |
No |
Batteries Required |
No |
Data Transfer Rate |
7200 Megabits Per Second |
Form Factor |
3.5 Inches |
Contains Liquid Contents |
No |
Has Auto Focus |
No |
Supports Bluetooth Technology |
No |
Programmable Buttons |
No |
Manufacturer |
SEAGATE |
Country of Origin |
India |
Item Weight |
430 g |