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How I used this drive: This drive is used for backing up my ancient Seagate/Maxtor ATA Fat 16 and Fat 32 hard drives. Using Seagate Disk Wizard allowed me to back up most of these old drives to this Seagate hard drive. This software is available online at the Seagate Website but you must use a Maxtor or Seagate drive as the source drive for the Seagate software to work. I formatted this new HD a week ago on my Windows 8 laptop through my Vantec USB 3 interface. I used the MBR format option and NTFS using the Seagate Disk Wizard software. This formatting task was done in less than 2 minutes including activation of the one 2TB partition. Software loaded effortlessly on my Windows 8 laptop and my Windows 7 desktops. Windows 7 and 8 recognized the drive immediately after format. Full transfer and compression of one of my old 120GB NTFS ATA drive to the new Seagate took 2.5 hours. It is nice to finally have all my pictures and old documents backed up in one place. I am convinced that this drive would make a good boot drive for a typical desktop or a second drive on a fast gamer machine. Good: This is a good all around well balanced HD in size, price, and speed. Bad: Cannot be used in a Laptop. Thank you Hitachi for the decent price for this large sized hard drive!Read full review
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Of all computer components, the most critical is the hard drive. You have your OS, application programs, and work files stored. The latter is the most important. Spreadsheets, word processor files, emails, photos, homework, announcements, work related files, and anything important are saved on this device. When the hard drive crashes and there is no backup, everything is lost - many are not replaceable and some represent hours of work. Not as important is the boot drive containing your operating system and application programs. When they are gone, time is needed to reinstall the software. For these reasons, common sense dictates the purchase of a reliable storage unit. . So, which brand is the best and what is to be avoided? . The definitive research on the longevity of hard drives was published in EXTREMTECH on April 10, 2015. BackBlaze tested 41,000 units in a three year period. The results were very informative. The best was HGST with 1.4% failures. Hitachi followed with 2.0%. Western Digital had a respectable 7.6%. The worse was Seagate with 40%. . For your information, HGST, Hitachi, and IBM products are identical. IBM sold its hard drive division to Hitachi. In turn, the department was sold to HGST years later. HGST is a subsidiary of Western Digital. . From personal experiences in the past two years, I concur with the study. My 3TB HGST DeskStar has lasted six years and still works. My six 2TB Seagate Barracudas have expired between one month to 1.1 years. My four WD Enterprise Grade HDs have died between one month to 2.1 years. Three replacement hard drives from Western Digital and Seagate also malfunctioned within this time period. . . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . . UPDATE . The latest Backblaze report came on December 11, 2015. It detailed the failure rate among hard drives purchased on three years. Seagate had the highest. Among 1TB hard drives, this brand had the following failure rates: 2013 - 129.88%, 2014 - 66.01%, and 2015 - 222.77%. Among 2TB drives, the failure rates were better: 2013 - 43.08%, 2014 - 30.94%, and 2015 - 28.46%. . As a comparison, the highest failure rate for its 1TB competitors is much lower. Western Digital Green had the following: 2013 - 4.29%, 2014 - 3.90%, and 2015 - 9.91%. Toshiba claimed the record for competing 2TB drives: 2013 - 6.93%, 2014 - 3.68%, and 2015 - 2.80%.Read full review
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Have been using Hitachi Ultrastar drives since 2005 from eBay...Perfect, reliable never a problem.
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It's as quick a drive as you can ask for without getting a SSD, the only complaint I would have is that it is not quiet at all. If you're picky about that, walk away. But as far as performance, absolutely pick this up.
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The drive works as it should, nice speeds aswell.
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