Capacity 2000 GB (2TB). Choose from 500 GB to 2 TB of massive storage for all of your application and data needs along with a ultra-slim 7 mm form factor drive that makes system upgrades very easy. Versatile and dependable, Seagate’s fierce BarraCuda drives are inspired by the past but ready for the future.
Capacity 2000 GB (2TB). Choose from 500 GB to 2 TB of massive storage for all of your application and data needs along with a ultra-slim 7 mm form factor drive that makes system upgrades very easy. Versatile and dependable, Seagate’s fierce BarraCuda drives are inspired by the past but ready for the future.
Capacity 2000 GB (2TB). Choose from 500 GB to 2 TB of massive storage for all of your application and data needs along with a ultra-slim 7 mm form factor drive that makes system upgrades very easy. Versatile and dependable, Seagate’s fierce BarraCuda drives are inspired by the past but ready for the future.
Capacity 2000 GB (2TB). Choose from 500 GB to 2 TB of massive storage for all of your application and data needs along with a ultra-slim 7 mm form factor drive that makes system upgrades very easy. Versatile and dependable, Seagate’s fierce BarraCuda drives are inspired by the past but ready for the future.
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St2000lm015 P/n: 2e8174-500 F/w: Sdm1 Zdz Tk Oct/2018 2tb Sata 2.5"
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originally posted on staples.com
So far so good, it was easy to clone my old 2-TB drive and operating system to it. However, it is now my secondary drive because I cloned it to a new 500 gigabyte 860 EVO SDD which is now my primary drive. I named the 860 EVO SDD (Jill) and my Seagate 2TB BarraCuda (Betty) and if for some reason Jill fails to boot Betty will take over.My old 2-T is now a redundant boot and backup drive with two partitions one named Casper with a second partition called Wendy.If Casper boots up something is terribly wrong but as of now I am very pleased with the laptop Seagate 2TB BarraCuda SATA 6Gb/s 128MB 2.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive in my desktop computer, which shares the same 3.5" bay with my 860 EVO SDD using the StarTech Dual 2.5" SSD/HDD Mounting Bracket- 3.5" Drive Bay ... MoreSo far so good, it was easy to clone my old 2-TB drive and operating system to it. However, it is now my secondary drive because I cloned it to a new 500 gigabyte 860 EVO SDD which is now my primary drive. I named the 860 EVO SDD (Jill) and my Seagate 2TB BarraCuda (Betty) and if for some reason Jill fails to boot Betty will take over.My old 2-T is now a redundant boot and backup drive with two partitions one named Casper with a second partition called Wendy.If Casper boots up something is terribly wrong but as of now I am very pleased with the laptop Seagate 2TB BarraCuda SATA 6Gb/s 128MB 2.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive in my desktop computer, which shares the same 3.5" bay with my 860 EVO SDD using the StarTech Dual 2.5" SSD/HDD Mounting Bracket- 3.5" Drive Bay -Tool-Less, storage bay adapter. (The Mounting Bracket works it is okay feels cheap but it should outlast me and a little overpriced in my book.)As of now and for having Betty and Jill for just a short while in my old desktop computer everything is working in harmony and passed all tests. If you never thought about using a laptop drive and an SSD in an old computer like mine or even a new desktop computer I would highly recommend trying it.My old i7 2600 has a new life, and ready for newer games once I decide what new cheap GPU I want to buy.Cheers
originally posted on newegg.com
It is a 1 TB hard drive, this is the main stream size for storage at the moment. I remember when 40 GB was the mainstream hard drive size... look at where we are today.. Also getting OEM means no fancy packaging screws or cables, so good for a price point of view, if you intend to replace existing drive, but bad if you do not have extra parts lying around to connect another drive. I give it a 4 out of 5 eggs because the first drive I received was defective. The hard drive powers up and boots but could not format the drive and bad sectors was found when I ran Western Digital DataLife Guard. The new one came in and so far it is working and been reliable for a moderate use. I have a 1 TB western Digital Black in another machine and that one worked out of the box. If I ... MoreIt is a 1 TB hard drive, this is the main stream size for storage at the moment. I remember when 40 GB was the mainstream hard drive size... look at where we are today.. Also getting OEM means no fancy packaging screws or cables, so good for a price point of view, if you intend to replace existing drive, but bad if you do not have extra parts lying around to connect another drive. I give it a 4 out of 5 eggs because the first drive I received was defective. The hard drive powers up and boots but could not format the drive and bad sectors was found when I ran Western Digital DataLife Guard. The new one came in and so far it is working and been reliable for a moderate use. I have a 1 TB western Digital Black in another machine and that one worked out of the box. If I were to compare this particular drive with others, then the only thing I can compare it to is noise, since the desktop sits on a desk next to me. The WD Blue edition is quieter then the WD black edition in another machine. The noisiest drive would be the 1 TB Segate Barracuda 7200.12, under certain conditions the drive would sound like they are thrashing like a computer with low memory and stuff are being cached on the hard drive. In terms or real world usage of read and write speeds, coming from someone who is not a heavy user and don't constantly save or open large files, I do not notice a performance difference between the Seagate and the WD drives.
originally posted on newegg.com
Instead of writing about specific details and posting benchmarks (which vary greatly from PC to PC, and thus are really not very useful) I’m going to try and help you in your purchasing decision. The drive comes with a limited 2 year warranty which is on the low end, but has been becoming the norm over the last 2 years. 90% of electronic devices that die, do so within 3 months of opening the box, so 2 years of heavy usage under warranty on a sub $100 drive is acceptable to me. As an OEM style drive, there were no cables or mounting hardware included. So what is the “Blue” part mean? Well, it’s just a performance and usage designation code that Western Digital has created to easily differentiate their drives. Blue drives are a medium to high performance drive meant ... MoreInstead of writing about specific details and posting benchmarks (which vary greatly from PC to PC, and thus are really not very useful) I’m going to try and help you in your purchasing decision. The drive comes with a limited 2 year warranty which is on the low end, but has been becoming the norm over the last 2 years. 90% of electronic devices that die, do so within 3 months of opening the box, so 2 years of heavy usage under warranty on a sub $100 drive is acceptable to me. As an OEM style drive, there were no cables or mounting hardware included. So what is the “Blue” part mean? Well, it’s just a performance and usage designation code that Western Digital has created to easily differentiate their drives. Blue drives are a medium to high performance drive meant for daily use as the main boot drive or a backup. The WD10EZEX comes with SATA 6.0Gb/s and 64MB of cache running at 7200RPM. These are pretty good stats to have on your average general use drive. WD’s high end drive, or “Black” drive has these same stats as well and when I benchmarked this blue drive against my 1tb black drive, I found only a 0-20% difference in benefit of the black drive depending on the stat being tested. Funny enough, the Black drive costs exactly 20% more than the Blue drive. But with the black drive you also get a 5 year warranty and the warm fuzzy feelings you get knowing you have a “performance oriented” piece of hardware in your system. But let’s get real, you should be using an SSD drive as your OS and everyday utility drive, with a platter drive for everything else in tandem. This will grant you a noticeable performance increase overall and the differences between blue and black become moot. I’m running an SSD drive with a 1TB WD “Green” drive holding all my media files and documents on it. The green drives have the least performance (notably running at only 5400RPM) but by far the best power savings (thus their Green name). I can’t tell the difference between the green drive and black drive when used for this purpose, other than the warm fuzzy feelings I get knowing that I’m paying less of my hard earned money every month to power the green drive. If you are a hard core gamer and you don’t want to spend the dough to use up the space on your SSD drive with games, maybe then the blue or black drive is for you. I on the other hand use a Raid 0 combination of Seagate hybrid drives for this purpose, which is cheaper and slower than SSD (not much slower), but more expensive and much faster than the WD black alone. So as you can see, you’ve got some options to consider. There really isn’t much to talk about on your average internal hard drive. It does one thing, record and retrieve data, and this drive does it well. With good stats, slightly better than average benchmarks and a solid price compared to other 1TB drives on the market, I would recommend this drive to anyone on condition that they understand the comments I wrote under the CONS section.
| Capacity | 2TB |
| Data Transfer Rate | 140MB/s |
| Spindle Speed (RPM) | 5400 RPM |
St2000lm015 P/n: 2e8174-500 F/w: Sdm1 Zdz Tk Oct/2018 2tb Sata 2.5"
Delivery $78.38
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So far so good, it was easy to clone my old 2-TB drive and operating system to it. However, it is now my secondary drive because I cloned it to a new 500 gigabyte 860 EVO SDD which is now my primary drive. I named the 860 EVO SDD (Jill) and my Seagate 2TB BarraCuda (Betty) and if for some reason Jill fails to boot Betty will take over.My old 2-T is now a redundant boot and backup drive with two partitions one named Casper with a second partition called Wendy.If Casper boots up something is terribly wrong but as of now I am very pleased with the laptop Seagate 2TB BarraCuda SATA 6Gb/s 128MB 2.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive in my desktop computer, which shares the same 3.5" bay with my 860 EVO SDD using the StarTech Dual 2.5" SSD/HDD Mounting Bracket- 3.5" Drive Bay ... MoreSo far so good, it was easy to clone my old 2-TB drive and operating system to it. However, it is now my secondary drive because I cloned it to a new 500 gigabyte 860 EVO SDD which is now my primary drive. I named the 860 EVO SDD (Jill) and my Seagate 2TB BarraCuda (Betty) and if for some reason Jill fails to boot Betty will take over.My old 2-T is now a redundant boot and backup drive with two partitions one named Casper with a second partition called Wendy.If Casper boots up something is terribly wrong but as of now I am very pleased with the laptop Seagate 2TB BarraCuda SATA 6Gb/s 128MB 2.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive in my desktop computer, which shares the same 3.5" bay with my 860 EVO SDD using the StarTech Dual 2.5" SSD/HDD Mounting Bracket- 3.5" Drive Bay -Tool-Less, storage bay adapter. (The Mounting Bracket works it is okay feels cheap but it should outlast me and a little overpriced in my book.)As of now and for having Betty and Jill for just a short while in my old desktop computer everything is working in harmony and passed all tests. If you never thought about using a laptop drive and an SSD in an old computer like mine or even a new desktop computer I would highly recommend trying it.My old i7 2600 has a new life, and ready for newer games once I decide what new cheap GPU I want to buy.Cheers
It is a 1 TB hard drive, this is the main stream size for storage at the moment. I remember when 40 GB was the mainstream hard drive size... look at where we are today.. Also getting OEM means no fancy packaging screws or cables, so good for a price point of view, if you intend to replace existing drive, but bad if you do not have extra parts lying around to connect another drive. I give it a 4 out of 5 eggs because the first drive I received was defective. The hard drive powers up and boots but could not format the drive and bad sectors was found when I ran Western Digital DataLife Guard. The new one came in and so far it is working and been reliable for a moderate use. I have a 1 TB western Digital Black in another machine and that one worked out of the box. If I ... MoreIt is a 1 TB hard drive, this is the main stream size for storage at the moment. I remember when 40 GB was the mainstream hard drive size... look at where we are today.. Also getting OEM means no fancy packaging screws or cables, so good for a price point of view, if you intend to replace existing drive, but bad if you do not have extra parts lying around to connect another drive. I give it a 4 out of 5 eggs because the first drive I received was defective. The hard drive powers up and boots but could not format the drive and bad sectors was found when I ran Western Digital DataLife Guard. The new one came in and so far it is working and been reliable for a moderate use. I have a 1 TB western Digital Black in another machine and that one worked out of the box. If I were to compare this particular drive with others, then the only thing I can compare it to is noise, since the desktop sits on a desk next to me. The WD Blue edition is quieter then the WD black edition in another machine. The noisiest drive would be the 1 TB Segate Barracuda 7200.12, under certain conditions the drive would sound like they are thrashing like a computer with low memory and stuff are being cached on the hard drive. In terms or real world usage of read and write speeds, coming from someone who is not a heavy user and don't constantly save or open large files, I do not notice a performance difference between the Seagate and the WD drives.
Instead of writing about specific details and posting benchmarks (which vary greatly from PC to PC, and thus are really not very useful) I’m going to try and help you in your purchasing decision. The drive comes with a limited 2 year warranty which is on the low end, but has been becoming the norm over the last 2 years. 90% of electronic devices that die, do so within 3 months of opening the box, so 2 years of heavy usage under warranty on a sub $100 drive is acceptable to me. As an OEM style drive, there were no cables or mounting hardware included. So what is the “Blue” part mean? Well, it’s just a performance and usage designation code that Western Digital has created to easily differentiate their drives. Blue drives are a medium to high performance drive meant ... MoreInstead of writing about specific details and posting benchmarks (which vary greatly from PC to PC, and thus are really not very useful) I’m going to try and help you in your purchasing decision. The drive comes with a limited 2 year warranty which is on the low end, but has been becoming the norm over the last 2 years. 90% of electronic devices that die, do so within 3 months of opening the box, so 2 years of heavy usage under warranty on a sub $100 drive is acceptable to me. As an OEM style drive, there were no cables or mounting hardware included. So what is the “Blue” part mean? Well, it’s just a performance and usage designation code that Western Digital has created to easily differentiate their drives. Blue drives are a medium to high performance drive meant for daily use as the main boot drive or a backup. The WD10EZEX comes with SATA 6.0Gb/s and 64MB of cache running at 7200RPM. These are pretty good stats to have on your average general use drive. WD’s high end drive, or “Black” drive has these same stats as well and when I benchmarked this blue drive against my 1tb black drive, I found only a 0-20% difference in benefit of the black drive depending on the stat being tested. Funny enough, the Black drive costs exactly 20% more than the Blue drive. But with the black drive you also get a 5 year warranty and the warm fuzzy feelings you get knowing you have a “performance oriented” piece of hardware in your system. But let’s get real, you should be using an SSD drive as your OS and everyday utility drive, with a platter drive for everything else in tandem. This will grant you a noticeable performance increase overall and the differences between blue and black become moot. I’m running an SSD drive with a 1TB WD “Green” drive holding all my media files and documents on it. The green drives have the least performance (notably running at only 5400RPM) but by far the best power savings (thus their Green name). I can’t tell the difference between the green drive and black drive when used for this purpose, other than the warm fuzzy feelings I get knowing that I’m paying less of my hard earned money every month to power the green drive. If you are a hard core gamer and you don’t want to spend the dough to use up the space on your SSD drive with games, maybe then the blue or black drive is for you. I on the other hand use a Raid 0 combination of Seagate hybrid drives for this purpose, which is cheaper and slower than SSD (not much slower), but more expensive and much faster than the WD black alone. So as you can see, you’ve got some options to consider. There really isn’t much to talk about on your average internal hard drive. It does one thing, record and retrieve data, and this drive does it well. With good stats, slightly better than average benchmarks and a solid price compared to other 1TB drives on the market, I would recommend this drive to anyone on condition that they understand the comments I wrote under the CONS section.
Largest capacity 2.5 inch hdd on the market. Ideal for use in write-once-read-many applications with file-level duplication. Avoid RAID with these drives since they are SMR. I've had 8 of these for a little over a year with 1 failure.
I've purchased 12 of these drives to put into a home unRAID NAS I built out of an old HP Proliant DL380 G7. I use 2 parity drives with 10 of these drives for data. The drives are about as thick (15mm) as the SAS 2.5" drives from HP and produce close to the same level of heat and noise. Also, with unRAID, it spins up drives on demand and keeps other drives spun down when not using them. I've been using these drives for several months with little issue. The only problem I had with them is that 2 of them developed some sector corruption that were uncorrectable. The likely cause for this corruption was an abrupt power kill on my server while files were being written from the cache drive to the disk array. I now have my server on an UPS to gracefully shutdown in case of ... MoreI've purchased 12 of these drives to put into a home unRAID NAS I built out of an old HP Proliant DL380 G7. I use 2 parity drives with 10 of these drives for data. The drives are about as thick (15mm) as the SAS 2.5" drives from HP and produce close to the same level of heat and noise. Also, with unRAID, it spins up drives on demand and keeps other drives spun down when not using them. I've been using these drives for several months with little issue. The only problem I had with them is that 2 of them developed some sector corruption that were uncorrectable. The likely cause for this corruption was an abrupt power kill on my server while files were being written from the cache drive to the disk array. I now have my server on an UPS to gracefully shutdown in case of a power failure. I have a mixture of other drives installed in the remaining drive bays, but the plan is to outfit all 16 bays with one of these drives. I feel fairly confident in this 2U SFF build, but this drive configuration is certainly not supported/endorsed by Seagate or HP. Nothing on the system is mission critical as it's primarily used for home media. I would say to build something like this configuration at your own risk and build gradually so you don't have all drives fail at once. It's going to take active maintenance to ensure that my drive array stays healthy.
Notes on cloning original XP drive to larger WD10EZEX, under XP home, SP 3; SATA; January, '14. The WD version software from Acronis, TrueImage 2013, did not work well for me. Tried to do a clone operation, expanding the two partitions on the older drive to take up all of new drive, but reboot resulted in a missing operating system error. Retried with copy as is, and it may have worked.. except that I booted with the new drive as the boot, but left the other drive in the system, and upon subsequent reboot, got the old missing system error. Surmise something about XP prevented both copies of XP from coexisting, but don't know. No success after that. Somewhere in the thrashing, the new drive developed an open space at the lowest level, seen as a black partition space, ... MoreNotes on cloning original XP drive to larger WD10EZEX, under XP home, SP 3; SATA; January, '14. The WD version software from Acronis, TrueImage 2013, did not work well for me. Tried to do a clone operation, expanding the two partitions on the older drive to take up all of new drive, but reboot resulted in a missing operating system error. Retried with copy as is, and it may have worked.. except that I booted with the new drive as the boot, but left the other drive in the system, and upon subsequent reboot, got the old missing system error. Surmise something about XP prevented both copies of XP from coexisting, but don't know. No success after that. Somewhere in the thrashing, the new drive developed an open space at the lowest level, seen as a black partition space, though unformatted, at the leftmost disk memory. Could not see the blank space using the Acronis picture of the drives, but XP would show it, under the computer management/ disk management tool images. Couldn't clone the drive with Acronis, such that it began at the left, so error went on. Used the Clean option / fast, to erase the disk at times, and the subsequent disk pictures would show one large, black striped, unformatted space on the new disk, but on cloning, the small open space would recur. Couldn't get rid of small unformatted partition space at head of drive, where the boot sectors should go. Many cycles of clone/ clean/ repeat, with a couple hour, walk-away break during the actions. Whenever the Acronis software was working, it was generating internet traffic. Odd and disturbing. It would induce a smallish exchange of a couple hundred bytes per interval, followed by a spike around 23kB, repeating every minute or so. I didn't like seeing this. Finally resorted to searching the internet to get the job done. Downloaded HDClone free edition, and did it their way: generated 3 floppies as a boot disk, restarted as such and copied the old drive to new, at the same size. Shut down, unplugged SATA from old drive, changed boot sequence to point to the new drive and it worked. To increase the C-drive size, looked around and decided to use the MiniTool Partition Wizard. It worked fine. I left some free space on the bigger drive, for a future dual boot OS. [Was skittish in using these free tools, and rejected many which hadn't been around long enough to get a good Norton usage history, or got too many recommendations from unknown sources; Suffered regrets when rejecting Chinese sources if their site had spelling or grammar errors - for fear of letting in some foreign NSA wannabee. ] Posting this, as reading others had helped me. Posted also on WD site.
Very reasonably price 2TB drive. Used as a second drive in a gaming laptop with a primary SSD. Speed OK. Previous identical unit lasted about 5 years continuous use!
I had a few 2-3yr old WD Black 1TB drives that were just too loud and hot for my new build (open side panel & 2' from the seating position) This new build I'm going Cool and Quite. Well... the old WD Black HDDs I had were literately hot to the touch with the new config basically giving them zero airflow and anytime I accessed the drives they emitted a disturbing grinding noise as the the drive heads would seek out for the data I requested. nothing is wrong with them, I just never noticed how loud they really were until I took off the side panel and put the PC on my desk 2' from my head. This WD Blue drive cured 90% of the noise issue and 100% of the thermal issue. And to be quite honest, this drive feels Snappier some how. The benchmarks would say otherwise but the ... MoreI had a few 2-3yr old WD Black 1TB drives that were just too loud and hot for my new build (open side panel & 2' from the seating position) This new build I'm going Cool and Quite. Well... the old WD Black HDDs I had were literately hot to the touch with the new config basically giving them zero airflow and anytime I accessed the drives they emitted a disturbing grinding noise as the the drive heads would seek out for the data I requested. nothing is wrong with them, I just never noticed how loud they really were until I took off the side panel and put the PC on my desk 2' from my head. This WD Blue drive cured 90% of the noise issue and 100% of the thermal issue. And to be quite honest, this drive feels Snappier some how. The benchmarks would say otherwise but the drive does seem to do random data fetching much quicker than these old WD Blacks its now replaced (all drives with 0% fragmentation). This Blue HDD is only barley warm to the touch even tho it has zero air flow. It is however the loudest thing in my rig when idle but this is only because all my fans are set to low RPM and my OS drive is a SSD. However don't get me wrong, Its still very quiet. I can still hear my wife's laptop fan kick on 10' across the room over this drive and if I didn't have my fans speed set so low im sure my GFX card fan would easily drown this HDDs whirl sound out no problem. Solid HDD!
I would give it a 5 egg rating, but the biggest downturn was lack of documentation and possibly a lack of a sata cable. But overall it's good for me. I will update my review in a month after using. Ok, for what I mean as a "HDD installation set". Hard Drive/SSD + SATA 6gbps Cable + Screws (Maybe a bracket if needed/want!). It shouldn't cost you a fortune for the screws and the cable(s). My specifications for my PC CASE: Xion-310 Black (Do not get unless you are building a small every day PC that you are not going to 'heavy game' on! Tight case) CPU: Intel i5-4590 @3.3ghz (Very good CPU, after a years use!) GPU: Gigabyte Windforce Nvidia GTX 1060 6gb (VERY WORTH IT! Bought it on here!!) MOBO: Gigabyte B85-ds3h-a (Bought on here, and it well worth it!) RAM: Ballistix ... MoreI would give it a 5 egg rating, but the biggest downturn was lack of documentation and possibly a lack of a sata cable. But overall it's good for me. I will update my review in a month after using. Ok, for what I mean as a "HDD installation set". Hard Drive/SSD + SATA 6gbps Cable + Screws (Maybe a bracket if needed/want!). It shouldn't cost you a fortune for the screws and the cable(s). My specifications for my PC CASE: Xion-310 Black (Do not get unless you are building a small every day PC that you are not going to 'heavy game' on! Tight case) CPU: Intel i5-4590 @3.3ghz (Very good CPU, after a years use!) GPU: Gigabyte Windforce Nvidia GTX 1060 6gb (VERY WORTH IT! Bought it on here!!) MOBO: Gigabyte B85-ds3h-a (Bought on here, and it well worth it!) RAM: Ballistix Sport 8gb (cheap, but does the job, will hopefully upgrade to 12-16gb this coming spring!) SSD: Samsung EVO-850 250gb (was my primary drive including steam games, but it's my OS drive now!! works flawlessly!) HDD: *NEW* WD Blue 1tb HDD (my steam library had a party after knowing I bought this!) OS: Windows 10 pro 64bit Case fan: 90mm coolmaster (not sure rest of the name!) Overall, just pick this HDD up if you are looking to expand your storage. My friend has had one for about 1 year 1/2 and he said it's working fine and perfect!
Updated: SMART data revealed that after 3 1/2 years of relatively light use, drive had started to exhibit read errors. Cold boots started taking much longer than usual. Backed up the drive and replaced it with a WD Black before it failed completely. Purchased one of these for a new budget build. So far, the drive performs well, runs cool, and seems quiet. What more can you ask for? It came from Newegg in a heavy bubble-style hard drive container in its own cardboard box. Much better for the drive during shipping than the ordinary bubble wrap that they used to use. Kudos to Newegg for the robust packaging as it arrived in perfect shape. I have two other WD drives (Black 750 GB) which are 5 years old and still going strong.
| Capacity | 2TB |
| Data Transfer Rate | 140MB/s |
| Spindle Speed (RPM) | 5400 RPM |
