Seagate BarraCuda Pro 500GB Internal Hard Drive Performance HDD – 2.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 128MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC Laptop, Data Recovery – Frustration Free Packaging (ST500LM034)

I purchased the ST2000LM015 drive (2TB, 2.5 inch). I did not know that HD manufacturers are moving to shingled magnetic recording technology (SMR). In summary, writes to the drive get very fragmented with time (not the type of fragmentation that you can solve with a defragmenter) and then both reads and writes are extremely slow! This is crap! It excels in benchmarks, but when you download real files to it and you try to read them later, the reading speed is around 50 MB/s. Copying large files is usually OK, the problem happens when files are downloaded and slowly copied to the drive, then the drive internally distributes the fragments to fill the sector gaps according to the shingled technology. And this is the future for HDD storage!

I wanted an SSD for archival purposes. Not blistering speed - reliability was my primary concern.Baracuda has 1.8m hours MTTF (on average it'll last 1.8m hours, 75000 days, 205 years). I did those calcs twice because I didn't believe it either. However, that's not the whole story. SSDs can only be written to so many times; Drive Writes Per Day. From a famous search engine:“Drive Writes Per Day” tells how many times you can overwrite the entire capacity of the SSD every single day of its usable life without failure during the warranty period.Baracuda=485 TB. ie you can rewrite the entire thing 485 times. As I just want to write 1TB ONCE that's me sorted.Many reviews of this SSD are average, stating it offers nothing new, its Phison S10 controller is 4 years old, newer SSDs with new controllers (eg Crucial MX500 et al) offer better performance for roughly the same money.Maybe, but any SSD outstrips an HD - including this one. This is WAY faster than my old 1TB clanky HD, uses far less energy and is silent in operation. The fact the Phison controller is still being used (not just by Seagate) means it's reliable. I looked at the 1* reviews for the Crucial MX500 and nearly all state "stopped working after a few months". That put me off so I bought this.I don't need boy-racer performance for an archival drive. But playing with it, it reads and writes plenty fast and the read speed would make it ideal for videos, audio, games in a PS4 etc.In fact anandtech.com states "The Seagate BarraCuda had great sequential read performance". Perfect for me.I installed this into Windows 10.Needed to format it using:Windows Admin Tools / Computer Management / Disk ManagementI formatted it using "new" GPT instead of MBR. Up and running within minutes.1TB in 50g. Amazing how far we've come from lead brick 10MB HDs!

Meine Platte hat nach einer Woche problemlosen Betriebs alle Daten verloren!Genau gesagt war die Partitionierungstabelle verschwunden und Windows 10 behandelte die Platte wie eine noch nicht initialisierte neue Platte. Nach der neuen Initialisierung und Formatierung hat sich die Platte wieder komplett unauffällig verhalten. Aber ich werde ihr nicht mehr vertrauen können! Die Platte war laut Smart-Informationen eine wirkliche neue Platte.

Installed the drive and using cloning software I cloned from my old drive onto this new drive, the result was amazing, it's a lot faster than my old Crucial 525G drive. Simple packaging and easy to install. This is my first ever Seagate SSD and I'm really impressed with the performance as against smaller drives.

Die gleiche Platte habe ich vor 2 Jahren schon mal gekauft. Die ist heute noch top.Aber jetzt wurde eine Platte mit Produktionsdatum 21.01.2019 geliefert, die Seagate-Garantie ist gerade noch 1,5 Jahre. Die Bestellung erfolgte am 29.10.2019, die Lieferung am 31.10.2019.Die Lesefehlerrate ist enorm hoch, SMART zeigt nur noch 76% an. Auch bei Airflow Temperature werden gerade noch 53% angezeigt. So eine Gammelplatte hatte ich bisher noch nie! [Nach Aufforderung von Amazon habe ich diesen Teil der Rezension gelöscht. Ich soll den Händer auf der Händlerseite bewerten. Das geht aber nur bei Marketplace-Händlern.]Normal ist das nicht, die Platte ging daher zurück (so einer Platte vertraut man keine Daten an, nicht mal unwichtige!). [Hier habe ich den Satz gelöscht, mit dem ich klarstellte, dass ich sowas nicht gewohnt bin.]Dafür habe ich je ein Bild der Platte und der SMART-Werte angefügt.