(Old Model) Seagate 1TB Desktop HDD Sata 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000DM003)

Works as described. Great price. Great condition

This hard drive works like a champ with my setup. NO glitches. It's a BARE drive so no manual, no screws for install and no software. Really, all you need are screws or a screwless bay. So save the money and get a bare drive and download whatever drivers or Seagate software you need before installing. This starts up anyway using Win 7 drivers. To Partition and Format the drive: Use Windows 7 Control Panel > Administration > Computer Management > Disk Management Utility to Partition and Format as you want. Instructions for partitioning/formatting are all over the web, but I use the ones from Windows Knowledge base on the Microsoft Website. Very clear. Also -- using the cache for performance settings. At the recommendation of others, I did a full format (vs quick format) after partitioning - no errors / bad sectors on any of the drives. This takes a LOT longer with 1TB and 2TB drives than the quick format option, but it thoroughly checks the drives so you know what you've got (or not got) up front. Figure a couple hours for 2TB drives or thereabouts. Before purchasing any of the Hard Drives for my new build, I thoroughly read all the reviews. This is the third of 3 Seagate 3.5" Bare Drives I've installed in my HAF X case. The Other Two are Seagate Barracuda "XT's" -- 2TB. All work great. While I "wanted" solid state drives, they are not practical from a cost standpoint for me because I do Video Editing and need so much hard drive space. Even 3TB isn't near enough yet. I decided to stick with one vendor -- and it was Seagate vs Western Digital for the internal hard drives for performance and reliability reasons, and because of the warranty periods. I've had both types of internal drives in the past. Only the Western Digital gave out, but that was also after a long time and heavy use. Not intended as a slam. Both brands are probably fine. Still the Barracuda XT's especially outperform the WD Caviar Blacks for the type of programs I run. I have installed and briefly read through all the Seagate software, but have taken it (and all other bloatware & unnecessary starup files) out of my startup sequence, which makes for very fast POST and Windows bootup of ~ 8 seconds on my Asus P8Z68-VPRO/Gen 3 motherboard/I72600K CPU. (That boot time is off the Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT boot drive with 64MB cache with NO overclocking.) Still, may use re-enable Seagate Tools software for backups vs Win7 and some of the other features that software offers. Very pleased so far with performance, speed, temps of these drives, and they are NOT noisy at all. In fact, very quiet. Last -- this 1TB drive is for a 6.0Gb/s SATA port, but just FYI -- it's backwards compatible with 3.0 Gb/s SATA ports and cables. I installed this drive on a 3.0 Gb/s SATA port using a 6.0Gb/s cable (only kind of SATA data cable I purchased) and it works just fine. That 3.0 Gb/s SATA "port speed" is really faster anyway than what any spinning hard drive can accomplish anyway and I've already used my two Z68 6.0 Gb/s SATA ports for the 2TB Barracuda XT's. Avoided using the Marvel 6.0 Gb/s controller SATA ports on the Mobo. Using the Z68 SATA ports instead -- too many people having problems with using both controllers at the same time, especially if they have a RAID setup (I don't). 3.0Gb/s connection is fast enough for now but by purchasing the 6.0Gb/s drives, may have some future capability compatibility at a minimum markup now.

Good hard driver

As hard drives grow larger and larger, the one fear I always have is reliability. It was one thing to lose a few hundred gigabytes of information, but something entirely different when you lose a terabyte of photos, movies, games, and other information important to your spouse (hint, hint). I am happy to report that Seagate makes a quality product that has not had any issues since first purchased and installed in our system. Of course, this does not alleviate my need to backup my data on an external system (bigger hint), but I am not concerned that my day-to-day operations will be lost because of faulty technology. A few years back, the hard drive industry was in a race for speed (reported in rotations per minute - RPMs) and size (reported in bytes - MB, GB, TB, etc). While this led to some amazing advertising claims, we really never saw the type of increases that have come recently. Since the first SSD (solid-state drive) was introduced, manufacturers have finally divided their focus - to our benefit. Higher capacities (which do not require amazing speed to read/write) are becoming cheaper and cheaper to acquire in HDDs - while faster loads of the operating system (O/S) and software are being offered by SSDs. Unless your computer is space limited, it is advisable to have both - some things are not better when mixed together. Overall, if you're looking for an affordable high capacity hard drive, then Seagate fits the bill. It is outfitted with a 6Gb/s connector (which, if supported by your motherboard, is adequate for data transfer) and 64MB of on-drive cache - allowing the drive to better handle data transfers, as it spins and finds the data to feed to the system. I have a large collection of movies, games, and photos and still have plenty of room on this drive. I keep my O/S and other software on my SSD - so if/when I decide to finally upgrade from 1TB to the next, bigger drive - I can simply copy the data from this one to the new one - without any other issues. But always remember - as noted before - make off-machine backups of your important data.

Easy to install right out of the box. Plug and Play, was recognized right away. haven't had any problems in the time I've had this drive in operation. Very pleased so far. Seagate was the going drive even in the early 1980's. Long before Western Digital came along. I prefer Seagate over WD because of their long years of experience with Hard Drives and reliability. I have had too many WD drive fail on me. Fast Writes & Reads (176mb/184mb) - 2X1TB Raid 0 Performance (340mb/380mb) - Affordable - Reliable Brand Other Thoughts: Very impressed with the performance of this drives. It's amazing how much hard drives have improved over the years. I ran this on Raid 0 on a Mac Pro with a SATA II Interface and was surprised at the read and write performance. Now obviously an SSD is still going to be faster in many respects, but I honesty, I'm super happy I chose this over an SSD simply because of the storage space. I've owned an SSD, just so everyone knows. So I'm aware of the amazing speeds, but for those who are price conscious and need more storage this is a great alternative. Seagate 1TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000DM003)

I bought six of these drives in 2014 to build two systems running RAID 5 on the motherboard. The RAID system runs Intel Rapid Storage Technology. I have had no problems, issues, or known defects. I check the status of my drives once a month. These drives haven't had problems. Both systems are performing well. My wife and I are hard core technologists (combined 45 years) that have a healthy respect for failure rates, impending doom, and we implement cross redundant network backups. It's kind of like buying auto insurance for the accident you hope you never have. Still we do this as a policy. She lost a 2TB drive (not this Seagate drive) in a single point of failure setup. It cost us about $1700 to recover in a clean room environment. We thought we'd covered our backsides, but I guess not. Remember to read the reviews to see what others have uncovered on used drives, sold as new, or, mislabeled drives. Don't be afraid to chat with their tech support or return department. They'll probably be able to tell you more about the reliability of models they sell than anyone else. The sales folks are going to try to, well, sell you on what they have. I'm not saying they'd lie, but you may not get the whole truth. I have towers that have an abundance of air flow. Water coolers on the CPU's and motherboard apps that monitor temps. I clean filters about every 6 months. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Serving my games up reliably, installed in my PS2.

The hard drive is fine for now, but wanted to note the pretty bad packaging situation which the drive arrived in. The drive arrived in what appears to be a deflated bubble wrap bag, with no anti-static bag or additional packaging material to protect the drive against rough handling. Otherwise, it’s a hard drive. It does its thing fine.

Very good product, Work perfectly, BUT the HDD was NOT activated, I thought it was borken at first, and did'nt know that I had to "activate" it, I had to go to the computer shop/repair store to get it activated, Did'nt cost me anything and the guy said I could activated it myself, if I figure it out, so its no big deal. 5 Star ! I like that HDD. Side note: It work very well with the Inateck USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drives Docking Station for 2.5 Inch & 3.5 Inch HDD SSD SATA.

Buen producto, sin errores de lectura.

Este es mi tercer disco de esta marca y los anteriores me han durado bastante y con un buen precio, este disco a parte de ser espacioso es rápido ya que cuenta con 7200 revoluciones. Ademas, si lo conectas a un puerto SATA III de 6gb/s las transferencias de archivos son superiores Sin duda este es un disco con un buen rendimiento y calidad

He estado usando el Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 en mi PC durante un tiempo y ha superado mis expectativas. Es perfecta para tareas cotidianas y almacenamiento de grandes cantidades de datos. Es bastante silencioso en su funcionamiento y no genera ruidos molestos, lo cual me gusta mucho. Además, responde bien cuando necesito acceder a archivos pesados. El espacio de 1 TB es ideal si no quieres estar constantemente preocupado por el almacenamiento. Lo he probado durante largas sesiones de uso y no he tenido problemas de fiabilidad ni de rendimiento. Si buscas un disco duro interno que ofrezca buen rendimiento y sea de confianza, el Seagate Barracuda es una opción muy sólida.

The hard disk received was with bad sectors. Due to my plight of staying in other city (work) different from the city (home) to where I have ordered the product, it left me with only weekends to go there (home) and proceed with the installation of the OS in the hard disk. For the first 2 weeks, I suffered from the problems of CD drive not working and the pen drive malfunctioning. So, after giving the attempts of installing the OS by myself, I approached a local private dealer to do the work for me. He informed that the hard disk has come with bad sectors. (He even showed me that it sounds some small part is loose, when shaking the hard disk keeping it near to your ear. It doesn't happen with my other old Seagate Barracuda HDD). When I thought of returning the product, I realised that the return cooling period has already been expired. So, legally I cannot blame Amazon. But I am utterly disappointed with the product. I won't blame Seagate as it didn't happen with my other Seagate HDDs.