Side by Side Comparison of: Seagate vs Samsung

This, along with a StarTech USB to 2.5" SATA cable, was my first purchase(s) on Amazon. I bought them together back in October, when my laptop's old HDD had given out due to mechanical failure. Or at least, what appears to be mechanical failure. This meant that my laptop was practically dead in the water as I didn't have a spare one lying around and the OS - at the time Windows 8.1 - was on the drive. Apart from a Driver Utility Disk, there was no other media that came with my laptop. Fortunately, I was on break from College at the time this happened. So I had the time to get it working. With the help of a few new friends I made on Twitch, the social media platform associated with Amazon, I was able to obtain a new OS to install onto this drive. Results were welcomed, and not just because I could get my laptop in working condition again. The results didn't surface at first- as the adaptive memory technology of SSHDs take time. When they did, I was pleased with the results. Boot time was cut down to 30 seconds, then 15 once I installed a new CPU in my laptop. More importantly, I was able to pick up where I left off with my college studies, once I reinstalled the programs I use. My coursework data I save on flash drives anyway as a rule of thumb so that cut down on the transition. For saving my laptop, Amazon and Seagate has my sincerest thanks

This drive worked as expected out of the box. It is a genuine drive when I checked the serial number on verify.seagate.com . The drive is very responsive and works with my Apricorn SATA Wire 3 adapter. Windows 10 automatically detects the drive and downloaded the appropiate driver for the SATA wire adapter. Used this drive once it was properly formatted to replace the internal HDD of my Xbox One.Side note: The various Seagate applications are very crappy and just look plain ugly. They don't put much effort into software development.

I am extremely happy with this SSHD! I am currently using it in my PS4 and it is working great! It was very simple to remove the old drive and put in this one. After a quick install of the OS, I was playing my games. A simple google search of "PS4 hard drive upgrade" will generate tons of links to step-by-step instructions.I have been using the SSHD for over a month now, and it has not failed on me. As far as the "speed increase," I cannot really see much of a difference. The main difference is the storage capacity, and that is all I really wanted. If you are looking to increase your storage capacity, then I highly recommend this hard drive. If you are looking for speed, I would recommend doing research because I am sure there are faster drives than this; however, I am sure they cost a lot more as well.

Like many others on here, I bought this to replace the hdd that came installed in my ps4. This fit perfectly. I had no problems whatsoever installing the ps4 firmware onto it. The whole process of installing this took about 15 minutes, from unboxing to turning on my ps4 with the new faster, and bigger hdd. I have had this hard drive installed for a little over a month now and have noticed a BIG difference in speed and performance! I recommend to anybody wanting an upgrade for their ps4 to purchase this!

I bought one of these many months ago to replace the internal drive in my MacBook Pro 17 inch i7. I noticed an immediate and significant speed up in all operations. I have since upgraded to Yosemite, and it's still running as smooth as can be. It is very quiet.I bought another one to use with my Seagate Thunderbolt adapter for backing up my internal drive as a full clone. It has been functioning exactly as it should.Under heavy use, my left palm rest might get a bit warm, but never uncomfortably so. The fans don't run any more than they used to with the stock drive, or the Western Digital 640 GB or 750 GB drives that successively replaced it. So far, this is my favorite hard drive ever.

I felt compelled to write a review specifically for how this drive performs as a replacement for the 500GB 5400RPM drive that comes stock in the Playstation 4. I'll explain why this is the best drive for what I feel are the three main points to consider: Storage space, speed, and price.*Storage space - 500GB will not be enough space for this system in the long-run. The operating system and other mandatory installs take up just under 100GB of space on your drive. Games are now running at full 1080p resolution as well, which makes the game sizes enormous. Most games will take up between 20-50GB. Assuming you are left with about 400GB of usable space after the OS, that will allow approximately 20 games to be installed on your drive if the games are on the SMALL side. The actual amount of games you will be able to fit may be significantly less, as games like Killzone: Shadow Fall are about 40GB. The solution to this issue may be to uninstall games as your drive fills up, but this is inconvenient and you may want to play those games again. As hard drive technology evolves over the coming years, I could see a 2TB hybrid drive being a tempting purchase for myself.*Speed - There is a LOT of misinformation in the reviews on the performance of this drive. Seagate advertises "SSD-like performance". This is simply not true. Solid state drives are drastically faster than both traditional hard disk drives and hybrid drives like this one. This hybrid drive can get close to solid-state speeds when it comes to certain tasks, thanks to Seagate's adaptive memory technology. Seagate's Adaptive Memory technology essentially allows the drive to "remember" tasks that are frequently performed, store the information for those tasks in the solid-state cache, and give impressive speeds for those tasks. Most often, these speed boosts will be noticeable in booting up your system, shutting down your system, installing software, and launching applications. I also have to say that the speed boost for these is much more apparent on a PC. For the actions I've just mentioned, you will see an improvement in performance if you were to do an A/B test with the stock drive, but it will not be mind-blowing like having a fully solid-state drive installed on a Windows 8 computer. While playing games on the PS4 with this hybrid drive installed, loading times may be decreased slightly, but again this will not be mind-blowing.*Price - With what I've just explained in the speed portion of my review, you may be asking why I'd even bother recommending this drive as a replacement, let alone the BEST replacement for a PS4. The reason is price. No, the speed boost compared to a traditional HDD will not blow you away when used in a Playstation 4. Even if it isn't huge, the speed boost is definitely there, and the cost of this drive is comparable to traditional non-hybrid drives. A 1TB SSD will cost you around $600 at the moment. This makes this a no-brainer. In my opinion, given the size of "next-gen" game installs, it is completely necessary to upgrade to a 1TB drive (or larger in the future). With all things considered, as of the time this review is written, installing this in a PS4 just makes the most sense.

Seagate 1TB Gaming SSHD SATA 8GB NAND SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000LM014)Just beyond the three year mark, my HP laptop's hard drive begin issuing "imminent failure" messages. After much hoping (that the failure messages were not literal) and checking and double checking, purchased this Seagate 1TB HD as a replacement. It came well packaged and had no trouble getting it installed. It's more than what I need really - both in size and capability, making it an even better value, considering. Have been using it for two weeks now and everything is going well. This review comes from the HP laptop with the new hard drive. Will be really happy if it lasts longer than the Hitachi drive my HP came with. Considering all the things I DON'T use my laptop for and how babied the system, including hardware, is - a three year lifespan just isn't acceptable to me, but I understand that just about everything, esp. tech, is being made as "disposable," sadly.

I've been using it for more than a month & 1/2 and I am impressed with the speed of this drive. Very snappy and it would be hard to tell the difference between this SSHD and a quality SSD without software statistics. I have an ADATA SSD as my primary. This drive is my #2 drive and for games and software. I have a 3.5", 1TB Barracuda for backups. I figure if this drive last's a year, I'll upgrade it to 5 star's. I do have a 60mm CPU cooling fan blowing on it so if heat is a concern, I can't test that. This is a laptop hard drive but works great in a desktop due to less space requirements. All PC's I build new from here on will have 2.5" drives of whatever type. By the way.

We purchased a Seagate 1TB Laptop SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) 2.5-Inch Internal Drive in Jan 2015, and it started to fail this weekend. Since it was less than 1 year old, I tried to “return” it thru Amazon, which didn’t work. Next I tried to get info from Seagate’s website, but I needed the serial number, which wasn't on the Amazon receipt. I finally decided to contact Amazon’s customer service, & they solved my problem in < 5 min.Amazon replaced the drive at no charge, it will be delivered tomorrow, & they’re including the shipping label to return the Seagate drive that failed.All at no charge, all in less than 10 minutes.I am an Amazon Prime customer, so not sure if that made a difference, but I couldn’t be happier. The reason I only gave this product 4 stars is because the original Seagate drive failed within the 1st 7 months of purchase; otherwise it’s worked great, aside from a few mysterious incidents in which the computer (MacBook Pro) rebooted after it’d been turned off, without our ever touching it. Not too sure what that’s all about… :-)Seagate 1TB Laptop SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000LM014)

The drive is performing well, but it's not the huge increase in speed I was expecting; that was probably unrealistic. Since only so much can be said about the performance of the drive, of which plenty of reviews are available, I will concentrate more in the installation process.I purchased a Inateck USB3.0 enclosure for the drive so I could clone my existing HDD, and that worked fine. Unfortunately, the free disc cloning software that Seagate offers on their website would not install because it doesn't see a Seagate-branded HDD in my system. Instead, it seems the Inateck USH drive. This is unfortunate, because the Acronis software was supposed to be real good. Instead I downloaded Macrium's Reflect Free edition and cloned the two partitions of my existing HDD. I excitedly swapped out the HDDs, turned on my computer, and...... nothing. Disk error - not bootable. This was pretty frustrating and it took me quite a while to figure out what to do in order to get my laptop to boot from the disk. Even though it was an exact clone of my original HDD, it did not have a valid master boot record. If you run into this problem where you turn on your computer and it fails to recognize your disc as being bootable, follow these instructions and it will probably work for you:1) Go to Macrium Reflect and create a recover disc. Burn that to a standard CD.2) Reboot your laptop and check to see if it tries to boot off of the CD. If it does, go to step 53) If it doesn't, reboot it again and start hitting the DEL key to get into BIOS.4) Change the boot order to make sure the CD/DVD is the first boot device. Reboot.5) The Recovery disc will load and start Macrium.6) Under the "restore" tab, there's a "fix boot problems" option. Click that.7) Click through the defaults and let it analyze and fix your boot disc. It should only take a few seconds.8) Reboot, and you should be on your way. If you changed your first boot device to be the CD/DVD, make the HDD your first boot device again for faster boot times.One word about synthetic benchmarks: SSHD's don't perform particularly well in these and will probably show similar performance to a HDD. If you want to look at benchmarks, pick one that does "real life" applications; SSHDs perform much better there as the built-in cache does what it's supposed to do.

Should be the perfect drive, but I'm docking it one star.This drive in theory should be perfect. The drive itself learns what programs you use most and places them into the onboard SSD for fastest access time while keeping the less frequently used data on the platters.Reality is the system works,,, when the drive does. I had to contact Seagate and return my initial drive after 2 months because it was failing. They were gracious though and quickly provided me a replacement, which I have not had any problems with to date.Overall I am pleased with the speed of this drive, and would recommend it for a laptop replacement drive if you only have one drive bay available. You should see a marked increase in load times over anything except a true SSD drive.

I bought this to replace a hard drive in a Windows 7 laptop which had gotten very slow, even with routine software maintenance (registry, junk files, defrag, etc.).It cut my boot time in half and makes running some applications quite a bit faster, but for a lot of things, it made no difference.I upgraded my other laptop to an SSD and it sped up about x5 or so. What used to take minutes now take seconds. A vast improvement for virtually all applications.The primary advantage of the hybrid drive is that for a very low cost, you can still have a reasonable storage capacity (this coming from someone who paid >$400 for a 10MB hard drive 30 years ago).If the SSD cache were larger (this one is only 8GB), it would probably be faster, but as it is, the upgrade is worth the money if you don't need the maximum speed or if you have fairly simple applications (email, web browsing, etc.) this is all you need. If you do photo or video editing, an SSD would be better.

The day after installing this hard drive, my Win 7 computer booted up with blazing speed, presumably the benefit of the 32GB of SSD cache. Naturally I was quite pleased, until the next day when it booted up at normal speed. It took over a week before I noticed fast booting again and that has remained variable. Regular programs that I use do appear to load faster though I have attempted no speed measurements. Two hard drives ago, I had the 8 gig cache Seagate drive and it proved somewhat disappointing, so I was hoping that 32 gig of cache would be sufficient for a reliable speed up, but each time Windows does an update, it apparently needs to re-cache and using too great a variety of software is still possible, even with 32 gig of cache, apparently. I think the 32 gig of cache does let the 5400 rpm drive do as well as or better than a 7200 rpm drive, but I'm not sure the improvement is worth the cost. Obviously this is all based on subjective measurement, not a rigorous speed test, but, let's face it, that is how most people will use and perceive this hard drive.

It's ok, but I'm really disappointed, expected better performance.I have an ASUS k53e i3 laptop.On old hard drive my boot time with Win 7 Home was :45 secs. Installed Win 10 Home and went to 1:30 minutes. Lots of tweaking (removing the apps and all the "crap" I didn't want) and IObit software got it back to :45 secs. Then I don't know what the heck happened and Win 10 Home froze up for the last time and I had to force a restart and went to blue screen of death and I couldn't get back into os nor into safe mode. Yeah, I used a dvd and tried a usb flash drive (which Rufus refused to write to), changed bios settings for those, but nothing. Dead ... dead ... dead I say!Through much research on a working pc, I used MS's flash drive writer and got into my system. Thought there must be a hard drive failure emanate, so I purchased this. It arrived on time and while I was waiting I moved everything to the other pc and did my useless backup.Then the fun of re-installing everything because Win 10 Pro (hate Win 10 Home, very buggy and unstable... froze up 7 times in 3 days) wouldn't use my backup. Never have used a backup successfully. Tried many times, but no joy there. But I'll keep doing them!And now my boot time is between 1:30 and 1:56 mins. What the heck. Everything is as it was and no amount of tweaks can get it back to under 1 min. And I had auto log on enabled in Win 7, did it in Win 10 Home and again in Pro. Just to make sure all's fair.Been researching this to see if something is set up wrong. Can't really find any helpful nor useful info. How can I tell if the ssd is even being used by the OS? I have the latest BIOS.So, it's a 1T hard drive at a good price, but not what I was expecting.

As noted in some highly rated reviews in great detail, serious warranty issues.Some details I uncovered:The current listing (archived at https://archive.is/alDsG) says, "For warranty information about this product, please click here [PDF]". It links to http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81%2B8kMPYRJS.pdf which Amazon blocks archive.is site access to, and which is normally displayed, via that link, in a window that's not resizable and which makes it unreadable. http://web.archive.org/web/20141114110529/http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81+8kMPYRJS.pdf allows one to view it and read it. For US and other non-EU customers, it doesn't say how long the warranty is.But the product description says "1 TB ... OEM drive"The listing should therefore also say "Seagate does NOT offer a warranty on their OEM drives." Instead it links to this PDF. Not good. Hopefully this changes.

I replaced the broken 500GB hard disc in the Toshiba Satellite A665 and it runs great. I have really enjoyed serious improvement in performance with Seagate's 2TB SSHD in one of my desktop PCs so I decided to go with this 500GB SSHD as opposed to the regular 7,200rpm spinner. I should have done more research before getting this drive. They are unfortunately not the same beasts. Now, the small file performance is spectacular. The drive is only 5,400rpm but the 8GB of flash memory is uses to cache the drive really cranks up the 4k file throughput. Overall small file benchmarks are great. However, if you will be working with large sound and video files then you should look into either a SSD or if that is too expensive then maybe the 7,200rpm HD version because the overall throughput is simply better on average. I'm lucky in this case because I am running Debian 8 on this laptop and not doing anything with huge sound/video files right now.

This is for the 32 GB SSD Cache ModelUpdate: June 24, 2016I bought a replacement drive. I originally intended for it to go into my Windows 7 laptop, but when my Haswell computer's Win 7 installation got corrupted. I decided to replace the original HDD with this Hybrid drive (32 GB SSD Cache). So far, so good. The computer seems to boot to Windows faster, and the updates seem to go faster, too, but I don't have any numbers to prove it. Also, it seems to have cut almost a day off the time needed to bring Windows 7 up to date, from the original 4 year old installation disk.I was surprised, though, when I ran a User Experience Index test. The HDD on my 8 year old computer has a 5.9 rating. The previous HDD also had a 5.9 rating, and I was expecting better than 5.9 rating for this disk, but it also has a 5.9 rating. Still, the cache will help load frequently loaded applications, including Windows, faster. (I could tell a speed up even with an 8GB SSD cache).I also have a 32GB SSD Express Cache in the system, and that also makes a big difference. Finally, it seems to burn less power than the original WD Blue 1 TB HDD (maybe 8 watts).End updateAs far as I can tell, the drive failed within a few days of use. I heard it ticking, then the computer blue screened. I tried it again, but overnight, and when I woke up, it had blue screened again. Also, my Asus P9X79 Pro MB no longer recognizes any HDDs attached to it. The MB is out of warranty, so I'm upgrading to a Haswell CPU and MB.I contacted CTI about the drive, and they authorized return shipment within a few hours. So that's a plus.The Asus MB had a built in cache controller, which needed a SSD and a HDD, plus you needed to run a utility to use it, and you needed to enable the Marvel Controller. I like this drive better. The cache is built into the drive, and 32 GB SSD cache seems to be adequate for my HP Pavilion computer, so 32 GB should be good, here, too.This is for the 8 GB SSD Cache modelWow. Its fast. This replaced a 250GB HDD in a Dell E6520 Win XP laptop. The previous HDD failed, and this seemed like it might speed things up. Not only did it speed things up, it turbo charged the computer.The new disk got the original disk's image, but it seems to have already been corrupted, so I can't get far into WinXP before it crashes, but until it does, it runs a lot faster. I can't wait to see how fast it loads Visual Studio and InstallShield. Those are the two slowest loading programs I have.

Update #2. I found out that the drive was under warranty, which was a real surprise. Although I had already purchased a new drive since I couldn't wait around for the warranty process, I did send it back to seagate and got a new "reconditioned" drive within about a week. There is a seagate site where you can enter the serial # to determine warranty eligibility. I upped the rating by a star since that was an unexpected benefit, although I thought the drive should be more robust.Update: unfortunately the drive crashed a year later. Within that time I experienced a boot failure that could not be repaired and the OS had to be reinstalled. Not very reliable. I'd expect at least 3 years on a HD. I tried the seagate repair utility but it gave up after too many read errors.First off my rating is based only on the following: improved startup speed and reduced heat output. There's nothing else I can evaluate this drive on yet as I've had it only 24 hours. I did a few timed boots on my macbook pro 2011 and was between 1 min 25s and 36s on my previous 320GB 7200 drive. On this drive it boots fairly consistently around 1 min 6s, so 24% faster is better than I expected. In hindsight I should have run benchmarks before removing the drive. Another huge improvement is the machine runs cooler. It used to run hot, too hot to put on lap. As for battery life I can't tell yet but I'd expect this to be more efficient than the 7200rpm.Cloning the old hard drive was a breeze but took a lot of searching. You don't need superduper or any fancy software -- everything you need is built into your mac. I got a cheap $7 usb drive box to clone to the new drive. First you plug in the new drive via usb and format it with disk utility. Then boot into recovery mode (hold down apple+r). Then you restore the old drive to new in disk utility. The program is a bit quirky. The source must be the Macintosh HD or whatever your volume name is, not the hard drive model and likewise the destination must be the volume of the new drive (Untitled in my case). Otherwise you get some cryptic error 214 or something. This took some time so I did it overnight. Once complete make sure you can boot off of the new drive via usb. The recovery lets you do this.Finally it's just a matter of swapping the drives. You'll need 000 phillips and a T6 torx. I got a set for $10 on amazon. I watched a video first. The hardest part is keeping track of all the screws since they differ in length. I placed them in a rectangle to help remember the position. Be slow and systematic and it'll be super easy

I'm a huge fan of Seagate - been buying disks from them since the mid-90's. I didn't think twice about buying this one. I bought 2 other SSHD's from them in recent months and have no issues there. Performance is great compared to classic HDD, and this price is way less than true SSD. I love the hybrid solution here. However, this one ended up in a refurbished laptop for my son as a Christmas gift. He brought it to me a week ago (March 16) and now the BIOS won't recognize it as a boot disk. No drop, no shock, no water spill, just stopped. Didn't make it 4 months, and was just outside the return policy window. Honestly, I can't complain too much because the price is so low and I took my chances. I just happened to lose this time.

I bought this 3 months ago after reading tens of good reviews. The installation and transfer of data from my old hard drive all went swimmingly. Then about a week ago (3-months after purchase I'm booting up my laptop (MacBook) and it goes straight into the OS Utilities (recovery) screen) I try restarting the computer, but it ends up in the same place.After two days of data recovery and running tests to find out what is wrong, the IT specialist shop people tell me that the hard drive is in the process of failing. Failing. After three months. Words cannot express how frustrated this made me. But it doesn't end there.Several reviewers talked about Seagate's good warranty service; well, I go on to their site today morning to get my drive replaced, and the 'Premium Advanced Replacement' option is not available. This is the service where you pay about $11 and they send you a replacement drive as they wait to receive your old one. All they have is Standard replacement in which you ship your drive to them and then you wait for them to ship you a new one. Shipping takes 3-5 days one way, so that is at least 10 days because they don't ship on weekends.I can't. I just can't. I should have gone with Western Digital because they, in my opinion, have the best customer service. First off, you can email and talk to a person directly. Unlike Seagate which has me refreshing my Facebook and Twitter feed every five minutes waiting for a reply. On top of that, Western Digital gave me an advanced replacement on a defective drive, and on top of that UPGRADED it for FREE from a 2TB to 3TB drive, with apologies. You know what, I should go leave them a good review.Thank you Seagate for [over the top dramatic expression of frustration].Ugh.

I got this hybrid drive for my new white PS4 that came today. So when my PS4 came I was really excited, about to put this put this bad boy in and double my capacity to play some Destiny. So I put in the hybrid drive in my PS4, downloaded the PS4 firmware in a thumb drive so I can put it in the new hybrid drive. Followed all the steps on the playstation website for people that get new hard drives. When the PS4 is looking for the update on the thumb drive, it says the file is corrupted. No biggie, I'll download it again. Twenty tries of deleting the "corrupted file", formatting the thumb drive later, I still got the same problem. I contacted sony of the problem, because I thought it was a PS4 hardware problem. After 10 minutes of trying to fix the problem, she told me to use a different hard drive. I was thinking that can't be the problem because I just bought this. A day later i asked my friend if I can borrow his hard drive, it is the same hard drive that I bought. After I put in my PS4 and thumb drive it worked. It was pretty fast too. I couldn't believe that it was my brand new hybrid drive that didn't work. I was really disappointed.

I believe Seagate drives are as good as any other, in spite of the fact in the past year two of them have crashed on me. What upsets me is their warranted support. I called to get a replacement. Stephanie was happy to send one, but she couldn't guarantee when it would be shipped. Even though Seagate has had one in stock since my call 4 days ago - they haven't shipped it. Without trying to shoot the messenger I complained to Stephanie's supervisor. It seems as if I'm not the only one having this problem.I can accept things break. I have a hard time accepting poor service.

After reading overwhelmingly positive reviews about the performance and reliability for its target purpose, I decided to replace a failed OEM drive in my Lenovo X230. My overall experience was that I went through two units that each showed unreliability.Specifically, after reimaging and getting my laptop booting again, I tried playing some videos and noticed that the video would stutter with even the slightest bump. When this happened, there was an audible mechanical noise from the hard drive. The SMART stats showed slowly increasing reallocated sector count, and over the course of a week went as high about 50. Eventually Windows 7 blue-screened and at that point I returned the drive.I followed the same process with a replacement unit, and it didn't seem quite as sensitive but still had some intermittent mechanical noises like the first as well as a nonzero reallocated sector count (still less than 50). Eventually it caused a blue screen again, and at that point, I returned the drive and went back to a plain old spinning drive of another manufacturer.My computer has been reliable since then with the traditional hard drive, although definitely not as snappy to start up, un-hibernate, or load some of my memory-hog applications. I miss the speed, but I sort of just got fed up with the troubleshooting. I might give the SSHD another shot later on, but hopefully what I experienced was just a bad lot of disks.

The drive itself was relatively fast compared to my old hard drive. Booting was really nice once it got moved to the ssd part of the drive, I think the time it took was cut in half almost. This was basically everything I needed for the time being, but it didn't last.About three months after getting all of my stuff transferred (I used the free trial from Acronis which was pretty easy), I started to get errors and blue screens. Eventually something vital to windows was corrupted and I could no longer boot into windows normally (safe mode worked fine though). I preformed a disk check and it found that there were several bad sectors and tried to fix them. I don't really know if it actually fixed them or not but errors have been popping up every now and sometime windows will crash. then and a disk check will usually fix it.I'm not sure if this problem occurred because my laptop got jostled or if it's just a defect with the drive itself, but either way I'm disappointed. My old hard drive and my external drive are both Seagate as well, never had a problem with either of them so I bought this thinking it would be reliable like them, but I guess I've learned my lesson.All in all it's a fantastic drive while it works, snappy and I loved the extra headroom. If it hadn't crashed it would have easily gotten 5 stars.

Bought the drive in February 2016, and it was amazing at first. However, I started noticing slowdowns on my computer. It never occured to me that it might be this drive. Around late October, Photoshop started taking about 5 minutes to open (on an 8 core processor and 32 gig of ram on Windows 10). Defragging didn't help. Programs that cached to the C drive, or had windows temp files, started locking up and crashing. I have several 5 and 6tb SATA drives in the system, and transfers between those drives are over 70Mbps, however, transfers from this drive to one of the others is now barely hitting 3Mbps. Carbonite, Backblaze, Plex, and many other apps are crashing.Launching Chkdsk on this drive locks up the computer.I am just ordering a 7200 RPM SATA6 2TB Hitachi to replace this thing.I will see about the warranty on this thing and see about using the replacement I get from Seagate in my laptop (my drive in there is getting old), but I am sticking to full spinning discs (no hybrids and no SSDs) in my desktop from now on

I purchased this hard drive just after Christmas for a computer used only to browse the internet SAFELY. It is now rearing May and I have received the Blue Screen of DEATH! I have tried to fix the issue with updates and such, to no avail. There is literally nothing but a few gigs of music stored on this drive and has been used a handful of times. I am very dissatisfied with the quality of this purchase, as now I have to purchase another hard drive and have someone install the operating system, again.

Might make a good $77 paper weight. This is 2nd drive. A replacement. Can't get Win10 to recognize it. Does not show up in Disk Management. It's an internal drive that I put in External case. (case works. put old drive in it and it works) Been on the net for hours trying to find a solution. Went to Seagate sight, spent about an hour and the half there trying to find a solution. I thought this was a PnP devise. No drivers came with it. PS When I got this drive it was flopping around in the box. It was not packaged so as to keep it snug. The holding packaging was in the box, but not being used, so it bounced around during shipment. PSS I have built my own systems and upgraded them, so I have a little knowledge about computers.Seagate 500GB Gaming SSHD SATA 8GB NAND SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST500LM000)

This looked like a great deal! I was looking for a secondary backup drive to use externally via USB. The 1TB storage capacity seemed perfect for my server which has 2 500GB volumes. I use a Mac Mini as my server for 3 additional stations. My greatest headaches have been the loss of data due to harddrive crashes so I do believe in redundant backup devices. The specifications for this hybrid drive are impressive, almost as impressive as a full SSD drive which do not work well in an external capacity) so I bought this one with great expectations.I partitioned this drive into 2 500GB volumes and proceeded to back up both of my prime drives. I do 100% backups twice a month with incremental backups with Apple's "Time Machine" on a daily basis. After what appeared to be a seamless backup operation, I spot checkied the Seagate drive and it appeared that all the data had been properly stored and was accessible. I was pleased.But my pleasure was premature. When I started to perform the 100% backups on this Seagate drive for the second time since its installation, neither drive was responsive. They were corrupted (dead) and couldn't even be mounted. After considerable effort on my part using Apple's "Disk Utility", I managed to mount the drive long enough to run a "first aid" routine which crashed in the middle of the operation and the drive disappeared, again.Needless to say, this drive is worthless to me and I will replace it with something better. This drive crashed just beyond the 30-day return period but, no matter, I couldn't return it anyway. The drive contains all my family and business financial, historical and personal data and I dare not let it out of the house. My only option is to destroy this drive so that no data can ever be retrieved.Thank goodness for redundant backup protocols.Even though it sounds like a bargain, I recommend you steer clear of this particular product.

I bought this HD back in August 16, 2015. Everything is working perfectly fine until this morning my Macbook just hang. When I rebooted my macbook, it just showed a white screen. It was not booting. I immediately thought that my HD crashed so I replaced it with my old HITACHI HD which is the original HD that came with my Macbook. Guess what happened? It booted without any issue.Now, I need a replacement from Seagate as this HD is still under warranty and only 6mos old.I'm totally an unhappy customer!

Does not work. I followed all of the instructions to install to my PS4, and it seemed to work fine. Except it considers every disc-based game to have corrupted data. I followed all instructions to troubleshoot the problem, and after no success and countless reinstallations, I installed the old hard drive into my PS4 and found that everything works fine. I will be returning the hard drive for a replacement, which hopefully works better since this product has good reviews as a PS4 hard drive.UPDATE: The replacement came and it has the same issue. Seagate Support has told me that "it should be working" and assured me I followed the correct steps for installation.