Replaced a failing 1TB with this 2TB hard drive and cloned it using Acronis. The process was almost seamless and this drive at a great price has performed much better than the old one. I would not hesitate to buy another.

The price was right and it works great. I copied 1.5TB between this drive and a comparable Seagate 3TB model. I reached continous write speeds of up tp 200MBs. By the time the drive was half full, the speed was down to 150-160 continous.

None so far

The Seagate Barracuda 2TB SATA3 HDD is currently one of the most popular disks among PC manufacturers; we've seen a lot of it in PCs submitted for our group tests, so we've welcomed the opportunity to put it through its paces.

I use these in my NAS, I know they are desktop rated, but my NAS has clocked up 32500 hrs wirhout and bad blocks Seagate just make seriously good hard drives, the only brand for me

This is a very good product. The drive installed in minutes and was functioning after an easy formatting exercise with disk utility. It's fast and has exceptional capacity at a great price. Highly recommend this product.

Seagate's Barracuda line has long been a contender in the 7,200rpm drive space and-7200.11 firmware snafu notwithstanding-has generally vied with WD's Caviar Black line for the 7,200rpm crown.

Speedy sequential speeds; handy disk wizard for novice users; capacious

Slightly slower than Deskstar in real-world test; slightly more expensive

Desktop storage has been stuck at 2TB for quite a while. Higher platter density is needed in order to break the 3TB barrier, which leads to the industry-wide adaptation of 4K advanced format, replacing the 512 sector that was introduced back in the 80's.

Excellent performance; Balanced read and write; 3TB capacity; SATA 6Gb/s; DiscWizard software for disk cloning and backup; 5 year warranty

DiscWizard will not work with RAID; May have issue with some chipset (buyers should check with the motherboard chipset manufacturer first

When computer technology takes a step forward, it is sometimes better to stick with the status quo and let someone else help the industry recoup their R&D investment. When video cards first jumped from the AGP slot to PCI Express, for instance: PCI Express videocards didn't deliver enough of a...

Huge capacity (2TB; 64MB cache; Very fast burst read; Five-year warranty

Expensive; SATA 6Gb/s interface yields negligible performance gains; Activating SATA 6Gb/s interface on current motherboards prevents dual-GPU operation

Back on March 2011, Seagate debuted their original Barracuda XT 3TB hard drive , model ST33000651AS, which used five platters to supply 3000 gigabytes of capacity over a SATA 6Gb/s interface.

Very good 162 MB/s read bandwidth with ATTO Benchmark; 3rd-generation SATA 6Gb/s compliant controller; Massive 3-Terabyte storage capacity on three platters; Outstanding total-package value; 64MB Cache buffer improves burst transactions; Low-power standby conserves energy; 2-Year Seagate product...

2.1TB Barrier not removed via native hardware instruction on older O/S's; Previous Barracuda XT series offered 5-year warranty

Although Solid State Drives are all the rage lately, they comprise only a fraction of the overall desktop PC storage market. While SSDs are undeniably fast and enhance the overall user experience, they are also prohibitively expensive for many users and offer relatively low capacities.

High Capacity; Good Performance; 64MB Cache; 7200 RPM

SATA 6G Didn't Help Performance; Much More Expensive than somewhat slower; similar capacity drives