(Old Model) Seagate Exos 12TB Internal Hard Drive Enterprise HDD – 3.5 Inch 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 128MB Cache for Enterprise, Data Center – Frustration Free Packaging

I run over 100TB in a home entertainment server. I decided to add on to that server recently with a Drobo 5N2, which holds another 5 HDDs and up to a capacity of 64TB. These 5 drives I purchased represent 60TB that I installed. I loaded half of it already with full HD Blu-ray movies, FLAC music and high res photos. So far they are performing fantastically, serving my whole home, and streaming from anywhere I go. No stuttering, or buffering yet encountered. These drives seem very solid. I may get more! Thank you!

nothing bad to say about these, they work as they should, no loud random noises, havent failed me or had any problems since buying them... i have bought 2 of these over the last year or so. would buy again if they go cheaper in the next year.

So far these are running great. Temperatures are cool and S.M.A.R.T. indicators look great (extra great considering it's a Seagate). No noise out of this thing. It's not the fastest drive out there, I'm guessing (from feel only) it's about average. I haven't benchmarked it & I don't benchmark drives 'cause I run Linux & benchmarking drives is as much of an art as it is a science, & the moment you do, EVERYBODY complains you aren't doing it correctly (Linux crowds can be a rough bunch), so I don't bother. Plus different distros have different benchmark tools, & they're updated all the time, & it's really scientific & standardized, if you want to spend 25% of your free time figuring stuff out that should be way easier to use, as it is 2018 for cryin' out loud. UNIX' been around for what, 55 years? Longer than Windows. Hey Torvalds, Red Hat, Canonical, HP, IBM, & SUSE LLC, get your acts together. Nobody's gettin' younger.Got it 'cause I wanted the biggest consumer HDD I could get. Having Helium was a bonus, and matches nicely with my HGST HDDs with He, EXCEPT the Seagate runs much cooler than the HGSTs (of lower capacity, 8TB).So far I'm pleasantly surprised. I sure hope the MTBF figures are vaguely accurate.

I ordered three of these drives at the same time, and two were bad. The first one began "clicking" as soon as I started copying data to it. The second one began "clicking" after I had copied 8 TB and began to read the data. The Windows event log was full of "DISK" errors. Obviously bad drives. The problem is I don't know where in the process the drives were damaged. Did something happen at the manufacturing or reseller facility? Perhaps it was damaged during shipping. Who knows. :(The one drive that worked (and continues to do so) has performed well with great speed. I would have rated these drives with 5 stars had it not been for the damaged drives.I have replaced the two faulty drives with the same make/model and so far, so good.Unfortunately, this is not the first time I've had an issue like this. The same problem occurred last year when I bought two 10 TB Seagate drives. One of the drives began "clicking" immediately.