Seagate Barracuda 6TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive with 5400 RPM & 256MB Cache - View 1

Seagate Barracuda 6TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive with 5400 RPM & 256MB Cache

4.3 (1,219 ratings)
~$111.99 with 25 percent savings
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  • Enjoy long-term peace of mind with the included two-year limited warranty

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Customer Reviews

Kevin55
A good quiet drive, but tricky to set up as a storage drive with a Linux filesystem. Ordinary relabeling and repartitioning with "parted" or "cfdisk", followed with formatting to ext4 or xfs at first appear to work, but the disk will not reliably mount and throws off NTFS signature errors. The small Windows/mbr partition at the head of the drive seems invisible to Linux partitioning tools and must be cleared first with a specially formatted "dd" command. Once the small Windows/mbr partition has been converted to ordinary "freespace" visible to Linux partitioning tools, then the drive can be partitioned and formatted normally, and works well.
MadMax
I bought the 6TB version to upgrade my PLEX server. Based on other reviews I immediately checked the warranty. Just search for "Seagate Drive Warranty" in your search engine and enter the serial number. Mine checked out with warranty valid for 2 years and 1 month. If you are installing a drive larger than 2TB (in windows), you must use GPT disk partitioning instead of MBR to recognize the full size of the disk. MBR is an older partition style used in legacy bios'. You must switch to the newer UEFI bios and then convert the disk to GPT partition using the windows disk management system. (I'm not sure about iOS). Since W10 v1703 you can convert to UEFI without reinstalling. Just search for "switch to uefi without reinstall" and follow the instructions. It only took me 10 minutes to switch to UEFI, then partition the disk as GPT instead of MBR. Full drive size recognized and running great so far.
Krooks Security Systems
Worked with out any issues. Died 5 months before the warranty expired. Contacted Seagate and I'm told to contact the seller. What a hassle.. Seagate used to be a great company to order hdd from. I should ua e paid more attention to the reviews on this one!
Chuck
Every easy to install. No problems. Will purchase from this speller again.