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The old 2TB Barracuda drive was 7mm thick and would easily fit in a laptop. This one is 15mm thick (more than double) and won't fit in any laptop. I wonder what the point of making 2 1/2 inch drives is if they don't fit in a laptop.
I received it without any problems and it works.
It's a 15mm drive, so it doesn't fit in the PS4 or a laptop, but I use it as an external HDD, so it's fine.
Also, on Windows, you will see 3.6TB, which is normal because Windows reads in "megabyte/Gibabyte/Tebabyte mode" (1TB = 0.91TiB = 1000GB = 932GB), whereas on Linux (ubuntu, macOS, etc), it says 4TB.
On the other hand, sometimes, it makes my windows pc crash (hardware defect or windows defect?)
It's a good idea to check with time if it holds.
It's a pleasure to have a large capacity hard drive connected to an external media. In fact, for the past year I have had 3 of them.
I have owned a PC for 25 years. I have a large amount of data, especially photos and personal videos, which I have always backed up and each time benefit from the progress in the capacity of the hard drives. With Seagate I have often used their error detection software during the warranty period and for security I only put copies on these new 4 tetra drives.
For those worried about the 15mm height of this 4 tetra hard drive I advise them the ICY BOX IB-256WP which is not expensive and very practical.
Used in RAID10 in a Dell R620, connected to a Dell Perc H710 mini as mass storage, so far I haven't encountered any problems, the data I send on it copies at ~120MB/s (1GB/s network saturation, I plan to upgrade to 10G).
I haven't encountered any major problems yet, except for a drop in IOPS when I'm doing simultaneous installations of multiple virtual machines, which is normal. Just make the accesses as sequential as possible, and no problems are encountered.
Their size was as expected, "impressive". About twice the thickness of a 2.5" laptop drive, so won't fit in a lot of laptops.
One thing to keep in mind is that these seem to be "SMR" (Shingled Magnetic Recording) drives. This means that the sectors overlap slightly. When writing next to a written sector, the disk must rewrite it to avoid data corruption, which will greatly reduce performance (domino effect). We can therefore imagine that from the moment 2TB of data have been written on it, performance will greatly decrease. I have not yet encountered the problem, however, and I don't think I will, as the storage planned is limited to a database and other tests.
After that, my use case won't be the most standard one either. I didn't have a choice of size for the disks to fit in the server, so I chose these, in addition to an 850 Evo RAID10 (small capacity though).
As it was to be used externally and is 15mm high I first looked for a case. The ICY BOX IB-256WP seems to be the only one available for 15mm, so I decided to buy the Seagate BarraCuda 4Tb. The problem is that Windows 10 and not Windows 7 is having problems formatting the drive. The first disk I had to format without any problem on Windows 7 and then put it in usb on the Windows 10 PC. The first disk I had to format without any problem on Windows 7 and then put it on the Windows 10 PC. For this second disk Windows 7 puts a very clear error message: "writing forbidden" On the box there is a security button to forbid writing, that I unchecked and the formatting was done without any problem. With Windows 10 it's always a mess despite the updates that are done almost every day.
I've had a drive for over 6 months that has no problems.
Categorized as 2 1/2", so 2.5", this one is twice the size of a 2.5".
I bought it to change the hard drive on my PS4 Pro, but it doesn't fit in the playstation at all.
Much too big for this "size" category.
In use, no idea, but my opinion is based on the size of the hard drive case.
Watch out, it's not 2.5".
Very disappointed with this order that I made in express to take advantage of the special promo code hdd (I was waiting for nearly 6 months ...) so I did not compare too much with other merchant and especially not well analyze the characteristics of the product, product that just proves unusable ... It bothers me even more that I took 2 ...
The LDLC of today is not the same as it was in the beginning... (beginning of the 2000's), prices are not competitive at all for my taste, promo codes never fall at the right time, no exceptional discount even for an order of 8000 euros... etc.
But I digress...
I'm very disappointed that LDLC didn't think it was relevant to point out on the product sheet that the hard drive was 15 minutes thick (standard thickness is 7 or 9.5 minutes) and therefore incompatible with surely 99% of laptops 15" and under as well as with external cases for hdd...
And given the price of the disks they are just unsellable unless I sell them for a third of their purchase value
Warning, almost twice as thick as a disc I was used to seeing.
It won't fit in my Asus Rog... I was going to use it as a data drive, so I'll have to find a USB adapter with the right size.
Very satisfied. The hard drive works perfectly. Unbeatable price per GB.
I installed it in my Msi GT 73 VR Titan (replacing the same one in 2TB version) a bit too thick but it still fits without being a pain! All I had to do was format it and that's it!
LDLC always on top as usual, very good packaging and fast delivery
