Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 3.0 Internal Hard Drive (ST2000DMA08)

Bought this as a replacement for my 3TB Toshiba hard drive which I've had for 5 years now. After installing this drive, I would hear a scratching sound like the spinning disc inside is rubbing on each other every time I turn on the computer. It goes away after like 3 seconds but its loud, louder than my 5 year old Toshiba hard drive. My computer is complete silent and the only thing you can hear is this hard disk spinning. I understand HDD drive have spinning disc so can't expect it to be complete silent but wasn't expecting it to be louder than a 5 year old HDD. In the end, I had to return it and go with an external HD for backup.

This is the best time to buy this product because of the price dropped and I still can get decent values and quality of an excellent product like this Seagate hard drive. 2 TB capacity is powerful enough for me to manage the disk space with my desktop. I am consider to buy a few of this product so that tons of disk space would be created among my personal and professional work zone. The best with these massive disk space will make me happy because I saved a lot of photos and videos in my computer systems. Thanks to Seagate for this product.

This is a very common hard drive used amongst gamers. I have seen it in countless builds and decided to buy it for my own computer. I have a 500gb M2 SSD for my OS and most used programs and this HDD for my games library and large files. It works great, and it fast as far as hard drives go. It had worked great so far, and games load pretty fast. Going with a hard drive like this is great for games because the only thing it impacts is the inital loading time. After that, the game runs just like normal without any difference in speed.