Seagate 16TB ST16000NM001G Exos X16 SATA 6Gb/s 7.2K RPM 512e/4Kn 256Mb, OEM, Mechanical Hard Disk

It's great. I got two of them to make a super large hard drive.

The drive arrived in a bubble-wrap package with a "New" sticker on it that didn't look legitimate, and made me suspicious it wasn't new.Upon arrival I plugged the drive into a Windows machine. Nothing happened.The drive didn't even appear in Disk Management or Device Manager.I tried another Windows machine using another known-good enclosure, and got the same result - nothing.I then plugged it into a Linux machine, which did acknowledge the drives existence, and revealed that the drive was already formatted to XFS, and the drive was completely filled with files.Almost all of the SMART data for the drive had been wiped, but what SMART data remained clearly showed that the drive was not new, and in fact had already been used for over 10,000 hours.So yeah, the drive was a used drive that they were trying to flog as new.Looking up the drives serial number on SeaGate's website yields the following warranty info:"This product was originally sold as a part of a larger system. Please contact the system manufacturer or your place of purchase for warranty support."So no warranty from SeaGate at all.This also goes a long way to explain why so many reviewers complain of these drives being noisy and such - whoever is selling these probably has a large installation and is getting rid of the worst drives, so they're clearing the SMART data and trying to re-sell them as new, and the bad drives are much more likely to be noisy and clicky.

I bought two of these drives almost a year ago. I set them up in RAID 0 on my second NAS (sync my primary NAS to it for backup). It was cheaper and more beneficial than getting an external 32TB hardrive. Time will tell how they perform in the long run but for the past 11 months I have had no issues whatsoever.

As others have said - these drives are NOT NEW. The SMART data has been reset to 0 hours, to make it look like this is the case, but the FARM data is intact and shows that one of my 'new' drives has been in use for 28660 hours - over 3 years!The Seagate Warranty checker also warns that there is an issue; the drives have previously been sold and registered for warranty as part of a larger consignment, so you will not get a warranty for these units.Probably ex-mining disks being dumped back onto the public to recoup funding for more mining...You can download the farm-check tool from github to test your own drives, if you are concerned.Returning mine forthwith, as I do not want out-of-warranty 3 year old ragged units!

So far so good, using Synology has ds923+, even if they tested in other devices isn't marked as compatible with this one. However for me its ok. From other comments noises on standby are quiet in my private opinion (have another brand loud and vibrating even just plugin to power) and when right/writing is a bit loud but need to remember it is 16 TB with much use better to find different location than living or bedroom. The warranty on that should be only 2 years instead of 5 according to Seagate(even if it's brand new).

Got nothing bad to say, at the moment 209 £/16 tb enterprise = £425 for 29tb nas space, had my moments with this lovely mafacture, but 9/10, -1 for nas support on my, asustor nas, for value, use, and don't fail, checked all stats, reported about 3 hour run time, still got my old baccuda ary, raid, 2 tb 1-1 so only one tb, still worked, packed for about a year, so long gevity there is a list of fails hdds for me this one stands out for buildRegards not a bot

Edit - Search this: Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepensBought two - had to use wife to buy second one due to limit as how other do I create a RAID1??? Pain.NO ISSUES - seem absolutely brand new. Perfect packaging. VERY quiet, fast, huge. They write at 245Mbps.Good value - but I was worried given the 30% bad reviews...

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