Review on 💾 Seagate 7200RPM Desktop SATA Hard Drive with Enhanced Cache by Hector Szymczak

This is specific to 6TB drives. The mounting jig is not an issue in my case so it's not a negative for me but others have complained about it so be sure and know the details. I bought one a few months ago and the setup was one of the easiest I've ever had and it worked fine, so I recently bought and installed two more and everything seemed fine until I started uploading data transferred, and it was excruciatingly slow. In some cases, write speeds were within a MB/s, although I was expecting at least 100 MB/s. I ran some tests with HD Tune Pro and in fact the first drive showed a test transfer rate of just under 200MB/s for blocks larger than 512 bytes. And as expected, reads were slightly higher than writes. And Windows regularly reported true sustained read and write speeds of between 120MB/s and 145MB/s. peaked at 65-128 byte blocks below 150 and then dropped from there to the low double digits at 8192 bytes where the largest files will likely reside. I tried switching controllers and SATA ports and the results were pretty much the same. In desperation I deleted the partitions with Windows Disk Management, rebooted and then created new partitions and retested them with HD Tune Pro and now they all work pretty much the same. I have no idea what happened the first time because I think I created new disks, GPTs and partitions the same way with Disk Manager, but they are fine now. If anyone has an idea of what I experienced, I'd appreciate a message. All in all these are very large drives at a reasonable price for those who need more than 4 or 5 TB and I would recommend them to others but I will always tell the story. this anomaly I experienced.