Review on Seagate ST1000DM003 Internal Desktop HDD - High-Quality Hard Drive for Reliable Performance by Asahi Akio ᠌

And again, it's not clear why a high-speed 7200rpm HDD should have such miserable default power-saving settings. The disk doesn't heat up anyway, and it hardly consumes more than 10W - enough already, maybe, to fight for the rights of polar bears where it is clearly pointless? Pros: The drive is quiet (for those who seem to have it crackling loudly, I recommend taking WD Black for a listen next time), cold, low and at the same time it has an honest 7200rpm with the corresponding read-write linear speeds. Has some cons This is the second Seagate drive in the last year with APM set to 80h (128) out of the maximum FEh (254). The results are the same - the disk constantly goes into its inner sleep, from which it emerges rather slowly, which manifests itself in perceptible pauses of the entire system for 1-2 seconds, when, for example, the audio track in the game changes or the game wants to play some audio file (character's remark) . In principle, this is treated by HDParm or CrystalDisk, but this will have to be done at each OS start. A trifle, but unpleasant.