Review on 💾 Seagate 2TB BarraCuda SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 2.5-Inch 7mm Internal Hard Drive by Stanislaw Dwojak ᠌

Name: 💾 Seagate 2TB BarraCuda SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 2.5-Inch 7mm Internal Hard Drive
Item: 💾 Seagate 2TB BarraCuda SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 2.5-Inch 7mm Internal Hard Drive
Rating: 3

May 03, 2023

There are disadvantages, but the product is usable.

Accordingly, if we take into account the already published reviews, then the main problem with this hard drive is not its noise characteristics (22-24 decibels are not so terrible). But overheating inside the body of a real decent laptop makes using this disk only as an external storage for archive files, which contradicts its declared characteristics and common sense. After low-level formatting, no new erroneous clusters appeared. As a result, the "health" indicator of the disk has grown to 47% in a week of use, and by mid-November 2022 it is already 60%. And putting the laptop into "economical" mode allows you to limit the maximum temperature of the disk within 44 - 45 degrees and use this disk as the main working media of the laptop.

Pros

Sufficiently large capacity - 2 TB. In addition, over the past two months after low-level formatting, health and productivity indicators have increased to decent values \u200b\u200bof 60%, and judging by the values \u200b\u200bof smart attributes, there is a chance to bring them to values of 77%.

Cons

Unfortunately, this hard drive did not live up to expectations when used as the main hard drive in a Toshiba Satellite R630-140 work laptop. When working in an external USB 3.0 container, this drive behaves decently, providing an operating temperature of 26 to 34 degrees C. but after copying (transferring) the contents of the predecessor WDC WD10JPVT to it and installing it in the R630-140 laptop case, the temperature on the ST2022LM015 drive is in working order quickly increased to 46 degrees (with a limit value of 47 degrees). And accordingly, the HDDLife Notebook program immediately showed a sharp decrease in "health" and "performance" from 90% to 30% and issued a recommendation for an urgent replacement of the hard drive. And there were enough ST2022LM015 resources inside the laptop for a couple of days. The situation changed for the better after low-level formatting of the ST2022LM015 disk. With a hard drive temperature of 30 degrees C (connected by an additional drive inside the desktop case), the number of positioning errors was reduced and, accordingly, the "health" and "performance" indicators increased to an acceptable value of 41%. Moreover, this value - 41% - is determined by the lowest of the Smart indicators (No. 7) of this disk - "positioning errors". And after repeated low-level formatting, this indicator improved (increased) to 43%.