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Get big storage with the Seagate BarraCuda 5TB hard drive. This range leads the market with the highest capacity drives for desktop and mobile devices. These drives are perfect for upgrades and all budgets.
2.5" 5 TB hard drive 5400 RPM 128 MB Serial ATA 6Gb/s (bulk)
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BarraCuda 2.5-inch drives deliver on their promiseRock-solid reliability based on over 20 years of BarraCuda innovation. A flexible mix of capacity and price to fit any budget. Multi-level caching technology ensures excellent performance.
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Proven reliabilityThe BarraCuda line of hard drives is built to last for years.
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General information |
Product name |
Seagate BarraCuda 5 TB (ST5000LM000) |
Brand |
Seagate Technology | |
Model |
ST5000LM000 | |
Main characteristics |
Interface with the computer |
Serial ATA 6Gb/s (SATA Revision 3) |
Hard drive format |
2" 1/2 | |
Capacity |
5 TB | |
Performance |
Rotation speed |
5400 RPM |
Cache size |
128 MB | |
Recording technology |
SMR | |
Design |
Hard drive type |
HDD (Hard Disk Drive) |
Use |
for PC | |
Physical characteristics |
Width |
69.85 mm |
Height |
15 mm | |
Depth |
100.35 mm | |
Weight |
190 g | |
Warranties |
Commercial warranty |
Seller 3 years |
Legal warranty |
See terms & conditions |
Product referenced on 4 Nov 2016
Delivered without cable and screws. The packaging was not great, the hard drive was walking around in the box with a minimum of protection. Besides, there is no official Seagate packaging around the hard drive. Strange.
The days of 500 megabytes are long gone. As time goes by, we take bigger and bigger disks to have everything without searching in dozens of disks. It's especially because photos and videos are taking up more and more space. And then it is essential to make backup copies.
The hardest part is finding a USB 3.0 enclosure to fit such a thick drive (15mm!), but the drive itself is exactly what I needed for my periodic local backups.
I wanted to install Xpenology on a mini PC. Problem, who says mini pc, says DD in 2,5 !
I wanted to import my large media library on a plex accessible 24/24, there was only the Barracuda to do the trick.
The HDD is a bit thicker than the standard HDDs and I had to remove the old plastic HDD holder so that it would fit in the machine (a Dell optiplex).
I'm very happy with it so far, it does the job it's supposed to!
Out of four disks ordered, one of them failed very quickly (in less than a week). Installed on a Synology nas, the defective disk started to make "bad sectors" after an extended smart test. Hopefully the others will not follow. In order to have a fast service, the disk was sent back to Seagate directly. Despite the speed of LDLC's service, for this kind of problem, at the level of the disks, I prefer to send back to the manufacturer, the delays are reduced, between 4 and 7 days.
