This is a replacement for a similar drive that failed in a small laptop after a severe drop. It installed with no trouble, partitioned, formatted and reinstalled the operating systems and everything is working fine with no unusual burps or clicks and the usual burn-in time has elapsed with zero issues. These are designed to be laptop drives or backup drives of course, and it should be no surprise they get a little het up and stumble in things like media servers and gaming systems. Likewise be wary of the one-stars who are not actually reviewing this product but something lesser they received from a repackager. Check your vendor and make sure you are getting the exact factory new product and then use it for its intended purpose, and these inexpensive little drives will work fine. Seagate 500GB BarraCuda SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 2.5-Inch 7mm Internal Hard Drive (ST500LM030) Read more
Works great in my mid 2012 MacBook Pro. Easy installation and recovery using Mac's Time Machine backup. Took just a few minutes to physically install the drive. 45 minutes later, after the Time Machine restoration, I was up and running again. Drive is working very well. Laptop runs faster than when it was new! Read more
Very nice. About 1/4" high. I use these only for backup only though (hot swappable) installed under linux. Purchased 2 of them. Once plugged in I back up DATA once a week using an executable script that creates one huge "tar" file. this file is dated and this drive will hold about 30 files before I need to begin to delete the earliest ones. I always restore to a redirected directory and THEN parse out from there (as I may not want to overwrite existing data). Experienced linux user. Read more
Bought this drive as a replacement for our daughters lap-top " A Dell" Drive works well and took care of what was essentially a dead computer. PS: If you need to replace a hard-drive in a Dell computer you'll want to down-load the repair manual from Dell's web-site. Their is no way I would have been able to have replaced the drive without the manual. Read more
Work fine; I used it as an emergency Back Up dive for a couple SSD drives. I don't know if it this drive or I forgot. It took forever to copy to it and programs run slower than the SSDs. A lot slower. Trust me. went back to the SSDs after the back up. Like day and night. Maybe nothing wrong with the drive. I just didn't remember how nice it was to switch to SSDs. Read more
Placed in an older laptop someone had gotten fubar'd and didn't want anymore. Reloaded Windows and works great now. A good price and bunch of storage. Fast seek times. Read more
Fast ship No instructions Had to go to manufacture web site It would not take serial number took a long time to find download to format drive Read more
I ordered these for my HP HDX18 and they have been working amazingly I’ve actually installed windows 10 (which many bloggers say they weren’t able to do) it is working mostly flawlessly. These drives brought back life into one of my most favorite laptops of all time. Read more
