Seagate Exos ST24000NM000C 24TB 7 2K RPM SATA 6Gb s 512e 3 5in Enterprise Hard Drive Renewed

Used in home server for storage of media only. I was nervous to get a recert drive but I haven't had any issues with this drive since installing. If the time comes to add more storage, I will look for this again. Pros: Capacity Easy to install No software issues Cons: Can be noisy on spin up but not enough to remove a star. Just wanted to share in case someone has a silent system. Read more

I altered my review. You have to be very careful with high capacity drives such as this 24 TB drive. My previous review said that it didn't spin up after 4 months but in the end that result was due to using it in a USB enclosure. When I put it into a Ugreen NAS it worked fine. I did try it in two different USB enclosures but it did not spin up in either of them. One of them was supposedly suitable for such high capacity drives and it did actually spin up once but only once. I'm glad I didn't throw it out! Read more

I was happy with the quality and price on this item. I have been using only Seagate IronWolf drives in this NAS. When I needed to add another 24 TB, I couldn't justify the cost of IronWolf. After reviewing the specs of the Exos line I decided to save some money on this one. It powered up and was recognized by the OS. I was able to configure it and copy over the data to be populated on this unit quickly and easily. It's been behaving for three days with no issues and the logs are clean. Read more

Warranty Issue: Item failed within renewed item warranty period. I need a prepaid return label to send the item back for replacement. Read more

Solid as a rock! 3rd or 4th drive like this version over the last few years and all have been reliable. I need a bigger drive doing videos as they take up lots of drive space. Steve S. NJ Read more

I thoroughly tested this drive on my Linux machine with the smartcrtl tests, and the drive was in perfect conditions. Great price, great drive. FYI, in Linux make sure you dont do a ext4 lazy journaling format, or you will have to endure 36 hours of small writes. A full non-lazy format will only take 10 minutes, and save the drive from excessive writes during the background lazy journaling. Read more

Would give 5 stars, but I have purchased 4 of these. 3 have worked great and one had the sata power connector just fell apart when unplugging to add another drive and hesitate cabling. I mist have just gotten one with a bad connector. I have never had a connector fail in this manner in decades of working with computers. As these are enterprise grade, gentle unplugging should not cause any issues. Read more

I bought 4 at once, was worried at least one if not multiple would be bad or near end of life, but as advertised they're good and with plenty of life remaining. They all pass smart. I'll probably be back for more, best price I could find. Read more