
As I said in a prior review for a WD I would recommend this drive over a comparable WD. However in some case(s) I would recommend the WD over a Seagate. It really depends on the trade off(s) and so on. The Seagate ran just a tad hotter than I would like. About 12 degree(s) over. At about 111 degree Fahrenheit. That may not seem hot but over the long term will add up. I also had it in a external docking station.

Set up in a family member's computer as backup storage for the ssd in a m-atx case. Will be just as reliable as a 3.5" given all the dog hair and dander this thing is going to subjected to.

Large capacity in a small package.

Capacity, size, Samsung quality, price and reviews.

Very good price per GB for the 2.5" form factor compared to other drives on the market. Drive was shipped in a very solid yet impact absorbing air pack to prevent any damage. The drive height is very thin at 7mm and very light compared to my 7 year old 2.5" seagate drive. The drive is also very quiet compared to my older drive, its almost silent to the point I don't even know if its on or not. I used this drive as an external USB drive using a 2.5" USB enclosure. I did have to format, partition, and initialize the drive first in Windows Disk Management before the device would show up in Explorer. After that it was simple plug and play for the drive now. Writing to the drive I got an an average of about 22MB/s for a 3GB file. Read speed was about 31MB/s. This was done on the USB 2.0 standard, so USB 3.0 should be alot better.

Replaced the failing Dell 320gb HD with this thin 500Gb and it is quiet!!! and fast. Plus the extra room allows for a little more heat dissipation in my Inspiron n5010 laptop. Excellent price also

Plenty of storage, runs fast, easy install

This harddisk is the best fit for the Lenovo ideapad 330S-15ARR. Works great and fits with no problems. Had to find a hard disk that would fit in the slot and not be to thick for the case and this one fit perfect.

Extremely small form factor. A standard laptop HDD is 9.5mm tall; this one shaves 2.5mm off to become only 7mm tall. If you need an extremely small form factor HDD, this one’s for you. The length and width is the same as other laptop HDDs, so this should fit in your existing laptop or anywhere you have a laptop drive. SmartAlign technology produces 4K sector performance on operating systems that don’t support 4K sectors (Windows XP, for example). This technology won’t matter if you’re using a modern OS such as Windows 8, but it is nice for those who are using a legacy OS. This drive performs as well as you’d expect it to. If you’re using a SATA III compatible system, you’ll get increased performance with this drive as opposed to SATA II. This drive is SATA II and III compatible for both older and newer systems. I installed a fresh copy of Windows 8 x64 on this drive. It only took 10 minutes to install, and other 5 to set up. Simple and quick!


great way to add some speed to macbook, nothing frastic but noticeable


Fair Price Exact Fit for HP Envy Laptop

Low power, good size cache, small form factor. Quiet with low heat...




This is a nice 1TB enterprise Seagate drive in a 2.5" form factor. I'm running this drive in a workstation. It came with a 5 year warranty. (Please note, this most likely will not fit in a laptop, if that is what you are seeking to do. It is much taller than a typical laptop drive.) So far, I'm very happy with it.,

Drive was easy to install. Laptop came on immediately when tried. Ive purchased more than 10 Seagate drives over time and only had 1 bad . Newegg instantly replaced it without problems.
