Seagate ST2000LM010 2TB 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5″ Internal Notebook Hard Drive Seagate

★★★★★ Pros: The physical size: 2.5" width, 7mm thickness. There aren't many small form factor hard disks that offer this much storage space or the 128MB cache, if any. If you are looking to replace a laptop secondary storage drive, this Seagate 2TB 5400RPM is the way to go. Paired with an SSD to run Windows and applications this is the perfect solution. And I wouldn't limit it's uses to just a laptop or notebook. If you have any small form factor micro-ITX build that is lacking space for additional traditional 3.5" hard disks this will also be a great solution. Less heat, less noise, and will fit into any SSD designed tray to give you a good extra 2TB. The Seagate ST2000LM007 is also a great portable option for users. Purchase an external housing designed for SATA SSDs, throw this thing in there, and you've got your own 2TB USB 3.0, eSATA, or Thunderbolt portable disk. It's light weight and low heat producing design also make it a good on-the-go solution. Cons: For the scenario this device is designed for, I don't see any cons. Overall Review: While in actual use transferring 2GB video files from a SATA SSD to this Seagate ST2000LM007 the speeds reached ~185MB/s, while averaging ~120MB/s. Transferring the same files back to that same SSD the speeds reached ~110MB/s, averaging ~85MB/s. Running virtual tests with a disk speed measuring application using file sizes from 512KB up to 40GB the results averaged at: Read: min: 70 MB/s max: 140 MB/s total avg: 101 MB/s Write: min: 47 MB/s max: 131 total avg: 94 MB/s I would say those are fairly good results with a 5400RPM disk housed in this mini 2.5" form factor.

★★★★☆ Pros: - Super Thin Height of 7mm - Fast Speeds - Quiet Operation - Large Disk Capacity for a small HDD - 2 Year Warranty - Price versus Storage Cons: - None Overall Review: First off, this drive is super thin and has a lot of storage space in such a small foot print. Most modern day ultra books and laptops require a small 7mm HDD. This does a great job at that.The drive operation is quiet and seems to run decently cool under load. I benchmarked the drive nn a Windows 10 machine with CrystalDisk and received the following speeds: Benchmarks: Avg. Sequential Read Speed 128MB/s Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 137MB/s Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.63MB/s Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 1.44MB/ The sequential reads and writes were expected and even the lower random read and write speeds. I've benchmarked a lot of HDD and feel the speed difference with this 5400 RPM drive and other 7200 RPM drives was not very noticeable. The drive is not the fastest but is definitely adequate as an OS drive or as a storage drive. I ended up using this drive as an upgrade in a friend's PS4 and bumped his 500 GB HDD up to 2TB. This drive would also make a good upgrade for a PC laptop, MacBook or Mac Mini. Overall, a good average performance drive for the price. You get a very small footprint and a very large storage capacity.

★★★★★ Pros: For the price, this is a great little 2.5" HDD. With a 7mm height it is small, lightweight, and great for thin devices that require a lower profile 2.5 HDD. It has a SATA3 6.0Gb/s interface with a 128MB cache, which is larger than other laptop size hard drives, sans an SSHD (SSD cached drive). It is a 5400RPM drive, but operates extremely quiet with zero noticeable vibration noise. I used this drive in a Micro ATX case, which has limited room for drives and fits perfectly next to the existing SSD. It takes little space and works perfect as a small data drive. Per Crystal DiskMark (see below), it delivers just under 140MB/s on sequential reads/writes, which is on par with most 3.5" drives. Cons: My only con is the 2 year warranty. However, looking at other drives at this price point, a 2 or 3 year warranty is typical. Overall Review: Crystal DiskMark Results: ------------------------- Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 139.371 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 134.606 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.470 MB/s [ 358.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.483 MB/s [ 362.1 IOPS] Sequential Read (T= 1) : 139.034 MB/s Sequential Write (T= 1) : 135.684 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.544 MB/s [ 132.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 1.486 MB/s [ 362.8 IOPS] Test : 1024 MiB [E: 0.0% (0.3/931.4 GiB)] (x4) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2016/11/19 13:00:42 OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 14393] (x64) Installed System: ----------------- i3-4170 (3.7GHz) 8GB DDR3 1866 256GB Samsung 850 Evo 1TB Seagate 2.5" HDD MSI GTX960 Armor2x Fractal Design Core 1100 Black mATX case