Seagate 3.5 inch 3TB Barracuda Desktop Hard Drive

Title : Seagate 3.5 inch 3TB Barracuda Desktop Hard Drive
ASIN : B0073Q7GU6

List Price : £147.99
Price : £100.49
Saved Price : £47.50

category: 1TB & Up
brand: Seagate
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Rating : 4.1
Review : Fast drive but needs effective cooling as they can become hot
I have so far bought four of these, two of which I am using in a RAID configuration and the others were bought on behalf of someone else, and I presume also for RAID.

I installed a pair (bought on my recommendation) in a RAID enclosure for someone only this week and discovered that the chosen enclosure had insufficient cooling and the heat built-up was such that it part-melted some of its internal plastics. In another enclosure, they are running quite cool but it has a fan which the first did not. If to be used for RAID, I would strongly suggest only using a fan-cooled enclosure.

They are fast, thanks to the motor speed, and allow about a 30% boost in transfer rate. They will be slightly faster on reads than on writes, but that is normal for all drives.

If to be used as an upgrade for a slower drive or one with lesser capacity, 3TB offers a better GB/