16TB ST16000NM001G Exos X16 SATA 6Gb/s 7.2K RPM 512e/4Kn 256Mb, OEM, Mechanical Hard Disk

Newer Hdd's Sata3.3 have PWDIS (Power Disable Feature), Easily remedied By using a Molex to Sata Splitter off the PSU...Basically if your Sata Power Lead has 5 Cables off it it will use PWDIS in your System,(Pin3) if your Sata Lead has 4 Cables off No PWDIS... It's the third pin of Sata that Utilises this function...Other Fix is 1mm x 4mm Tape Over Pin 3 So No Contact on Sata Cable When Inserted.. However My Older External Sata Usb 3.0. Caddy Recognized the Drive Straight Away again no PWDIS..Confused Me For a Bit when I put it in Media Center (No Power) Not Spinning...After Pulling Hdd,s, Sata Cables, etc... New One on Me...

I bought two of the Exos 16TB drives for expanding a friend's Synology NAS. I have only looked at the first of the two drives so far but can confirm it has without a doubt been modified to look 'new' when they very clearly aren't - akin to rolling back the odometer of a car before selling it. The SMART data has been wiped, showing zeros in the hours and values across the board, but as others have suggested, reading the FARM data using smartctl shows a very different picture: Power on Hours: 31843 Lifetime writes - 32 971 100 769 logical sectors × 512 B each works out to ≈16.9 TB (decimal) / 15.4 TiB (binary) written. Lifetime reads - 5 988 505 020 365 sectors × 512 B turns into ≈3.07 PB (decimal) / 2.79 PiB (binary) read. The drive has been in continuous use for nearly 4 years, not the 0 hours as shown by the SMART data, and has read ~3 Petabytes of data. Although I know these drives are workhorses, and the FARM values don't show any issues or predictive failures, I have to give the item 1 star due to the complete lack of transparency, and the effort involved to wipe the SMART data to pretend it's a new drive. The drives were sent in some stiff foam, and visually look defect-free. I'm including photos of the packaging, and the data from SMART and FARM to back up my point. If the item description was transparent about the drive history and status, there would be multiple stars added to this review. tl;dr? Drives are not new, they have been modified to look new, your milage will vary.

So far so good, using Synology has ds923+, even if they tested in other devices isn't marked as compatible with this one. However for me its ok. From other comments noises on standby are quiet in my private opinion (have another brand loud and vibrating even just plugin to power) and when right/writing is a bit loud but need to remember it is 16 TB with much use better to find different location than living or bedroom. The warranty on that should be only 2 years instead of 5 according to Seagate(even if it's brand new).

As others have said - these drives are NOT NEW. The SMART data has been reset to 0 hours, to make it look like this is the case, but the FARM data is intact and shows that one of my 'new' drives has been in use for 28660 hours - over 3 years! The Seagate Warranty checker also warns that there is an issue; the drives have previously been sold and registered for warranty as part of a larger consignment, so you will not get a warranty for these units. Probably ex-mining disks being dumped back onto the public to recoup funding for more mining... You can download the farm-check tool from github to test your own drives, if you are concerned. Returning mine forthwith, as I do not want out-of-warranty 3 year old ragged units!

Excellent 16 TERA Seagate Exos HDD. Pity thet the seller doesn't sell any more at the same price. I'd buy two more if he did.

Got nothing bad to say, at the moment 209 £/16 tb enterprise = £425 for 29tb nas space, had my moments with this lovely mafacture, but 9/10, -1 for nas support on my, asustor nas, for value, use, and don't fail, checked all stats, reported about 3 hour run time, still got my old baccuda ary, raid, 2 tb 1-1 so only one tb, still worked, packed for about a year, so long gevity there is a list of fails hdds for me this one stands out for build Regards not a bot

Bought one 2 years ago. Has 4700 hours on it and working fine. Bought another one in July 25 and dead on arrival. Came only wrapped in bubble wrap which had be worrying before even plugging it in.

I bought two of these drives almost a year ago. I set them up in RAID 0 on my second NAS (sync my primary NAS to it for backup). It was cheaper and more beneficial than getting an external 32TB hardrive. Time will tell how they perform in the long run but for the past 11 months I have had no issues whatsoever.

I like many others received a used disk repackaged as new, the disk had upwards of 23 000 power on hours when the FARM data was checked, which means it was active for more than 3 years and as such it is more than half way through the manufacturers warranty.

Bought this hdd half hearted because of its not new state but up to now it worked flawlessly in my Synology DS1817+. I will probably get a few more of these in the future in order to max out my storage capabilities.

Funciona bien, gracias

Envoi rapide , produit conforme à l’attendu, fonctionne parfaitement

Fungerar som förväntat. Fungerar bra i min U-NAS Pro. Köpte denna då den var mest priseffektiv jämfört med andra.