Cry for help on old hard drive - SEAGATE Seagate Barracuda 3TB hard drive (ST3000DM008)

The old hard disk has been used for a long time. There is a bad road. Although the bad road is in the last part of the hard disk, when it is used daily, such as listening to the song, the phenomenon of music can often occur. In order to prevent one day, the old hard disk suddenly hangs The Jingdong Computer Festival, which supports 2.21, quickly purchased new hard disks and copied all the data of the old hard disks in the past, lest my beloved hundreds of lossless music be wiped out.

SEAGATE Barracuda Series 3TB 7200 RPM 64M SATA3 Desktop Hard Disk (ST3000DM008) 599 yuan In 2016, Seagate renamed its hard disk products to make it easier for consumers to distinguish the past DM, VX and other products. Simply put, the desktop hard drive is named after Barracuda Barracuda and belongs to the Guardians Guardian series. This 3TB capacity model can be seen from the DM in the model as a desktop desktop hard drive in the past. Capacity 3TB, 7200RPM speed, 64MB cache, use Jingdong direct link to view encyclopedia

The landlord purchased the new Barracuda series. According to the customer service introduction, the old DM001 will be more stable.

JD.com's packaging of the hard drive is really powerless. It only uses a paper bag. It is obvious that the box was crushed.

But fortunately, Seagate still has a sponge pad, the hard disk is not hurt

There is a tear-proof bag on the outside of the hard disk, which can prevent the used East

You can't recover again by tearing

Hard disk body

Circuit board section

installation

The 3TB hard drive may not have any problems with the new computer, but it may be too much trouble for the old computer. First you need your motherboard to support the UEFI BIOS. After entering the system, convert the hard disk to GPT partition mode and convert it to GPT. After the mode, the hard disk can be partitioned by using WINDOWS' own disk management. The specific operating system corresponds to the following table:

Also note that if you cannot use GPT partitions and use MBR partitions, your hard drive can only be identified as 2TB, so if the computer is too old, it is recommended to buy 2TB hard drive directly.

Read and write speed test

AS SSD BENCHMARK

HD Tune Pro

Reading and writing speed is still quite outstanding in mechanical hard disk

Noise and summary

As a result of the actual experience, this hard disk will have a little bit of sound at full speed, but for my friend's Toshiba 3TB hard drive, this noise is obviously much smaller, and it will be 3TB higher than Toshiba at the highest and average read/write speeds. It's about 10 megabits/s faster.

Buying advice: First of all, if the old hard drive really has a small problem, do not drag it because you want to save money, the hard drive has a price, the data is priceless.

There are 3 brands of civilian-grade mechanical hard drives on the market, including Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba. In Western Digital, the speed among the three is always the slowest and will not be considered. Seagate and Toshiba will not have much difference in speed. Seagate is a bit faster. Noise control is better on Seagate. As for the specific life expectancy, it will take a long time to test. It is advisable to choose a cheaper one, not too picky, hard disk reliable and easy to use.