Drive died 2 months after warranty expired, was manufactured in January 2017. Other drives in the system (non Seagate) manufactured in 2011 still going strong.

I had 2 of these running in RAID1 for under 2 years for archival purposes. I'd use them once a week to store my data. Both died at the same time and I can't recover any of my data on either drive. Typical Seagate.

- solid field test - no errors - reliable - 2 years running

- Slow but average for 7200rpm - sometimes loud but not overly.

For the price, I have 2 of these in RAID 1 on my Synology NAS and it has never let me down. I even had this unplugged in storage for 4 months, when connected again, no issues, sync'ed my devices again, and now it keeps doing it's thing. I have done a few full Recoveries from the NAS with no hiccups.