Seagate BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive 5TB SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 2.5-Inch 15mm (ST5000LM000) (Renewed)

Not fast, but pretty good for NAS. Reliability is a concern, but a couple months in and no issues yet. Beniice if there was more options in this size.

A lot of friends of mine do not believe that I paid so little for a 5 TB drive like this, I think I just got lucky because I have not found another one like it for the same price

A little confusing as the label indicated both renewed and new. I do appreciate the robust packaging, Amazon did this seller no favors by shipping in an over sized paper grocery bag. Linux Mint HTPC saw the drive upon powering up. Formatted, done. Drive looked new even though there was a refurbished tamper sticker. Speed, this isn't a SSD. but it's fine for movies. I was able to transfer movies from an old outboard drive to this new internal drive. took about 6 hours with no breaks. not a hitch. test drove one of the movies from the new drive, and it worked just fine. Its is a tall, but fit my 4 drive cage just fine along side of a 2 TB HDD, and 1 1TB SSD as my boot drive.

Most 2.5 HDD in the 7mm slim form factor only go up to 2Tb. This drive is a bit thicker and not very fast, but work great for backups. I used it in a 5.7L SFF itx gaming build with a total of 17Tb storage.

Obviously removed from ... some device or enclosure as evidenced by the scuff marks and residual adhesive that had been peeled off. S.M.A.R.T. data shows a pristine drive which has been data filled one cycle, presumably the refurbisher's test run. Probably the highest capacity available in this form factor, now living happily in a "thick" version solid aluminum enclosure from BlueEndless.

I finally got around to completing my media server build and found out that this drive IS NOT 5TB as advertised. It formats as a 5MB HDD, which is absolutely ridiculous!! In fact, after doing some testing and investigation I come to find that whoever recertified this drive incorrectly programmed the LBA. I'm pretty darn sure the LBA for a 5TB hard drive is not 9999.Seatools will not let me increase the LBA, only lower it. Its native LBA is not known by the firmware, nor is it saved anywhere in the flash.Basically, I'm screwed with this piece of junk that I wasted over $100 on. 😡I'm certainly not ever buying any more recertified drives ever again😡😡Total ripoff

Purchased this drive for a Eufy Homebase 3. It seems to be operating smoothly without a lot of heat or noise. I’m impressed with the ease of adding it to my Eufy HB3. The Barracuda is a better value option for the HB3 compared to SSDs since the SSDs are more expensive per TB.

I wanted the largest 2.5" drive I could get/afford to put into a Tivo Bolt+ DVR. I decided to take a chance on this refurbished drive as it is less expensive than a new one.The drive arrived in excellent packaging and looks to be new. I installed it in the Tivo Bolt+ DVR and it works as expected. I now have 790+ hours of HD recording space.Note that this is a 15mm high drive which is higher than most laptop drives, although 15mm is one of the accepted standard heights for 2.5" drives. Just make sure that your device will take a drive of this height. It fits in the Tivo Bolt+ fine. I also put one of these into my MSI GT72S MQE laptop, and technically a 15mm drive doesn't fit; I was able to install it bot the bottom cover of the laptop does not close securely where the hard driver is located (there is a bulge in the plastic). It is workable, but technically not correct.If you need a large capacity 2.5" drive, this 5TB model is a good value at the refurbished price, as long as you can deal with the 15mm height.