3 drives and all failed
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Hello,
Sorry to hear about the issue. We'll be glad to replace the unit(s). To
setup an RMA replacement of the unit please follow these instructions:

Visit this link here:[...]-Under 'troubleshooting' Select your product from the dropdown box
-Select 'find solutions,' a list of troubleshooting FAQ's will appear
-Select 'no' where it asks "did these solutions resolve the issue?"
-Please fill out the information

This link will get your name and contact info into our Technical Support
Portal database. You will then be given a user id and password where you
can make replies to your Technical Support case. Please make a note that
you already spoke to a rep regarding your issue. Feel free to login to
reply or simply await for the case to be Moved to RMA with further
warranty instructions.
For any assistance or updates in the warranty case process AFTER THE
ABOVE STEPS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED, e-mail RMA@Patriotmem.com

Thank You for choosing Patriot Memory.

Regards,
Technical Support - Patriot Memory

Followed all instructions and was given a case # which doesn't work when you enter. No email with user id and password ever given. It has been three weeks. Safe to say patriot does not stand behind their useless garbage.
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Failed after a few months and now the drive won't show up on any of my computers .
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Working for a local government, I bought a few dozen of these to put in our Police laptops. It's been three months and nearly 60% have failed so far. The PC's won't recognize the drives (boot device not found error), nor are we able to reimage the drives.
Not sure if there was a bad batch, but we had bought these in three separate orders. We're not able to return them either due to federal guidelines prohibiting us from releasing drives with the public's personal information. We're basically out $1500+.
Stick with Kingston and Intel SSDs; they're close in price, but are incredibly more reliable.
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After not even a full week of using it as for a ubuntu lts server and just letting the computer do its thing in the corner undisturbed, the drive started to fail. When doing some maintenance I noticed some errors that were being caused by corrupted data and the errors leading to the impression that it was the drive. Checked the smart data and it was really bad for not being a week old (would still be considered fairly bad had it even been in use for a while longer) did a surface scan and found multiple bad sectors.
Gonna return the drive and just get a smaller ssd since hdds always seem to fail way to fast.
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Out of the 3 units I purchased, 2 are not working, computer is not able to spin the drive so it can be mounted. Very disappointed.

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While the onboard Flash cache makes this a remarkably fast drive for a 5400RPM unit, I have owned three of them and all three failed (multiple uncorrectable errors causing severe system crashes and data loss) after six months of use in two different laptops. I cannot honestly recommend these drives to anyone and have replaced mine with a proper SSD.
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External & Internal Seagate drives are and _continue to be_ the most failure prone drives I've had the misfortune of buying.

Here are the Seagate Drives I have used over the past several years:
Seagate 1.5TB FreeAgent ST315005FDA2E1 (External)
 - Both units failed within 6 months
Segate 3TB Backup Plus (External)
 - Both units drop out on a semi-regular basis.  Acceptable as I have written a script to work around it.
Seagate Barracuda ST2000DL003 2TB Drives
 - Used this as internal HTPC and JBOD drives
 - Purchased 15 drives, 5 failed within 2 years - either reporting SMART errors or make clicking noises.

I purchased 4 of their new 4TB STDT4000100 drives locally at a higher price to beta test.  It was my intention to purchase 4-6 more from Amazon if they worked well.
- One was faulty out of the box. It's transfer rate never exceed 30MB/s. I changed cables, USB 3.0 controllers and computers.  No change.
- One dropped every few hours during my HDD testing (see below) and therefore were not reliable
- One worked fine
- One ran 5-8degC hotter than the other and was nosier.

ALL of the Seagate drives ran too hot - all SMART temps were reporting 45-55degC in a cool office environment during routine backup operations.  The external drive cases are poorly designed with no proper cooling channels/paths.  If set horizontally, there are no holes on top of the drive.  If place on their edge, one set of holes is 'sealed' - and it lacks standoffs.

With any HDD, I perform a series of tests to screen out any early failures, starting with a performance read/write test by Crystal Mark.  I wrote a script for the Crystal Disk Mark - Disk Mark to perform 5 each of the following: 100MB / 500MB/  1000MB / 4000MB.  After this is completed, I run a 2 pass security disk wipe.  Once all of these are completed and the drive has 'stretched its legs', I'll run Pass Mark's Disk Checkup  - within this tool is a 'Extended Disk Self Test". While these tests take a few days to run, the drives that make it through usually last two years or more.

To level the playing field: No other device can be operating on the same controller during this testing.  If a drive 'fails' or 'drops out', I will move it to a different computer with a different controller.  As a reference, I regularly use these same ports for my other drives/drive enclosures based on HGST NAS drives.

I am fanatical about HDD care and run 12TB RAID 60 and a 8TB RAID 10 servers in my home for media, DVR, surveillance, and work duties (I run two businesses out of my home).  I was hoping to use these external Seagate drives as weekly stationary offline backup.  (I have another set of drives that are rotated monthly offsite for critical/previous data in case of a catastrophic loss).

I now run Hitachi/HGST drives almost exclusively...I am hoping that WD doesn't screw them up since they were purchased by Western Digital.  I tried two of the WD 4TB Premium My Book (External unit that uses WD Red Drives).  Performance is OK, price point is high - but so far, so good.

Never Again will I purchase a Seagate Product...
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I purchased 3 of these for a Mac Pro system.  Installed them on PCIe boards to get SATA III high throughput.

In under 3 years all of them failed.  I went through the RMA process and returned them and have received 3 new drives.  This took about a month.  That's a month I have been out of production.  I will install the new drives today but I no longer trust them with critical data.  Meanwhile my rust spinner backup RAID array has been spinning along for 5 years with no problems.  I thought SSD's would be more reliable but this has not been the case.
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I am downgrading my review from 5 to 1 stars.  Have installed 4 of these drives and 2 out of 4 have completely failed.  I use to use the MX300 and I am going to go back to those units and return any MX500's.  I have installed over a hundred MX300 models with no issue.  No confident in these units.
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I  bought four of these 4TB WD red disk drives for my Synology DS1515+ in March of 2016. Within the first year, one of the drives started logging IO errors and failing SMART diagnostics. The drive spiraled and started logging bad sectors and I finally RMA the drive. Long story short, each and every replacement drive that WD sent me failed within a year. The second drive failed within a couple of months and I am now on the 3rd RMA drive. What does this say about WD refurbed drives? It says it all, they are not reliable. I am going back to Seagate and trying the IronWolf drives. I no longer have faith in WD ability to provide quality replacement hard drives or even care to make a customer happy by replacing the drive with a new one, considering the reliability issues I have experienced. Make sure to read the reviews carefully as others have experienced this scenario as well. I have 36 years of IT experience, 14 years as a Senior Field Service Engineer and it's rare to see such a high failure rate. But even more so, it's rare to see OEM vendor not stand up and take care of their customer. This is my main reason to switch vendors.
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2 out of 3 drives I ordered have gone bad within two months.  Toshiba warranty is useless... Stay away from Toshiba!  I will certainly never buy Toshiba anything again.
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Unit failed, the drives are ok but the unit it self failed. I had it setup to backup to another NAS box but it did not work.  There does not seem to be support from Iomega.  I have installed the drives into an external USB/SATA drive box and connected it to W2K8 server and a Redhat 6.0 server. I can see 2 partitions on the drives they are listed as RAW. I have tried using a couple of data recovery programs with no luck. I know I have lost some data.
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It only lasted a week. It seems that USB 3.0 drives have a reliability issue...
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I ordered a few of these to give as gifts to family with my wedding photos on them. Three out of four seem to be working fine, but one has completely failed. All of the photos disappeared from the drive, and the drive can no longer be read, written to or even re-formatted. These are nice to look at, but I highly recommend having backups of any files you save on them.
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Drive simply didn't work. It looked used with no ties on the cables and wouldnt format.
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Built my computer on the 19 sep and today October 4 it started saying the hard drive is repoting failures
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I have had this drive for just about a year and in that time, it has failed 2 times. Both times they were complete drive failures. I have checked with some friends who had simliar LaCie external devices and they reported that all had eventually failed in the short term. (Yes, I shoul have checked with them first, but I based my inital purchase on the recomendation of another friend whom I really shouldn't have.)

I have owned a number of computers and drives in my life and I have never had such a poor experience with a hardware vendor. The drive has always run extremely hot, hotter then any other external drive - and I currently have a Maxtor and an HP Personal Media drive, both 300GB, neither runs this hot. Their customer service in response to having to return these drives has been less then satisfactory.

Look towards another vendor for an external drive solution.