Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 300 GB 15000RPM SAS 6 Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3300657SS

hard drive came fast, brand new just as described.perfect

This drive is an awesome replacement for the original drive in my Dell Poweredge server. The price was also incredibly reasonable. I ended up buying two so I will be ready when another one of the original drives in my RAID configuration goes out. The original one had been running non-stop 24x7x365 for 8 years straight. I expect this one to perform equally well.

The listing was for a new SAS HDD, It really should say New Old Stock, with a note about getting old manufacture date drives (I got one that was already 10 years old). But it did work fine and brought the raid array out of degraded in a Dell PowerEdge server. It did come in a Dell caddy which made me think it was a used drive at first, but the seller claims it isn't.

perfect for replacing those old spindle drives

The title description say's it's a 2.5" drive when it is actually a 3.5" drive. The item is great the description is bad.

The price seemed good for what they are, and I had no problems with installation...offline the failed disk, remove, replace with one of these, fire up Dell OME, rebuild. Installed two of these for a client. Almost the easiest money I've made.

These are probably the most bulletproof mechanical disks on the planet. I've used them for over a decade, and have never had one fail. Ever. I just bought another batch to proactively hot-swap (*) out a bunch that have been in production for more than 5-1/2 years running SQL and other transaction-heavy workloads without missing a beat. And I only replaced them because of their age. They were still running strong with no warnings in the logs.(*) Hot swapped in several production RAID arrays, with zero system downtime. Hot-swap in one new disk, let the array rebuild. Hot-swap another one, let the array rebuild. Lather, rinse, repeat, until the entire array is new disks.

I ordered one of these direct from Amazon at their $167 price as I had heard Yobitech was sometimes selling used drives as new. I needed the drive ASAP for a client's degraded RAID array. It came fast as usual, but when i opened the box I found a Seagate drive stuck in a used and ripped Western Digital static bag. This strongly implies that this drive has already been returned once and it most surely is NOT a new factory Seagate drive. Luckily I did not trust Amazon too much after reading about the Yobitech issues so I have another one ordered from NewEgg that will arrive tomorrow. Needless to say I am not interested in placing this highly questionable drive in a client's critical server. I expect *new* drives of this model probably perform as well as their history shows, but Amazon on the other hand is not performing very well.