What's the difference between these Seagate drives?

They are all 3TB, SATA 6G, 64MB cache, 7200RPM, 3.5" drives from
Seagate, just different model numbers, and they have wildly different
prices:
(1) ST3000DM001, $79.99 (https://is.gd/c6LWYr)
(2) ST3000DM008, $94.89 (https://is.gd/2k1DRZ)
(3) STBD3000100, $99.99 (https://is.gd/N6Wx3e)
(4) ST33000651AS, no price available (might be out of stock?)
(https://is.gd/5xM5qs)

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On 09/22/2016 09:49 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:

They are all 3TB, SATA 6G, 64MB cache, 7200RPM, 3.5" drives from
Seagate, just different model numbers, and they have wildly different
prices:

(1) ST3000DM001, $79.99 (https://is.gd/c6LWYr)

I think this is the earliest Seagate 3TB "desktop" drive, and they
suffered an alarming failure rate.

(2) ST3000DM008, $94.89 (https://is.gd/2k1DRZ)

A later version of the same. Like the preceding, it is a "bare" drive,
without cables and mounting screws, and maybe in a generic brown box
rather than in a pretty retail package.

(3) STBD3000100, $99.99 (https://is.gd/N6Wx3e)

The "retail" version of one of the above (including screws and cables),
but you won't know which until you open the package.

(4) ST33000651AS, no price available (might be out of stock?)
(https://is.gd/5xM5qs)

An old model "bare" drive (and maybe with a 5-year warranty rather than
the current 2-year one -- but 5 years from when? The date of
manufacture?) $159.44 on Amazon.

Perce

Yousuf Khan wrote

They are all 3TB, SATA 6G, 64MB cache, 7200RPM, 3.5"
drives from Seagate, just different model numbers, and
they have wildly different prices:

(1) ST3000DM001, $79.99 (https://is.gd/c6LWYr)
(2) ST3000DM008, $94.89 (https://is.gd/2k1DRZ)
(3) STBD3000100, $99.99 (https://is.gd/N6Wx3e)
(4) ST33000651AS, no price available (might be out of stock?)
(https://is.gd/5xM5qs)

Presumably at least one of them is actually a Samsung
but there isnt any easy or even hard way of finding out.

You should do the decent thing and buy one of each,
do a full teardown and post the results of that in here.

Thanks!

On 9/22/2016 1:06 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 09/22/2016 09:49 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:

They are all 3TB, SATA 6G, 64MB cache, 7200RPM, 3.5" drives from
Seagate, just different model numbers, and they have wildly different
prices:

(1) ST3000DM001, $79.99 (https://is.gd/c6LWYr)

I think this is the earliest Seagate 3TB "desktop" drive, and they
suffered an alarming failure rate.

(2) ST3000DM008, $94.89 (https://is.gd/2k1DRZ)

A later version of the same. Like the preceding, it is a "bare" drive,
without cables and mounting screws, and maybe in a generic brown box
rather than in a pretty retail package.

(3) STBD3000100, $99.99 (https://is.gd/N6Wx3e)

The "retail" version of one of the above (including screws and cables),
but you won't know which until you open the package.

(4) ST33000651AS, no price available (might be out of stock?)
(https://is.gd/5xM5qs)

An old model "bare" drive (and maybe with a 5-year warranty rather than
the current 2-year one -- but 5 years from when? The date of
manufacture?) $159.44 on Amazon.

Perce



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