Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I saw some of the other reviews mentioning that this wasn't under warranty and thought they might have gotten a bum shipment, but I can confirm that mine is the same. I went to seagate's warranty checker and it said this drive was sold as part of a system so you can forget about getting that 3 year seagate warranty if you buy this drive. From research other sellers have done, these appear to be ripped out of cheap 8tb external seagate enclosures. These enclosures only have a 1 year warranty as opposed to a 3 year warranty like a barracuda drive sold for desktop use, but I you won't even get that from seagate because it was taken out of the enclosure. This makes me think Seagate is doing something a little shady. They probably have some way of detecting barracuda drives that aren't up to specs, so they ship them in an external enclosure with a limited warranty because they don't EXPECT them to last 3 years, and because external drives generally are used a lot less than an internal hard drive. This seller is doing something very shady by clearly posting the 3 year warranty on the item page when Seagate won't honor it. So if you buy this, expect it to fail. And don't expect to get any support when it does.