My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. The system gets only modest usage. It is powered on about 1/2 the time and the disk often goes significant periods without activity so it spins down.
I was considering what seagate calls an "expansion hard drive". They are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2. The desktop is gentoo-only and I don't need any backup software from seagate. The models are STBVx000100 for x=1,2,3,4 TB. I understand the price capacity trade-off, but wonder if anyone has any experience with these drives. Thanks in advance, allan
