I've got a ST3000DM001 - it vibrates quite a bit. It's a lot louder than the older Barracuda XT 3TB (ST33000651AS).
Both were ripped out of retail boxed Seagate Expansion external drives (the older XT out of an Expansion 2.0, the newer DM001 out of an Expansion 3.0). Very cheap way of getting drives, and you can RMA the drives using the serial on the mechanism. The only thing to note is the firmware can be different to bare drives, but I've never had an issue with that.
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