BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive 8TB SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch (ST8000DM004),Mechanical Hard Disk

I bought this in a hurry, because the OEM hard drive in my home computer was beginning to fail. At the same time, I wanted to upgrade from the 4TB OEM capacity. A drive duplicator fit the bill nicely. I inserted both drives and pushed one button and got a fresh new drive with everything from the old one. It was an exact fit replacement (3.5" form factor) as the old one, so installation was quite easy. This was approximately one year ago, and I have had zero problems with the new drive. It's quieter than the ambient noise in my home office. The throughput is not something I measured, or care much about really. It performs well enough that I never notice any lag loading applications or large data sets. I feel I got a lot of bang for the buck with this purchase. I received no compensation for my review.

Bought a couple of these drives to build a 5-bay RAID5 array by adding them to a couple drives that I had bought a few years earlier. They look new and were probably salvaged from faulty PC's or pulled from RAID/NAS enclosures that had been upgraded with larger drives. So far they seem just fine. They've only been running a few hours in my RAID enclosure so I can't speak to their durability. I hope I didn't sabotage myself by purchasing used drives because new drives of the same model number are only $10 more here on Amazon. If they fail quickly I'll certainly be back to revise my review from 5 stars to a lower number.

Arrived quickly and was well packed. Great price too. Works great.

While working on a project my drive suddenly stopped work, I never heard any sounds coming from the drive or had any warning, after a reboot the drive showed up but most of my files were missing, after calling tech support they had me download the recovery software, that said that there wasn't anything on my drive. now when I look at the drive in Disk Manager, it says my 8TB drive is a 16TB drive, needless to say, all my data is lost, the project I was almost done working on is gone and my Clients are pissed, I am out a lot of money because this drive failed, and Seagate wants me to spend $700 to get it back. A little more compassion from Seagate would have been nice considering that people rely on their drives for work, I am a freelancer and this failure has cost me a gig and future client gigs. I understand that drives don't often fail, this is the first drive I have ever had fail and I have drives that are over 5 years old still kicking, but having a drive fail in 7 months, and fail so completely that i can't recover anything, and my only option is a $700 recovery fee is kinda crummy, I would think they would have something in place for data recover for drives that fail so quickly. don't waste your money on their recovery protection, just buy a second drive and raid it together. they don't offer any realistic options on recovery.

I have researched and tried to find a storage solution for my company's large number of movie projects in .mp4 and .mov with editing files, and concluded that the best solution is to get HDs (especially when they go on sale to save a few $$) along with an inexpensive HD adapter like the Sabrent and backup all our projects on those HDs. At around 100-120.00 each we can store anywhere between 20-30 projects on an 8TB HD. Even making backup of backup the cost is far better than any online solution (at least for the time being) that store these project at the same HD or SHD resolution.

If you want super speed, this is not the drive for you, but being 5400 RPM, you should know that. I was copying data over from a 7200 RPM Toshiba and the drops in speed was noticeable. However, I want this for mass storage of video, pictures, etc. so I don't need amazing speeds. Now the issue I did have was probably a Windows 10 issue because I all diagnostics showed the drive to be 100% ok. When I first installed the drive and tried copying files to it (through Windows Explorer and SynchBak), it would be super fast at the start and then plummet. Like to KB/ s. It was horrible. I tried a million things online to try and fix it and none worked. Finally some people said reinstall Windows. Now it is much easier to do a Reset with Windows 10 but since I had never done a clean install since I upgraded from 7 way back when, I opted for a totally clean install on my SSD. Once I did that, the drive worked perfect. Again, not sure why it struggled so much with just this new drive as I have replaced data drives in the past with no issues. But clearly something was jacked. Given what I read online, I don't blame Seagate for this issue but I almost sent the drive back since it was driving me crazy and if the disk diagnostic from Seagate didn't say it was fine, I probably would have. Glad I didn't even it was the nuclear option to get it working.

It is working. Long time will tell

No problems so far smooth sailing