Seagate 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.

I purchased quite a few of these drives for cold storage of company data. Several of them have experienced extreme data loss events within 3 years of the purchase, but the factor I think people considering a purchase should think about is what happened when I contacted Seagate support to ask about warranty information. With every single drive I purchased, (4) 8TB, (2) 6TB, (1) 12TB and (2) 18TB versions of the drives from various vendors on Amazon, Seagate informed me the warranty had expired within 2 months of when I purchased them with some nonsense about vendors "holding" the drives for years in warehouses. Every single drive. Different vendors, same result with Seagate. This smacks strongly of Seagate trying to limit losses due to a technological fail causing the drives to not last as long as they were expected to. I've read articles about how the high capacity HDD drives that are filled with inert gasses like Xenon weren't lasting as long as they were supposed to, I believe this is where that reality is translating into company policy: regardless of what they tell you the warranty is when you are purchasing them, the company is using cheap tricks to avoid actually having to uphold that warranty. Personally, I don't really care about the drive replacement, it's the data reliability that hurts. Most people, myself included, switched to SSD for main system storage over a decade ago. But I was still using HDD for cold storage, which I am reluctantly realizing is no longer something anyone with critical data should be doing. SSD storage is ~2-4 times as expensive, which pinches, but drives need to be able to last 5-10 years for cold storage to be viable, and I'm seeing 2-3 years on these drives. Do what you like, but I wouldn't count on these drives to be as reliable as claimed in product descriptions, nor would I count on the company honoring the warranties if you run into issues. For me, at least, the age of HDD has come to an end.

Works as it should, from a reputable brand, and holds a lot without being too expensive. Its about as fast as any other hdd I've had. Works well for photo/video storage and large games that dont need it all loaded at once. I wouldnt put an OS on it in this day and age, but thats just my opinion. Not sure what else to say.

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.

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

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.

So, I use this drive as one of three backup drives for my photography work. After months of moving large RAW files around, it's shown no sign of wear. It arrived in perfect condition, and every sector was good. Now, it's still silently purring away, with no bad sectors. It's been a solid drive, which is exactly what I needed. It may not be the fastest thing ever, but it definitely gets the job done.

Great purchase, works well in the Dune HD Pro Vision 4K Solo media player, quiet hard drive.

A pesar del embalaje mejorable, el producto es impecable, trabaja de acuerdo a las expectativas, buena velocidad hdd: puedes completar respaldos gigantes en menos de una hora. Buena opción para almacenaje a largo plazo.

L'article est conforme à la description, je l'utilise comme disque externe de sauvegarde. 👍

J’ai installé le Seagate BarraCuda 8 To dans mon PC de création, et c’est un vrai soulagement pour mes projets artistiques numériques. Ce disque dur offre une capacité massive pour stocker des milliers de fichiers haute résolution, vidéos, scans et archives sans jamais se soucier de l’espace. 💡 Ce que j’apprécie : Interface SATA 6 Gb/s pour des transferts rapides et fluides Mémoire cache de 256 Mo, idéale pour les accès fréquents aux gros fichiers Vitesse de rotation de 5400 tr/min, silencieuse et économe en énergie Technologie de mise en cache optimisée, parfaite pour les logiciels de retouche et de montage Fiabilité éprouvée, avec plus de 20 ans d’innovation dans la gamme BarraCuda Garantie limitée de 2 à 5 ans selon le modèle2 🎨 Pour un artiste visuel comme moi, ce disque est un véritable coffre-fort numérique. Il me permet de travailler sereinement, de sauvegarder mes œuvres, et de garder une trace de chaque étape créative.

It became damaged in less than a year, the packaging was very, very, very bad, and not suitable for a sensitive device