Seagate BarraCuda, 8 TB, Internal Hard Drive, SATA 6 Gbit/s, 3.5", 5400 RPM, 256 MB Cache for Desktop PC (ST8000DM004)

I recently purchased the Seagate BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive HDD and I must say that I am impressed with its performance. The hard drive is easy to install and offers excellent value for money. I have been using this HDD without any bad sectors, and it works perfectly. This Drive is designed to provide reliable and fast performance for your PC, whether you use it for gaming, music, video, photo editing, or any other computing task. It also features Seagate's Multi-Tier Caching Technology, which optimizes data flow and enhances read and write speeds. It uses the latest 6Gb/s interface and runs at 5400 RPM. It has a cache size of 256 MB and a data transfer rate of up to 190 MB/s. The product comes in various capacities, from 1 TB to 8 TB, depending on your storage needs and budget. ----- My pros and Cons ------ **Pros:** 1- The HDD is an affordable storage solution that provides excellent value for money. 2- The hard drive is easy to install and use. 3- It offers a large storage capacity of up to 8TB. 4- The hard drive is highly versatile and can be used for general school purposes, important business files, and overall general media files that we all have. 5- It has a data transfer rate of 190 megabytes per second (190MB/s) and a load/unload cycle rate of 300,000. **Cons:** 1 - The spindle speed is only 5400 RPM which is a considerably slow speed for external hard drives with this amount of storage and price. ----Reasons to consider buying it:----- The Seagate BarraCuda Hard Drive is an excellent choice for anyone looking for an affordable storage solution that provides excellent value for money. It offers a large storage capacity of up to 8TB, making it ideal for storing all your important files, media files, and more. The hard drive is easy to install and use, making it an ideal choice for both novice and experienced users. ----Potential reasons to avoid it:---- The spindle speed of this Internal Drive is only 5400 RPM which is a considerably slow speed for external hard drives with this amount of storage and price. ----Conclusion:---- Overall, the Seagate BarraCuda HDD is a reliable and affordable storage solution that provides excellent value for money. It offers a large storage capacity of up to 8TB, making it ideal for storing all your important files, media files, and more. The hard drive is easy to install and use, making it an ideal choice for both novice and experienced users. I would highly recommend this product to anyone looking for an affordable storage solution that provides excellent value for money.

I've had 2 lots of 4 of these drives running in my 4 bay NAS units in a RAID5 configuration (I know, I know, not recommended).. but the uptime of these drives has been outstanding considering I'm pushing them way beyond the recommneded boundaries of use. Until 2 days ago, they've been operational for 8 years with solid use with zero downtime. One failed 2 days ago, so 8 years for cheap drives is pretty good.

Got it to put into a NAS that is on 24/7 to store my media files, the drive arrived with no power on times and no power on hours, so it is a genuine new drive. Packaging might have been lacking but what can you do, it arrived in mint condition. The outer carton box was not dent, and inside using bubble wrap the drive was placed in with an anti-static cover on it, sadly the anti-static cover is NOT a reusable bag which is a shame but at least it was protected. Speeds are also great, having no issues with transfers of 100-s of GBs in size. Easily fit in with a regular SATA power + data cable and works as expected on LZ4. So far had no issues with playback of 4k HDR+ content.

fantastic spec for the money. used in a backup arrangement

Just as expected

This HHD works just as expected. It’s easy to install if you know what you’re doing and know your way around the inside of your PC. It’s very good quality which is why I love Seagate. It is quite heavy but that didn't cause any problems for me. It’s worth the price, with stuff like this it’s better to not go for the cheap stuff and go with a trusted brand. Overall 10/10 and i recommend.

I've had 5 of these drives since early 2020, and the last one has just failed with an abnormal power supply issue. The others all failed for a combination of bad sectors and disk errors that caused my Synology NAS system to reject the drives. Whilst I did plenty of research on cost per GB + reliability + compatibility (these came out top) prior to purchasing these drives, and have had good results of with older Seagate models in other systems, I'm now very disappointed in this drive and manufacturer. I would highly recommend you look at the Toshiba N300's which have I have been using successfully for (18 months for the oldest so far) to replace these drives as they have failed. Out of the first 4 I bought to fill my DS920, one failed within a few days, so I bought a 5th as a quick replacement whilst I began the warranty replacement process (always slow). That ended up being refunded rather than replaced, and drive prices being volatile, it had gone up in price by £50 between buying and being refunded - so the seagate warranty of a like for like replacement was a joke from the start. Special disreputable mention is reserved for CCL Computers. 3 of the 5 drives were bought via Amazon from them. When it came time for those drives to fail and be replaced - the first was refunded, eventually, not replaced as Seagate's warranty claims; the second suffered an administrative mixup (two drives had failed in a similar time frame but from two different suppliers) where I checked with them in advance about the serial number of the drive that had failed (which I thought was theirs) and they said to send it to them, only for them to later decide that I'd mixed up suppliers and the failed drive I'd sent them wasn't one of theirs. It was eventually returned and the other failed drive (that was one from them) was sent on (over two weeks wasted on that). Over a week after getting the correct drive they declare that be working fine and thus returned it again - only for my DS920 to reject it in short order (the Toshiba drive it was then replaced by has been working fine for three months now in that same bay, so not the NAS at fault). This last drive to fail is also from their batch - ironically a month after its two year warranty has expired. Side note, the above drive that wasn't from CCL was apparently taken out of another OEM system and sold on via a retailer on Amazon (as a new, warrantied drive). It wasn't until it failed and I ran the serial number through the Seagate Warranty checker that I discovered this. However, praise for Amazon support here, we attempted to contact the supplier, but because they didn't respond within a week, Amazon refunded the money for the dead drive themselves. This drive had developed >1200 bad sectors before it finally dropped out of the NAS volume. Upshot of all this, 5 Seagate Barracuda 8Tb drives bought from 3 different suppliers on Amazon, all died within 25 months, and only about half the cost of replacing them recovered. I'm also thinking that the I in RAID is perhaps a tad misleading at these capacities and costs! ;-) Buyer beware with this brand and model (and suppliers!)

Great product

O HD Barracuda é bom. Tenho 2 de 4Tb e comprei 2 de 8Tb. Tem um camarada que foi leviano ao informar que levou um "Golpe", pelo HD ser "SMR", que isso não é informado. Na Descrição do produto tem essa informação: "...Tecnologia de gravação: SMR...". E qual o problema nisso? Um pouco mais lento, mas nada significativo. O HD é bom, principalmente levando em consideração custo/benefício. Utilizo para armazenar mídias. Os Barracudas de 4Tb, tenho há cerca de 2 anos e nunca tive qualquer tipo de problema. Recomendo. Lembrando que, após formatado, como todo HD, SSD, não libera o total de Gb, por conta da tabela de partição e indexação. No caso do de 8Tb, fica utilizável somente 7.27Gb. Obs. Chegou antes do prazo.

O produto foi entregue dentro do prazo informado e se encontra em pleno funcionamento. Recomendado a quem interessar.

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Da Windows nächstes Jahr den Support für Win 10 einstellt habe ich mir diese Festplatte für Linux eingerichtet. Bisher läuft diese tadellos. Das Betriebssystem startet darauf schnell und auch sonst gibt es keine Probleme. Da dies schon meine 2. Barracuda ist kann ich nichts negatives über diese Marke sagen. Von mir daher 5 Sterne

Contrairement à ce que j’ai pu lire sur le site pour d'autres Seagate, le disque dur est arrivé en excellent état, il était parfaitement emballé et protégé. Il fonctionne à merveille, très rapide et très silencieux. Concernant aussi d’autres commentaires qui se sont plaints d’avoir reçu des disques Seagate de plusieurs To sur lesquels il ne restait plus que quelques centaines de Go, il faut savoir, que la plupart du temps ce n’est pas le disque qui est en cause mais la capacité maximum du stockage interne prévue d’origine à l’intérieur de la machine. Cela m’est arrivé avec le Seagate. La solution est de brancher le disque dur sur une autre machine qui n’est pas bridée, de le formater et de le partitionner. Cette manipulation permet, aussi, de voir si le disque dur est abîmé ou pas. Dans mon cas c’était bien mon ordinateur qui était bridé à 2 To de capacité interne et non une mal fonction du disque dur.