Seagate BarraCuda Pro 8TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC - Amazon Exclusive - Frustration Free Packaging (ST8000DMZ004)

This is a review of the 8TB Barracuda Pro (7200 rpm) drive, very fast, very quiet and huge amount of storage for those who need it I am using it as a primary storage for my Camera work, I use two 5800rpm 4 TB Baracuda's as backup for this drive and also have two offline copies as well, as this is 30+ years of photography you cannot have enough backups. Expensive (£33 per TB) but very fast and 7.2TB of usable storage. I have used seagate drives for years and have had very few issues reliable storage is a must.

I had 3tb of storage on my pc and wanted to add this to prevent any future installs. Gutted to find out that my case only supports 2 drives though so I had to get rid of my 2tb and keep the 1tb ssd. In terms of installation, no, it wasn't easy. But that's because I'm really new to stuff like this. I assume it's just a standard install. Really pleased with it! Not so pleased having to download everything again though!!

Open the box, install into well. Lucky I did not forget to order some harddrive mounting screws as well. Installed it works perfectly, no fuss or driver innstalls on win 10. Noise level is less than I feared.

Can’t comment on if it’s easy to install as I had someone else do it but works great and haven’t had any issues

When you spend £260 you don't expect to buy a defective piece of equipment. And because the was a delay in me using it, as my project was delayed by Covid, I now can't get refund as it timed out. What an amazing waste of money. Absolutely livid.

With 2TB of M.2 memory I’m assuming we have enough fast memory for gaming etc and these two fast 6GB drives will suffice for everything else, including mirroring each other! Sadly it was only AFTER purchasing and installing HOME windows 10 that we realised we could only have these drives mirror each other in RAID had we purchased windows 10 pro. Previously told this was not required! Laugh - I nearly jumped out the window! Anyway bags of memory and we will still use the one to back up the other in the manual grandfather, father, son way. Had drives fail before - these have a good reputation.

Arrived on time, well packed and good value for money. All inserted into the drobo with ease and 3 weeks on working well

Great value and reliable.

Il y a 2 ans 1/5, j'avais acheté les mêmes mais en 6To, 1 est tombé en panne (pour un produit "pro", ça la fout mal), en espérant que ceux-ci seront beaucoup plus fiables.

I got the 14TB for my game collection (300+ on steam) and the performance is great, good load times though due to the size sometimes it takes a long time for steam to preallocate space for the games. It’s intermittent though. Has consistent read and write speeds. I’ve gotten over 300MB/s writes. I’d say the only down side of this drive is that it is really loud, I have mine in a full size atx case and it’s under a shroud with the PSU. It isn’t as much of an issue if you use headphones, though sometimes it’s still audible. Though I do keep my case on my desk at head level so I’m sure that affects the noise. Overall I’d definitely still recommend it.

I own two 8TB and one 14TB. The 14TB one seems faster, more reliable, and even quieter than the 8TB one. I’m surprised but not only do you benefit from more storage, you get an overall better drive. Wow I’m impressed! I recommend this product to anyone.

It performs great and will likely be the last mechanical drive I buy before SSDs take over. It makes a little noise when writing which is to be expected from a 7200 rpm. It isn't overbearing though and my external drive is much more annoying. You need to create a new partition in order to able to use it which you can look up how to do on YouTube but you don't need their software to do it.

The drives work fine and in RAID just fine, and for me never having an issue, running 24x7, though less workload lately, but... My suggestion: ALWAYS verify your warranty at Seagate as soon as they arrive after purchase, and if the warranty is off, send it back. 4 of these drives models that I bought (elsewhere at that other HD purchasing place) 4 years ago, had warranty expatriations from nearly expired to just 1 year. I hadn't checked the warranties before the return window closed. I bought 2 of these exact models from this specific seller in late 2020 and they each have 1 year warranties as verified at Seagate. So this implies, the statement: "Enjoy long-term peace of mind with the included five-year limited warranty" is only true, if you accept that you will have to spend a lot of your time arguing with the seller and Seagate (which tries to be hands off) when and if the time comes. I tend to do this out of principle but one does have to keep the $ in perspective. For low volume purchases, always verify your warranties and even photo your drive and store it with your invoice. I am amazed that this issue hasn't been headlines news over the years - other than a few sites noting it at times, and of course all the online reviews. I just purchased one last spinning HDD (IronWolf NAS) and I hope to never purchase another spinning HDD and have the duty of verifying warranties. My overall warranty validation with my NVMe SSDs has been good, so far.