Seagate 8TB BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive | SATA 6 Gb/s (ST8000DMZ04)

The Seagate BarraCuda 8TB 3.5” internal hard drive delivers a lot of storage for the price. Installation was simple in a standard desktop case, and it was immediately recognized with no setup issues. Transfer speeds are solid for a mechanical drive, especially when moving large game files, photos, or project folders. Noise is minimal during normal use. For anyone who needs space for game libraries, media collections, or backups, 8TB goes a long way. It works well as a main storage drive or as a secondary drive alongside an SSD. The BarraCuda line has been reliable for long-term use, and the drive runs cool under load. If you want a large, dependable storage upgrade without paying SSD prices for high capacities, this is a practical option and good value.

I've had this particular HDD in my PC about 2 years now. It still going strong. I have not any issues with since I purchased this hard drive. I would like to point out that this is not my primary hard drive - I use primarily as a secondary drive for storage, holding various content, some light photo/video editing and for writing documents. For my purposes this has turned out to be a pretty reliable hard drive. Given that it's a mechanical hard drive it's not silent but it's not noisy either. It's pretty easy to live with and not a distraction. Value for money? For me it has been so far. This is a drive I would highly recommend.

I have used Seagate Barracudas for 12 years and found them to be a fantastic all-rounder, having great reliability and lifespan. I use them both in the house network drives and the Home Theatre library. I have even committed the cardinal sin of changing the orientation of a set of three year old barracudas from horizontal to vertical, when the library enclosure backplane failed, and they just continued on in the new enclosure with zero errors. Most of my Barracudas run 24/7, and on average they last for 8 years. But even as they get to end-of-life, they have never just failed, they begin throwing up the odd error, to let you know they are almost done. In my experience, you have about three months from the start of the drives giving errors, to more serious problems. But if the drive is around 8 years old, it has pretty much done it's duty. The only thing I would warn you about, is to make sure that the barracuda (or any Seagate hard drive) arrives in the proper Seagate transit box shown in the pictures. This is the official Seagate packaging, and will include the Seagate warranty booklet. I mention this because I was tempted by a supplier that was slightly cheaper than the official Amazon-supplied drive. What I received was a barracuda inside a heat sealed anti-static bag, but it was loosely packaged in a generic cardboard box without a warranty card. These drives are sometimes 'harvested' from other devices, such as Seagate Expansion or Backup units. I returned the drive and bought the slightly more expensive official Amazon-supplied drive, as these always arrive in mint condition. I will not make that mistake again. The official Seagate boxes suspend the hard drive on all sides inside the box, helping to ensure it arrives in perfect working order.

Tldr: drive is big enough for an average steam library + some video clips etc. Not extremely expensive and not too loud. Overall it's pretty decent and if you can't shill out for a ssd this is a pretty good option if u already have a boot drive! In depth: This was a good midground between the 50 pound 2tb option or the 8tb option. It's enough that you can store plenty with an m.2 as a boot drive for most gamers or small time content creators. The drive can run any game I throw at it with no frame rate hitching and there's only greater load times by a little. Be warned that I use this for steam titles and video / lesser accessed files storage. Things like my browser, discord etc I keep on my m.2 otherwise it is annoying when the file is a few 100gb apart in storage and it takes a second to load.

--PACKAGING-- The packaging contains the Seagate HDD only, without any cables or screws for mounting. --DESCRIPTION-- This is a 3.5 inch Seagate Barracuda HDD with 4TB storage, and 5400RPM speed. The drive has a standard size for a 3.5 inch HDD, and is compatible with SATA III ports, up to 6GB/s speed. The low RPM speed is suitable for longer-term storage, but not for tasks that require higher speeds like gaming. The cache size allows good access speed for medium-sized files. It does not require any specific driver for installation. It is quiet and reliable. --CONCLUSIONS-- Good value for money. It gives lots of storage at a good price. No cables and screws included.

Value for money

I have used Seagate Barracuda HDD's go for many years. I bought this one to replace a 2TB one which was starting to show problems after 8 or more years of use.

Only Scan computers can deliver this quick. Litterally 12hrs later my order is here.

Espaço top para guardar meus gameplay em 4k, indicado para coldstorage.

Model numarasındaki ST8000DMZ04 farkı 75x155x230 Seagate box paket olarak geldiği için değişmiş. Yoksa bilinen ST8000DM004'ten bir farkı yok. Gayet sağlıklı bir şekilde elime ulaştı. Tavsiye ederim....

Very pleased with this item, fast international shipping from this seller.

Awesome product

I was a bit worried when the HDD arrived and the box was dented (signs of 'mishandling'). Did a validation (unRAID preclear) which ran over 49hours to test each sector of the hardisk and I am glad that it pass 100%! Note: Got this at a very good price but remember this is SMR disk. It fits my purpose for archiving data. IF you are using this as a NAS (e.g. in synology NAS) you are better off looking for a CMR disk (google the difference). Putting this disk for RAID purpose will be a disaster! Take note.