BarraCuda Pro 8TB Internal Hard Drive Performance HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 5400 RPM 256MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC Laptop, Data Recovery – Frustration Free Packaging (ST8000DM004)

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.

I've used many Seagate drives and never had an issue. This one works great, as long as it holds up like normal, ill buy them again and again.

Waste of almost $300. Died a couple of hours into brand new build. Started making an odd clicking noise and now the system doesn't see the drive. I was piecing together components for a new build one at a time and so I was unable to test this product upon receiving it. Finally put everything together and this is my experience - it is now outside of it's return window. At this point I can not recommend this drive to anyone.

Too many pictures and I needed more room. Easy to install. Overall very quiet. It does have this quirky repetitive sound it makes. After doing so research it's common for these drives. I put this in my desk top system.

The Amazon description says this ST8000DM004 model is a 7200rpm drive, but most (not all) other sites list it as 5400rpm. Interestingly, the Seagate data sheet doesn't list rpm at all. (Why??) But I'm certain this is a 5400 rpm drive. How did I discover this? The seek time for this 8TB drive is significantly slower than the 2TB 7200rpm drive it replaced. At only about 25% full, It can take several seconds to access a file. (It makes a bit more noise too, but nothing serious.) It's too late for me to get a refund on this, so this is a word to the wise: If you want quick access to your files, don't buy this drive.

I recently bought this Hard Drive from Amazon and have only just started using it. Installation was a breeze and the price fit my budget well. It's a little slower than a SS drive but it seems to work like a champ.

I purchased this drive to replace a 3Tb drive that was starting to show read/write errors. It provided more than double the storage, and quite frankly works just fine. However, I've found that the drive makes an annoying chirping sound about every 2 seconds. Other users have commented on the same issue. Apparently the sound comes from parking the heads when not actively reading/writing the drive, but I don't know why the sound is so continuous. I found a utility called KeepAliveHD that quiets the sound by issuing write/deletes as often as you choose. I've set it to write/delete every 2 minutes, which effectively stops the chirping.

I use the 8TB version to consolidate some legacy external hard drives I had, plus keep my TimeMachine backups on it.

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!!

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

Endlich Speicherplatz, aber... aufgepasst, die Festplatte muss in GPT partitioniert sein, sonst hat man nur 2TB statt 7,82TB. Also nicht MBR wählen. Dann klappts auch. Wieviel die FP im Dauereinsatz taugt, muss sich erst zeigen.

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.