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dtsiokos

2020-07-14

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It is too early for a review (I have had it for a week) but for now, it is going well.
I bought 2 pieces, one came dead from the factory but they replaced it with a new one after a week. Both disks write at a speed of 250MB/sec, quite satisfactory speeds for the money. I will put them in my server to see how they will perform, if yes, then they will stay there and I will get more (due to the low price).
I will come back soon when I have a picture...

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CoolJ

2022-05-29

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After 3.5 years, it showed me bad sectors and Windows didn't recognize it. After several restarts, it read it and my diagnostic showed 9% health with 6,250 hours of usage (260 days) since I bought it in December 2018. I have Toshiba, Hitachi, and Crucial drives in the system and I have never seen anything like this with 2 or 3 times more usage. And of course, it's out of warranty. Never again Seagate.

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  Γιώργος Δημ

  2025-01-04

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  Very good disk. Reliable. I have used 2 in RAID 1. Right now I have them in an Orico external enclosure because I am working with the laptop. I have all my data on them and whenever I want I connect and disconnect them. On one I back up Windows and on the other I store data. In my opinion, better than WD in lifespan, speed, and reliability even though they are 5400rpm instead of 7200.

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  CyanBlue

  2024-08-14
  This review is about the capacity: 8000 GB

  A disk with large capacity and slow write speeds and high patience speeds for rewrites since it is SMR. Essentially a "storage" disk where you will write many or large files that you don't need often or backups and keep it off the system. With this use and based on its price, it is good. However, it will in no way satisfy you if you write and delete files on it and of course, don't even think about using it in a server and RAID. It goes without saying that any other CMR disk of the same (or larger) capacity is a better purchase if the price difference is small.

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  24 out of 49 members found this review helpful

  karadoulis

  2023-02-08

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  This review is about the capacity: 8000 GB

  I don't know where to start. Looking back, the 8TB seems crazy and why would you need so much storage space, but time flies and now we have cameras that record in 4K, movies that reach 20-30GB, and games that require 200GB just for the intro scene, so here we are. With the speeds that SSDs are playing at nowadays, as we all understand, this one is meant for storage (late storage if you know what I mean, inside joke :P).

  A year ago, I bought the 4TB from the same series and I was extremely satisfied with the purchase. Of course, you never know with hard drives, they can die from one day to the next or last you until old age. I had such hard drives and I had others that died within a month! As I said in another review (yes, I'm talking to you, who faithfully follows me because I say things nicely, my friend :P), hardware is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get! It arrives, you shake it, you beg God for mercy this time, you open the box, plug it in, and voila, DOA.

  After breaking out in a cold sweat (yes, I know we've all experienced it, especially with hardware), the damn thing worked. Fun fact, Western Digital, which many consider to be the top, has the highest failure rate among hard drive manufacturers (yes, I know I've said it before and I'll say it again).

  Introduction, Features & Performance:

  A little history lesson, the BarraCuda series goes back 30 years (yes, you weren't even born yet and yet you question its reliability! :P). The 8TB is larger in size than the 4TB (no, I don't mean in capacity, but physically), not that it matters since nobody cares (except for you, who bought a mid tower and tried to fit the 3090 in it, well, whose fault is that?).

  So, technically speaking: It has SATA 3 (6GB/s) with 256MB cache and a rotational speed of 5,400RPM. And here, everyone will start complaining that it's so old and that their first hard drive was faster and blah blah blah, hold on, do you know what Multi-Tier Caching technology is? Well, with this, Seagate helps it perform faster even with its low rotational speed. Specifically, and according to Seagate, it uses a NAND Flash that helps improve the unit's performance by optimizing the flow of data to and from the drive.

  As for real-world results, if you're asking if it matches a hard drive with 7200 RPM, no, but it's very close in performance and at a much lower price.

  In terms of temperatures, it hasn't raised them more than it should, and I haven't had any issues so far (but we do clean our PCs every now and then to have good airflow, right, kids?).

  Lastly, it's not silent, but it's not annoying either for the few seconds when it starts spinning.

  Verdict:

  If you're in the market for a hard drive for larger storage space, look no further. It's a very reliable choice from a very good company (until it dies on you and you lose all your files, you might say, but been there, done that), and at a very good price compared to the competition.

  Pros:
  + Large capacity
  + Fast transfer rates (for a rotational speed of 5,400RPM)
  + Affordable compared to the competition

  Cons:
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  gkostis

  2022-07-05

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  This review is about the capacity: 8000 GB

  It broke down after one year of operation, fortunately it was covered by warranty.
  And while it was working, it was surprisingly slow

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  ankougen

  2022-02-23

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  This review is about the capacity: 8000 GB

  I bought it 2-3 days ago and just made its first transfer.
  Video Footage files ~470GB and it took ~1 hour to transfer them.
  The source was the WD Caviar Black 4TB.
  Transfer speed 80-160MB/s.
  I am attaching the screenshot.

  Other than that, I still don't have a clear picture of the disk.
  Time will tell.

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  6 out of 14 members found this review helpful

  Panagiotis Martiou

  2021-08-30

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  This review is about the capacity: 8000 GB

  Attention to potential buyers!
  Up to 2TB, the disk has a speed of 7200 RPM.
  Versions of the disk with higher capacity are at 5400 RPM.

  Update: The disk is turning back as defective as I cannot copy files at all, it freezes!! (However, it is possible that I happened to get a defective model, who knows what could happen)

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  4 out of 9 members found this review helpful

  bulky.b

  2021-04-26

  I have him only a few days and he fails the Seagate Tools tests with Short DST Fail.
  I am expecting a response from the store.

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  8 out of 8 members found this review helpful

  Tsakouridis29

  2021-02-13
  This review is about the capacity: 8000 GB

  The evaluation concerns the 8TB disk. I have been using the disk for 14 months and I am completely satisfied. I would highly recommend it.

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  6 out of 8 members found this review helpful

  Heatspreader

  2020-07-19

  I was looking for a disk to have files like videos, documents, music, etc. I was interested in the disk not making noise and not having vibrations. To achieve this, among other things, it needs to have as few disks as possible inside and low rotations.

  The ST4000DM004 has 2 disks inside and 4 heads. Completely silent and you don't realize it's working. It loads files very quickly and data transfer is also very high.
  Any HDD disk for running applications is slow nowadays, so I don't think HDDs need to have high performance in this area.

  I will soon buy a second one to copy my files and put the old one in a drawer for backup.

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  7 out of 51 members found this review helpful

  fdimoy

  2019-12-09
  This review is about the capacity: 3000 GB

  Finally, this hard drive broke! FINALLY
  I never had any problems and it's quite fast! The numbers say it all.

  Activation time: 712 days, 6 hours
  Estimated remaining lifespan: 21 days
  Health: ##------------------ 14% (Poor)
  Performance: #################### 100%
  712 days = 17000 hours +
  It suddenly crashed during the week, but it recovered and is functioning normally (from 100% on 20-11-2019 to 09-12-2019)! I will try buying Seagate Barracuda again and will provide an update.

  25-10-2020 Baracuda 7G
  Activation time: 92 days, 2 hours
  Estimated remaining lifespan: more than 1000 days
  Health: #################### 100% (Excellent)
  Performance: #################### 100% (Excellent)
  And we continue!

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  6 out of 7 members found this review helpful

  bakchr

  2019-01-15

  I have two such disks and I use them for storage (movies, music, etc.) and streaming on my TV and Apple TV mainly through the Plex application.
  For this specific use, they are excellent. Fast and silent.
  For a primary disk (operating system and programs), I recommend an SSD and even better an M2 SSD.

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  4 out of 27 members found this review helpful

  Fotis_Theodorakopoulos

  2018-11-07
  This review is about the capacity: 3000 GB

  I took him yesterday and within 6 hours his health dropped to 85% and it's still dropping. I will take him back and look for something better

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  16 out of 24 members found this review helpful

  amaniateas

  2018-09-13

  The first one was ordered around Christmas and arrived DOA. It was returned within the month and another one arrived, same model, loaded with 4TB, and suddenly... POOF! Bad sectors after just 20 days. Utter disappointment. It is likely a bad batch, but I can't help but comment on the unreliability of the one I got...

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  4 out of 7 members found this review helpful

  paulfotiou

  2018-08-09

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  This review is about the capacity: 3000 GB

  From the best options for a hard drive. I use it as storage space and it performs perfectly.

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  13 out of 27 members found this review helpful

  Alexandros_CHalkias

  2018-04-26

  The disk came with 200+ bad sectors. Unacceptable disk, unacceptable company. The store took it back flawlessly at their own expense and immediately credited me the amount

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  5 out of 10 members found this review helpful

  Dimitris koumis

  2018-02-13

  I bought this specific hard drive after a lot of searching. The disk is exactly what I was looking for. Very good speeds (according to tests I did with Crystal Disk Mark, it reaches its nominal speeds), large capacity, completely silent and cool.

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  4 out of 9 members found this review helpful

  Konstadinos_Zianos

  2018-02-06

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  I have had him here for 3 months and he is excellent. So far, everything is good and I have downloaded over 200 gigabytes.

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  MILTIADIS_KOLIADIMAS

  2024-10-06

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  This review is about the capacity: 8000 GB

  So far they work perfectly, I have 2, I reserve my judgment on their durability.

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  Stefanos_Constantinou6880

  2024-07-25

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  so far so good

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  Michail_Asimomytis

  2024-07-16

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  This review is about the capacity: 8000 GB

  For a mechanical hard drive, it is good and quite fast

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  1 out of 1 members found this review helpful

  RecStudio

  2023-10-31
  This review is about the capacity: 8000 GB

  first day 25% health let's go for a second and see

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  1 out of 1 members found this review helpful

  maliaritisefthy

  2019-10-05
  This review is about the capacity: 3000 GB

  Flawless disk. I have had it for 7 months.

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  5 out of 13 members found this review helpful

  dtamp

  2019-06-27
  This review is about the capacity: 3000 GB

  4-5 have let me down and I had them mainly as back up. Unreliable

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  5 out of 19 members found this review helpful

  FOTIS_THEODORAKOPOULOS7

  2018-12-11
  This review is about the capacity: 3000 GB

  He didn't manage to sleep for 4 hours and his health dropped to 84%, so I took him back

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  5 out of 25 members found this review helpful

  cotton_cotton

  2018-04-17

  He is completely unreliable

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  3 out of 6 members found this review helpful

  tntdiamantis

  2018-02-25

  Size Cache 256 MB top gun the best of all

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  2 out of 3 members found this review helpful

  tntdiamantis

  2018-02-14
  This review is about the capacity: 3000 GB

  The best 3TB hard drive (256MB Cache)

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  Giannis_Lap

  2025-01-08

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  This review is about the capacity: 8000 GB

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  steve_kaka

  2024-12-28

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  SimpleStam

  2024-12-28

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