Seagate BarraCuda Inner Laborious Drive 8TB SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch (ST8000DM004),Mechanical Laborious Disk

Does what it should.
Works as it should, from a reputable brand, and holds a lot without being too expensive. Its about as fast as any other hdd I’ve had. Works well for photo/video storage and large games that dont need it all loaded at once. I wouldnt put an OS on it in this day and age, but thats just my opinion. Not sure what else to say.

beware the non-warranty warranties
I purchased quite a few of these drives for cold storage of company data. Several of them have experienced extreme data loss events within 3 years of the purchase, but the factor I think people considering a purchase should think about is what happened when I contacted Seagate support to ask about warranty information. With every single drive I purchased, (4) 8TB, (2) 6TB, (1) 12TB and (2) 18TB versions of the drives from various vendors on Amazon, Seagate informed me the warranty had expired within 2 months of when I purchased them with some nonsense about vendors “holding” the drives for years in warehouses. Every single drive. Different vendors, same result with Seagate.This smacks strongly of Seagate trying to limit losses due to a technological fail causing the drives to not last as long as they were expected to. I’ve read articles about how the high capacity HDD drives that are filled with inert gasses like Xenon weren’t lasting as long as they were supposed to, I believe this is where that reality is translating into company policy: regardless of what they tell you the warranty is when you are purchasing them, the company is using cheap tricks to avoid actually having to uphold that warranty.Personally, I don’t really care about the drive replacement, it’s the data reliability that hurts. Most people, myself included, switched to SSD for main system storage over a decade ago. But I was still using HDD for cold storage, which I am reluctantly realizing is no longer something anyone with critical data should be doing. SSD storage is ~2-4 times as expensive, which pinches, but drives need to be able to last 5-10 years for cold storage to be viable, and I’m seeing 2-3 years on these drives. Do what you like, but I wouldn’t count on these drives to be as reliable as claimed in product descriptions, nor would I count on the company honoring the warranties if you run into issues. For me, at least, the age of HDD has come to an end.

Nice Hard drive
Good performance and transfer speed. Lots of storage and plug and play for my nas.

Good quality HDD
Performs great, no complaints from me.

item works perfectly well I will buy again.

HDD 8TB – Ho Acquistato questo HDD, circa 20 giorni fa per creare un backup per i miei dati unificando diversi piccoli supporti in questo. Pagato circa 137€, sul mio sistema lavora a circa 100mb/sec medi (accettabile per le mie esigenze), la velocità non cala col tempo.Ho inserito questo HDD e inizialmente non veniva visto dal sistema perchè è necessaria l’inizializzazione. Ho proceduto ad un minimo controllo di qualità facendo processare l’HDD da Crystaldiskinfo: il disco è risultato senza errori e senza avere fatto letture o scritture precedenti. Ho poi partizionato secondo le mie esigenze ed ho cominciato a riversare circa 1,5TB di dati in diverse sessioni di copia realizzate con Syncbackfree. Completamente soddisfatto dei tempi, delle scarse vibrazioni e della scarsa rumorosità. Vediamo con l’uso come si comporta, per il momento consigliabile se sotto i 140€, alè.