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

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.

I have researched and tried to find a storage solution for my company's large number of movie projects in .mp4 and .mov with editing files, and concluded that the best solution is to get HDs (especially when they go on sale to save a few $$) along with an inexpensive HD adapter like the Sabrent and backup all our projects on those HDs. At around 100-120.00 each we can store anywhere between 20-30 projects on an 8TB HD. Even making backup of backup the cost is far better than any online solution (at least for the time being) that store these project at the same HD or SHD resolution.

It does the job. Not much noise, good price for the size.

If you want super speed, this is not the drive for you, but being 5400 RPM, you should know that. I was copying data over from a 7200 RPM Toshiba and the drops in speed was noticeable. However, I want this for mass storage of video, pictures, etc. so I don't need amazing speeds.Now the issue I did have was probably a Windows 10 issue because I all diagnostics showed the drive to be 100% ok. When I first installed the drive and tried copying files to it (through Windows Explorer and SynchBak), it would be super fast at the start and then plummet. Like to KB/ s. It was horrible. I tried a million things online to try and fix it and none worked. Finally some people said reinstall Windows. Now it is much easier to do a Reset with Windows 10 but since I had never done a clean install since I upgraded from 7 way back when, I opted for a totally clean install on my SSD. Once I did that, the drive worked perfect. Again, not sure why it struggled so much with just this new drive as I have replaced data drives in the past with no issues. But clearly something was jacked. Given what I read online, I don't blame Seagate for this issue but I almost sent the drive back since it was driving me crazy and if the disk diagnostic from Seagate didn't say it was fine, I probably would have. Glad I didn't even it was the nuclear option to get it working.

While working on a project my drive suddenly stopped work, I never heard any sounds coming from the drive or had any warning, after a reboot the drive showed up but most of my files were missing, after calling tech support they had me download the recovery software, that said that there wasn't anything on my drive. now when I look at the drive in Disk Manager, it says my 8TB drive is a 16TB drive, needless to say, all my data is lost, the project I was almost done working on is gone and my Clients are pissed, I am out a lot of money because this drive failed, and Seagate wants me to spend $700 to get it back. A little more compassion from Seagate would have been nice considering that people rely on their drives for work, I am a freelancer and this failure has cost me a gig and future client gigs.I understand that drives don't often fail, this is the first drive I have ever had fail and I have drives that are over 5 years old still kicking, but having a drive fail in 7 months, and fail so completely that i can't recover anything, and my only option is a $700 recovery fee is kinda crummy, I would think they would have something in place for data recover for drives that fail so quickly.don't waste your money on their recovery protection, just buy a second drive and raid it together. they don't offer any realistic options on recovery.

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

So, I use this drive as one of three backup drives for my photography work. After months of moving large RAW files around, it's shown no sign of wear. It arrived in perfect condition, and every sector was good. Now, it's still silently purring away, with no bad sectors. It's been a solid drive, which is exactly what I needed. It may not be the fastest thing ever, but it definitely gets the job done.

Ok...not only am I running an 8-drive array (34-TB) full of Seagates, but have to say that without a doubt, there are NO DRIVES that compare to them in durability!I've seen the stats, heard the hype, but then again, I've also moved PETABYTES across them for years, and have only had ONE drive failure in all that time! The problem with 'testing and reporting' is that no one reports 'success rates', and the drives that last for years if not decades never make the news...I won't buy another brand...and Seagate can bank on that from a VERY dedicated customer!