Seagate Desktop Drive, 8TB, External Hard Drive, USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac, 2 year Rescue Services, FFP (STGY8000400)

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I purchased two 8TB Seagate hard drives and they are both fantastic. Sorry to read so many people had problems with these drives. If I have a problem in the future, I will update this review with a full report. But, for now, the 8TB Seagate hard drives are super and make a wise investment.A little tip for you. No matter how reliable a hard drive is, and, no matter other people’s positive experience, one cannot guarantee the retention of data. Mechanical failures do and will happen at some point. Thus, if your data does not exist in two separate places, your data does not exist at all. Even if corrupted data does not cause loss of data, a theft or a fire would also render your data useless.I have been a fan of Seagate hard drives for over two decades. And, as a result, I have purchased similar hard drives in the past. More than a dozen. I have been fortunate enough never to experience hard drive failures with this brand.Despite my luck and considering the aforementioned, I purchased a couple of drives. One to keep on site and one to keep off site.The Good+ The drives are whisper quiet. This is important to me. I find the crunching, grinding and popping of some modern drives annoying and unnecessary. If you like quiet operations, be confident that the drive works almost silently, even under load.+ Transfer speeds read/write are on average between 150 MBps and 200MBps. I use USB 3.0 and achieved these speeds through a lot of trial and error. I have a couple of PCI cards, and noted that if I had drives connected to one PCI card, it would reduce the transfer speeds by half. This issue is most likely related to power. Thus, I opted to use two PCI cards for each hard drive.The Bad- While purchasing an 8TB, you only get a reported 7.2TB. This is because hard drive manufacturers use the accurate description of the terms. The prefix giga, for instance, means a power of 1000. Whereas the correct term for powers of 1024 is gibibyte, though it isn’t often used. Computers, in-particular Windows, has always calculated hard drives as powers of 1024. While hard drive manufacturers use powers of 1000.- On previous models, and possibly other models less than 8TB, there was a physical power switch at the back of the drive. This allowed easy power down, to give the drive a break or put into an idle/archive status without wear. That physical button is no longer present. This results in you either having to turn the drive off at the mains or to disconnect the power cord.Despite these points, the good outweighs the bad. The value is remarkable. And, the drive comes with a 2 year warranty, which seems reasonable. But, as an added precaution, I also purchased an extended 3 year warranty in case failure occurs.I hope you found my review useful and that it helped you make an informed buying decision.

I bought 4 of these... 2 to store stuff, and two more to act as back-ups (if you're going to store upto 8TB of data, you really need to back it up in case the disk fails and all disks will one day fail as they have moving parts)...I store all my family photos and family videos etc. in RAW formats, not jpeg so one photo can easily be 100MB or more, and 4K family videos are usually several Gigabytes big, so I need the storage, and that means two drives, to upgrade from the dozen or so smaller drives I presently use!I ripped open two of the cases, and placed them inside my PC case, and they work great. Formatted to 64k per sector and the first drive took about 12 hours or so each to fill when attached via SATA cable, but flippin heck gov'nor it was worth it... The second drive only has about 1TB on it at the moment, that filled in less than 2 hours...The first back up to the 2 back-up disks via USB 3, took about twice as long as it did when the drives are connected inside the PC via SATA, but it was still relatively fast, and all done by the time I got home from shopping...I now have years worth of storage, and a great back-up solution. Great drives!

Ordered this yesterday as a way of shifting a few TB of rarely accessed data from my recently upgraded main PC, which gained a couple of M. 2 drives and, as a consequence, has fewer SATA ports available for larger traditional hard drive storage to be attached.It arrived at 09.30 this morning - ordered on the 21st December, arrived on the 22nd. Given the time of year and the fact that delivery services are doubtless at pretty much full capacity, I can only express my delight at this kind of service.Well done Amazon, especially as I snaffled this drive at a very much reduced price, I only paid £129.99 and free postage.Pleased with that, very pleased.As for the drive itself.......mixed impressions.Looks wise, think of a miniature TMA.1 from '2001: A Space Odyssey', and you've pretty much got the idea.Fingerprint magnet, but pleasingly minimalistic.There is a very slim, very subdued ( invisible in daylight ) blue light to show the thing is powered on, a power cable with a large number of plug adapters and an adequate - but only just adequate - in length USB 3 connector cable.You will need an extension cable if you intend to pop this on a shelf away from the PC.Plug it in, Windows 10 finds it, and off you go.Write speeds are slow, slow in the way a mogadon addicted sloth is slow.....but that was to be expected, really.I'm shifting around 5 TB of data to this device and at an average write speed of around 100 MB/s, sometimes only half that, peaking at around 170 MB/s, even after disabling hot swap in device manager, so I can see that this little operation is going to take a wee while to complete.Oh well, it'll soon be Christmas.Count on having to wait for around three and a half minutes to shift 10 GB data from your existing storage via the USB 3 cable and set your expectations to that level.Once the data is shifted, the read rates aren't too shoddy, coping with video playback perfectly well, although I cannot emphasise enough that this device will be highly unsuitable for game storage and play.All of which would make it seem like I'm complaining.I'm not. I'm really, really not. I'm delighted.This is a big drive.This drive, and the enclosure, cost me less than £130.That is insanely good value for money.The disk is spinning at 5425 RPM, and is, according to CrystalDiskInfo, an ST8000DM004 - 2CX188 model, with 8GB capacity, runs at 47 degrees C, and is dead quiet in operation.The enclosure feels ever-so-slightly warm to the touch after a period of extended hard use, but remains very quiet.You cannot get a naked drive with anything like this capacity for less than £170 retail, so, if like me, you are intending to shove a bunch of data onto it and only access that data once in a blue moon, this is a hell of a good buy.I personally rate Seagate drives quite highly, having owned numerous examples that have performed flawlessly over long periods of time.If this drive comes up to the durability standards of my previous Seagate drives, this will have been the perfect purchase for my needs.I'm actually struggling to see quite how Amazon and Seagate are managing to shift this unit at this price.If you can get this at the price I paid, go for it without even thinking. Just click.

I had no problem with this 8TB External Storage, works straight out the box, what you must not do like with any harddrive is knock it or drop on the floor because then you run the risk of a none working hardrive, they are sensitive.