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The lowest price for Seagate 8TB, ST8000DM0004, Barracuda Pro 3.5 SATA3 Desktop Hard Drive, Interface: SATA 6Gb/s, 256MB Cache, 7200RPM right now is $238.00.
Prices last updated 12 Jan 2025.
Seagate 8TB, ST8000DM0004, Barracuda Pro 3.5 SATA3 Desktop Hard Drive, Interface: SATA 6Gb/s, 256MB Cache, 7200RPM
Last updated at 12/01/2025 09:08:33
originally posted on Laptops Direct
Pros: * High disk capacity.* Reasonable cache size.* 7200rpm gives decent access times and seek latency.* Too early to comment on reliability.Cons: I bought a pair of Seagate 8TB Pro drives to replace an existing pair of Seagate 2TB drives (RAID 1) after the disks became almost full. The PC uses a Corsair Carbide 200R case. I experienced the following issues:-* The case for the 8TB drive is about 0.5mm thicker than the original 2TB drives. That makes it a very tight fit when installing into the drive cage.* Seagate have removed the middle of the three threaded fixing holes down each side of the case. Consequently the lug in the retaining clip fitted to the drive cage is no longer able to hold the drive in place. * The 8TB drive is noisier than the 2TB drive when ... MorePros: * High disk capacity.* Reasonable cache size.* 7200rpm gives decent access times and seek latency.* Too early to comment on reliability.Cons: I bought a pair of Seagate 8TB Pro drives to replace an existing pair of Seagate 2TB drives (RAID 1) after the disks became almost full. The PC uses a Corsair Carbide 200R case. I experienced the following issues:-* The case for the 8TB drive is about 0.5mm thicker than the original 2TB drives. That makes it a very tight fit when installing into the drive cage.* Seagate have removed the middle of the three threaded fixing holes down each side of the case. Consequently the lug in the retaining clip fitted to the drive cage is no longer able to hold the drive in place. * The 8TB drive is noisier than the 2TB drive when the heads move during a seek.* Nose/vibration from the 8TB drives is greater than the 2TB drives even when idle. This resulted in a constant, annoying low frequency hum/resonance when the side panels of the PC case were fitted.* The drives get quite hot during operation.
originally posted on scan.co.uk
This is a chunky old drive, but does exactly as expected. Bought it to store Microsoft Flight Sim, when research showed the only downside of a mechanical drive was initial loading time and performance of the sim was unaffected. Sure, an 8tb nvme drive would be lovely but until I can afford that, this does very nicely indeed.Excellent service from Scan as always, de.I’ve red promptly and well packaged.
originally posted on scan.co.uk
Excellent storage and good value. Needed extra storage space on a movie system and these drives provided the quickest way to expand.Quickly installed and up for operation in 15 minutes. Excellent build and a good addition to my existing Seagate drive system.Also delivered extremely quickly within 2 days of ordering. So full stars there.
Pros: * High disk capacity.* Reasonable cache size.* 7200rpm gives decent access times and seek latency.* Too early to comment on reliability.Cons: I bought a pair of Seagate 8TB Pro drives to replace an existing pair of Seagate 2TB drives (RAID 1) after the disks became almost full. The PC uses a Corsair Carbide 200R case. I experienced the following issues:-* The case for the 8TB drive is about 0.5mm thicker than the original 2TB drives. That makes it a very tight fit when installing into the drive cage.* Seagate have removed the middle of the three threaded fixing holes down each side of the case. Consequently the lug in the retaining clip fitted to the drive cage is no longer able to hold the drive in place. * The 8TB drive is noisier than the 2TB drive when ... MorePros: * High disk capacity.* Reasonable cache size.* 7200rpm gives decent access times and seek latency.* Too early to comment on reliability.Cons: I bought a pair of Seagate 8TB Pro drives to replace an existing pair of Seagate 2TB drives (RAID 1) after the disks became almost full. The PC uses a Corsair Carbide 200R case. I experienced the following issues:-* The case for the 8TB drive is about 0.5mm thicker than the original 2TB drives. That makes it a very tight fit when installing into the drive cage.* Seagate have removed the middle of the three threaded fixing holes down each side of the case. Consequently the lug in the retaining clip fitted to the drive cage is no longer able to hold the drive in place. * The 8TB drive is noisier than the 2TB drive when the heads move during a seek.* Nose/vibration from the 8TB drives is greater than the 2TB drives even when idle. This resulted in a constant, annoying low frequency hum/resonance when the side panels of the PC case were fitted.* The drives get quite hot during operation.
This is a chunky old drive, but does exactly as expected. Bought it to store Microsoft Flight Sim, when research showed the only downside of a mechanical drive was initial loading time and performance of the sim was unaffected. Sure, an 8tb nvme drive would be lovely but until I can afford that, this does very nicely indeed.Excellent service from Scan as always, de.I’ve red promptly and well packaged.
Excellent storage and good value. Needed extra storage space on a movie system and these drives provided the quickest way to expand.Quickly installed and up for operation in 15 minutes. Excellent build and a good addition to my existing Seagate drive system.Also delivered extremely quickly within 2 days of ordering. So full stars there.
This is, without a doubt, a drive that is a great value choice, assuming you are choosing it for the right reason. It excels at providing a large amount of disk space for archives, backups, and other workloads that are NOT performance sensitive. It is NOT a good choice as a primary drive, or anything write intensive. I bought it for one reason, a local disc to store backups and archives before they are copied to NAS storage. It is installed in a near antique system running a now discontinued 2nd Generation Core I5, installed on a motherboard with a limited number of SATA 600 ports, hence the SATA 300 connection shown in the attached screenshot. Also shown are some Crystal Diskmark scores that highlight the near dismal write performance, likely because it uses ... MoreThis is, without a doubt, a drive that is a great value choice, assuming you are choosing it for the right reason. It excels at providing a large amount of disk space for archives, backups, and other workloads that are NOT performance sensitive. It is NOT a good choice as a primary drive, or anything write intensive. I bought it for one reason, a local disc to store backups and archives before they are copied to NAS storage. It is installed in a near antique system running a now discontinued 2nd Generation Core I5, installed on a motherboard with a limited number of SATA 600 ports, hence the SATA 300 connection shown in the attached screenshot. Also shown are some Crystal Diskmark scores that highlight the near dismal write performance, likely because it uses Shingled Magnetic Recording. That said, it does well at what I bought it for, a source of cheap storage (less than 2 cents per GiB) for processes that run in the background when I'm not using the system. So if you just want lots of cheap storage, give this drive a look. If you want any sort of performance, bite the bullet and get an SSD.
Works great so far. I got an external dock to connect this drive to my laptop, and it transfers files just fine. It's fast and it was easy to set up. I didn't really know how to format it, but a quick google search helped with that. Before I bought this drive I had a conversation with someone from support about if the drive would work in an external dock. I don't remember his name, but he was amazing and helped me iron out how it would be done. All in all, and amazing experience and I will definitely be shopping with Seagate again!
Works great, high storage for pretty cheap. I use this drive to store my photos, movies, recording from streams, and it's perfect for this type of use. I also use it as a backup for my other important files and I haven't had any problems. Obviously being a hard drive, write speed can be slow if you're trying to transfer large files from place to place. When I first installed the drive I was moving about 600~700gb worth of data to it, and it took just shy of an hour to transfer that much data. Writing data to the drive directly (no transfer) is MUCH faster and I have zero performance issues, even recording a full quality (1080p 60fps Doom eternal ultra nightmare quality specifically) games with zero frames dropped or writing issues. Would reccomend!
Good Points: * High disk capacity.* Reasonable cache size.* 7200rpm gives decent access times and seek latency.* Too early to comment on reliability.Improvement Points: I bought a pair of Seagate 8TB Pro drives to replace an existing pair of Seagate 2TB drives (RAID 1) after the disks became almost full. The PC uses a Corsair Carbide 200R case. I experienced the following issues:-* The case for the 8TB drive is about 0.5mm thicker than the original 2TB drives. That makes it a very tight fit when installing into the drive cage.* Seagate have removed the middle of the three threaded fixing holes down each side of the case. Consequently the lug in the retaining clip fitted to the drive cage is no longer able to hold the drive in place.* The 8TB drive is ... MoreGood Points: * High disk capacity.* Reasonable cache size.* 7200rpm gives decent access times and seek latency.* Too early to comment on reliability.Improvement Points: I bought a pair of Seagate 8TB Pro drives to replace an existing pair of Seagate 2TB drives (RAID 1) after the disks became almost full. The PC uses a Corsair Carbide 200R case. I experienced the following issues:-* The case for the 8TB drive is about 0.5mm thicker than the original 2TB drives. That makes it a very tight fit when installing into the drive cage.* Seagate have removed the middle of the three threaded fixing holes down each side of the case. Consequently the lug in the retaining clip fitted to the drive cage is no longer able to hold the drive in place.* The 8TB drive is noisier than the 2TB drive when the heads move during a seek.* Nose/vibration from the 8TB drives is greater than the 2TB drives even when idle. This resulted in a constant, annoying low frequency hum/resonance when the side panels of the PC case were fitted.* The drives get quite hot during operation.
Delivered on time, and relatively easy to install. It would be nice if hard disks are supplied with the appropriate screws, since they are a weird US thread. I was able to use the windows operating system to use this to extend the existing disk in the machine without drama.It works as expected.
First some negatives, which are not an issue in my case: As you may have read elsewhere, these drives are not suitable for a NAS. They spin slowly at 5400 RPM. They use Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR), which makes them unsuitable for write-intensive use. (A few years ago I thought one of my earlier Seagate SMR drives was defective when the write speed slowed to a crawl, perhaps 10 MBS/sec. However, everything was fine; I paused my writing and let the drive move data into it's final position, and the speed picked up again.) In my case I use the drives to store backups and video, and read from them much more than I write.My three drives were well packed in OEM packaging. I used Seagate's verify website to check that the drives were genuine. I used the HDTune ... MoreFirst some negatives, which are not an issue in my case: As you may have read elsewhere, these drives are not suitable for a NAS. They spin slowly at 5400 RPM. They use Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR), which makes them unsuitable for write-intensive use. (A few years ago I thought one of my earlier Seagate SMR drives was defective when the write speed slowed to a crawl, perhaps 10 MBS/sec. However, everything was fine; I paused my writing and let the drive move data into it's final position, and the speed picked up again.) In my case I use the drives to store backups and video, and read from them much more than I write.My three drives were well packed in OEM packaging. I used Seagate's verify website to check that the drives were genuine. I used the HDTune utility ERASE function to write random data to the entire surface of each drive and then read data back to verity each byte written. (A 30-hour process per drive.)During these tests the SMART data showed many seek errors and many CRC errors, all of the latter being correctable. I assume that these errors are normal for drives of this sort, as has been the case with similar drives that I've used for several years with no problem.
8TB for ~$110 is really great. All four arrived quickly, in great condition, and immediately worked. Windows recognized them without issue, and they all pooled easily using Windows Storage Spaces. The only knock is that these are SMR and not CMR drives. I foolishly found that out after setting them up in parity. The write speeds were abysmal at 1Mb to 30Mb and sometimes actually 0 speed. I then started over and set them up as a mirror for 30TB in the pool and 14TB useable storage, and then they were able to write ~110-150Mb. If they were CMR and performed well in parity, then I could have had 19TB useable. That's the only knock. But for what they are, they're great for me to learn how to setup a network PC with basic file sharing on Windows, and eventually I'll ... More8TB for ~$110 is really great. All four arrived quickly, in great condition, and immediately worked. Windows recognized them without issue, and they all pooled easily using Windows Storage Spaces. The only knock is that these are SMR and not CMR drives. I foolishly found that out after setting them up in parity. The write speeds were abysmal at 1Mb to 30Mb and sometimes actually 0 speed. I then started over and set them up as a mirror for 30TB in the pool and 14TB useable storage, and then they were able to write ~110-150Mb. If they were CMR and performed well in parity, then I could have had 19TB useable. That's the only knock. But for what they are, they're great for me to learn how to setup a network PC with basic file sharing on Windows, and eventually I'll learn how to setup a proper NAS/media server. (Yes, I jerry-rigged four stackable Phanteks HDD cages to the Corsair 4000D with zip-ties. No, a GPU won't fit because the HDDs cover all of the pcie slots.)
