Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache – Frustration Free Packaging (ST2000DM008/ST2000DMZ08)

I bought this drive due its capacity and for it being rated among the quietest HDs in use. I really do not hear it at all.

Ive had this for months now, and I still use it, Its perfect for any budget gamer trying to get more storage. Though as the months went on, the HDD started to make loud noises at random times, honestly, this doesnt annoy me personally but I know some people out there would get really annoyed from the whirring and clicking

I was replacing a drive in a NAS, this one is thiner than the original so I had to be smart on install. Works great.

PROS: Quiet drive so far. No issues. Fit into my computer no problems once I figured out the cage arrangement on my HP 595 computer housing. This drive is thinner than many other platen drives. Although doesnt spec out as being super fast file transfer internal from 1TB SSD disk to this 4TB platen disk was acceptable for my uses. Almost forgot Price was amazing, and yes Im sort of kicking myself for not getting 8TB drive now. My first hi performance drive ever was a BarraCuda Drive back in the 90s and it cost considerably more money over six hundred dollars for a 40MB drive. Yes drives have come a long way. CONS: NO SCREWS. (Luckily I save screws, but then you are wondering do you have the right size. For less than 10cents more production cost you could add screws even if only 1% of us use them.) The Thin form of this drive was a bit of a challenge as in the HP cage screws go on top. (Had to find temporary shim material to put under drive to close the gap so I could screw it into housing) No mounting directions either. Actually no directions at all. All you get is a warranty card written in more languages than I speak. Yes no hassle packaging, but no hassle for whom? Minus one star we still need Dos and Donts plus SCREWS TOO! As of now YES Id buy this drive again over and over again. Even with all the CONS mentioned they actually are very small. That said one more thing get the SATA CABLES when you buy the drive or at least know that you hve them on hand for when it arrives. Plus Ill be recommending it to friends and family.

Very hesitant on Seagate but cheap and for original xbox. So far so good

Works fine

Como lo esperaba...

I got the 2TB Seagate Barracuda bc it was the cheapest drive that had the 256mb cache and 7200rpm. Im mostly using this HDD as a dedicated gaming drive but I might put some other stuff here in the future such as mods for games and etc. Overall packaging was alright; it was literally just in a small box in its own wrapping. SATA 3 works best for this drive (most HDDs and SSDs nowadays). You also get a 2 year warranty that starts the day the HDD arrives to you. For games, It somewhat met my expectations for a HDD; its no SSD but itll get the job done when it comes to downloading and loading games. I have Halo Infinite, BF4 (All DLCs), and R6 Siege installed so far and with just the longer loading times compared to an SSD, id say it does pretty good for HDD performance. Games are usually READ intensive so its good there. Depending on how fast your internet is, it might be better to just install the game onto the HDD instead of moving the game from one SSD/HDD to this HDD because the transfer speed is horrendous. This is because its an SMR drive (shingled magnetic recording). What this means is that drives use SMR are very slow when it comes to random read/writes. Think of shingles of a house roof, thats what the HDD looks like when its writing tracks. Overall, the drive seems alright for my needs. The only thing holding back a full 5 star review is that its an SMR drive. If it were CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) where theres no shingles, just one track, then not only would that improve performance overall, but would overall make for a better HDD for all purposes. I would not recommend this drive for surveillance purposes and RAID setups. If you get these drives and want to learn more about their specs/benchmark them, I recommend getting crystaldiskmark and crystaldiskinfo, very helpful programs.

Being a student animator made me realize that I need more space. And quick. This thing doubled my storage for less than $70. I dont want to seem corny, but if youre looking for a new quiet and low-power consuming HDD. Just get this. I put 4 stars for installation since my rig is a bit tricky. The device itself fits like a glove after I opened my tower up a bit.

This 2TB Seagate BarraCuda is replacing a 7 year old 1TB Seagate BarraCuda with Win7 in an old Dell Inspiron. There was nothing wrong with my old one. I always run error checks on the disk & it was healthy. But, 7 to 10 years is the average life expectancy on an HDD. I have my files backed up on an external Seagate Drive just in case it ever failed. But, I do NOT want Win10 & I did NOT want to lose my Win7. I also needed more space. Im a music fanatic & I have a lot of WAV files. They eat up most of my HD. So I bought this new one & cloned it from my old one. I had to purchase a SATA cable & power cable to connect this to my motherboard. When I connected this on my motherboard & turned on my PC, I could feel it humming along. I opened Disk Management. I named it, but forgot to assign it a letter. Dont forget to assign it a letter or you cant use it. I did a full format in Disk Management to check the new drive for errors. It took hours. But, I would recommend a full format instead of a quick format when installing a new drive. Just make sure you format the NEW drive & NOT the OLD one or youll wipe everything out. (There is no need to do this from the Command Prompt.) Once I formatted it, I used Clonezilla to clone it in the BIOS. You need a flashdrive to use Clonezilla & its FREE! There are a few good tutorials on YouTube on how to use Clonezilla. If youre cloning an HD, I would NOT recommend using cloning software that clones from your desktop. How are you supposed to clone your Windows OS when its being used? Ive never understood how this works. And a lot of people that use these programs complain that they cant boot up from the new cloned drive. You need to clone from the BIOS. It took me a little more than 2 hours to clone 500Gs with Clonezilla. It was fast. Faster than doing a backup. Once the new Seagate drive was cloned, I removed the old drive & swapped the SATA cable from the old drive to the new drive. I didnt need to change anything in BIOS. Presto! The NEW drive booted right up. CLONING NOTE: This is how cloning works. It clones everything including the empty space from the old drive to the new drive. When cloning a smaller 1TB drive to a bigger 2TB drive, it will partition the new drive & separate the extra 1TB on a NEW partition. (Always go from smaller to bigger when cloning.) You can leave the new drive partitioned, name that separate partition & give it a new letter designation & it will show up as a separate drive on your computer. I didnt want this. (If you named your new drive before cloning it & gave it a new letter, as soon as you swap it with the old drive, Windows will automatically change it to the primary C drive.) So going back into Disk Management, I right clicked on the OS (C:) partition and checked expand volume. (Dont worry about adjusting the numbers. Windows will figure out how much space is left and expand it all the way.) So everything in the C drive is on a SINGLE partition with lots of extra space. Its that simple. I took my old Seagate HDD & put it in my fireproof safe in case the NEW drive fails. Now I have a backup of everything including my OS. So far the new Seagate is humming along. And its whisper quiet. Its like having a NEW computer with that good old Win7, but with more space. I hope this helps!