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

This good

Easy to install. Its quick to bring up files and quiet.

Love these badboys. I was looking for something budget friendly and could handle my storage needs. This filled those 2 perfectly. I got a cheaper one with 6tb and 7000 something RPM and it was much worse. It was also another brand completely. The Seagate hasnt failed me yet for my 2 SSDS being 1TB or my 2 4TB Hard drive Barracudas. Points to Cover: Transfer Rate- Fast from CPU to drive and Drive to CPU. I run games off of it as well with no problem. If your gonna run a Windows OS off of it? Use a SSD. I use that and its terrific. Storage- Perfect amount for my usage. i have video, games from steam, music and documents. if you keep them well organized, you can maximize the space. I have everything in a very thought out filing system. Noise of drive- Non. Ive had drives in the past that were really noisy and this thing is quiet as a mouse. External options- You can put this in a external enclosure that supports 3.5 HDD. use one with a fan though. When my last PC went brick and I had a limbo period with a laptop. I used the old hardrive in an enclosure to salvage it.

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.

Purchased this to replace one failed drive (of the same model) in my NAS RAID1 storage. The NAS recorved quickly.

I really enjoy Seagate hard drives they are reliable, fast, and affordable; but when I received my package and saw that it did not come its original box from the manufacturer, I was a little disappointed. I scanned the drive for bad sectors, and there does not seem to be any internal damage, which is great. The packaging would not be too big of a deal if it was another component that did not have any moving parts, such as an SSD or RAM; but hard drives should definitely be well packaged to ensure that they arrive unharmed.

Returned! Packaging was very nice. Too bad it didn’t work for me

I almost regret buying this drive, while I mainly got it for what it is designed to do it is extremely slow getting those files to the HDD so it can do what it is supposed to do. Which is storage ,backup and or archiving. Dont buy these drives the 2TB 4TB 6TB and 8TB (not sure about the 1TB) if you need an active drive that will be doing alot of writes or storing small sized files like 100KB-1MB files took me 18 hours straight everyday for 4 days to move and defrag 1.8 million 100KB-700KB image files to this drive. (technically I shouldnt have even defragged but I didnt understand the SMR part until after I did it.) If i was a normal person with a normal life it would have took me 3x-6x as long (based on 6hrs to 3hrs spare time respectively) to have done that lol. 2ndly if you say oh hey 4tb (or maybe 2TB, 6TB or 8TB) for all my steam games (why i originally bought it). Just dont, save your money and buy a normal high capacity CMR drive. This drive cant keep up during downloads, i download at 100Mbps which translates to about 12MB/s after about 60 secs at that the HDD cache just poops out on it, then it sends your beast PC into a potato mode that sometimes crashes explorer.exe at the worst and at the least into a lagged state of operation. I found a sweetish spot round 3mb-4mb/s throttled download speed where it could handle it a little better still no where as good as a CMR or SSD. Only thing good about these SMR drives is the $ to TB ratio. Before you buy these drives please do yourself a favor and read into what they are, be it official information or forums where people that use them speak about them. I didnt, I wish i would have understood what i was buying before I bought it. My fault entirely rather store page here stated it or not, other reviewers have and did. I should of read into their claims before i pressed that add to cart button. You can go to the seagate website and read the data sheets on any model of there HDDs to see which are SMR and which are not. I highly recommend you do that. All I got to say for good, is the 4TB for at the time $85 and I be honest I still dont think it was worth it! Because the performance is worse than hard drive speeds of the 90s. It really is that horrific! If i actually get my games backed up on it before either it fails or I die from old age waiting on the file transfer Id feel pretty blessed.

These hard drives are great. Easy to install and work with issues.

I bought a pair of these and use them in a docking bay connected to my MacBook Pro. The first time I used them, I was disgusted. I filled it half-way up and then the next time I tried to use it, it wouldnt mount and I thought all my data was gone... TURNS OUT... it commonly does this IF you accidentally disconnect it without first properly ejecting it. I assume its going through some self-test integrity check before it will allow the OS to mount it... but after 5 (or so) minutes, it pops up again, good as new. As long as you play by the rules, you wont experience this. I only mention it in case someone had a similar problem and didnt understand it and thought the drive was bad. Its not. The build quality feels really rugged and its quiet - makes just enough sound that you know its working without being annoying. If it were inside an enclosure, you probably would barely be able to hear it. Im very impressed with the speed - while pitiful next to a Thunderbolt or a top-tier SSD drive, for an inexpensive physical drive, its pretty good. 7200RPM. Blackmagic Disk Speed Test puts it at around 160MB/s Write and 190MB/s Read. Again, not the fastest, but screaming compared to the 12-60MB/s thumb drives I was using before... and its very reasonably priced! Hope this helps!