Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5

seagate are very reliable and these barracuda series are perfect for file storage and amazing value for money and would highly recommend this to anyone needing storage especially music and video files 10 out of 10 seagate

This is a very good, high capacity hard drive with a decent sized buffer built in so that exceeds the performance of many 7,200 rpm hard drives. As such, this is the second one I’ve purchased.

his product is exactly what you pay for

it provides a decently large amount of storage for anything you might need the storage for eg gaming graphics, game development and so much more

the overall speed of the hard drive isnt bad but isnt the best but to be fair that is exactly what you should be expecting with a hard drive in general but for the speed its rated at it does an exceptional job

so overall id give it 4 stars and say its 100 percent worth it if you need some more storage and arent willing to shell out on an ssd

I’m using this in my NAS server. Had no problems with speed or stability. If using it in a PC it would work fine for game storage but please get an SSD for your operating system. It’ll be the best purchase you ever make.

An excellent drive, typical Seagate. Ok, it deffo lacks the speed of an SSD, but an SSD cannot touch the Seagates storage capacity for the price I paid. Now my question was how the new Barracuda stood up against the old Barracuda with regards to read/write speeds. This was quite a surprise. The older model (version prior to using the eye catching green label). The older model was faster in both read and write operation’s by about 20MB/sec. I couldn’t be arsed setting up a raid config but I’m guessing we would still see the new drives being out performed by the older Drives.
The price of the new ‘Cuda’ was for 2 TB a little over 50, or a little under 60, I have seen 4TB for 70 squid which is about the same as a 1TB SSD.
Anyway, back to the Cuda. For the price if blistering speed aint that necessary and you just require quite a bit of storage the Seagate Barracuda will suffice with its lovely slim profile sitting noiselessly below my rather bulky WD Blue Label, The Barracuda serves a purpose and does it well. The thing remaining is reliability, hmmm. WTF, its a Seagate ffs, It’ll prolly outlast me Ha, RECOMMENDED, .

I purchased this 8TB drive as a backup volume to replace a dying 4TB Seagate drive. It arrived earlier than estimated, well packaged, via Royal Mail, requiring a signature. The drive seems to be a good basic model. Inspection with SeaTools and CrystalDiscInfo found no problems and verified that it was brand new. It came pre-partitioned in NTFS into 2.1 and 5.1 TB sections (7.2TB is all the usable space on any 8TB disc when it is formatted, alas), but it was two minutes work with the freeware version of AOEMI Partion Assistant software to make it one large volume as I wanted (lots of other free software is also available and would presumably have done the same as well).

I wanted this drive to work on an old 32-bit Windows XP operating system, and as many people have discovered, XP can’t see hard drives bigger than 2.1TB. However, in the old days Seagate (and others) got round that by including a cunning little chip in the “bridge” hardware in their external hard drive cases that fooled XP into thinking that 4MB clusters were 512K clusters and, well, short version is it allowed XP systems to see bigger volumes – like my 4TB drive that was failing. So I swapped out the old 4TB drive inside that Seagate case with my new 8TB one, using the same bridge, and… hey, presto, my XP system is happy with its new 8TB (well, 7.2TB) hard drive! I empahsise that this would only be possible using that generation of drive cases pre about 2016 that includes the little wonder chip. I’m hoarding mine like gold dust. This trick with that bit of tech should theoretically let XP see drives up to just under 17TB.

Anyway, so far I’m very satisfied with this purchase, which came promptly and did everything a budget large hard drive is supposed to do.

You might wonder why we need these traditional ‘old school’ technology hard drives these days. But now that I have one in my new computer build, it definitely makes a lot of sense.

I am running the OS from an EVO PRO m.2 drive, so loading into Windows is almost instant, but running with a large capacity HDD compliments the rest of the storage requirements brilliantly.
With a lot of games these days needing 50GB plus, this drive is the perfect answer for large Steam libraries if you are sick of juggling game installations on small SSDs.

I would recommend the Barracuda PRO version over the standard one if you can afford it. It has a faster spin speed than the standard but it is still very quiet in that I cannot even hear it spinning’ I actually like the clicking sound it makes and it does not do it constantly as it did in the past where Windows was constantly indexing, or moving swap files. Storage issues have definately been solved in modern computers!

You also get a 5 yr warranty which in my mind reflects on the superior components used over non pro drives. As for the price….well I have probably spent around the same amount of money on a hard drive or SSD in about a dozen computer builds since 1996, and the only thing that has went up is the capacity and the quality. My first build had a 1.6 GB ( yes thats GB not TB) drive and I remember how painful it was to manage the setup and space in these ‘bad old days’ of computing.

It amazes me how the HDD technology has matured and even evolved to have a different purpose than it did in the past, and I do not see this technology dying any time soon. Unless SSD technology gets anywhere close to 6TB plus.

I read up on this product before hand and everything I read both on Seagate’s site and others said it should work with a computer running Windows 7 64 bit, so I bought it. Arrived on time and in good condition.
When I fitted it into the computer, only 1.67Tb was found. I tried Seagate’s support department who were very good and very helpful, but nothing worked. In the end they decided that the motherboard in my computer just wasn’t able to handle the larger drive. No mention of that possibility when I was buying it.
Fortunately, once I bought a PCI SATA Controller card and installed that, then plugged the drive into it, everything worked perfectly. Have had no problems since.
It works fine, as far as I’m concerned it’s fast and quiet. But bear in mind if you have an older computer you might need to spend another few pounds on a card.
I do wish HDD manufacturers would advertise their drives with the actual size you get. I know all the reasons why they don’t, why a 4TB drive is only actually something like 3.8Tb, but we wouldn’t accept that from any other type of company. If you bought a pint of milk and it only had 3/4 pint in it, you’d expect a refund. If you bought a 2L car and it was only actually 1.6L, you’d complain. But we all accept companies advertising HDDs at a size we never actually get.