BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive 4TB SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch (ST4000DM005)

Reliable Storage Upgrade for Everyday Use I installed the Seagate BarraCuda 4TB into my desktop as a secondary drive, and it’s been working flawlessly. Setup was smooth—plug it into the SATA port, format, and you’re ready to go. The 256MB cache really helps with responsiveness; large file transfers (like 20–30GB backups) move faster than I expected, and programs that use big data files load without lag. Noise and heat are both minimal. I can hear a faint hum during sustained transfers, but it’s not distracting, and temperatures have stayed stable even after hours of continuous use. Performance is excellent for everyday computing, media storage, and light gaming. It’s not an SSD, so boot times or game load times won’t match flash storage, but for mass storage, this hits the sweet spot. One thing to keep in mind: as with any large drive, I recommend using it alongside a backup plan (cloud or another HDD) in case of failure. While Seagate’s reliability has been solid in my experience, no mechanical drive is immune to wear. Bottom line: A dependable, spacious, and cost-effective hard drive that’s ideal for bulk storage, media libraries, and backups. A great upgrade if you need lots of storage without breaking the bank.

I've had this for about 2 months now and have had no issues with it. I have the 4TB version. I use it for media and game storage in my gaming rig. I must admit, I was a little apprehensive about getting another Seagate internal drive after my old 7200.11 and 7200.12 drives all died quickly and ran loud and hot. This is the first one I've had since those. and so far it's been excellent! No errors at all, quick and cool running. According to HW Monitor, it runs 4 degrees C cooler than the black and 3 Degrees cooler than the blue. The highest temp I've seen is 28 Degrees C for the Cuda under high load. I haven't run any benchmarks (I don't like to do that), but the speed is comparable to my WD Blue 2012 1TB, which is a pretty fast drive. The Seagate is slightly slower when reading and writing large amounts of small files, but not by much. It is noticeably slower than my WD Black 2013 1TB, but that drive cost me almost as much as this 4TB Cuda did and is considered a higher tier drive. The only drawbacks I can see so far is that the Cuda makes a bit of a racket when transferring small files. It is the only internal mechanical drive in my rig that I can hear at all over the 8 case fans. It's mounted in a quick release bay with rubber mounts, so it will likely be quite loud in a hard mounted bay. It's seek time also seems to be slower compared to the two WD 1TB drives, but again it's not by much and those 1TB drives are both 7200 RPM while the Cuda is 5900 RPM, so that might be part of the reason. Overall, I see no drawbacks with the Seagate Cuda 4TB. It's price per GB is lower than most anything else in it's price range. It's faster than the WD Blue 4TB by a wide margin, which I consider to be it's main competition. That was the drive I was comparing it to when I was looking at a new drive. I'll update this review if the drive blows up or does anything wonky, but barring that I definitely recommend it! It seems Seagate has come a long way in recent times and their products are much improved compared to the ones from 4 or 5 years ago.

I know many avid games like myself who really don't care for Seagate - that's totally fine! Myself personally, I have had a very pleasant experience with Seagate HDDs, particularly the BarraCuda line. I will not buy an HDD that doesn't have 7200prm - this has that. With how expansive my PC gaming library is, 2tb no longer cuts it. At the moment, my PC has 3 drives - 2 SSDs and 1 HDD, equally around 4900tb. For my HDD, this one takes the cake! I bought this as a replacement for my new gaming desktop - the company I had build the computer was wonderful and I have no complaints, but I have never had a good experience with Toshiba HDDs, so I immediately replaced it with this. It's going strong, and I have another one in storage for whenever this one needs to be replaced. Which, I don't think will be anytime soon. All in all, I'm very pleased with my purchase and will continue to buy this BarraCuda HDD.

I've had it for a few months now. It's a fine mass storage drive. I'm not using it to boot Windows, though, since I've got an SSD for that. But who sticks their movie collection on their SSD? The main thing with this drive is to ensure you use is as UEFI. Windows 10 only supports up to 2 TB with FAT32 (even though the format will theoretically support more). When I formatted the drive, it asked me UEFI vs. FAT32. I didn't recognize UEFI and I knew what FAT32 was, so guess which I picked? I then realized that I couldn't access half of the drive. Unfortunately, it can be very painful (depending on your setup and idiosyncrasies of the hardware you're using) to switch to UEFI. Even though I didn't have Windows installed on it, I still lost my installation because I had plugged this into the P0 slot on the motherboard--thank you, undocumented "features" (long story). But if you just format it as UEFI at the outset, life will be good.

すぐに発送され、初期フォーマットも問題なくできた２つ注文し、一つは起動時間が１８時間もう一つが１３００時間程度の中古品であったので、それぞに当たりはずれはあるが初期チェックで問題なしであったため中古品としては妥当だと思えた。あとは耐久性のみである。

In Zeiten wo Spiele gleich mal 40 bis 60 GB Groß werden können, wo Streamer und Youtuber aus dem Boden schießen, ist es an der Zeit sich Gedanken über Mehr Speicherplatz zu machen. Festplatten gibt es wie Sand am Meer da draußen und die Entscheidung welche mann den nun nehmen soll ist mindestens so Stressig wie die, wie Groß sie denn nun sein soll. Hier haben wir die großartige Seagate Barracuda 4 TB im 3,5 Zoll Format 64MB Cache und SATA 3 mit 6 GB/s. Hier an der Stelle sei gesagt das die Seagate im Ranking nicht unbedingt die aller schnellste ist aber mit 5900 RPM und guten Werten beim Lesen Und Schreiben überzeugen kann. Zwischen 100 und 150 Mb/s Lesen und Schreiben ist Locker möglich und das bei der Niedrigen Umdrehungszahl. Demzufolge Sehr Leise und was noch wichtiger ist, ein sehr geringen Stromverbrauch. Durch die nachträgliche Umstellung in der Datenträgerverwaltung stehen dann auch unter WIN 7 und höher die vollen 4TB zur Verfügung. Ich habe im meinem Fall 3 Partitionen daraus gemacht, mit bisschen mehr als 1TB. Der Rest geht für die Verwaltung drauf. Die Datenübertragung der Verschiedenen Daten funktioniert flott und dank SATA 3 auch konstant. Abwärtskompatibilität ist natürlich auch drin. Was bleibt sonst noch zu sagen, außer das Die Festplatten in einem Ruhigen Rhythmus ein Ordentliches Tempo an den Tag legen und die Zugriffszeiten sehr gut sind. Also ein sehr Gutes Produkt zu einem Fähren Preis das hoffentlich lange hält.

Fascinated about the deliver. Took less than 24 hours. I purchased this product to use with my gaming PC. Luckily I had SATA cable and all connections and detected right away once powered on. No cables are provided. But product for now is really good! Thumbs up.

Being a photographer, I need lots of storage space and this hard drive is perfect without breaking the bank. Good read and write speeds and the build quality is very good. I just wish Seagate had better packaging. The drive comes in an anti static bag but no box. Amazon's packaging is very good so the drive was very well protected though.

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