Customer Ratings & Reviews

Worked perfectly. Was able to plug in and go. Formatted the drive and downloaded 2gb worth of games that evening.

I purchased it to backup my 5TB data. I installed it on my Linux server. There was no issue while copying all data to it, and it has been working nicely.

Well I dont know if its this new hdd or my pc other components which makes it not upload windows ocassionally and freezes up once on a while. Pc a lil too slow for my taste specially compared to my old 4tb hdd buy it at your own risk, perhaps I need a faster processor or more memory but the makers of the hdd dont mention that need

great hadr drive would recomand it to friends, family apretty much everyone

Great value on a great product. Purchased quite a few of these for multiple projects

These just work. Just put 3 of these in a Qnap DAS in Raid 5.getting decent speed for photo editing. Got it on sale, so bonus points for that

yeah it works. I put files on it and it stores them just a like hard drive should.

This hard drive is great I have used it in many of my storage systems and has not let me down yet

Affordable and reliable. Working well for me for backups.

Easy to receive and install, hooked and connected right off and allowed me to format and everything we loaded the drive right off.

The drive is being used as a backup drive. It has been running well since I've had it, although I can't speak to any speeds since it is connected via USB.

Works fine as a storage device for long term back up. Works as advertised.

Needed extra space for my movie backup especially for 3D playback is perfect great drive. Still plenty as I’m adding one by one.

Great product well worth the cost of purchase. Would buy again

I recommend these barracuda hard drive is fast, and silent.

A very reliable HDD, for a pretty reasonable price. A lot slow but that's to be expected.

Rsync'ed 2TB of data from WD 4TB (SMR) to the Seagate Barracuda 8TB (turns out it is also SMR). Took almost 9 hours. 3 hours longer than I anticipated. Did the same 2TB copy from one WD 4TB to a different WD 4TB drive, it took six hours. Since I already moved the data, I decided to keep the drives since the SMR penalty is paid during writes. And this server is for archiving, it is something I can live with. But if I had know before hand, I would have maybe considered the WD 6TB. For more information research CMR vs SMR vs PMR.

I have used 1TB, 2TB, 3TB and now 4TB BarraCuda drives. "ALL" of them are still functioning fine. These are excellent hard drives.

Fast as heck ., I like the speed of this drive 5gbs write speed.!

I backed up about 3TB of data with no issues. Only time will tell though. I will update if anything goes wrong.