Features:

  • Store more, compute faster, and do it confidently with the proven reliability of BarraCuda internal hard drives
  • Build a powerhouse gaming computer or desktop setup with a variety of capacities and form factors
  • The go to SATA hard drive solution for nearly every PC application from music to video to photo editing to PC gaming
  • Confidently rely on internal hard drive technology backed by 20 years of innovation
  • Enjoy long term peace of mind with the included two year limited warranty
Reliable and affordable

We recently had a drive failing as it hit a critical error out of nowhere and estimated out of nowhere around 37% life left. We simply got our hands on another one of these and cloned it before all hell broke loose. New drive has been working fine and we ordered another of the exact same drive (this one to replace that one in inventory, awaiting the next big uh oh moment). These drives are typically quite reliable and last a long time. They aren't always the fastest drives as we have had our share of HDD options that can transfer quicker, but it doesn't come anywhere near slow at the same time. If you are looking for affordable and dependable while also faster than your typical "green" drives and with lots of capacity, the Barracuda line is typically a solid bet. We have numerous drives ran about the various machines here, and a good number of them would be this model and fall within the 4-8TB range. Used for everything from general storage to working on video and more. **If you have found our review helpful, please vote it as helpful below so I know. This helps me provide quality feedback in the future.

Good Fast Drive

Works well and is fast. In use just one week. No instructions included for installation, but Seagate web page had all necessary steps for installing, initializing, partitioning and formatting for Windows 10. No installation or setup problems. My desktop PC has four internal hard drives. Every three to five years one of them fails and I have to replace it. This drive replaced a 2 TB Western Digital Green hard drive that lasted five years. Before that one, the last to fail was a Seagate. Every hard drive will fail, just a matter of time. Backup is essential. I do not use backup software. Had too many backup images fail when I needed them. For the last six years, I use Microsoft's free SyncToy program to update my backup drives.

A vital addition to my new PC

It is whisper quiet, fast transfers of data and only time will tell if it lasts. $90 bucks to safeguard my data is worth it; especially when one of my older hard drives is starting to do the clickity-click thing and it sleeps more than it is awake. I wish I could have afforded the 6TB drive but this 4TB drive seems to be the best range price wise vs storage capacity right now. Seagate has been around for a long time, they must know what they are doing. This drive is standard size but it is still a bit more sleek than my older drives. To heft it, it seems like a solid piece of newer technology... I had to go into my Windows 10 disk manager and allocate the default space it found, then it quick formatted in seconds to NTFS and it has had a constantly level data flow of over a TB to it with no problems at all. I'm sure the 256 mb cache helps a lot in that respect. I am very happy with this purchase!

No issues here

I saw several issues other had encountered with refurbished or not-for-resale pulled drives being shipped as new. Well, these worked fine. I checked the serial numbers on the Seagate site before I installed them, and both came up as under warranty. I'm not sure what happened with the problems others had, but none of those problems here. Both drives show up as 4TB as well in BIOS.

Got one of these, then a replacement, then sent both back for a refund

After installing, the first 4TB drive worked for less than an hour at 4TB. Suddenly on its' own it became a 1.99TB. ??? Something must have come apart inside the drive. Ordered a replacement which Amazon sent immediately. My machine could not "see" the replacement drive so I sent both units back and bought an 8TB external drive. The 8TB unit works ok but has only a 7.27 TB capacity. Yup, 7.27 TB capacity in a Seagate "8TB" drive!

Very nice balance of speed/cost-effectiveness.

IT vet here. Plug and play. No fuss no muss. Stable, steady data flow. I bought it for storage, but tested it with Steam for installing and running games, as well as editing video files. It passed with flying colors on both. At a later date, I will be buying another to store my horde of games to have them installed and ready to go at a whim. Highly recommend for storage, gaming and editing. The 256MB cache seems to have made the difference with speed. Very nice balance of speed/cost-effectiveness.

solid high capacity hard drive for the price

Great hard drive for storage. Price is also very good. Your standard "green" hard drive that operates at 5400 RPM. Given the low price for such a large capacity hard drive, I immediately tested the hard drive using Seagate SeaTools, and it tested good. I also tested the hard drive transfer rate using HD Tach and it was holding steady at 180 MB/s. I plan on buying three more in a few months for my new computer build. If you are looking for a large capacity hard drive to store data, this is it. I would only recommend a 7200 RPM hard drive such as a Western Digital Black if you need to access that data quickly and more frequently. I use this hard drive to store DVD rips and media files.

A treat and a delight to use

After losing data constantly shuffling between spare drives I finally absolutely needed a new disk. Everything I have used before is old and nearly worthy of being burned at the stake for necromancy for surviving this long, so my comparison of this exalted virgin being offered to my vile and lowly dragon cannot compare to the toil and trouble of crones to which I am accustomed. She has taken with delight every morsel and incantation, every eschewed indiscretion. If only I had not lost the evidence of old passions relinquished to age, for lo, they were vast and unimaginable, contemptible and virtuous, conceited and utterly denied.

A great drive!

I've been running this drive for a while now after my 2TB drive decided to die and so far I have been very happy with this drive. It seems to perform great and so far I haven't had any issues with it at all.

Decided to Quadruple!

I decided to upgrade our aging storage drive of 1TB to a 4TB drive. I figured since I filled up the 1TB over a year or two, that doubling it wouldn't last long enough. I could also get a few more 4TB drives down the road and make a decent raid array with more than enough storage. Anyway, the drive went in great, no problems at all, I copied 935GB from the old drive to this one at an average of 115MB/sec. I cannot be initialized in Windows 7 as an MBR, use the GPT or you will not get the full size. It is also recommended online to use the default allocation size. After initializing the drive and formatting it, I was done.

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