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Seagate Desktop Drive 8000 GB 8TB external Hard Drive, 3.5 Inch, USB 3.0, PC & Notebook, Xbox & PS4, Modellnr.: STGY8000400

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  • Ideal for the home, office, or dorm, the Seagate Desktop Drive offers 8TB of enormous desktop storage for photos, movies, music, and more
  • An external hard drive for Windows or Mac computers, simply back up with a quick drag and drop
  • The perfect laptop hard drive or PC drive, just plug into to a computer for automatic recognition no software required
  • Includes an 18 inches USB 3.0 cable and 18 watt power adapter

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Seagate Desktop

Office Space, Reimagined

Experience convenient backup and out-of-the-box Windows compatibility with Seagate Desktop. A high-capacity annex for a massive digital world, it offers backup for life’s memories, favorite songs, and gotta-have documents. Take care of business with drag and drop simplicity.

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Ideal for the home, office, or dorm, the Seagate Desktop Drive offers 8TB of enormous desktop storage for photos, movies, music, and more. Backing up and transferring content is incredibly easy—just drag and drop to get set up, connect the external hard drive to a Windows computer for automatic recognition—no software required. For Mac computers, simply reformat. Included is an 18 inch USB 3.0 cable and 18W power adapter.

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  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.65 x 1.63 x 7.06 inches; 2.43 Pounds
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ STGY8000400
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ June 30, 2018
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Seagate
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07CQJBSQL
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ China
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 11,288 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
4.6 out of 5
11,288 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the ease of use, storage, and value of the computer drive. For example, they mention it's easy to add to a computer, comes with easy instructions to format, and is suitable for storing your data. That said, opinions are mixed on performance, sound quality, speed, and quality.

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253 customers mention231 positive22 negative

Customers like the storage of the computer drive. They say it's large enough for most storage and backup needs, suitable for storing your data, and a high value gigabyte per dollar drive. Customers also say that it works well for archiving and easy to do store backups.

"...And I was pleased at the capacity listed: 8,001,427,599,360 bytes, preformatted for NTFS. It is what it promised: an 8 trillion byte disk drive...." Read more

"...This drive should also function well for incremental backup. Note that this drive uses SMR technology...." Read more

"This product has been invaluable to store all the data I needed...." Read more

"...Drive is fast and reliable and is providing ample storage for my photo exports." Read more

139 customers mention126 positive13 negative

Customers appreciate the value of the drive. They say it's a great value and a budget choice for local storage. Some customers also recommend it as a dependable upgrade.

"Reliable and great price." Read more

"...drive is right in the sweet spot of having enough storage but not being too expensive...." Read more

"...with any large capacity being so high, this drive is a budget choice for local storage...." Read more

"...NTFS on Linux...... Blows.Great drive at a great price. Next time I'll probably buy 2 more and Raid it up!..." Read more

114 customers mention100 positive14 negative

Customers like the ease of use of the computer drive or storage. They mention that it works well and is convenient to use. Some customers also appreciate the ease to add it to their iMac as the new Time Machine device. Customers also appreciate that the support is easily accessed and competent.

"...This one works well and was easily added to my iMac as the new Time Machine device...." Read more

"...Formatting for a Mac is easy. Step 1, ignore the software that comes with the drive. It's useless...." Read more

"...No issues at all using it right out of the box, with no difficulties. It is SUPER quiet too...." Read more

"No problem installing. Description on Amazon said 7200 rpm but drive is actually 5400 rpm. That's OK because I use it exclusively for backup...." Read more

389 customers mention210 positive179 negative

Customers are mixed about the performance of the computer drive. Some mention that it performs well, while others say that it started to fail. Some say it simply won't power up and is useless.

"...The Seagate drive has provided flawless performance. When I first got it I plugged it in, hooked it to a USB port, and did a directory...." Read more

"...I obtained mine in January 2021 and it has just begun to show signs of failure after two years of extensive use in a home-built ML server, well..." Read more

"...This one works well and was easily added to my iMac as the new Time Machine device...." Read more

"...What happens if I don't? The computer won't start. The loading screen will get to 25% and stall. Once it even slid off the edge of the screen...." Read more

258 customers mention106 positive152 negative

Customers are mixed about the speed of the drive. Some mention that it is very fast, while others say that it's very slow and takes about a whole day to transfer data. The rotational speed is slower, and sequential writes happen at about 26MB/s, while reads at a bit more than 100MB/sec.

"...The only thing I noticed is when it first starts it seems a touch slow, but this could be because my computer is not sending data fast enough at the..." Read more

"...I use it with a USB-C fast connection and it does a great job with speed uploading and accessing via Time Machine...." Read more

"...Note that this drive uses SMR technology. This means that very large writes can slow down, and the average write bandwidth will be much lower than..." Read more

"...Drive is fast and reliable and is providing ample storage for my photo exports." Read more

245 customers mention119 positive126 negative

Customers are mixed about the quality of the computer drive. Some mention that it's a top-notch external device to store one's personal files, while others say that it has a high device failure rate, feels flimsily built, and does not last long.

"...The nature of the failure is gradual, not catastrophic: several uncorrectable sectors have appeared...." Read more

"...Drive is fast and reliable and is providing ample storage for my photo exports." Read more

"...It's a shame that products like these are on the market. They are a waste of money because you have to throw them into the garbage within less than..." Read more

"Reliable and great price." Read more

89 customers mention35 positive54 negative

Customers are mixed about the sound quality of the computer drive. Some mention that it's blazing fast, and the drive itself is super quiet, while others say that it sometimes makes a little bit of noise, and makes a lot of clicky noises. Some customers also mention that the drive is warm to the touch and that you can feel the platters knocking about inside.

"...OMG IT'S SO LOUD!!! I'm sitting here trying to work and the noise is so maddening I can barely think. I think it's worse than when I first got it?..." Read more

"...Drive is humming along, and I have a little fan near it for temp sake, as I am now backing up my server which has a raid 5 consisting of 3-4TB SAS..." Read more

"...I plugged the new drive in, and it’s loud, like very loud. Loud enough to where you would need to crank the music up quite a bit to drown out the..." Read more

"...It is SUPER quiet too. I'm currently copying over 1.5TB of data to it and I can't hear it at all...." Read more

Great Storage for Series X/S Games
5 Stars
Great Storage for Series X/S Games
First, we should all know by now that with a few exceptions, there is no way to play Series games from any external drive, not even from an SSD for those wondering, but we CAN play games from all previous Xbox consoles from an external drive.I read so many reviews on so many drives prior to purchasing this one. Did I purchase this one because it has the best performance? No. I could’ve purchased an SSD with a much higher write/read speed but I would’ve gotten a fraction of the storage at a much higher price. I decided on this HDD because at $164, the dollar per TB is almost impossible to beat and with how I intend to use this HDD, the performance is more than adequate. So, I write this review in hopes that it’ll help someone else decide whether this drive is for them.I read so much about read/write speeds when researching HHDs and I got to thinking, the read speed for a lot of us will be more important than the write speed. Why? Because our internet’s download speeds will max out way before the HDDs write speed capability is maxed out. So here is where the read speed comes into play. If you use this drive to store all your games, including Series games, and copy rather than move the games to the internal drive, then you’re only “moving” your games in one direction, and it just so happens that copying from this HDD to the internal drive is very fast. I copied Jedi: Fallen Order, Halo Infinite and Forza Horizon 5 from the HDD to the internal and they copied at a pretty much sustained 1.5Gbps (187 MBps). At 103GB FH5 took no longer than 15 or so minutes to copy. To me, a 15 minute wait is totally worth the savings/storage you get vs an SSD or dare I say the $400 2TB expansion card!!! At this price point I think it’s hard to make an argument against this HDD.I don’t know if the read speeds will be impacted as the HDD fills up so I will update the review once I’ve had more time with it. On a side note, the drive came in a generic cardboard box which I was not expecting. Don’t know if that means anything but nonetheless that’s the way it was shipped.
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