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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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Digital Storage Capacity | 8 TB |
Hard Disk Interface | USB 2.0/3.0 |
Connectivity Technology | Bluetooth |
Brand | Seagate |
Special Feature | Data Recovery Service |
Hard Disk Form Factor | 3.5 Inches |
Hard Disk Description | Mechanical Hard Disk |
Compatible Devices | Laptop, Desktop |
Installation Type | External Hard Drive |
Color | Black |
About this item
- 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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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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Auto Backup Software | | |
USB 3.0/2.0 | Interface | USB 3.0/2.0 |
Windows/Mac Reformat | Works with | Mac/Windows |
160 MB/s | Max Speed | 160 MB/s |
0 | Extra Ports | 2 |
Up to 8TB | Max Capacity | Up to 10TB |
Auto Backup Software | | |
USB 3.0/2.0 | Interface | USB 3.0/2.0 |
Windows/Mac Reformat | Works with | Mac/Windows |
160 MB/s | Max Speed | 120 MB/s |
0 | Extra Ports | 0 |
Up to 8TB | Max Capacity | Up to 5TB |
Product Description
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.
Product details
- 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
- Best Sellers Rank: #60 in External Hard Drives
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Portability | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 5.0 |
Tech Support | 3.8 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
Storage Capacity | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.6 | — |
Easy to use | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.2 | — | — | — |
Light weight | 4.2 | 4.8 | — | — | — | 4.9 |
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storage capacity | 8 TB | 6 GB | 1000 GB | 10 TB | 8 TB | 2 TB |
hardware interface | usb3.0 | usb3.0 | usb3.0 | usb3.0 | usb c | usb |
compatible devices | Laptop, Desktop | Desktop | Laptop | Desktop | Desktop | Desktop |
form factor | Laptop | 3.5-inch | 2.5-inch | 3.5-inch | — | Portable |
read speed | 120 megabytes per second | 120 megabytes per second | 120 megabytes per second | 125 megabytes per second | 280 megabytes per second | 1050 megabytes per second |
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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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 start, or I have it plugged into a slow USB port, or something else, but once it's been running a few seconds it is very fast. For one person this is probably overkill, but it was way more than I could possibly use in my estimated remaining lifetime, so I won't need anything more. But if I did I would consider buying it again.
Perfect for storing large read-mostly datasets, such as video. This drive should also function well for incremental backup. 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 the peak write bandwidth. Do not use this for a long-duration, random-access, write-heavy workload, such as blockchain archival.
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 exceeding the annual data transfer (read/write) rating, and including over 10000 spinning hours. This should be interpreted as a positive; it is a sign of good robustness.
The nature of the failure is gradual, not catastrophic: several uncorrectable sectors have appeared. As such, we are transitioning this drive to scratch storage use. Unfortunately all hard drives fail eventually. For critical data, use a multiple backup solution such as 3-2-1, ideally with redundancy in each layer such as RAID, to minimize the probability of data loss.
Drive is fast and reliable and is providing ample storage for my photo exports.
I love it. I know there are a ton of 'Doesn't work with a Mac' reviews, but I can only assume the steps it takes to reformat the drive scared them off. (Because yes, there is that slight moment of panic when you follow the directions and your computer warns you it's going to erase the entire drive.) But once the drive is reformatted, I haven't had one issue with it. I had MacOS Catalina when I bought it. I now have MacOS Big Sur. Still no issues. (Except for it getting filled up LOL - but that's my fault, not its ;) )
Update 3/8/21: For those who have BigSur on their Mac - the power distribution via BigSur is perfectly f'd up. So whereas before my update to BigSur, I could leave my external hard drives plugged in and when it started up the next morning, everything was fine, now with BigSur, I have to unplug my externals when not in use. ANNOYING - especially since my iMac retains its connection and won't let me eject them easily unless I turn it off! And this isn't Seagate's issue - this is VERY MUCH an Apple mistake they aren't fixing. 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. I have to then force the computer to stop. And then restart. Then it starts up (Usually). I love Seagate, but am not happy with Apple. I'm getting to the point where there aren't any computers I can trust. I won't do Windows and this will be my last Apple machine.
We seriously need an OS that works, is stable, and won't steal our data.
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