Seagate BarraCuda 4TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch Sata 6 Gb/s 5400 RPM 256MB Cache For Computer Desktop PC – Frustration Free Packaging ST4000DMZ04/DM004

I bought a 4TB Seagate Ironwolf drive to replace a WD drive I had that was giving errors in my UNRAID server. I have not bought a Seagate drive in a very long time. There was a period of time when Seagate was great, then a period of time when they were not so great. Anyway, I figured I would give Seagate a try again, especially since their drive was $15 cheaper than the same WD drive at the time. I received my drive and it was well packaged in protective packaging and inside a box. The drive had the same familiar footprint dimensions but was a shorter height which was interesting. Anyway, it didn't make a difference really. I removed my failing WD drive from the server, and then slotted this seagate drive in. I then started the server and once booted I assigned the drive to the correct slot in the menu and the server immediately began rebuilding the data on the new seagate drive. The drive had zero issues and zero errors on it from testing and rebuilding. It delivers good read/write speeds, but read/write speeds are really dependent upon many factors and what the server is doing at the time and so forth, so no detailed reports on that. The Seagate drive has been running 24/7 on my server for about a month now and not a single issue with it so far. The shorter height is interesting as it lets more air from the front facing fans pass between it and the drive above it, so that is a plus I suppose. If this drive holds up for 6+ months I will probably replace more of my server drives with Seagate drives. I have 2 other server drives coming on replacement time in near while, so I will be purchasing at least a couple more of these as they go on sale from time to time.I will need to compare the longevity of the Seagate drives with the WD drives. I've had good luck with WD up until about a year ago. Now, their drives do not seem to be of the quality that they once were. I get a lot of errors on some WD drives sooner than expected. Hopefully these Seagate drives fair better.Anyhow, so far so good.

I was originally using two Seagate Ironwolf NAS 6TB drives in a Cenmate 2 bay enclosure. I use them in normal mode, which makes it so each drive is seen by the system as an independent drive with it's own drive letter. I do this so HDD #1 is my main data drive, then I use dSynchroniize to sync the data to the other "spare" drive. I exclude hidden and system drives. By doing this, I have better control over damaged files being synched... like MFT.My drives were 5 years old and had been used heavily during that time streaming plex. One ended up with a bad sector, right where the MFT was. I removed it, kept using my data on the other good drive while I ordered this 8TB drive. This one arrived, I threw it in, formatted it, synched all data to it. Now it is my primary data drive that synchs to the other 6TB (older) drive.So far, it works. No problems. disk info shows it's the first time powered on and zero hours. disk mark shows a better speed than the 5 year old 6TB drive does. The 6TB drive shows about 220 MB/s read while this is at 263 MB/s read. Not a huge difference, but not a tiny difference either.

Unlike many others here, I am running an UNRAID server rather than a Synology or QNAP NAS. Perhaps that's why my mileage has varied, such that I have had no failures whatsoever and my server is 100% uptime.I am running (2) 24TB Ironwolf Pro for parity, (8) 12TB Ironwolf Pro for the array and (3) 4TB Samsung EVO NVMe for the cache pools. This all runs on an Intel i9 14th Gen Processor, Gigabyte Aorus Elite motherboard, 128GB Ram and 16-Bay Tower.My workload consists of 24/7 reads and writes including, at times, up to a simultaneous 6-8 4K video streams. The drives never spin down and are active 100% of the time.I've been running this setup for a little over a year now and have had not a single error with parity checks running twice a month and SMART monitoring 24/7. With that said, I think a lot of what makes a drive last is the hardware connected to it and the workload associated with it. I don't expect these to last forever, though. I've been using Seagate drives for over 20 years and I can usually expect 5-8 years before they fail (with constant use). All in all, I'm very happy with these drives and carry very high expectations for the future.

I've been using multiple 250GB HDD's to save my gopro videoa and I wanted a 1T and it was way to expensive, but then when I click on this post, I seen there was an 8T for a great price. I snatched right away. The size fits great in the slots. Performance wise, I can transfer 600GB in less than 2 minutes! Easy to use and allocate. Compatible with any SATA drive ports. Imagine putting this beast in an xbox 😏

Llevo usándolo un mes y medio aproximadamente, Al momento de llegar el producto no tuvo ningún daño físico ya al destaparlo Aunque su embalaje sí estaba algo lastimado pero leve, muy contento con las compras que he realizado dentro de Amazon porque llegan muy bienEstoy usando esta unidad como almacenamiento de mi computador no está arrancando sistema operativo simplemente sirve para copia de seguridad de todos mis documentos y todos los trabajos que realizo dentro del computadorCosas que he notado después de usarlo es que al momento de realizar funciones con mi computador Como abrir el gestor de archivos u otro proceso que implique usar este producto genera un sonido normal de lectura de información por unos dos o cuatro segundos aproximadamente porque se siente como acelera su velocidad para leer y la verdad es algo que no incomoda, pienso que está correcto para su construcción, si tu placa madre te permite conectar dos unidades de estado sólido podrías pensar en ello pero este producto cumple con lo que ofrece ya está este momento no tiene ningún inconveniente Al momento de realizar toda la gestión de almacenamiento.Ya hice copia de respaldo de mi portátil que estaba totalmente lleno lo cual pesaba aproximadamente 500 Gb Y sumado a eso ya llevó creando nuevo material de las diferentes aplicaciones que uso como productor audiovisual y no ha presentado ningún inconveniente