Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch – Frustration Free Packaging…
$64.99
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Specification: Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch – Frustration Free Packaging…
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Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch – Frustration Free Packaging…
$64.99
Justin Zadworny –
After doing some digging the model number listed ST4000DMZ04 is bogus. I just received the HDD and this is a ST4000DM004 which is 5400 RPM NOT 7200 RPM as the description says. Save yourself the $20 and just buy the ST4000DM004.
RC –
Terrible distracting vibrations as the head seeks. A loud (faster spinning) drive would mask that noise a bit, but this one being otherwise quiet really slaps you in the face with the noise when the drive is active. According to their technical specs, this thing is dead silent, but mount it to a case and the vibration turns it into a speaker, amplifying the head noise. You really need to suspension mount it with foam or similar.
Performance would start okay for quite a while, then go horribly, horribly slow for a long stall out, before getting back to normal speeds again. I’ve tracked it down to the software I have probing the drive’s temperature. Either there’s a bug in the drive electronics, or it’s just so underpowered that requesting that SMART data while the drive is quite busy reading/writing will stall out the drive for up to a couple minutes at a time. It’s horrid, and not something I’ve had any issue with, with other brands of drives.
The read/write performance is pretty disappointing. An 8TB WD Red (not “pro” either) with similar RPM rate, reads/writes 33% faster than this 8TB Segate. That’s no small difference, but a huge bottleneck when backing up or restoring your data. I’d put up with it, if not for all the other problems.
The warranty terms are pretty nasty, too. Not only is it just a 2 year warranty, but they have strict limits on how much data you can read/write to your drive in the warranty period. If you happen to backup your drive a lot, or regularly zero/scrub it for secure data deletion, or anything else like that, you can find your warranty void much earlier, for no good reason. And you’ll only discover that after having paid to ship your drive back to them.
And for all these drawbacks… Seagate drives are barely any cheaper than WD drives. I have no affiliation with either WD or Seagate. I used to prefer Seagate drive, many years ago, but they seem to have really given up and fallen behind their one major competitor. Even as I have issues with WD drives and decide to try Seagate again, I find they’ve only gotten worse along the way. AVOID!
Steve –
Excellent drive! Can’t even hear it over my near silent case and cpu fans. This will almost certainly be the last spinning disk drive I buy in my life, and I am happy to be finishing up in style.
Joshua M. Robinson –
I chose this product because the description said it was a 7200 RPM drive. As you can see by the picture I have uploaded it is only a 5400 RPM drive. I would have gone with another brand had I known this. The drive does work and is silent so I give it 4 stars, I took one away because I was lied to about the speed.
doppelstern –
Bestellt hatte ich eine “Seagate ST2000DMZ08 BarraCuda 2 TB”,
so wie es offensichtlich ganz oben auf der Seite Dick und Fett deklariert wird.
Das “Z08” in der Modellnummer gibt in diesem Fall an, das es sich hierbei um die derzeit neuste Produktionsserie dieses Modellls handelt.
Oftmals werden bei neuen Produktionsserien auch einige Dinge verbessert dachte ich mir.
Eventuelle Verbesserung der internen Mechanik/Elektronik, leiseres Laufwerk, Firmwareupdate, udgl..
Also achtete ich darauf die aktuellste Produktionsserie dieses Modell zu bestellen.
Von “Kraft Computer Schmiede” geliefert wurde mir die “Seagate ST2000DM008 BarraCuda 2 TB” (also eine ältere Pruduktionsserie).
So stand es jedenfalls auf dem Festplattenaufkleber.
Auf der Quittung steht jedoch korrekt meine Bestellung: “Seagate ST2000DMZ08 BarraCuda 2 TB”.
Nach der Installation der Platte meldete mein UEFI überraschender Weise das Modell: “ST2000DMZ08”.
Also stimmte hier der Aufkleber auf der Festplatte nicht.
Wenige Tage später bestellte ich erneut die selbe Platte bei “Kraft Computer Schmiede”.
Nach Ankunft: Auch hier wieder auf dem Festplattenaufkleber “ST2000DM008”.
Ok, dachte ich mir – installierst das Ding mal und dann wird vermutlich wieder “ST2000DMZ08” vom UEFI angezeigt.
Mein UEFI meldet dieses mal jedoch eine “ST2000DM008”, also eine ältere Productline.
Auf der Quittung steht jedoch “Seagate ST2000DMZ08 BarraCuda 2 TB”.
Auch wenn beide Produktionsserien die selben technischen Daten aufweisen
finde ich es unschön und irreführend von “Kraft Computer Schmiede”,
das in der Kopfzeile ihrer Website die neuste Produktionsserie zum Verkauf präsäntiert wird (und nur diese!),
und dann weiter unten auf Seite – quasi im Kleingedruckten bei der Modellnummer ST2000DMZ08/DM008 steht.
Wer dies übersieht erhält von “Kraft Computer Schmiede” also zufällig entweder eine Platte aus der neuen
oder aus der alten Herstellungsserie.
EGC –
I’ve been using Seagate products for more than 20 years; both at work and my personal computers. I’ve never had a problem. I’m sure if I had bought these drives at a bricks and mortar store they would have been fine, but unfortunately the seller treats these like books; throw them into a box, put in a few air pillows and ship them out. When I opened the box, they were COMPLETELY UNPROTECTED from the handling during shipping. My drives were covered in little dents to the top cover. NOTE to the seller: you simply CAN NOT ship hard drives like this! I’m going to be putting valuable data on these drives and they MUST be reliable. I can not trust drives that have been shipped this way.
After attempting to format the drives, they were full of bad sectors (no doubt due to the poor handling/shipping.)
Seagate, if you’re reading this review, you might want to suggest that your drives are not mis-handled like this. Very disappointing.
Amazon Customer –
Not much to say about this 2TB drive other than it works as intended, however have recently discovered that this is an SMR drive. I bought this specifically to replace my old Barracuda backup drive so it is fit for purpose. A word of warning to those looking to buy this drive as a system drive however, avoid. You should look to find a PMR drive instead.
Seagate Barracuda Compute drives in 2TB, 3TB and 4TB are all SMR. The 1TB Compute drive is PMR. Barracuda Pro drives are all PMR, hence the inflated price. Do not be persuaded by the 256MB cache, this offsets the drop in random read/write speed associated to the SMR drive. Seagate do not disclose which of their drives utilize SMR and have removed this information from their datasheets, so I hope this informs your purchases.
David –
I returned the 1st one because it wouldn’t detect. I had the same problem with the replacement one. I had to go seagate’s sight and download their disc wizard. After that it worked. There are NO instructions that come with it just a warranty paper, so you just have to know enough figure that out on your own. No other hd of mine has needed this.
A. Bossaller –
While I love the capacity of the drive, the fact that Seagate did not disclose that this drive was SMR technology has rendered it useless for my purposes, which was for a RAID 1 XBOX external hard drive.
For those unaware, SMR is Shingled Magnetic Recording versus the Conventional Magnetic Recording. The way shingled works is much like your roofing shingles, where bits are laid down in order. The issue is that when a single bit needs to be rewritten, the ENTIRE shingle sector must be written (yes, I’m simplifying the tech a little intentionally).
Not a problem UNLESS you rewrite portions of the drive regularly… Like in a RAID configuration.
This was not disclosed and as such, entirely NEW drives and a NEW enclosure must be purchased to replace this unit which is ALREADY IN SERVICE.
As such, AVOID THESE DRIVES except for offsite backup purposes as otherwise you will have HORRIBLE issues with them. Seagate should be ashamed that they intentionally mislead the consumer and then when the new became public, blamed the consumer for choosing to not buy more expensive corporate drives.
At this point, I’ve heard that Toshiba drives are not being misrepresented, so they will be my future purchases from here on out, as Seagate has lost my trust forever from this.
The drive I had was the 8TB model: ST8000DM004.
James kelley –
I ordered The 2tb Barracuda about a month ago. It was bad right out of the gate. Making an audible clicking noise that you could hear from across the room with a movie playing. When I called Amazon later to tell them what was going on. They were pretty fast in showing me that they would be no help. “Why has it been almost a month before you decided to report it?” First of all. Why does that matter? Second of all… I was ill. So, I called Seagate directly. They were much more responsive and after trying some redundant technical diagnosis they decided they would RMA the product free of charge. (Besides the $1 hold they put on my card since they were sending me a new product so I could transfer my data and send the old one back). All was well and good until I transferred the data and ran crystaldiskinfo only to find that they sent me an older, slower model. I’ve currently been on hold with them for almost an hour.
Dan –
To me, “easy to install” would include that the drive comes with the simple instructions needed to set it up. It does not. And the “User Manual” on the product also does not include them. Very frustrating to those of us who install a new drive once every 5 to 10 years and don’t remember what was required the last time.
Carl J Krause –
I have used 1TB, 2TB, 3TB and now 4TB BarraCuda drives. “ALL” of them are still functioning fine. These are excellent hard drives.
Detlev N. –
Im Dezember 2017 erwarb ich 4 Stück 8 TB Archive Modelle. Da nach ca. 200 Betriebsstunden die zurückgelesenen Backupdaten etwa 3 bis 5 fehlerhafte Dateien pro TB aufwiesen, hat mir Seagate diese gegen 4 Ironwolf-Modelle ausgetauscht.
Diese zeigten das gleiche Verhalten. Die Festplatten bemerken die Fehler und mappen die fehlerhaften Sektoren auf Reservesektoren. In den SMART-Daten (nicht korrigierbare Fehler) wird dies aber nicht angezeigt. Nach ca. 1000 Betriebsstunden sind alle “Grown Defects” gewachsen und die Platten arbeiten bei mir seit ca. April 2018 fehlerfrei.
Ursache hierfür ist die um den Faktor 2 höhere Bitdichte auf den Scheiben. Damit wirken sich einzelne Störatome oder Gitterfehler stärker aus.
Ich habe seit April 2018 auch 3 Stück 8 TB Western Digital Red im Einsatz. Diese haben seit dem nicht einen einzigen Fehler gezeigt. – Es geht also doch.
Aktuell habe ich zwei 4 TB Seagate BarraCuda getestet. Ich war erschrocken. Sie zeigen das gleiche Verhalten wie die 8 TB Versionen. Vermutlich hat Seagate bei den neuen Modellen dieselben Scheiben wie bei den 8 TB Modellen eingebaut. Aber eben nur halb so viele Scheiben. Meine teilweise 8 Jahre alten 4 TB Seagates zeigten nie einen einzigen Fehler.
Die Seagate Hotline ist von mir 2018 informiert worden. Ihr Vorschlag war, die Platten nochmals auszutauschen.
… damit ich wieder 1000 Betriebsstunden warten kann, bis die Platten zuverlässig Daten speichern?
TzTzTz
Am 2019-12-28 korrigiere ich:
Ich war so frech eine 16TB Seagate Ironwolf Platte nicht bei Amazon zu kaufen. Bei … gab es sie ca. 130 € billiger.
Nach ca. 300 Stunden Dauertest ist kein einziges fehlerhaftes Datenbit gelesen worden!!!
Nach ca. 10 Telefonaten und ebenso vielen E-Mails mit der Seagate Hotline Anfang 2018 scheinen sie es wohl kapiert zuhaben.
Grown Defects brauchen thermische Stimulation. Bei ca. 45°C dauert es eben ca. 1000 Stunden, bis alle Defekte gewachsen sind. Heizt man die Scheiben am Ende ihrer Produktion noch vor Einbau in ihr Gehäuse für ca. 30 Minuten auf ca. 100°C auf, erreicht man den gleichen Effekt. Alle Störstellen habe ihre endgültige Position eingenommen und können beim Aufzeichnen der Primary Defects im Gehäuse auf Resevesektoren gemapped werden.
Das Aufzeichnen der Primary Defects dauert bei einer 8 TB-Platte ca. 2 * 11 Stunden. 11 Stunden für das erste Beschreiben der Platte und 11 Stunden für das anschließende Aufzeichnen und Remappen der fehlerhaften Sektoren.
Die halbe Stunde Produktionszeitverlängerung fällt also kaum ins Gewicht.
Wer seine Backups ebenfalls auf Bitfehler überprüfen will, dem empfehle ich das kostenlose Tool „Total Commander“. Unter „Befehle->Verzeichnisse synchronisieren“ hat man die Möglichkeit ganze Verzeichnisse samt Unterverzeichnissen zu vergleichen – auch bitweise. Wer sich einmal an diesen Dateiexplorer gewöhnt hat, wird sich fassungslos fragen, warum sie/er sich so lange mit dem Windows Explorer abgemüht hat.
Ich werde meine Festplatten von Western Digital und Seagate weiterhin monatlich auf Bitfehler überprüfen.
Sollten sich solche einstellen, korrigiere ich natürlich meine Rezension.
Viele Grüße auch an Amazon
Detlev