Seagate ST2000DM008 Internal Hard Drive – 2 TB – silver, Mechanical Hard Disk

A good size disk to act as reliable data storage for an SSD boot disk. As SSD disks are not that reliable yet, we are back to the days where you should store your documents and data on a different more reliable disk. These are perfect for safe storage of your important files, either as an internal backup or as the main data disk. Fast (for a hard disk), reliable and silent. Simple to set up, but ease of fitting would depend upon your case type and size. My sons midi case was easy once I temporarily removed the RAM. I'd recommend and would buy again.

An excellent drive, typical Seagate. Ok, it deffo lacks the speed of an SSD, but an SSD cannot touch the Seagates storage capacity for the price I paid. Now my question was how the new Barracuda stood up against the old Barracuda with regards to read/write speeds. This was quite a surprise. The older model (version prior to using the eye catching green label). The older model was faster in both read and write operation's by about 20MB/sec. I couldn't be arsed setting up a raid config but I'm guessing we would still see the new drives being out performed by the older Drives. The price of the new 'Cuda' was for 2 TB a little over £50, or a little under £60, I have seen 4TB for 70 squid which is about the same as a 1TB SSD. Anyway, back to the Cuda. For the price if blistering speed aint that necessary and you just require quite a bit of storage the Seagate Barracuda will suffice with its lovely slim profile sitting noiselessly below my rather bulky WD Blue Label, The Barracuda serves a purpose and does it well. The thing remaining is reliability, hmmm. WTF, its a Seagate ffs, It'll prolly outlast me Ha, RECOMMENDED, 👍.

This looks to be a good general storage drive for the money. Large capacity, easy to fit and quiet enough in the case. Its not the fastest but it will be quick enough for most people. I have had a few Seagate drives and they are usualy reliable.

After reading that it is ranked in top 30 fastests HDDs out of more than 1000 by Userbenchmark, decided to buy (£54, April 2020). Please take a look at the comparison of my old and new HDDs, photo attached( Barracuda is Top, WD Blue 500gb is bottom) I am not too technical, but although the speed of this Barracuda is no match to an SSD, it is beating my old WD by far in reading speed. It is a bit quieter too. Reliability-wise too early to say, will update in the future. 4 stars because this HDD is SMR type, which means slow-ish writing speed. Please see below for differences: PMR: Perpendicular Magnetic Recording This is the technology inside of most hard drives. With PMR data is written to and read from circular tracks on a spinning platter. SMR: Shingled Magnetic Recording This type of drive overlaps recording tracks to store data at a lower cost than PMR technology. The downside occurs when data is deleted and that space is reused. If existing data overlaps the space you want to reuse, this can mean delays in writing the new data. These drives are great for archive storage (write once, read many) use cases, but if your files turn over with some regularity, stick with PMR drives.

Ask me again once the warranty runs out if it's then still running I be happy

Purchased two of these to replace drives in a raid array. One of the existing drives was starting to play up so it seemed prudent to replace both drives as they were both 7 years old. Fitted first drive without problem, allowed the pc to rebuild the array and then replaced the second one and repeated the process, clean simple and no hassle. These drives were the more recent version of the Barracuda drives previously installed, and I suspect on with the length of service of the orignals The computer will be retired before they need replacing again.

When I'm buying a spinning rust hard drive, ultimately the only thing I'm looking for is value for money. These days if read/write performance really matters to you, buy an SSD. If reliability really matters to you, just buy more than one spinning rust drive and run a RAID configuration, especially since setting up RAID has been so easy since Windows 8. And this is why I like this drive. It's performance is fine, though I wouldn't use it for an application that needs super high speed read/write, and I've got a couple of them in my box running together so I'm not concerned if one of them dies. This is a decent quality, good value drive that you shouldn't rely on by itself, but if you use it sensibly, it's very useful for the money.

Lack of packaging but this is a decent spinner to introduce to my caddy. I prefer the Constellation class over these but I rely on the warranty so newer the better. The price was unbelievable, I took advantage of the discount at the time. I think it was Prime day!