Seagate BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive 4TB SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch (ST4000DM005)

Reliable Storage Upgrade for Everyday Use I installed the Seagate BarraCuda 4TB into my desktop as a secondary drive, and it’s been working flawlessly. Setup was smooth—plug it into the SATA port, format, and you’re ready to go. The 256MB cache really helps with responsiveness; large file transfers (like 20–30GB backups) move faster than I expected, and programs that use big data files load without lag. Noise and heat are both minimal. I can hear a faint hum during sustained transfers, but it’s not distracting, and temperatures have stayed stable even after hours of continuous use. Performance is excellent for everyday computing, media storage, and light gaming. It’s not an SSD, so boot times or game load times won’t match flash storage, but for mass storage, this hits the sweet spot. One thing to keep in mind: as with any large drive, I recommend using it alongside a backup plan (cloud or another HDD) in case of failure. While Seagate’s reliability has been solid in my experience, no mechanical drive is immune to wear. Bottom line: A dependable, spacious, and cost-effective hard drive that’s ideal for bulk storage, media libraries, and backups. A great upgrade if you need lots of storage without breaking the bank.

I've had this for about 2 months now and have had no issues with it. I have the 4TB version. I use it for media and game storage in my gaming rig. I must admit, I was a little apprehensive about getting another Seagate internal drive after my old 7200.11 and 7200.12 drives all died quickly and ran loud and hot. This is the first one I've had since those. and so far it's been excellent! No errors at all, quick and cool running. According to HW Monitor, it runs 4 degrees C cooler than the black and 3 Degrees cooler than the blue. The highest temp I've seen is 28 Degrees C for the Cuda under high load. I haven't run any benchmarks (I don't like to do that), but the speed is comparable to my WD Blue 2012 1TB, which is a pretty fast drive. The Seagate is slightly slower when reading and writing large amounts of small files, but not by much. It is noticeably slower than my WD Black 2013 1TB, but that drive cost me almost as much as this 4TB Cuda did and is considered a higher tier drive. The only drawbacks I can see so far is that the Cuda makes a bit of a racket when transferring small files. It is the only internal mechanical drive in my rig that I can hear at all over the 8 case fans. It's mounted in a quick release bay with rubber mounts, so it will likely be quite loud in a hard mounted bay. It's seek time also seems to be slower compared to the two WD 1TB drives, but again it's not by much and those 1TB drives are both 7200 RPM while the Cuda is 5900 RPM, so that might be part of the reason. Overall, I see no drawbacks with the Seagate Cuda 4TB. It's price per GB is lower than most anything else in it's price range. It's faster than the WD Blue 4TB by a wide margin, which I consider to be it's main competition. That was the drive I was comparing it to when I was looking at a new drive. I'll update this review if the drive blows up or does anything wonky, but barring that I definitely recommend it! It seems Seagate has come a long way in recent times and their products are much improved compared to the ones from 4 or 5 years ago.

I know many avid games like myself who really don't care for Seagate - that's totally fine! Myself personally, I have had a very pleasant experience with Seagate HDDs, particularly the BarraCuda line. I will not buy an HDD that doesn't have 7200prm - this has that. With how expansive my PC gaming library is, 2tb no longer cuts it. At the moment, my PC has 3 drives - 2 SSDs and 1 HDD, equally around 4900tb. For my HDD, this one takes the cake! I bought this as a replacement for my new gaming desktop - the company I had build the computer was wonderful and I have no complaints, but I have never had a good experience with Toshiba HDDs, so I immediately replaced it with this. It's going strong, and I have another one in storage for whenever this one needs to be replaced. Which, I don't think will be anytime soon. All in all, I'm very pleased with my purchase and will continue to buy this BarraCuda HDD.

I just received 2 of these drives, for a RAID-1 setup, and so far they are working quite well. The first thing to note is that Amazon is selling a bare (OEM) drive (a generic box which contains just the drive, packaging material, and warranty). As such, the box you get doesn't give the average consumer enough information to know what is inside (the sticker on the box lists it as "ST4000DVMB05" versus the actual "ST4000DM005"). So it is not quite the same as you would find in a store. If you need screws, cables, other hardware, or a hard-copy of a manual, this may not do. I won't knock off a star for that, as it is an Amazon issue (not clearly listing it as drive only). The problem with Seagate is reliability: they have reportedly had reliability issues lately. My two have worked fine in the 24 hours or so I have had them, putting ~2TB of data on them so far. However, I of course wanted to verify the warranty, since the Amazon product info page isn't very clear (2 years shows up in a comparison chart, but it also shows 5 years for a similarly named product that is "lumped together" for reviews). So what IS the actual warranty? Let's see: The generic box has no information outside about the warranty. Inside, it includes a "Seagate Limited Warranty" card. It has a section "How Long Does The Coverage Last?" section, which states that it is the length of time indicated as part of your product packaging (fail: there IS NO time period on the product packaging). Next, it says to look at the product box or quick start guide (neither are included in an OEM/bare package: fail again). Finally, they give you a URL you can use. Going to that URL, it repeats the "product packaging", "product box or quick start guide" and URL mantra. If you are persistent, you will see that even though the URL is the same as the page you are on, clicking on it this time will magically take you to a different page where you can enter the drive serial number, model number, country, and CAPTCHA code (don't want spammers finding out warranty lengths!) and it finally gave me slightly over 2 years (huh???). So they REALLY make you jump through hoops to find out how long the warranty is, the warranty length does not appear in several places that Seagate says it should, and you have to enter your serial number to find out for certain. That just ain't cool. While they may stand behind their products, they don't act like it. A 2-year warranty for a consumer hard drive at this price is acceptable, so why hide it? Sorry for my rant, but I feel that it is important to be an educated consumer (and even more important when dealing with your precious data).

I've had it for a few months now. It's a fine mass storage drive. I'm not using it to boot Windows, though, since I've got an SSD for that. But who sticks their movie collection on their SSD? The main thing with this drive is to ensure you use is as UEFI. Windows 10 only supports up to 2 TB with FAT32 (even though the format will theoretically support more). When I formatted the drive, it asked me UEFI vs. FAT32. I didn't recognize UEFI and I knew what FAT32 was, so guess which I picked? I then realized that I couldn't access half of the drive. Unfortunately, it can be very painful (depending on your setup and idiosyncrasies of the hardware you're using) to switch to UEFI. Even though I didn't have Windows installed on it, I still lost my installation because I had plugged this into the P0 slot on the motherboard--thank you, undocumented "features" (long story). But if you just format it as UEFI at the outset, life will be good.

I swore off Seagate years ago, back when their drive failures were legendary. I figured I'd give this 4TB Barracuda a try on a new PC build, because of cost maybe or the favorable reviews, or just thinking surely Seagate had improved by now. Well it did work fine for 1.5 years and then all of a sudden 3 days ago it starts buzzing, constantly, loudly, maddeningly. Still performing fine from an IO perspective, all tests via SeaTools check out but the noise is unbearable. I take it out, give it a shake and sure enough something has come loose inside, sounds like the spindle is loose knocking around so the platters are not spinning right anymore. Honestly, I've never had this problem with WD. Bought a new 4TB WD Red and chucked the Seagate in trash. Never again. Once the 4TB SSDs become more affordable I'll go that way and never bother with magnetic again.

For the price point this is one of, if not the best drives you can buy. I'd recommend that you choose this drive over many others, because it is near the best drive available and is far cheaper than anything near it's performance. You could also opt for the Barracuda Pro but they cost about 50% more for about a 20% increase in speed. The Barracuda Pro is however much better if you are working with thousands of small files, I'm not sure about boot speed though. This drive has an impressive 160 MB/s write speed, and 150 MB/s read speed. while the Barracuda pro has 190 MB/s read, and 180 MB/s writing speed. However I recommend this one due to the much cheaper cost and not a huge difference in power.

Apparently, I ordered this in August 2017. I've used it to store games and anything else that isn't required by WIndows to be on the C drive. While I'm sure that I'm probably getting closer to the end of life within another year or two, it served me well for the time I've had it. On the plus side SSDs, especially M.2 NVMe SSDs, are surprisingly affordable now. At this in 2024, the value isn't quite the same as it was back then.

すぐに発送され、初期フォーマットも問題なくできた２つ注文し、一つは起動時間が１８時間もう一つが１３００時間程度の中古品であったので、それぞに当たりはずれはあるが初期チェックで問題なしであったため中古品としては妥当だと思えた。あとは耐久性のみである。

4TB por $2000, En ningún lugar cerca de donde yo vivo tiene este oferton hablando del disco duro de escritorio. Un mes probandolo es rapido y confiable mejor que el otro disco duro que tengo. las velocidades son buenas pero la memoria cache es de 64mb no de 128mb mal el titulo. El envío rápido y sin problemas bien protegido. y llego super antes de tiempo. Sin duda una buena compra

Ich bin seit gut 25 Jahren ITler und habe die Anfänge mit erlebt, darunter waren auch noch Hersteller wie Maxtor die dann Später wie viele andere von Seagate aufgekauft wurden. Seagate hatte damals schon Monster Festplatten mit 5 1/4 Zoll Hergestellt, als der Umschwung auf 3,5 Zoll kam, waren die Platten eher in dem Ruf, "Siegate" oder "Siegate nicht", meistens eher das letztere, nach dem Kauf, hat sich der Ruf von Seagate gebessert da hatte sich Seagate gesund gekauft. Die Zuverlässlichkeit ist gestiegen und ja inzwischen der Hersteller wenn es um Platten geht, IBM und Samsung haben ihre HDD Sparte ebenfalls an Seagate verkauft. Ich nutze inzwischen seit 10 Jahren die Seagate Platten und ja was soll ich Sagen, Ausfall rate ist bei mir 0 .. Das kenne ich von Seagate noch anders. Tatsächlich, alle Platten funktionieren. Ich bin mit den Platten durchweg sehr zufrieden, habe mir Aktuell 7 Platten gekauft und Sie funktionieren alle, ohne Probleme. Leise, schnell, gute Abwärme... Perfekte Datengrab. Verpackung, das Problem hatte Amazon schon immer, Amazon kann keine Platten verpacken, warum die das so machen ? Ich habs oft Kritisiert, aber das liegt daran dass das Personal nicht geschult wird, also eher weniger an den Leuten, woher sollen die das auch Wissen ?? Ich hatte bei allen Platten Glück da Sie Antistatisch und Stoßfest verpackt waren, jede Platte wurde einzeln verschickt, ich habe Sie immer Zeitversetzt bestellt, musste also gut 10 Tage warten (WE lag dazwischen), da ich schon die Erfahrung gemacht habe, das Sie alle in eine Kiste gepfeffert wurden.. Direkt zurück. Wenn Ihr Platten bestellt, würde ich mich nicht rum machen von wegen, erst mal ausgiebig Testen, hier gibt es einige Beispiele (Bilder) wie die Platten nicht verpackt sein sollten, Verpackung auf machen und direkt zurück, rein Schreiben als "Defekt, schlechte Verpackung" in dem Fall ist die Retoure Kostenlos und eine email an Amazon. "Das du gerne den Artikel behalten hättest, aber Klackert weil die Verpackung schlecht war." (Die Platte wird dann getestet, was Geld Kostet) Im Regelfall bietet hier Amazon eine Kostenlose Retoure an und schickt Ersatz, durchaus kann es vor kommen, das die Neu Lieferung verbessert Verpackt sein kann. Irgendwann lernt das auch Amazon. Wenn das nicht klappt, Lohnt es sich die "Gebraucht" Platten zu erwerben die Amazon anbietet, die sind durch meine Erfahrungen immer Stoßfest verpackt da die aus einer IT Werkstatt versendet werden.

Fascinated about the deliver. Took less than 24 hours. I purchased this product to use with my gaming PC. Luckily I had SATA cable and all connections and detected right away once powered on. No cables are provided. But product for now is really good! Thumbs up.

Being a photographer, I need lots of storage space and this hard drive is perfect without breaking the bank. Good read and write speeds and the build quality is very good. I just wish Seagate had better packaging. The drive comes in an anti static bag but no box. Amazon's packaging is very good so the drive was very well protected though.