Seagate BarraCuda 3TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC (ST3000DM008)

I bought five of these in early 2017 with manufacturing dates in May 2017. The year is 2025. They lived in my home NAS in ZFS-Raid1 with light usage for the last 8 years. I didn't notice my fan cooling my drives failed to get plugged in when I swapped my motherboard 3 years ago.The first one just failed now in 2025. 8 years of life with the last 3 years without any real cooling, beating the expected lifespan of a NAS HDD of 3-5 years by a long shot. I silvered in much larger modern drives to replace them all before another tanks on me, but I absolutely gotta salute these drives. They performed admirably. Five stars. Go Seagate.

It's an affordable 3TB SATA HDD. That's it folks, the specs can be found in the documentation put out by Seagate if you need to know the exact expected speeds. They run a little faster than WD Blue, and only slightly slower than WD Black. Compare the spec sheets, it's a fun read :D These are waaaay more responsive than the 2 TB Seagate Surveillance drive they're replacing. These drives do not use shingled storage, so write times should be decent compared to NAS disks.It's a spinning disk that runs at 7200 RPM. It's certainly not the fastest thing on the market, but hey, I'm spoiled with SSD's for my boot disks. I have four of these drives. One I've been using for over a year now, the other three are going to be used for RAIDs eventually. Currently they are running backup duty. I haven't had any issue with any of them mounting correctly and taking NTFS formatting.New computer build will be getting four for a RAID 10 with a Ryzen CPU. I'll update when that happens? Ha, probably not.On a side note: I stuck one spare in a desktop as a boot disk... Oh man... I miss my SSD boot disks.

Really good product

This came in to me in a box within a box. Basically expected packaging. If you got your drive in any other form of packaging as reported by other users, you probably bought the drive from a different retailer. My order was fulfilled by Amazon. If it says it's being sold by another retailer, I wouldn't trust it. Even if their reputation is good. (Unless it's a retailer I know and trust)I ran some benchmarks using Crystal Disk Mark, and here are my results.Seagate drive NEW MODEL (The one shown here)Read: 195.1 MB/sWrite: 192.6 MB/sSandisk Z400m m.2 SSDRead: 558.5 MB/sWrite: 187.3 MB/sSeagate drive OLD MODEL (32% Capacity Full)Read: 175.2 MB/sWrite 138.2 MB/sIn case most of you don't know, when a HDD reaches over 40% capacity, it starts to slow down dramatically. My old drive is 32% full so it's slightly slower than it should be.I'll be using this as a dedicated media storage and recording drive, and these results are very much what I need. I run Windows 10 and other programs on my SSD, my games are dedicated to my old Seagate drive, and now my media and video recordings will be dedicated to this new drive.If you're looking to buy this drive to run your Windows/Linux OS, then look towards getting and SSD for that instead, and using a seperate drive for games/media. If you can't afford the combo, see if you can get Seagates FireCuda line-up. It's built to have responsive Windows load times and keep the capacity of a normal HDD.

This 3 TB hard drive from Seagate spins at a very nice 7200 rpm giving typically 180 mb+ read performance. If you want reasonable performance from your HDD skip the 5400 rpm and 5900 rpm models that are commonly sold to consumers.What this means is that you can partition roughly the first 900 MB for a fast 'game/app' drive. Then use the rest of the volume for media storage that is slower - ie movies, pdfs, documents, etc.Very pleased with the value on this drive as I bought it at $75 so that's only $25 per terabyte of premiumperformance. Keep an eye out on these if they ever go on sale, well worth it!

Five years and it just died like a fart in the wind3 terabytes was plenty.It may have been too warm in the case.RIP sweet soldier, you've saved your last half finished projectBut for real, I never put anything but static files on it and it died. I barely read off of it then it starts just clicky clicky done all of a sudden.Five years ish ain't so bad I guessWelp, all SSD now!