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Seagate Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Laptop And Mac, 1-Year Rescue Service (STGY8000400), Black

Seagate Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Laptop And Mac, 1-Year Rescue Service (STGY8000400), Black Seagate Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Laptop And Mac, 1-Year Rescue Service (STGY8000400), Black Seagate Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Laptop And Mac, 1-Year Rescue Service (STGY8000400), Black Seagate Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Laptop And Mac, 1-Year Rescue Service (STGY8000400), Black Seagate Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Laptop And Mac, 1-Year Rescue Service (STGY8000400), Black Seagate Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Laptop And Mac, 1-Year Rescue Service (STGY8000400), Black
$ 199.99

Score By Feature

Based on 173,334 ratings
Light weight
9.53
Storage Capacity
9.28
Easy to use
9.32
Portability
9.32
Durability
8.92
Tech Support
8.18

OveReview Final Score

How Our Score Is Calculated

Product Description

Seagate Desktop Drives provide 8TB of storage for home theater systems, movie libraries, music libraries, and more, making them ideal for use in the office, dorm, or home.
With this external hard drive you can backup your Windows or Mac computer simply by dragging and dropping
Just plug into a PC or laptop for automatic recognition, no drivers or
A USB 3.0 18 inch cable is included. A USB 0 cable and a power adapter rated at 18 watts
We include one year of limited warranty and one year of Rescue Data Recovery Services so you can have long-term peace of mind.

Questions & Answers

Does this hold enough music to last for a long time?

MP3 tracks are between 1-2 megabytes per minute depending on the bit rate, so in the worst case, say 4-8 million minutes depending on the bit rate, so it's about 66,666 to 123,000 hours depending on file size. About 7.48 GB. Over a period of six to 15 years, continuous recording has been made. The chances are that you can't fill this before it wears out unless you load it with porn (and even then it might not work!) Thanks to its design, it can handle very few requests. It's safe to assume that by the time this drive is almost full, a 40TB drive will be about the same price. You'll buy that, then copy everything over to the new drive, format it, then offer it to your child, who will wonder what uses it has.

on a PlayStation 4?

In my PC, I've had this hard drive as a spare backup drive for quite some time. The SSD connected instantly to the front port of my PS4 and helped me grow my storage to 4TB. Playing games on it is just like installing to your hard drive within your PS4. No external power source is required, the PS4 will format it for you and you can play just like with your HDD. It runs the same speed on my PRO, so I don't notice any speed issues. Using it is a great way to solve the problem of having to shuffle games off and on the limited storage space.

The USB 2 port. What is your support level?

The answer is yes. There are zero and three.

Selected User Reviews For Seagate Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Laptop And Mac, 1-Year Rescue Service (STGY8000400), Black

The speed of writing on this site is extremely slow
3/5

Would you like to edit videos? Are you creative? Do you need this to backup my files or for an external work drive? Please skip this purchase. The Seagate Drive will take you 13 minutes to complete. 1. Is there anything else on this drive? The Back Up Plus is better. You'll get it in five hours. A description of the writing speeds of this product would be useful. There is just a "Fast Transfers" button on the page.

Sara Chase
Sara Chase
| Feb 10, 2021
I love it
5/5

I'm really enjoying using.

Baker Evans
Baker Evans
| Jun 15, 2021
I like it
5/5

The purchase was absolutely excellent! My hand is not a problem with it being small and it fits in my hand. The ability to purchase/download as many PS4 games as I want is great, and it won't be long before I fill up the space on my hard drive!.

Adelaide Orozco
Adelaide Orozco
| Jul 22, 2021
I like the 8TB drive in particular, especially how cheap it is; the internal 3
4/5

5" hard drive is good too. One day deal was 40 dollars off the normal price. I deleted factory partitions and formatted the hard drive into one ext4 partition (about 7 TB and a half), ready for So far, it appears to be working well. It appears that the manufacturer's warranty for US consists of only one year. It comes with a 30-day return policy if it is defective. Here's some specs:

internal It has an 8TB Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache version. It is ST8000DM004-2CX188*. The drive is 5 inches and runs at 5400rpm and has a Shingled Magnetic Recording (not the best scheme, but not terrible if you archive media / play it back but do not delete items constantly)

that is an external model. Worked fine, did not notice any issues with the quality.
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;* AC/DC brick
input: There are no firmware updates available or visible on Seagate's site. Maximum power 7A* at 100V-240V, 50/60Hz: One 12V battery, one. The first is 5A (in. It's 18W).

Amaia Galvan
Amaia Galvan
| May 25, 2021
I'm so impressed by its size! My mind is blown once more by how technological advances have evolved
5/5

There are four times as many hard drives and probably eight times as much weight, but only half as much storage on my old one. . . I bought it for a Mac, it works perfectly.

Aubrey Malone
Aubrey Malone
| Jul 04, 2021
It's a great match for the XBox
5/5

I really like it!.

Arielle Abbott
Arielle Abbott
| May 05, 2021
It takes an absurdly long time to write
3/5

After starting a backup of my Time Machine The copy had not been completed in full yet because of the 2 TB). At the time of failure, it was showing "2 hours remaining. ". My computer rebooted immediately, and here it is 7+ days after it all began and it's stating "2 days remaining. " Also, this new hard drive was purchased to replace a different drive originally in use that failed catastrophically, erasing all the data on it. We were so disappointed to find out it was a Seagate.

Wyatt Banks
Wyatt Banks
| Apr 22, 2021
I'm a music producer and was running out of storage space on my old 1TB USB 3
4/5

0 drive, so this was a great choice for me. So far I have had no problems with this external drive on my Mac or Windows computers. There have been no issues at all.

There are two points for me that concern this, and I hope that it stays that way. When it is running, it is a bit noisy. In the past, I've had drives that were considerably quieter while they were in use. It seems to be okay, but I wish it were more durable. for the money, I'd buy it again, and I may buy another one to backup my other one. It's never too safe to be careful.

Everest Gould
Everest Gould
| May 17, 2021

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