Seagate BarraCuda 8 TB Internal Hard Drive Performance HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 5400 RPM 256 MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC Laptop, Data Recovery (ST8000DM004)

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Are there better drives on the market? - sure, probably almost all. But - in my case - they were all fairly more expensive (e.g. the 6TB Blue was 30% more expensive than the 8TB Barracuda). We’ve determined that the Seagate BarraCuda Compute 8TB hard drive is created for general storage and archival, and it is well designed and priced to achieve just that. It is essentially almost a no-brainer if you are looking for a new hard drive with large storage capacity to store your every growing number and size of files. With Seagate’s branding and reputation, you should be in safe hands.Közösségi hálók sütijei Ezek a sütik lehetővé teszik számunkra, hogy kényelmesen összekapcsoljuk Önt a közösségi média profiljával, és például lehetővé teszik, hogy termékeket és szolgáltatásokat osszon meg barátaival és családtagjaival. Közönségmérés Ezek a sütik lehetővé teszik számunkra, hogy optimalizáljuk oldalunkat az Ön kényelme érdekében az Ön használatának módja alapján. A cél az, hogy emlékezzünk vagy előre jelezhessük a választásaikat. Ide tartozik például a funkciók használata, elhelyezkedése, viselkedése az oldalon. I've recently bought one of this drives and while I haven't installed it yet on its final (new) system, I copied a few thousand files (800GB or so of data) to it from an old system. Tartalom személyre szabása Ezek a sütik lehetővé teszik számunkra, hogy az Önről rendelkezésre álló információk alapján tartalmakat és hirdetéseket jelenítsünk meg Önnek, hogy a lehető legjobban ki tudjuk elégíteni az Ön igényeit. Ez legfőképpen ahhoz kapcsolódik, hogy milyen tartalmat tekintett meg, illetve milyen eszközzel lépett be az oldalunkra. Some people say when you write a bigger amount – for instance over 100 GB – that the writing performance is sinking drastically to under 1-2 MByte/s.

A very tiny indie game developer. He also loves to play games, read fiction, watch shows and anime. He is a tech enthusiast currently pursuing Engineering who likes to write. Read The dimensions of the 8TB internal hard disk are 146.99 x 101.85 x 26.11 mm. It comes with a form factor of 3.5″. The hard disk is quite versatile and supports every different kind of cabinet sizes, from mini ATX to full tower cabinets. Forget about pretty faces and handsome presenters. Here at The Tech Revolutionist, we go deep into technology to look at how things work, and how it affects the society today. OS : absolutely not, even the cheapest 128GB sata SSD would be much better. Unless you like to take a coffee while your PC boots. The BarraCuda 8TB is physically one of the larger drives in the lineup, standing at about 26.11mm tall compared to the 20.2mm height of its smaller siblings. It features a SATA 3 (6Gb/s) interface, a 256MB cache, and a rotational speed of 5,400 RPM.With the work from home arrangements made default due to the current COVID-19 pandemic situation, many users started to find out that their computing setup at home is insufficient. While you also consume more entertainment and media content at home, you will start to realize that your main storage drive (usually an SSD) on your PC simply can’t hold that much data. Furthermore, a SSD’s performance will deteriorate when it is almost full. Therefore, it is usually not recommended for you to store too much files on your SSD. Today, we are going to take a look at the Seagate BarraCuda Compute 8TB hard drive to see how this drive performs and helps us in our daily work and storage needs. I wonder how a Hybrid SSHD with Optane would've performed if it had 16 GiB and beyond of Optane integrated as their "Flash" Buffer solution on top of large DRAM cache that modern HDD's use ( ≥ 2 GiB) The BarraCuda seemingly has the edge over the 8TB WD Blue due to its larger cache, but this is needed to help manage the SMR tech and keep the drive from suffering even worse performance. The WD Blue has a small RPM bonus at 8TB that improves performance, but all smaller Blue models operate at 5400-RPM. However, those smaller models match the BarraCuda's 256MB of cache capacity.As you see in our testing, the 8TB WD Blue beats the Seagate BarraCuda in every performance metric due to the combination of its CMR tech and slightly higher 5640-RPM spindle speed. This is suitable for a NAS that uses ZFS in any configuration-be it a mirror or a RAID config (thanks CMR!), local storage that is sensitive to network latency but not high bandwidth, archiving that has large changes regularly that SMR will choke on or perhaps a drive for storing games (since this is a gaming brand of Seagate's) that weren't designed for SSDs or aimed at an older game collection.

Nem személyre szabott hirdetések Ezek a sütik lehetővé teszik számunkra, hogy általános termék- és szolgáltatásreklámokat jelenítsünk meg Önnek. In contrast, Seagate’s 7200-RPM FireCuda is the better choice if you want a more robust three-year warranty with data recovery services. The FireCuda is also faster due to its CMR tech and faster spindle speed, earning top billing on our list of best hard drives. However, this extra performance comes at a significantly higher price per TB, leaving the BarraCuda as a somewhat niche product. It also features what Seagate is calling Multi-Tier Caching Technology to help the drive perform faster in spite of its slower rotational speed. According to Seagate, the MTC technology utilizes a NAND Flash, DRAM, and a media cache to improve the drive’s performance by optimizing the data flow to and from the drive, depending on the data that’s being transferred. With how cheap NAND is, I don't think anyone would even consider this for an OS drive if they understand current technology or concerns with boot time. Yes, gaming isn't the preferred use case for this class of hard drives, but we include these tests for perspective. Built for gamers, 3DMark’s Storage Benchmark focuses on real-world gaming performance. Each round in this benchmark stresses storage based on gaming activities, including loading games, saving progress, installing game files, and recording gameplay video streams.

Regardless, sequential read and write performance on the drive is still quite decent, making the Seagate BarraCuda Compute 8TB to be very suitable for what it is made for.

Sustained write performance is adequate, but eventually, there’s a bump in the road. SMR drives can write fine when fresh but eventually will have to rewrite data due to the shingled nature of the storage. This manifests as the interspersed periods of lower performance that you see in the test above, and the impact and duration of this type of performance inconsistency will vary based on the workload. A purely sequential write workload such as the one shown above is the best-case scenario for a write workload on an SMR drive, and you can expect those interspersed periods of lower performance to increase if you mix in smaller files during a transfer. Overall, SMR technology results in slower overall write speeds and poorer write consistency than CMR hard drives. Power Consumption Built for gamers, 3DMark’s Storage Benchmark focuses on real-world gaming performance. Each round in this benchmark stresses storage based on gaming activities, including loading games, saving progress, installing game files, and recording gameplay video streams. The Seagate BarraCuda branding has been around for almost three decades. It was the first hard drive that featured 7200RPM speed, which provided superior performance over competition, allowing Seagate to gain its spot as one of the top manufacturers of hard drives. I wouldn't use a NAS drive in a desktop. They are meant to be used in RAID and may not work well if it takes a few attempts to reread a sector.Személyre szabott hirdetések Ezeknek a sütiknek köszönhetően mi és partnereink az Ön vásárlásai, viselkedése és preferenciái alapján releváns és személyre szabott termékeket és szolgáltatásokat tudunk Önnek felkínálni. Analitikai sütik Ezek az Ön tevékenységeinek nyomon követésére szolgálnak adatelemzés céljából, mint például a reklámozás hatékonyságának értékelése, személyre szabott tartalom felajánlása./span> There's also a scheme (known as the T10 Data Integrity Field (DIF)) for doing host-based error correction that exposes sectors as 520 bytes, instead of 512. Most enterprise drives support this. The extra bits are meant to hold ECC. Taking a closer look at the Seagate BarraCuda Compute hard drive, we found out that the drive uses what is known as the Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology. This is one of the considerably newer technology in the realm of hard drive, which allows more data to be kept within the same size of a physical hard drive. This technology allows us to see single hard drives that goes beyond the 10TB capacity these days. The Seagate Barracuda Compute features a SATA 6Gbps interface