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Seagate Desktop Drive 8000 GB 8TB external Hard Drive, 3.5 Inch, USB 3.0, PC & Notebook, Xbox & PS4, Modellnr.: STGY8000400

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Condition
New
Style
Desktop HDD
Capacity
8TB
Model
STGY8000400
Storage
8 TB
Weight
2.4 lb
Color
Black
Warranty
1 Year Limited
Works with
Desktop, Laptop

Features 5

  • Ideal for the home, office, or dorm, the Seagate Desktop Drive offers 8TB of enormous desktop storage for photos, movies, music, and more
  • An external hard drive for Windows or Mac computers, simply back up with a quick drag and drop
  • The perfect laptop hard drive or PC drive, just plug into to a computer for automatic recognition no software required
  • Includes an 18 inches USB 3.0 cable and 18 watt power adapter

Description

Ideal for the home, office, or dorm, the Seagate Desktop Drive offers 8TB of enormous desktop storage for photos, movies, music, and more. Backing up and transferring content is incredibly easy—just drag and drop to get set up, connect the external hard drive to a Windows computer for automatic recognition—no software required. For Mac computers, simply reformat. Included is an 18 inch USB 3.0 cable and 18W power adapter.

Specs 35

Digital Storage Capacity 8 TB
Hard Disk Interface USB 2.0/3.0
Connectivity Technology USB
Brand Seagate
Special Feature Data Recovery Service
Hard Disk Form Factor 3.5 inches
Hard Disk Description Mechanical Hard Disk
Installation Type External Hard Drive

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Drive needs a better USB B - A cable otherwise you are capped at abysmal speeds...
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First off this drive is right in the sweet spot of having enough storage but not being too expensive. I got it for a bit over 120 but considering the 10tb was over 60 more, I think I got a great deal. I will say this though, throw the cable that comes with it away and get yourself a quality 24ga or better one. The USB B to A cable that is roughly about 2 feet long IS JUNK!!! I couldn't get it to get any higher than 50 MB/s and I was like uhm, my backup plus drive which completely utilizes the bus to power it was getting 120-150MB/s so this should be WAY Faster... And I was right. I disconnected the cable after cancelling a backup of Acronis, and ejected it, removed power cord then USB and replaced it with the one that came with my Seagate Backup Plus and it immediately jumped to 200MB/s and kept going, dropping only to about 190MB/s So I can testify this drive is completely bottleknecked by the darn cable it comes with. I saw others with similar problem, and I was certain it was what indeed it was, an inferiour costcutting measure that sucks for the customer especially when they don't know why it's so slow. For me, who has several cables lying around, including some from monoprice, I dropped a 3 footer that is now making life a lot easier, as the BUP had only a 18" cable. Drive is humming along, and I have a little fan near it for temp sake, as I am now backing up my server which has a raid 5 consisting of 3-4TB SAS Seagate constellations ES.3 drives. It took a while since it was about half full lol, but at ~200MB/s it didn't take as long as the BUP did. Really nice drive and very sparkly lol. I will say I hate having to plug in a backup drive but for my server I had to since it's kinda difficult to find any 8-10TB external drives that only use USB 3.0 Power. This will do fine though as it will see minimal use only around once a month or more... ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2019 by Riboild
Good for 5 years running 24/7 initially.
Purchased in December 2020. Has run 24/7 for five years with little heat issue. Yes, I know why 24/7, I have my reasons. Stopped working intermittently then completely would not start when powered off then back on. So I decided to disassemble it as the warranty was long out of date. Here is what I found: A SG Barracuda HDD ST8000DM004, you are still able to purchase this SMR HDD as bare drive. Good if not reading and writing large files constantly. I still prefer CMR overall. The HDD is still good and loads up in a docking station. Good News files were recovered. Better News I now have a large drive I can use in my server for continued storage. Time to pull out the meter... As it turns out the control board in the enclosure has bit the dust. Figures the control board would fail first! The power supply is still good. Overall if you are buying for a backup drive it is worth it depending on price fluctuations. If you are not computer savvy you may have issues down the road when the control board fails. Look fo rthe videos pulling the internal drive out is easy. Suggestions here for the less informed: Back up your backup. If its electronic save it in several places IF it is an important file! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2026 by Bob
Great Storage for Series X/S Games
Review Image by gt2quick
First, we should all know by now that with a few exceptions, there is no way to play Series games from any external drive, not even from an SSD for those wondering, but we CAN play games from all previous Xbox consoles from an external drive. I read so many reviews on so many drives prior to purchasing this one. Did I purchase this one because it has the best performance? No. I could’ve purchased an SSD with a much higher write/read speed but I would’ve gotten a fraction of the storage at a much higher price. I decided on this HDD because at $164, the dollar per TB is almost impossible to beat and with how I intend to use this HDD, the performance is more than adequate. So, I write this review in hopes that it’ll help someone else decide whether this drive is for them. I read so much about read/write speeds when researching HHDs and I got to thinking, the read speed for a lot of us will be more important than the write speed. Why? Because our internet’s download speeds will max out way before the HDDs write speed capability is maxed out. So here is where the read speed comes into play. If you use this drive to store all your games, including Series games, and copy rather than move the games to the internal drive, then you’re only “moving” your games in one direction, and it just so happens that copying from this HDD to the internal drive is very fast. I copied Jedi: Fallen Order, Halo Infinite and Forza Horizon 5 from the HDD to the internal and they copied at a pretty much sustained 1.5Gbps (187 MBps). At 103GB FH5 took no longer than 15 or so minutes to copy. To me, a 15 minute wait is totally worth the savings/storage you get vs an SSD or dare I say the $400 2TB expansion card!!! At this price point I think it’s hard to make an argument against this HDD. I don’t know if the read speeds will be impacted as the HDD fills up so I will update the review once I’ve had more time with it. On a side note, the drive came in a generic cardboard box which I was not expecting. Don’t know if that means anything but nonetheless that’s the way it was shipped. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2022 by gt2quick
Works great on a Mac, buttttt
I have had no trouble with my 8TB drive working on my iMac. Yes, I had to reformat it and that took a little research online to figure it out. But it works great. So great that I'm purchasing the 16TB drive today because I've almost filled the 8TB up. I haven't tried to use it with Time Machine - I have a different drive for that - but I have no doubt it would work. Instead, I use it as extra space, loading all my media and documents on it. I love it. I know there are a ton of 'Doesn't work with a Mac' reviews, but I can only assume the steps it takes to reformat the drive scared them off. (Because yes, there is that slight moment of panic when you follow the directions and your computer warns you it's going to erase the entire drive.) But once the drive is reformatted, I haven't had one issue with it. I had MacOS Catalina when I bought it. I now have MacOS Big Sur. Still no issues. (Except for it getting filled up LOL - but that's my fault, not its ;) ) Update 3/8/21: For those who have BigSur on their Mac - the power distribution via BigSur is perfectly f'd up. So whereas before my update to BigSur, I could leave my external hard drives plugged in and when it started up the next morning, everything was fine, now with BigSur, I have to unplug my externals when not in use. ANNOYING - especially since my iMac retains its connection and won't let me eject them easily unless I turn it off! And this isn't Seagate's issue - this is VERY MUCH an Apple mistake they aren't fixing. What happens if I don't? The computer won't start. The loading screen will get to 25% and stall. Once it even slid off the edge of the screen. I have to then force the computer to stop. And then restart. Then it starts up (Usually). I love Seagate, but am not happy with Apple. I'm getting to the point where there aren't any computers I can trust. I won't do Windows and this will be my last Apple machine. We seriously need an OS that works, is stable, and won't steal our data. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2021 by t
Slooooow and error-prone
Review Image by Lunix
Update 2020-05-20: I got burned by Seagate again. I'm done with them. I just hope I can recover some files. I use this mostly for disk image backup (typically 32GB or 64GB each) for embedded systems. I've had this for about 10 months. It gets used very very seldom. But I keep having to scan this NTFS-formatted drive and repair it. Today, Windows (latest patches of version 10) said it would take 1:15 (HH:MM), then it puked at about 4:45 remaining (yes, it went up several times during the repair). And this thing is incredibly slow, despite my previous update. It seemed to slow down as it got more full, and the longer it was connected to a computer. I copied many files to it in Linux, and by the time I gave up and decided to check it under Windows, it was writing at about 200kB every five seconds (about 40kB/sec) on that Linux machine- which has two 4TB drives from WD that are working constantly for at least a year. Update: It's been a few days since I wrote the initial review below (on 2019-07-20). My PC has been powered off (thanks to a neighborhood power failure) since then. I am writing some 100+ GB files and am getting speeds between 94 and 126 MB/sec now (varies between those over time). I will check the read speed later. I couldn't let my previous review stand. Original review: This thing is incredibly slow. Sequential writes happen at about 26MB/s, reads at a bit more than 100 (using a USB 3.0 connection that gets me about 4x the write speeds with other drives). I've been burned by Seagate drives a few times, and pretty much stick to WD, and Samsung. I do have a few 6+ year-old Seagates that get occasional use as backup drives. I don't know if I can live with the slow speeds of this drive. And if I do, I am not sure it will last very long. I will report back after a year or so, if I keep it for another week. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2019 by Lunix
Big drive, quiet operation; cable's too short
Why I ordered this item: I fill up drives constantly with backups and video project files and I needed something to dump a huge archive onto before I wiped my laptop. Likes: * Setup really is just plug and play. I hooked it to my PC and it showed up right away, no software to install. * It's fast for a spinning drive. * This thing has a stupid amount of space. I threw my whole photo library, a bunch of ISOs, and years of project files on there and barely made a dent. * It's quiet. I expected some clicking or whirring since it's a big platter drive but I can barely hear it running on my desk. * The power brick is small for what it's. Doesn't take up half my outlet strip. No likes: * The cable is short. Like really short, maybe a foot and a half. If your PC is on the floor or tucked back on a desk you'll be stretching to reach it. * It's a plain black box. Not ugly, just kind of a boring brick sitting next to my monitor. * No carrying case or bag included, so if you're moving it around a lot you'll want to buy something to protect it. Would I pay full price for this product: Yes Final thoughts: This is a straight up desktop backup drive, not something you toss in a bag. It sits on my desk and swallows whatever backups I throw at it. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2026 by Amazon Customer
Fit my needs perfectly!
I am reviewing the 8000 GB (8 TB) Desktop. Okay, I knew going in that this was a "shingled" drive. But, I needed it for archival storage, so I figured it would work and I was right. I have a home network and a home server. I nedded to expand the capacity of that server. This is my experience. The drive arrived on schedule. It was easy to unbox and I liked the look, feel and solid weight of it. 30 minutes after unboxing it was connected to my server. It took only few minutes to reformat it for linux. (Who would want to run a server on anything else?) After formatting I got down to work. Let me say here that it runs only slightly warm, never hot. It does make a sound, but is quiet and doesn't bother me at all. It comes with it's own power so my computer doesn't have to supply it. Anyway, the first thing that had to happen was moving about 4 TB of files onto it. I started the copy and went away. It's a shingled drive so I knew it would take a while. And it did :) The next day I set up the Samba share, let Jellyfin scan it, and I was in business. It has now been running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for tw-months. It performs beautifully. No problems and no issues. It is a perfect archival drive. It's performance is way better than needed for it's purpose. I really like this drive and it is approaching 6.5 TB, so I will need to get another one soon. Can't think of any reason not to get another one of these. So far I am VERY satisfied with this purchase. One thing I wanted to know going it was how long it might last running 24/7. Never could get an answer. But, so far, better than good! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2024 by Wayne Donner
Excellent humongous storage capacity - well recommended
A friend sent me a $100 Amazon gift card, so I decided to use it plus about $45 to buy something I've long wanted: a lifetime supply of disk space. My prior drive, a Buffalo NAS, had about 1.5 TB on it after downloading files and saving video on it for ten years. So I decided to buy the largest USB drive I could find as I've had problems with NAS connectivity, and as I no longer have multipole computers, a local hard drive was appropriate. I have been using it both as a backup drive (I recommend Free File Sync, an Open Source backup program) and as a local Git repository for source code I write before pushing it to Github. The Seagate drive has provided flawless performance. When I first got it I plugged it in, hooked it to a USB port, and did a directory. There are a few small files including a drive icon. And I was pleased at the capacity listed: 8,001,427,599,360 bytes, preformatted for NTFS. It is what it promised: an 8 trillion byte disk drive. I noticed the drive was internationalized: it came with several plug types for different country electrical supplies. I presume the adapter regulates power and converts from AC power in UK or EU or JP or US/CA to whatever DC level it uses. The only thing I noticed is when it first starts it seems a touch slow, but this could be because my computer is not sending data fast enough at the start, or I have it plugged into a slow USB port, or something else, but once it's been running a few seconds it is very fast. For one person this is probably overkill, but it was way more than I could possibly use in my estimated remaining lifetime, so I won't need anything more. But if I did I would consider buying it again. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2021 by Tdarcos
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