What is the opinion of Reddit about the
Seagate BarraCuda 3TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC (ST3000DM008)?

A total of 32 reviews of this product on Reddit.

13 points

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14th Jan 2017

These are ST3000DM008 not to be confused with the infamous ST3000DM001 which are probably the worst rated HDD’s on the market. In a similar situation to Corsair’s CX line it’s easy to tell by the product information and product branding that this is the newer drive.

For those that want to check out amazon reviews https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST3000DM008/dp/B01IEKG4NE

I’m by no means endorsing this product but I don’t want to have people immediately start screaming about “SEAGATE 3TB DRIVES”

1 point

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25th Mar 2018

I had pretty much settled on this prior to the post, just wanted to see if anyone said otherwise.

Any recommendations? Just want a standard HDD, in the 4tb range. I was looking at the Seagate Barracuda 3tb.

It’s a little small, but it seems 4tb 7200rpm drives are a fair bit more expensive.

Edit-
Forgot to mention, I would likely end up moving all of my media(pictures/videos/music) to the new harddrive, and put what’s on the failing harddrive(mostly various programs) on my current harddrive. Not sure if RPM really matters or not.

1 point

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23rd Dec 2017

Thats not a great price for a 3tb, a new 3tb barrcuda is 85 on amazon

reason why you want that specfic drive? also re drives aren’t made anymore so that drive wont be new.

1 point

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21st Feb 2017

I bought this 3tb for like $90 prime. Seems to work like every other hard drive I’ve had. I’m a sucker for good amazon reviews

1 point

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30th Jan 2017

I’m looking to replicate then move my iTunes library – which is pretty sizable– from my old laptop to my self-built rig.

Can’t decide between this IronWolf 4TB, the 3TB 7200 HGST mentioned above (on the /r/buildapcsales page from 9days ago) or this Seagate 3TB BarraCuda (also 7200).

I’m not sure if I really need 4TB or just trying to “future proof” but I’m worried about two things: 1) I have always purchased Seagate or Hitachi drives in past since I’ve had WD drives fail but have readsome not great things about Seagate drives in this subreddit and 2) Not entirely convinced I definitely need 7200rpm just for streaming music?

8 points

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16th Aug 2017

It’s also $100 on Amazon, which is a much better place to buy from. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01IEKG4NE/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&psc=1

7 points

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20th Jun 2017

7200rpm

Amazon also matched it link

5 points

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16th Nov 2018

This is also the same price from Amazon, if you don’t like buying things from Newegg.

https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-BarraCuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST3000DM008/dp/B01IEKG4NE

3 points

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29th Jun 2021

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IEKG4NE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

And here is my HD. I’ve had them flipped this entire time. I suck. My local Drive has been my SSD and what I thought was my SSD was actual my HD. Explains A LOT! 🙁

2 points

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25th Nov 2016

Is it? Amazon and Newegg reviews seem to be okay. Are you referring to the Backblaze reliability report they put out every year?

2 points

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23rd Jan 2017

As far as I can see NCIX doesn’t have free shipping so amazon is probably the better option.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01IEKG4NE/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&psc=1

2 points

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18th Nov 2018

Currently Amazon is selling a 3TB Seagate mechanical hard drive for $100. Is there a chance hard drive prices will go down even more for black friday/cyber monday?

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01IEKG4NE/ref=twister_B01IK57UNQ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

1 point

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15th Oct 2020

I would go for This as a drive, and This as an enclosure – Ive been using this pair as an external game library for probably 5 years, and havent had any hiccups

1 point

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8th May 2018

I appreciate the help. What are your thoughts on this Seagate HDD?
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01IEKG4NE/ref=twister_B01IK57UNQ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

and what SSD would you recommend, i want the build to be around the $1500(pre tax)

1 point

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13th Jan 2018

Sounds like a bad hdd. They really shouldn’t produce a noise at all (or very little like a whisper).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IEKG4NE/?tag=pcpapi-20 $80 3TB 7200rpm solid choice

Edit: another choice

1 point

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28th Dec 2017

I made sure it was a desktop drive before grabbing. It’s 7200rpm and actually has a 30mb/s faster read speed than my 1tb WD Blue. Heres the amazon link

1 point

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1st Nov 2017

Ryzen looks pretty good.

Might suggest to up your hard drive to a 3TB for about $90. Link

You could also switch your card to something a little cheaper like this or this MSI one

Alternatively, you also choose the updated EVGA cards like the FTW2 ICX or the non DT version

1 point

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27th Jun 2017

I tend to use a standard internal 3 TB 7200 RPM HDD (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IEKG4NE/) in an enclosure (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LS5NFQ2/). This isn’t the most portable set-up but it’s cheap and works rather well if you can find a place to plug power for the enclosure.

Alternatively, I’m looking to get an SSD and a non-powered enclosure for portable backing up. So something like this:
(https://www.amazon.com/Tool-free-Inateck-External-Enclosure-FE2004/dp/B00JQTO8TU/) and any SSD. Within your budget, you probably won’t find one for 500 GB though this is close enough: (https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-240GB-SDSSDA-240G-G26-Newest-Version/dp/B01F9G46Q8/).

If you want to go further down in size, you can opt for an M.2 SSD and enclosure set-up.

Hope this helps!

1 point

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11th Feb 2017

SMART passed and tests seemed fine. However, this is my second one so far.
It’s this Seagate 3TB.

It started fast, then began slowing down to consistently ≈ 40 MB/s.
Then a couple days later, I started noticing it drop to below 10 MB/s (as shown).
I requested replacement from Amazon, and this too has gone down the same path.
Then I tried a 500GB Western Digital from my old box — same exact thing.
I’ve ensured my ASUS drivers, Intel/chipset drivers and SSD/HDD firmware’s were up to date — still no luck.
At this point, I’m sending the Seagate 3TB for a refund.
Now, I’ve got a secondary SSD in the box, and it’s copying much, much faster. So I am just going to stick with that, and assume HDD”s are incompatible as secondary drives with this motherboard… unless the same thing happens with this secondary SSD.
screenshot;
SSD to SSD (both ways) much faster: http://imgur.com/a/NTDWH

1 point

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26th Jan 2017

1TB hard drives are really bad storage/price. This is probably the best value out there at 1 TB per $30. The popular 1 TB Western Digital Blue is a terrible value now, at 1 TB per $50. Both hard drives are of the same speed.

1 point

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19th Jan 2017

How about neither?

$30/TB

The 2TB you linked is $35/TB

1 point

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19th Jan 2017

That hard drive is really bad for your money. Get something like this: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IEKG4NE/ref=ya_st_dp_summary

Also, instead of that 970, you can get something like an RX 480 for cheaper.

1 point

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13th Jan 2017

Some points:

  • The power supply is overkill. Something in the 500W range would be plenty. Check this out to make sure you choose a good one: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

  • I’ve never personally dealt with this but what I hear is “enterprise hard drives” tend to be louder and overcosted. Here’s an alternative: link

  • The SSD is super small and will barely fit the OS + maybe a couple of programs. Also, you can get 250 gigs for the same price. Here’s a decent one, but there are even cheaper choices out there without much loss of performance or anything.

  • In general, you could find better deals on a lot of the parts, and with the money saved you could make the jump to a 1070 instead

And here’s what an example build can look like:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gvxQLD

0 points

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28th Dec 2017

The higher price is justified when the Western Digital Black is one of the fastest and most reliable HDDs on the market. A 3TB Seagate Barracuda is larger and significantly cheaper, but they have been known to have higher failure rates than their WD counterparts.

You could get a 2TB SSD, but that would cost nearly 7 times as much.