Seagate 3.5 8TB SATA3 HDD 5400RPM 256MB
Expert score 80% from 1 professional review£252.99
- £252.99 ex VAT
What the experts say
- 80%kitguru.net
Seagate's standard BarraCuda desktop hard drive range ends at 4TB, the BarraCuda Pro range however, goes way past this to the new flagship of the lineup, the leviathan 12TB drive. Although there are even bigger drives to be had in the enterprise segment...
- Good:
- Huge capacity, 5-year warranty
- Not so good:
- Expensive, Kitguru says: The demand for cheap storage shows no sign of slowing down and Seagate's new 12TB BarraCuda Pro may not be that cheap at first glance for a standard hard drive but it is offe…
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Laptop and Mobile Storage
Experience the highest capacity, and the thinnest 2.5-inch hard drive you’ve ever seen. Choose from 500 GB to 2 TB of massive storage for all of your application and data needs along with a slim 7 mm form factor drive that makes system upgrades very easy.
External and All-in-One PC Storage
You also have the option of a 2.5-inch, 15 mm form factor drive — in 3 TB, 4 TB and 5 TB capacities — which provides amazing storage for your important and critical work files, as well as those you personally treasure the most. This drive is an excellent solution for taking your external hard drive to the next level or bumping up the storage on your all-in-one or slim PC.
3.5-Inch BarraCuda Hard Drives Deliver!
Rock-solid reliability built on over 20 years of BarraCuda innovation. Versatile mix of capacity and price point options to fit any budget. Multi-Tier Caching Technology™ for excellent hard drive performance.
Multi-Tier Caching Technology
All hard drives in the BarraCuda family come equipped with Multi-Tier Caching Technology (MTC). MTC takes your PC to new performance levels, so you can load applications and files faster than ever before. By applying intelligent layers of NAND Flash, DRAM and media cache technologies, BarraCuda delivers improved read and write performance by optimising data flow.
BarraCuda Pro Comes With 2-year Rescue Data Recovery Service1
Your data matters. And you rely on it. Rescue Data Recovery Plans provide peace of mind for creative pros and performance PC users alike, and now they come standard on BarraCuda Pro. Whether there is a hard drive mechanical issue or something accidently happened to your drive, Seagate has got you covered.
Purchase and register an BarraCuda Pro drive to activate your free Rescue plan and you are covered for 2 years. Extended coverage options available at registration.
Trusted Dependability
The BarraCuda family of reliable hard drives is here to stay, for years to come.
- Experience — For more than 20 years, Seagate has manufactured and delivered the super-reliable BarraCuda family of drives
- BarraCuda — Seagate's drive-reliability data simply speaks for itself, and the BarraCuda family is often recognised by leading publications and customers
Specifications
| Type | HDD |
| Interface | Serial ATA III |
| Component for | Server/workstation |
| Storage drive buffer size | 256 MB |
| HDD sustained transfer rate | 220 MiB/s |
| HDD capacity | 8 TB |
| HDD size | 3.5" |
| Operating temperature (T-T) | 0 - 60 °C |
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -40 - 70 °C |
| Power consumption (standby) | 0.8 W |
| Power consumption (PowerSave) | 0.8 W |
| Power consumption (typical) | 6.8 W |
| Operating voltage | 5 / 12 V |
| Power consumption (idle) | 4.5 W |
| Start-up current | 1.8 A |
| HDD speed | 5400 RPM |
| Width | 101.8 mm |
| Depth | 147 mm |
| Height | 26.1 mm |
| Weight | 630 g |
Specifications provided by the manufacturer via Icecat.
