Seagate FireCuda HDD 8TB Internal Hard Drive HDD - 3.5 Inch CMR SATA 6Gb/s 7200RPM 256MB Cache 300TB/year with Rescue Services (ST8000DX001)

This was easy to install and has had no problems since installation. Highly recommend for gaming (PS5 application here)

Finally bit the bullet and bought more space for the ps5. Wish I had a long time ago as it was super easy to install following a youtube tutorial and I have so much space now for games

I really love this brand works perfect for ps5

Fast delivery, receive in good condition the next day after purchase.

So far so good, lets hope its going to serve well for years. I took off the heatsink so it fitted in the motherboards bigger one. Pretty fast, looks good, too bad I dont see it anymore. :D

Absolutely perfect for PS5. The performance is more than adequate. Installing the drive is super easy and the factory installed heat sink is way more advanced than after market heatsinks.

Installed in June dead Aug 4th. Worked great while it did. Seagate assures you that they will have a 5 year warranty and Data Rescue. Beware if you request Data rescue you have to wait upto 30 days. Meanwhile you have a un usable computer.

For my preliminary assessment I used an ineo technology enclosure attached through my Thunderstick port on an Asus Republic of Gamers laptop with an i7-6700HQ cpu @ 2.6 GHz running a Win10 Home operating system. I then used CrystalMark software to measure the performance of the original installed 1Tb HDD C drive and the SSD 2 Tb Firecuda mounted in the enclosure. The original HGST 7200rpm drive was pretty darn slow. Sequential read was about 111 Mb/s and sequential write was about 106 Mb/s. Random 4k file reads were 0.7 Mb/s and 0.83 Mb/s for writes. In comparison the Firecuda was 1,026 Mb/s and 999 Mb/s for sequential reads and writes, respectively, and more amazingly the random 4k files reads were 144 Mb/s and the writes were 136Mb/s. Pretty impressive numbers for a drive attached in an enclosure! The firecuda got warm. but not hot during testing. Npw the difficult decision I have is whether to keep the Firecuda for fast backups of data or replace my original HDD with it. Or maybe just get another Firecuda.

Easy to install and the performance is very good.

I have bought this item twice, once for my ps5 and the second was to upgrade my pc. Really impressed with the speed of this ssd