Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

could not pass up - one day sale was 40 bucks off the usual price. deleted factory partitions and formatted as 1 ext4 partition (about 7-odd TB, as expected) for use with my media server. seems to work decently so far. mfgr warranty is only 1 year for US I believe. Amazon offers 30 day free return if defective. some specs: internal HD model: ST8000DM004-2CX188 Seagate 8TB Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch 5400rpm SMR / Shingled Magnetic Recording (not the best scheme, but not terrible if you're mostly archiving media / playing back, but not deleting stuff all the time) external model, i.e. this USB3 desktop product as sold by Amazon: STGY8000400 / 763649127322 / 3660619403899 / 10763649127329 Made in Thailand (or at least the case + assembly is, not positive about the HD itself, but probably that as well) in addition to the USB3 cable, it came with 6 (yes, six!) country adapters for the (international*) DC brick: - US/CAN - type A - UL/JP - type A - KR - type F - AU - type I - UK - type G - EU - type ?C? not much else to say, for now. it works, quality seems ok. no firmware updates available/visible on Seagate's site. * AC/DC brick input: 100-240V - 50/60Hz, max 7A output: 12V, 1.5A (i.e. 18W)