This past spring Seagate started shipping the 3TB Barracuda XT (review) which was a pretty solid offering. Seagate quickly followed up that release with an announcement that a new 3TB Barracuda would feature three 1TB platters instead of the five 600GB pl...
Last year, both WD and Seagate refreshed their hard drive series for desktop use. Back then we were positive about the new WD Blue 4TB, but we did not have to wait long for Seagate to answer. Today we test the Seagate Barracuda 4TB (ST4000DM005): how doe...
The best product we tried was easily the WD Blue 4TB PC Hard Drive, which offers quick transfer speeds of 6Gb/s, a fuss-free two year warranty and an easy install that offers near plug-and-play simplicity to most personal computers. We also liked that thi...
Part of Seagate's new “Guardian Series,” the BarraCuda Pro is the world's highest capacity desktop hard disk drive (HDD) topping out at a whopping 10TB. The 3.5” HDD builds off of Seagate's past innovation to being this ultra-high capacity HDD to market...
We already wrote about the new system of names in the range of Seagate HDDs last year. The same material was mentioned, and that the “tops” at that time of three (and now four, but this will be discussed a little later), rulers with a capacity of 10 TB...
A few weeks back, Seagate launched an array of 12TB hard drives targeted a variety of market segments, from desktops to workstations and high-performance Network-Attached Servers. The Seagate Barracuda Pro, IronWolf, and IronWolf Pro are fundamentally sim...
For storage of lots of data, a hard drive is the best option for the time being, especially now that SSD prices are rising rather than falling. Luckily there is still enough innovation in the hard disk field. Time for a new comparative test with no less t...
With the competitive prices and availability of larger capacity Solid State Drives (SSD), the traditional Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is slowly becoming obsolete in our recent PC configurations. But their low price means we still love to use them.Today in our w...
Now that the prices of SSDs have dropped to well below 50 cents per GB, we expect that only few Hardware.Info readers will still want to use a conventional hard drive as their primary storage device. We still can't quite live without them, however, beca...
A few weeks back I posted benchmarks of EXT4 fscrypt vs. eCryptfs vs. LUKS dm-crypt benchmarks for showing the EXT4 file-system performance encryption performance for these kernel-based approaches. That testing was done with a SATA 3.0 SSD while in this a...
Earlier this month Seagate announced their new ‘Guardian Series' of Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) and that the BarraCuda name was being revived! Seagate brought back the BarraCuda name in grand fashion as there is a BarraCuda Pro 10TB drive and that makes it th...
Whenever we receive one of the latest HDD models to hit the market with the highest storage capacity available i always think back to the time when even 380MB models were more than enough to cover all our needs. The arrival of optical drives (CDs followed...
Seagate released the Guardian Series in mid-2016 with a focus on high performance, capacity, and reliability. Seagate designed its flagship desktop HDD for creative professionals, enthusiasts, and gamers. It features a speedy 7,200-RPM design with up to 1...
Seagate is one of the oldest producers of HDD storage solutions in the industry, having started out in 1978 before becoming publicly traded in 1981. Seagate has certainly made its contributions to the consolidations taking place in the storage industry in...
The exponential increase in data storage requirements over the last decade or so has been handled by regular increases in hard drive capacities. Multiple HDD vendors supply them to cloud providers (who get the main benefits from advancements in hard drive...
For storage of lots of data, a hard drive is the best option for the time being, especially now that SSD prices are rising rather than falling. Luckily there is still enough innovation in the hard disk field. Time for a new comparative test with no less t...
Seagate has recently released three new 12TB 3.5-inch HDDs with the first two being the IronWolf 12TB and IronWolf Pro 12TB which are designed specifically at NAS environments. The third drive that Seagate announced is the BarraCuda Pro 12TB which is aime...
In the summer of last year we finally went into the double digits in terms of storage capacity of 3.5"-hard disks. At the last moment of 2017 Seagate takes the next step, because the manufacturer sent us the first hard drive with a storage capacity of 12T...
Most of our avid readers of course have at least one SSD in their desktop and laptop, but for large volume storage you're still relegated to conventional hard disks. It's almost become a negative connotation - 'conventional' - and it really doesn't do t...
While the price of SSDs continues to drop, the ‘old' hard drive is still the cheapest way to store a lot of data. Especially in a NAS or Mini-ITX system, where there is limited physical space you probably want a drive with as much capacity as possible...
There comes a time when your hard drive start to warn you that it is about to fail, and if the drive is almost seven years old you might be okay with that, but at least you know that the drive has had a useful lifespan. However sometimes things don't go a...
We already wrote about the new system of names in the range of Seagate HDDs last year. The same material was mentioned, and that the “tops” at that time of three (and now four, but this will be discussed a little later), rulers with a capacity of 10 TB...
Disclosure: The Barracuda Pro 14 TB ST14000DM001 is loaned by Seagate for review purpose.The BarraCuda Pro lineups of mechanical HDDs cater to home to prosumer usage, with two-year data recovery cover and a 5-year warranty. Seagate states the following ar...
"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated" - A Hard Disk Drive, yesterday.Today's review, the Seagate Barracuda Compute Pro 10TB hard drive, marks an exciting day in the annals of OC3D. For years our review editor has had some example text in it...
It certainly has been a while since we took a look at Seagate and their raison d'etre: massive hard disk drive storage. In the intervening quarters Seagate has undergone a rather radical shift in focus and design philosophy for their consumer-orientated p...
Barracuda is a name we have not heard in a good while from Seagate. Last seen on their 3TB desktop drive, it appears they thought it was time for a comeback. The company is revamping their product lines, along with launching a full round of 10TB Helium-fi...
Seagate has recently announced their Guardian Series of hard drives that delivers storage capacity up to 10TB, that is 10,000 GB! It is crazy to even think about what to do with that much storage space. We believe that fora typical household, if you conso...
In our media-rich world, storage is in constant demand. Cloud services and video streaming have helped curb the need for huge amounts of local storage, but not everyone has the bandwidth or desire to keep everything on someone else's computer. Hard drives...
As new cameras continue to offer higher and higher resolution, and many photographers are shooting and saving memory-intensive Raw files and 4K video, some of us have begun to outgrow the capacity of our storage devices. Seagate has addressed this issue w...
With the competitive prices and availability of larger capacity Solid State Drives (SSD), the traditional Hard Disk Drive (HDD) appears to be getting obsolete in our recent PC configurations. However, the HDD is still able to hold some real estate in our...
After starting our second Build-A-Rig project a couple of weeks ago the build logs are in and we can see what it is like to work hands on with the hardware selected by SilverStone's Tony Ou and Crucial's Jeremy Mortensen . Build-A-Rig allows us at AnandTe...
It may have taken more than what we were all hoping for but finally 4k Ultra High Definition material (primarily movies) has begun to arrive in large numbers so the data storage capacity needs of many people we know are most certainly about to skyrocket...
The Seagate ST2000DM001 is a two terabyte Serial ATA 3.0 hard drive that retails for less than $90 USD and is the subject of this weekend's benchmarks at Phoronix.I've already been running one of these ST2000DM001 drives in a local server within my office...
SSDs are of course the hippest and fastest form of storage, but if you want lots of storage capacity without breaking the bank, you're still relegated to the familiar realm of the hard disk. There's still some choice out there in this category, and pric...
Today it is time to take a look at the next Guardian-series drive, Seagate‘s new 14TB BarraCuda Pro (product flyer) desktop HDD. This is just one of the many new 14TB Seagate drives. We've already had a look at the IronWolf Pro, and there are more to come...
Data storage requirements have seen an exponential increase over the last several years. Both cloud and local storage requirements continue to be served by hard drives where workloads are either largely sequential or not performance sensitive. While the a...
For storage of lots of data, a hard drive is the best option for the time being, especially now that SSD prices are rising rather than falling. Luckily there is still enough innovation in the hard disk field. Time for a new comparative test with no less t...
Who in the world needs 12TB of storage space?! Gamers, that's who. Watch Dogs 2 is over 100GB with the high resolution textures, Final Fantasy 15 is 148GB, Middle-earth: Shadow of War tips the scales at 151GB with its most recent patch. Start throwing in...
Seagate released the Guardian Series in mid-2016 with a focus on high performance, capacity, and reliability. Seagate designed its flagship desktop HDD for creative professionals, enthusiasts, and gamers. It features a speedy 7,200-RPM design with up to 1...
Seagate recently announced new 12TB 3.5-inch hard drives for desktop and NAS use aimed that those that need massive amounts of storage space. Those that have large data storage needs know that hard drives are still relevant due to their reliability and lo...
Seagate's Barracuda Pro 12TB reminds us why at least some hard drives can remain relevant despite the swift encroachment of SSDs. Until we reviewed its predecessor the Barracuda Pro 10TB last year and tasted its 250MBps read performance, we hadn't given h...
At the start of 2012 Seagate launched a new series of 3.5-inch hard drives, called the Barracuda 7200.14. These are interesting because they have 1 TB platters, which is a new milestone. The high data-density has two advantages, more MB per square centi...
The highest capacity of currently available hard drives is 10 TB, that are suited for those who want to put a single hard drive in their system despite their high price- or if you are using a NAS with a limited amount of bays. In this article we compare f...
Seagate has launched the latest update to their high-performance desktop 3.5" HDD line in the BarraCuda Pro family. Now available in capacities up to 12TB, the BarraCuda Pro is designed to meet the needs of professionals who want the high capacity that 3...
Today's world of “big data” and awesome creative possibilities demands titanic storage. Storage manufacturer Seagate has released 12TB drives in its BarraCude Pro range, offering the highest capacity 3.5” units available.Seagate has previously released 12...
Will hard drives ever hit a capacity limit? Perhaps, but they haven't yet. Case in point: Seagate's new $580 14TB BarraCuda Pro (and the new IronWolf Pro), which adds yet another 2TB of capacity and 10MBps of sustained throughput to the breed.Who needs 14...
With competitive prices and the availability of larger capacity Solid State Drives (SSD), the traditional Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is slowly becoming obsolete as the main storage drive of choice in recent PC configurations. But their low price and XL size ca...
With the competitive prices and availability of larger capacity Solid State Drives (SSD), the traditional Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is slowly becoming obsolete in our recent PC configurations. However, the HDD may still be able to hold some real estate in our...
For a nice while now ‘ancient' spindle and platter-based storage has been all but ignored by most people. Some because Solid State Storage is all the rage, some because of their perceived lack of performance. Some just because few are as excited by the ad...
I've used “Vast and fast” to describe previous hard drives I've reviewed, but I'm not sure that it's ever been this spectacularly well-deserved. Seagate's 3.5-inch, 7,200rpm, SATA 6Gbps Barracuda Pro not only delivers a stunning 10TB of storage, it laid d...
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