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Seagate’s BarraCuda Fast SSD lives up to its name, but only if you’re talking about external USB storage with SATA drives inside from a couple of years ago. Most vendors have moved on to NVMe ...
Seagate’s name alone will undoubtedly sell quite a few Barracuda SSDs. That’s a good thing, as it’s a very affordable drive that delivered some of the best test numbers of any 2.5-inch SATA ...
The BarraCuda base drives are available in a variety of capacities and both the 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factors, while BarraCuda Pro drives are 3.5-inch products available in up to 10TB.
In another development, Seagate said it will be converting its line of Barracuda XT 3.5-in. hard drives to a hybrid drive technology by adding NAND flash to the drives as a type of inexpensive cache.
Seagate has offered SSDs for a while, but it's not what you'd call a strong supporter. Unless you're an enterprise user, you're typically either buying a hybrid drive or looking to one of the many ...
At a later time we will go back and test the Seagate Barracuda XT on a motherboard with 6 Gb/s SATA onboard via a new Marvell controller and bridge chip. Stay tuned for the SATA 3 Gb/s to 6Gb/s ...
Seagate continues to deliver with its helium-filled 10TB solutions. With their entry into the mainstream, there is no way you can ignore the price or performance of the Barracuda Pro hard drive.
And Seagate’s new 5TB BarraCuda ST5000 hard drive is the largest 2.5-inch hard drive yet, although it isn’t going to be going toe-to-toe with something like the 60TB SSD when it comes to space.
As if 10TB drives weren’t impressive enough, Seagate announced the addition of 12TB version to their IronWolf, IronWolf Pro and BarraCuda Pro series. All three drives belong to the so-called ...
In fairness, Seagate’s newest drive does deliver twice the capacity and double the cache of its previous top-of-the-line model, the 1TB Barracuda 7200.12, and it’s much faster than that model ...
Seagate gives the Barracuda Pro version a top transfer rate of 250MB/s, the same as its 12TB version, and slightly higher than the 220MB/s of smaller versions. It has the same 256MB cache as its ...