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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...
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When Seagate around 2011/2012 launched its new generation Barracuda 7200.14 hard disks, we were very impressed. The 2TB model we first tested performed great, as did the 1TB and 3TB versions. Hitachi and Western Digital introduced 4TB disks a long time...
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It's no secret that Solid State Drives have taken over and cornered the desktop market as far as OS drives are concerned. With this transition, platter based drives have been relegated to mass storage, whether it be as a secondary drive in a desktop...
Seagate has been hard at work over the last few months, and now that Computex is over, we are beginning to see products launch left and right from the storage giant. The Desktop HDD .15 launched in April of this year, and takes storage capacity to an...
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Seagate has begun a complete top to bottom refresh of their hard drive lineup and the Desktop HDD.15 4TB is their latest addition. This HDD houses impressive amounts of storage space and even though its 5900RPM speed may be slow by today’s standards...
For literally fourteen generations Seagate has used a winning combination, pairing cutting edge technology with a 7200RPM spindle speed for their high end hard drives. This approach has led to countless award-winning products so changing this formula w...
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It would be fair to say that the majority of drives we test nowadays are solid state models, whether they be mSATA, SATA or USB based however that doesn't mean that manufacturers of traditional "mechanical" drives are sitting doing nothing. Far from it as...
Maximum Read/WriteHD Video Read/Write SpeedsFile Copy TestsThe Seagate ST4000DM000 is designed primarily as a large storage drive, rather than a high performance model however as the Atto benchmark shows this is a surprisingly fast mechanical drive, in fa...
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Sometimes you just need to have all your stuff stored in one place. Having multiple drives and partitions can get confusing when it comes to both accessing your data and figuring out what needs to be backed up, not to mention the mess of power and data...
Seagate's 3TB Barracuda is a good performer and it provides a lot of space in a single hard disk package. We also found it to be a relatively cool and quiet performer. It will work best as a secondary drive in a typical PC, but a motherboard with a UEF...
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Hitachi recently started shipping a pair of 4 TB hard drives. We can see that they're pretty expensive, but how do they compare to existing 3 TB models in other ways? It’s time for a comprehensive overview of today's high-capacity hard drive offerings...
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Storage space is something we all need to store the digital content of our lives. Whether it is family portraits, videos from the family vacation, forms, music, the latest movies downloaded straight from sources unknown(Not that we would do that mind...
Improved performance, Pricing, Disk Wizard, 1TB platters, AcuTrac Technology, OptiCache Technology...
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Going into the testing I was not sure that going to 1TB platters would offer up any additional gains in performance on a spindle based mechanical hard drive. Seagate has worked some magic inside the confines of that metal box that really drive perform...
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Platter size may not mean much to everyday consumers but storage enthusiasts know that larger platters are usually a ticket to first class performance. Previously, large capacity drives used 750GB disks to achieve their required space but Seagate’s n...
Back in 1980 when Shugart Technology what was later to become Seagate created the first 5.25 form factor hard drive, they began laying the foundation for a legacy of innovation which has now spanned over three decades. In the intervening years Sea...
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One of our readers asked us to look at the Seagate Barracuda ST5000DM000 5TB 3.5-inch internal desktop hard drive as he bought one off of Amazon and was having some performance issues with the drive. We looked into it and discovered that Seagate does not...
One of our readers asked us to look at the Seagate Barracuda ST5000DM000 5TB 3.5-inch internal desktop hard drive as he bought one off of Amazon and was having some performance issues with the drive. We looked into it and discovered that Seagate does not...
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We had a look with Seagate's NAS HDD earlier. This time we're taking a look at its Desktop HDD counterpart 4TB ST4000DM000 drive. Desktop HDDs are available in capacities up to 5TB. Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB uses an odd spindle spin speed of 5,900 RPM with...
Seagate Desktop HDD ST4000DM000 4TB Drive ReviewThough if you plan to use a mechanical drive as a pr...
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While SSDs are the best choice in roles that need high speed (mostly boot drives for the home user), many people need large amounts of storage space, and traditional hard drives still give the best value per gigabyte. Four-terabyte drives are the bigge...
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For over a year now, we've been asking for just three things in a desktop hard drive: 7,200rpm speed, 4TB capacity, and 1TB per platter. That's all we've asked for, and we don't think we're being unreasonable, since all we want is the maximum amount of sp...
1TB per platter, fast and quiet, very affordable.
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First, Seagate renamed its Barracuda hard drive family to Desktop HDD.15. Then, it introduced the first model in the new line-up—the Desktop HDD.15 ST4000DM000. Does Seagate's first massive 4 TB desktop disk deliver the performance we want or disappoint?...
Seagate's new 3.5” Desktop HDD.15 ST4000DM000 changes things up a bit in the company's desktop hard drive family compared to its predecessor, the Barracuda 7200.14. Most notably, the spindle speed is down from 7200 to 5900 RPM. The Desktop HDD.15 is the f...
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SSDs have cornered the market for high-performance system drives, relegating their mechanical counterparts to secondary storage. Traditional hard drives are simply too slow to keep up with the flash-based alternatives that have taken the PC industry by st...
The Desktop HDD.15 is an impressive hard drive. It packs four terabytes for only $190—by far the lowest asking price of any 4TB SATA offering. Seagate reaches that capacity with only four platters, which is a first in the industry. Competing solutions ne...
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Desktop PC sales might be down, but our storage needs are increasing at a rather fast pace. When building a PC many experts often tell people to find out how much storage space they need now, then double that number for growth and then double that number...
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Desktop PC sales might be down, but our storage needs are increasing at a rather fast pace. When building a PC many experts often tell people to find out how much storage space they need now, then double that number for growth and then double that n...
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Up until a couple of months ago, the 4TB desktop market was bare. Alright, it's still bare, but it's been made better with the help of the drive we're taking a look at here, Seagate's Desktop HDD.15. The reason? Its pricing, of about ~$190 (it can be foun...
” page can sometimes be difficult, but this isn't one of those times. This is a product that lives up to what's reported on its spec sheet; before testing, we had certain expectations, and after testing, those expectations were validated. For multiple re...
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benchmarkreviews.com Updated:
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Manufacturer: Seagate Technology LLCProduct Name: 4TB Desktop HDDModel Number: ST4000DM000 (OEM Kit) | STBD4000400 (Retail Kit)UPC: 763649044896Price As Tested: OEM: $189 (Amazon|Newegg) Retail: $199 (Amazon|Newegg) Full Disclosure: The product sample...
Very good 146 MB/s data transfer speeds, 3rdgeneration SATA 6Gb/s compliant controller, Massive 4Terabyte storage capacity across four platters, 64MB Cache buffer improves burst transactions, Lowpower standby conserves energy, 2Year Seagate product warranty, UEFI Systems can utilize all 4TB out of the box...
5900 RPM rotational speeds offer lower performance, 2.1TB Barrier not removed via native hardware instruction on older O/S's, Previous Barracuda XT series offered 5year warranty...
IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure...
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rwlabs.com Updated:
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Do you need mass storage? A lot of mass storage? If the answer is yes, then we have just the drive for you courtesy of Seagate Technologies. Seagate has just launched their new “Desktop HDD” line of drives. All are 5900 RPM drives for low power consum...
As I pointed out at the beginning of this review, large capacity mechanical hard drives are still an integral part of the ideal storage solution. Ideally you want an SSD for your operating system and applications but, capacity is going to cost you an a...
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This may just be hard drive week here at Gadget Review. Earlier in the week, we looked at the deep well that is the Western Digital WD Black 4TB internal hard drive. It's a worthy deep pocket that allows users to fire and forget when it comes to storage...
Shawn Sanders 4.5 5.0 Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 3TB hard drive comes highly recommended if reliabil...
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When it comes to adding a performance-enhancing upgrade to your system, a good SSD can’t be beat, but storage capacity is an ever-growing need as well. There was a time when a 1TB drive seemed grossly (deliciously?) excessive for the average user, but...
The Barracuda 3TB displayed a few splashes of read-speed brilliance and matched up decently with the other similarly-spec’d drives in our tests. Taken as a whole, the differences between the three best performers were relatively small, although the tr...
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Most enthusiasts will favor SSDs for their main boot drive rather than a mechanical hard drive thanks to the vast performance benefits available. However, there is still a large market for high performance mechanical drives which offer a much larger ca...
Throughout our tests, the Seagate Barracuda 3 TB exhibited a very good level of performance, beating both the comparison drives in almost all of the tests.In CrystalDiskMark, the Barracuda 3 TB showed the best level of performance in the Sequential tes...
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The Barracuda 3TB is Seagate's new flagship desktop hard drive with 64MB of cache, a 7200 RPM spindle speed, and huge 1TB platters.
The Seagate Barracuda 3TB hard drive beat out all 7200 RPM models in our overall performance index, topped only by the 10,000 RPM WD VelociRaptor 600GB. It excelled mainly in the file copy and application sections, particularly in tests that dealt wit...
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Seagate is at the forefront of the mechanical drive market with the first ever drives to contain 1TB per platter. The the newly re-introduced Barracuda XT drive. We say "re-introduced" because the Barracuda XT 3TB drive that we have here today is actu...
Good sequential read and write, Low power consumption, 1TB platter, 4K advanced format, 3TB of storage space, Low cost per gigabyte...
2 year warranty...
The new 3TB Barracuda drive is able to yield a 10-15% gain over the old Barracuda XT. As our tests show, the new drive excels in the sequential read and write. However, the drive is a bit slower in the random write compare to the older drive. We belie...
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Platter density has been the crutch of hard drive makers in recent history. Increasing spindle speeds can reduce random access latency, but at the expense of cost and thermals. Improvements in random access performance via increasing spindle speed pa...
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Since time began, man has looked at four- and five-platter 3TB hard drives and dared to say, “That’s cool, but when will we get hard drives with one terabyte per platter?” Man is impossible to please. Nevertheless, drive makers have cracked the 1TB-pe...
Blazingfast sequential reads and writes; fast access times (for mechanical storage)...
Encoding and Vantage scores lag slightly behind.
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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...
I will start by saying that I am not happy with the two-year warranty that most new hard drives offer, and you have to pay a nice premium to go above three years or closer to five. The main thing that lets this drive down is the warranty. The read write p...
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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...
In general, nothing radically new we saw – just “helium” discs began to gradually penetrate into the mass sector. On performance, this did not affect too much: the firmware in BarraCuda Pro is clearly optimized for “personal scripts”, just imagine a perso...
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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...
Mighty Milo & SilverStone's Tony Ou Much of the hardware will be covered in the final fight when we benchmark each machine, but even just superficially we can see that this machine has the potential to keep quieter with an absence of case fans being inst...
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