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.

- Build Quality (300WRL / 1 Million Hours MTBF; - Top Of The Charts Performance (SATA; - 256MB Cache; - 12TB's Capacity; - Temperatures / Noise Levels / Power Consumption; - Enclosure Material (Low Temperatures; - 5 Year Limited Warranty

- Price (For Some

The Seagate Guardian Series HDD brings enterprise performance drive to the consumer market. The Ironwolf and the Barracuda Pro comes in 10TB of storage space with unique features that designed to offer best performance and data reliability for its target working environment.

Great Performance; 10TB of storage; highest on the market today; Good warranty:3 year for Skyhawk and 5 year for Barracuda Pro warranty; Low power consumption rating; Excellent price per performance/gb ratio; Enterprise performance and spec but at consumer price

Lower endurance rating than enterprise drive; Higher per gigabyte ratio than smaller capacity drive; Lower warranty length (Skyhawk only

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 3.5" hard drives offer, with as much...

Highest capacity desktop drive; Strong 2MB IOMeter performance; Strong HTPC and Gaming performance compared to other non-hybrid HDDs

Seagate BarraCuda 10TB; Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB; WD Blue SSHD Desktop 4TB; WD Black 4TB; WD Black 6TB; Highest capacity desktop drive; Strong 2MB IOMeter performance; Strong HTPC and Gaming performance compared to other non-hybrid HDDs

It spins up fast And big in storage size It's called Seagate BarraCuda For all this data I will plan on storing Twelve thousand GBs and we go beyond Store my things, oh hard drive Oh hard drive Upgrade this computer Store like never before Oh hard drive I'll upgrade this computer.

I've included some Reds here because while they are NAS drives, they can also be used for single drive applications. The BarraCuda pricing is good, but that extra 0.4 to 1.0 cent per GB adds up when you have 10,000 of them, pushing its price over the $500 point, which may be getting steep for some...

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.

It is always a race for who can deliver the first hard drive with a higher capacity to the Hardware.Info test lab. This time it is Seagate to win it and they do it with style. The Barracuda Pro 12TB is not only the biggest, but also the fastest hard drive that we have ever tested. More good news

This drive has a transfer rate just under half of some very fast SSD drives I have...for a mechanical drive, it's freakin' fast!

Installed and formatted with no problems; Formats at 9.09TB...will hold massive amounts of data...even a ton of Blu-ray movies; Used CrystalDiskMark to benchmark and got very good transfer rates: Sequential Read: 245.6MB/s Sequential Write: 232.6MB/s I also did a real time data transfer from my...

So far; I have no complaints at all about this drive

Unfortunately, we had 2 of the 5 drives go bad and report bad sectors. i have not gone through the RMA process 4 times and still do not have replacement drives. they make you pay for advanced replacement, their credit card processing does not work and people contact you about the case with no intent...

The first one of these was DOA but the RMA process via NCIX was easy enough amd the second is working fine. I think the drive is pretty good but also expensive with a price tag close to $500.

-big capacity; -good warranty time (5 years) and data recovery assistance (for the first 2 years I believe; -fast drive

-little louder than I thought it would be and slow to spin up fully at boot