Seagate's standard BarraCuda desktop hard drive range ends at 4TB, the BarraCuda Pro range however, goes way past this to the new flagship of the lineup, the leviathan 12TB drive. Although there are even bigger drives to be had in the enterprise segment, in the desktop space, the 12TB BarraCuda Pro...

Huge capacity; 5-year warranty

Expensive

" 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.

You might wonder why we need these traditional 'old school' technology hard drives these days. But now that I have one in my new computer build, it definitely makes a lot of sense.

Good capacity and several times faster than the older 8TB archive drives.

This hard drive offers fast sustained write speeds. Was getting 227 MB/s write speeds copying large video and RAW photos over from a SSD. The only thing is the drive's a bit noisy. I have a quiet case but still noticed the noise level this drive produces compared to my older WD Black Drive.

This is an absolutely fantastic hard drive. But 10TB is massive overkill for the average consumer. And data redundancy in the form of a $1,000 mirrored RAID pair is very pricey. Warnings aside. To heck with it-if the powers that be let me keep this drive, I'd replace my 4TB with it in a heartbeat.

Definitely faster than my old drives. A bit early to say for sure but haven't missed a beat so far.