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

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...

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

" 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.

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.