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

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.

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.

About a year ago, a man of African descent came to our church. Since our church consists of mainly Chinese people, it was not hard to spot him. In the part of the service acknowledging newcomers, the chairperson on stage greeted the man of African descent. "Where are you from?

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...

This hard drive is the fastest, vastest currently available for storing and transferring large files.

A whopping 12TB of capacity; Remarkable 250MBps sustained transfers; 5-year warranty and 2 years of data recovery

Expensive; especially if you mirror two for data safety

Just like its predecessor the Barracuda Pro 10TB the 12TB variant is one of the fastest SATA III hard disk drives in the market today. Also thanks to the addition of an extra plate it's actually even faster compared to its predecessor something which we also saw when we reviewed the IronWolf and...

- 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

Performance-wise, both drives manage to deliver what that Seagate claims. As we can see from our test, despite the Barracuda Pro and the Skyhawk looked exactly the same externally and have the same specs, we can see just how Seagate has optimized the drives for its target market.

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

The Seagate 12TB BarraCuda Pro puts lots of capacity in its 3.5" footprint, along with enough performance, to make it a worthy upgrade for creative professionals who need more on-site space.

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

Power consumption figures look good, and turn into impressive once capacity is taken into account. Realize that the BarraCuda Pro is not a NAS drive, so the second chart is not as relevant as it is for NAS builds, but it does suggest that Seagate's other NAS drives built on the same Helium-filled...