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?

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

I've only had this drive for a couple of months so I can't rate its longevity. I am using it in a RAID configuration and it is performing well. I have a neighbor with a defective wash machine and her spin cycle shakes my whole place. Don't laugh...it's true!

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.

Seagate's Barracuda Pro 12TB reminds us why at least some hard drives can remain relevant despite the swift encroachment of SSDs. Until we reviewed its predecessor the Barracuda Pro 10TB last year and tasted its 250MBps read performance, we hadn't given hard drives much thought for a while.

"At this point in time this is the hard drive to have if you want a big and fast one."

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

B&H delivers, literally and fast. And as always, the best overall deal. This drive is everything you'd expect; quiet, fast, and HUGE!!! Fast & easy to install and set-up in Windows 7. If you work with gigantic files like 4k video, this is the drive for you!