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Seagate has begun a complete top to bottom refresh of their hard drive lineup and the Desktop HDD.15 4TB is their latest addition. This HDD houses impressive amounts of storage space and even though its 5900RPM speed may be slow by today’s standards...

For literally fourteen generations Seagate has used a winning combination, pairing cutting edge technology with a 7200RPM spindle speed for their high end hard drives. This approach has led to countless award-winning products so changing this formula w...
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It would be fair to say that the majority of drives we test nowadays are solid state models, whether they be mSATA, SATA or USB based however that doesn't mean that manufacturers of traditional "mechanical" drives are sitting doing nothing. Far from it as...

Maximum Read/WriteHD Video Read/Write SpeedsFile Copy TestsThe Seagate ST4000DM000 is designed primarily as a large storage drive, rather than a high performance model however as the Atto benchmark shows this is a surprisingly fast mechanical drive, in fa...
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Sometimes you just need to have all your stuff stored in one place. Having multiple drives and partitions can get confusing when it comes to both accessing your data and figuring out what needs to be backed up, not to mention the mess of power and data...

Seagate's 3TB Barracuda is a good performer and it provides a lot of space in a single hard disk package. We also found it to be a relatively cool and quiet performer. It will work best as a secondary drive in a typical PC, but a motherboard with a UEF...
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Hitachi recently started shipping a pair of 4 TB hard drives. We can see that they're pretty expensive, but how do they compare to existing 3 TB models in other ways? It’s time for a comprehensive overview of today's high-capacity hard drive offerings...
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Storage space is something we all need to store the digital content of our lives. Whether it is family portraits, videos from the family vacation, forms, music, the latest movies downloaded straight from sources unknown(Not that we would do that mind...

Improved performance, Pricing, Disk Wizard, 1TB platters, AcuTrac Technology, OptiCache Technology...

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Going into the testing I was not sure that going to 1TB platters would offer up any additional gains in performance on a spindle based mechanical hard drive. Seagate has worked some magic inside the confines of that metal box that really drive perform...
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Platter size may not mean much to everyday consumers but storage enthusiasts know that larger platters are usually a ticket to first class performance. Previously, large capacity drives used 750GB disks to achieve their required space but Seagate’s n...

Back in 1980 when Shugart Technology – what was later to become Seagate – created the first 5.25” form factor hard drive, they began laying the foundation for a legacy of innovation which has now spanned over three decades. In the intervening years Sea...
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Most of our avid readers of course have at least one SSD in their desktop and laptop, but for large volume storage you're still relegated to conventional hard disks. It's almost become a negative connotation - 'conventional' - and it really doesn't do t...
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It's no secret that Solid State Drives have taken over and cornered the desktop market as far as OS drives are concerned. With this transition, platter based drives have been relegated to mass storage, whether it be as a secondary drive in a desktop...

Seagate has been hard at work over the last few months, and now that Computex is over, we are beginning to see products launch left and right from the storage giant. The Desktop HDD .15 launched in April of this year, and takes storage capacity to an...
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When Seagate around 2011/2012 launched its new generation Barracuda 7200.14 hard disks, we were very impressed. The 2TB model we first tested performed great, as did the 1TB and 3TB versions. Hitachi and Western Digital introduced 4TB disks a long time...
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tbreak.ae Updated: 2016-11-23 08:26:49
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While a lot of people still use 7,200RPM hard drives as their main drives, SSDs are fast becoming the first choice for desktop enthusiasts. Even laptops have shown a tendency to go with SSDs because of performance gains. As such, 3.5-inch HDDs with hig...

Fast data transfer speeds, Low power consumption...

Overall performance limited to 7,200RPM speeds...

The above real world tests show that despite the incredible transfer speeds thanks to higher density platters, the Seagate Barracuda 3TB is still limited by the harsh realities of life: 7,200RPM hard drives with relatively tiny cache just cannot hope t...
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