- This right here is 14 terabytes.
Four-
teen.
That's a five.
That's a five, but we'll do another one.
There you go.
Here on the table we got Seagate's latest addition
to their lineup of hard drives.
This is the the Barracuda Pro.
And this is a helium based drive.
And it's quite fascinating because they're able to fit
such large amounts of storage in the 3.5 inch form factor
by now using a lighter weight element.
And this enables them to do a few things.
First of all, since they're using helium,
the drive will be lighter compared
to a same storage equivalent drive that uses CO2.
But it also enables them now to use thinner platters.
And in turn they can use more platters in a hard drive.
Hence the 14 terabytes.
This also now enables hard drive companies
to utilize lengthier warranty periods.
Since there's actually less friction
going on inside the drive itself.
Which means less wear and tear.
Which means a longer life.
Which is not just beneficial for the company themselves.
But also beneficial for the end users.
Where they don't have to replace their drives as often.
With the pricing in the US coming in
for this particular model for $568 US dollars
at the moment and in Australia $799 AUD.
But with that said, let's get on with some tests now.
Put this thing under a one day stress test.
Check the temperatures out
and also check out if there was any hiccups.
And then we'll report back to you guys.
(energetic rock music)
So finished out testing on this drive.
And the speeds are very consistent on the read and writes.
We've done multiple 10 terabyte transfers here.
So that's a lot of data that's been
going through this Seagate drive.
Maximum temperatures reached 41 degrees Celsius.
This is in a 22 degree environment.
So, this is really good so far.
The maximum limit for the temperatures is 60 degrees
as reported in this software here.
And when we place the thermal imaging camera
on the drive itself, with no airflow on,
it showed that things were pretty good.
So, Seagate definitely know what they're doing
when it comes to these helium based hard drives.
They are running very nicely and the noise itself,
I'll let you guys take a quick listen.
Because in normal operation it's very quite.
But it does, especially when it's reading and writing a lot,
it does make these little, like (cank) sounds.
(light whirling and clanking sounds)
So we just finished up testing the 14 terabyte drive.
And really there's nothing more to it
then to say it's really solid.
It's getting over 250 megabytes first
on the read and writes as we looked at before.
And, Seagate include a five year warranty
on the Barracuda Pros.
Which is the same, I believe, as the Ironwolf Pros.
I believe the Ironwolf Pro, however,
does have a slightly higher Mean Time before failure
of 1.2 million hours versus one million.
And also the Ironwolf Pro has 600,000 cycles
versus 300,000 rating on the Barracuda Pro.
So they're are some advantages
to getting the Ironwolf Pro over the Barracuda Pro.
But it does command a slight premium with the prices.
But what we've got here at 14 terabytes, five year warranty.
Which is very solid.
And also a two year data recovery service warranty to.
Included if you register the product online.
So, Seagate are definitely coming in with
a capacity sort of pitch here with this hard drive.
It's hitting all the numbers
that I'd expect from a hard drive.
It's actually impressed me more so than I would expect.
The hard drive speeds are quite fast.
So that's about it really.
When it came down to the sequential
read and writes, they were very solid.
All the other numbers were solid.
The temperatures are really good to.
Both in the software and the thermal imaging camera.
And, the noise as well is very quite.
Except the occasional sort of spin
up and down sound that hard drives make.
Which every single hard drive makes.
So, I guess you're gonna have to put up with that
unless you wanna go on SSD and there's no 14 terabyte SSD's
out there. And if there was,
they'd be, very, very expensive.
You'd have to mortgage your house to get one.
Anyway guys, hope you enjoyed today's video.
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And let me know on the comments section below,
what you think of 14 terabytes.
Now actually what would you do with 14 terabytes?
Love reading your thoughts and opinions as always.
And I'll catch you in the next Tech video very soon.
Peace out for now.
Bye.