Seagate's 12TB hard drives bring massive storage to desktop PCs and NAS boxes

October 06, 2017

There’s a new giant in the world of huge hard drives. On Thursday, Seagate announced 12TB versions of its BarraCuda Pro and IronWolf hard drives for consumers—the largest capacity ever unleashed on the masses.These aren’t the first-ever 12TB hard drives. Enterprise-level drives already support those capacities. The consumer drives lack some of the advanced (and pricey) reliability features found in the enterprise drive, but the 12TB BarraCuda Pro is still no slouch. The 3.5-inch drive spins at a speedy 7,200rpm, with a sizeable 256MB cache and a 5-year warranty. Here's a look at the its specs, compared to the 10TB and 8TB versions from the same series.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3230966/storage/seagates-12tb-hard-drives-bring-massive-storage-to-desktop-pcs-and-nas-boxes.html#tk.rss_all