This test is more in line with large file transfers similar to watching a movie. First up on the test is the Sequential read and write performance, measured with a block size of 1MB and a 1GB transfer size. Throughput performance measured in MB/s is measured with CrystalDiskMark. This review has been made possible with Banggood‘s photography equipment. This is to ensure the system is at its optimal testing state. The drive is formatted under NTFS and is attached to its natively supported interface. This is done so to negate the FOB (Fresh Out the Box) performance of the drive ensuring that we are testing the drive near its expected usage. Our setup fills up the test drive to at least 50% of its capacity. Our storage device reviews revolves around the use of various storage benchmark tools and real world benchmarks. This is no typo but make sure to use Seagate’s SeaTools to keep track of the HDD’s workload rate limit. It comes with a workload rating of <55 TB/year which is kinda small. The Seagate BarraCuda features an average of 161MB/s data rate for both read and write.
Track density per platter is at 811Gb/in2. This is a sealed drive with 3 platters inside so that’s 1.33GB per plate give or take. The drive features an exposed PCB with 32MB of cache buried somewhere within the PCB. The last thing you’d want is a pretty drive that couldn’t perform so there’s that. It’s not as fancy as a Western Digital Raptor but it sure looks proper like any other consumer HDDs we’ve tested in the past. The Seagate BarraCuda 4TB is undoubtedly a standard 3.5 inch drive at any angle. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: Product NameĤTB BarraCuda 7200 RPM 3.5″ SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive with 64MB Cache The IronWolf line is for network attached storage, while the SkyHawk is catered for surveillance. The BarraCuda and FireCuda for example, are for the gamers and the general consumers. Seagate pretty much had everything cleared up for the majority of consumers when it comes to their desktop drives.
Learn more about it the official product page. There’s also the FireCuda, that actually sits at the series of Seagate’s latest drives. The second one is the BarraCuda Pro that features upto 10TB of capacity. The first one is the classic BarraCuda available in both 2.5 and 3.5 inches, with 500GB to 5TB of capacity. The Seagate BarraCuda has two main models. The HDD also features a cache of 64MB, which is the standard in today’s high capacity mechanical drives. What we’ve got is the 4TB model (ST4000DM005) in the 3.5″ form factor spinning at a rate of 5900 RPM. On this review, we are taking a deep look at one of Seagate’s reinvigorated storage line, the BarraCuda series.
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