Seagate 10TB HDD | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Mon, 01 May 2017 07:32:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Seagate 10TB HDD | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 3 10TB external drive Review https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/simon-crisp/lacie-d2-thunderbolt-3-10tb-external-drive-review/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/simon-crisp/lacie-d2-thunderbolt-3-10tb-external-drive-review/#respond Mon, 01 May 2017 07:31:45 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=326084 The flagship of the range is the massive 10TB model we are looking at today.

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LaCie's external storage drives have been around for quite some while – since the Speed 2 in the late nineties.  Sitting under the company's professional banner, the d2 Thunderbolt 3 drive is the latest D2 family member of Neil Poulton designed external hard drives. The flagship of the range is the massive 10TB model we are looking at today.

 

The LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 3 range currently consists of three capacities; 6TB (STFY6000400), 8TB (STFY8000400) and the flagship 10TB (STFY10000400) drive.  All three drives use Seagate BarraCuda Pro conventional hard drives, the first LaCie products to support these drives. Seagate's BarraCuda Pro drives have a spin speed of 7,200rpm and a 256MB cache. LaCie quote a transfer rate for the drive of up to 240MB/s.

The drives come with a pair of Thunderbolt 3 40Gbps ports and single USB 3.1 Gen.1 type C port. The USB port can also be used as a 15W charger.

LaCie back the drive with a very decent 5-year warranty.

Physical Specifications:
Usable Capacities: 6TB, 8TB, 10TB
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda Pro
Spin Speed: 7,200rpm
Interface (s):  2 x Thunderbolt 3, 1 x USB 3.1 Gen.1 Type C
Form Factor: External
Dimensions: 217 x 130 x 60mm
Drive Weight: 2.2kg

Firmware Version: SC60

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Seagate to release 10TB hard disk drive next year https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/seagate-to-release-10tb-hard-disk-drive-next-year/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/seagate-to-release-10tb-hard-disk-drive-next-year/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:59:49 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=227825 Seagate Technology is on track to rapidly boost capacity of hard disk drives for datacenters and will release a 10TB model in 2015. The company currently has no plans to manufacture helium-filled HDDs since such technology is too expensive. However, Seagate intends to use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology next year and pins a lot …

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Seagate Technology is on track to rapidly boost capacity of hard disk drives for datacenters and will release a 10TB model in 2015. The company currently has no plans to manufacture helium-filled HDDs since such technology is too expensive. However, Seagate intends to use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology next year and pins a lot of hopes on heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology going forward.

Seagate’s 10TB HDD will sport six 1.66TB SMR platters, Seagate revealed in an interview with Akiba PC Hotline. The company admits that performance of such hard disk drives is rather low due to the nature of shingled magnetic recording technology and other factors. However, the firm claims that it is possible to hide some of SMR’s drawbacks by installing large DRAM caches on hard drives. Moreover extreme capacity HDDs are not used as boot drives, so their performance issues will hardly be noticed.

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One of the world’s largest makers of hard drives is confident that it will be able to release commercial HDDs featuring HAMR technology in 2016 – 2017. Thanks to HAMR, hard drives will gain around 30 per cent capacity every year in the future. However, to use heat-assisted method, Seagate will need to advance HDD heads and media. Seagate will demonstrate working prototypes of HAMR HDDs sometimes next year, the company said.

By contrast, Seagate does not seem to consider sealed helium-filled HDDs. Such drives require completely different process technology to manufacture and thus are more expensive than traditional hard disk drives. Seagate does not believe that helium-filled hard drives will even become cost-effective enough for consumers (consumers do not require HDD with extreme amount of platters anyway), which is why it does not see many reasons to offer such drives even to enterprise customers.

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KitGuru Says: Seagate seems to be rather optimistic about the future of hard disk drives. The company has a solid roadmap that it is going to execute. Apparently, Seagate knows how to solve technological challenges with HAMR and other technologies, therefore, the skies are blue ahead of the company.

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