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These days it seems like SSDs is where it's at for consumer storage, but there is still a big market for massive magnetic storage

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Seagate has revealed a new hard disk drive that can hold a massive 12TB, so if you’re looking for a huge storage option, this is probably it. The BarraCuda Pro is designed for professional creatives who might want to store content with huge sizes like 4K videos and a large trove of RAW photo files.

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On paper, the 12TB model appears poised to carry on the 10TB BarraCuda Pro’s torch. That vast, fast (for a hard drive) storage earned top marks in our tests, and the specifications above show that the 12TB model actually offers higher sustained throughput. You have to wonder what sort of performance you’d see from the 12TB BarraCuda Pro if you paired it with Intel’s Optane caching SSDs.

I myself still have 6TB WD Reds in my NAS though I'm starting to run out of storage after some 4K additions to my movie library. I'd be interested to hear how many people here can honestly see themselves buying one(or a few) of these drives and for what use cases. 

 

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https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/9/16446344/seagate-barracuda-12tb-hdd-specs-release-date-price

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

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Typo in title

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2 Petabyte Project soon??? Nah, they don’t need THAT much storage, right?

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Is it still a lineup if it's 1 product? 

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29 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

2 Petabyte Project soon??? Nah, they don’t need THAT much storage, right?

Store all the 4k and 8k pr0n!

 

They might even be able to fit Minesweeper onto a single drive now!

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I currently have 4TB WD Reds in my server but if I ever decide to upgrade that in a few years I could see myself going with larger drives. 

 

The only problem I see with that is if one of these drives dies and you're past the warranty, it's significantly more expensive to replace.

 

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6 hours ago, Terodius said:

I'd be interested to hear how many people here can honestly see themselves buying one(or a few) of these drives and for what use cases.

Already bought 4x10TB IronWolf(RAID10, its kinda a throw everything at it storage)... The 2x4TB was getting a little bit crammed.

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5 hours ago, Jito463 said:

12TB?  Rather underwhelming after the 14TB HGST (WD) announcement.

isn't that 14TB drive enterprise-only though?

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5 hours ago, Terodius said:

isn't that 14TB drive enterprise-only though?

this is basically the same. 

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48 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

this is basically the same. 

This is a barracuda drive. It's their consumer lineup. 

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Just now, Coaxialgamer said:

This is a barracuda drive. It's their consumer lineup. 

barracuda compute so an odd place

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17 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

barracuda compute so an odd place

all the barracuda drives have the word compute on them. It's not a special model. 

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On 10/10/2017 at 2:11 AM, GDRRiley said:

barracuda compute so an odd place

that's the reason I used "lineup" in the title. They're releasing several versions of their 12TB drive that fit in different segments.

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Hopefully it pushes down 10TB prices. 8TB's is near the sweet spot in price/TB, although 4TB is usually marginally cheaper, when i got 8TB a few months ago it was less than £5 cheaper to get 2 4TB drives, so i went with the 8TB one. 10TB were a huge premium over 8TB though.

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Just wanted to add some clarification here since it seems the addition of our 12TB capacities is causing a little confusion as far as things like lineups go. The TLDR version is we added 3 new drives to existing consumer-grade lineups which come in 12TB capacities:

This one is being added to our BarraCuda Pro line: Updated data sheet here
The other two are NAS drives:
We also added a 12TB IronWolf: Updated data sheet here
and 12TB IronWolf Pro: Updated data sheet here

If you'd like to check it out, here's our press release.

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