Seagate Is Adding 14TB Hard Drives to Its Most Popular Series

Seagate Launches 14TB Hard Drives that Will Be Available Soon

Since M.2 PCI Express drives appeared, solid-state drives (SSDs) have long held the local storage performance crown, the gap between hard drives and flash storage is growing much bigger. However, if you pay much attention to the amount of storage offered, mechanical hard drives still win.

Recently Seagate, an American data storage company, has launched 3 different types of 14TB hard drives. This just reminds us of the gulf between SSD and HDD.

Perhaps you have noticed hard drive manufacturers are focusing on the development of hard drives. This common theme is not just a case of offering different capacities of hard drives; instead, you get a choice based on the purpose of using the disk, for general use in a computer, for NAS use or recording videos.

With that in mind, Seagate will bring 14TB capacity to its popular Barracuda, IronWolf, and SkyHawk hard drives to replace its 12TB models.

To put it simply, each series is designed for a different purpose.

Seagate Barracuda Pro 14TB Hard Drive

For example, if you want to use the Seagate 14TB hard drive for consumer general purpose on a desktop PC, Seagate Barracuda Pro 14TB disk is the most suitable. If you have a number of music files, videos or movies and need a place to keep them all, this kind of hard drive is you want.

It spins at 7,200rpm and it is complemented by a 256MB cache, so it can realize sustained data rates of 250MB/s. Besides, this hard drive ships with a five-year warranty complete with 300TB/year workload limit. Moreover, this company offers two-year data recovery services.

Compared with the regular Barracuda series, the Barracuda Pro is faster, capacity is higher, and has a longer warranty.

IronWolf Series Hard Drive

IronWolf series includes a regular and pro version, and the design is a bit different. IronWolf hard drive comes with software including Health Management and Seagate’s AgileArray, helping to reduce errors in the device because of vibrations.

This kind of hard drives is used with a network-attached storage device like the Synology DS218+. As a part of the media server, the disk can safely transfer numbers of data, keep everything protected when it is accessed by multiple users.

SkyHawk Series Hard Drive

This series is designed for surveillance operations. And each hard drive includes ImagePerfect firmware, which ensures seamless video capture. Besides, a Health Management system is included.

Importantly, this 14TB version supports up to 64 different HD cameras at once, a workload of 550TB per year, and 16 A.I. streams. Meanwhile, it has a three-year warranty with drive life set at one million hours.

Final Words

Now, we have told you three series of Seagate 14TB hard drive. Just choose the proper one according to your purpose.

As for the availability, they will go on sale soon but we don’t know the specific date. It could be a while before stock arrives at your preferred retailer.