“Pushing the Limits Again” — Tech Press Weighs in on Guardian Series

If early press reviews are an indication, Seagate may have a winning hand with its new 10TB highly engineered, purpose-built hard drives.

In July, Seagate launched the Guardian Series™, and shipped several review units to key technology publications and blogs. The new lineup includes: Barracuda and Barracuda Pro desktop compute drives, along with the FireCuda solid-state hybrid drive for gamers, creative professionals, and tech enthusiasts; IronWolf for network-attached storage applications; and SkyHawk for video surveillance systems.

"Seagate is pushing the limits of rotating storage yet again." — Tech Radar

The drives set new industry benchmarks across multiple storage fronts. The BarraCuda Pro, for example, leapfrogs the leading competitor’s 3.5-inch computing drives in capacity and performance, while the IronWolf is the first of its kind to have built-in rotational-vibration sensors to mitigate against vibration in multi-drive NAS systems. And SkyHawk soars above its competition with an industry-best workload rating of 180TB per year—three times what the competitor’s surveillance drive offers.

seagate-guardian-seriesTo date, Seagate’s Guardian Series launch has earned 470 news articles, 47 reviews and 17 awards.

Here’s a sampling of what the tech press has to say about the Guardian Series:

PC World: “The BarraCuda Pro is vast and stupendously fast, and is also miserly on the power consumption. It not only delivers a stunning 10TB of storage, it laid down some rather astounding transfer rates. All in all, it’s the best 3.5-inch internal hard drive we’ve ever tested by a long shot.”

CNET: “If you’re looking to greatly increase the storage capacity of your desktop computer, NAS server or surveillance recorder, Seagate’s got you covered.”

Legit Reviews: “Overall performance of the (BarraCuda Pro) drive was impressive, as we were able to hit speeds of 246MB/s read and 236MB/s write. The BarraCuda Pro easily gets our recommended award.”

PC Perspective: “Seagate’s new BarraCuda Pro offers impressive performance for their first foray into helium-filled 3.5-inch drives. Definitely worthy of the BarraCuda name!”

TweakTown: “The IronWolf brings a solid jump in capacity over previous 8TB NAS solutions. Seagate is offering a solid amount of technology in this solution with AgileArray, and its 180TB per year rating is one of the highest on the market. A high level of build quality is present, and I found solid consistency and no drive failures—and this was after a lot of end-to-end testing.”

Engadget: “It’s no longer far-fetched to buy a 10TB hard drive if you’re running a server, but what if you need gobs of space for your games and 4K videos at home? Seagate has your back covered.”

Tech Radar: “Seagate is pushing the limits of rotating storage yet again, by releasing the world’s largest consumer hard drive at a whopping 10TB of storage. Although most of us may not need 10TB of storage, it’s nice to have a drive with more than enough space to house all the 40 megapixel photos, 4K videos and 60GB games you’ll undoubtedly accumulate in the future.”

PC & Tech Authority: “We benched the 10TB IronWolf at a very healthy 234MB/s read and 212MB/s write. This is truly exceptional performance for a hard drive, let alone one that’s optimized for low-power consumption and long-term reliability.”

Hardware Heaven: “Read/write speeds (for the IronWolf) are impressive for a mechanical storage device. A drive which opens up huge storage potential for users of multi-bay NAS devices.”

 

2017-12-06T15:46:40+00:00

About the Author:

John Paulsen
John Paulsen is a "Data for Good" advocate, with more than 20 years in the data storage industry. He's helped launch many industry-firsts including HAMR technology, 10K-rpm and 15K-rpm hard drives, drives designed specifically for video and for gaming, Serial ATA drives, fluid dynamic HDD motors, 60TB SSDs, and MACH.2 multi-actuator technology.