Review: Seagate Barracuda Pro 14TB HDD (the Megalodon has arrived)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/13/2018 08:34 AM | source: | 21 comment(s)

We review the Megalodon among the HDDs as the Barracuda Pro 14TB from Seagate is unleashed, that's a 14.000GB HDD folks! This, by far, is the biggest single consumer unit storage device to date. It might not offer SSD performance, but it certainly isn't a slouch.

Read the full review here.

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wavetrex
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#5582993 Posted on: 09/10/2018 02:21 PM

Obviously tech pushes forward, and more capacity is better for anyone that needs it.

However price / GB is not yet Ok for these 14 Tera-drives.
You can get more capacity per money spent by buying 2x 8TB than 1x 14TB, as those two 8TB drives are cheaper than 1x 14TB.

However, when absolute max capacity is needed for a limited amount of drives (let's say a 4-bay NAS), this new capacity level is awesome !

Fox2232
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#5582997 Posted on: 09/10/2018 02:25 PM

My largest HDD is 2TB. Not using it, really. I can't even remember how long I have it.

Back in the day, I backed up every game I had, every DVD, ...

But since 40GB+ movies and games came along, I considered it waste of space. It's not like in case there is no more internet to re-download my games, I would be in position to sit at home and play games from backup.

Hilbert Hagedoorn
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#5583000 Posted on: 09/10/2018 02:26 PM

owever price / GB is not yet Ok for these 14 Tera-drives.

You do need to math in that this is a Barracuda, Helium-filled - faster 7200 RPM and performance. If you go with two 8 TB Seagate Archive HDDs... cost indeed sits at 3 cents per GB. But the performance difference certainly is noticeable due to the lower platter rpm and 128MB cache (256 MB for this one).

jura11
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#5583005 Posted on: 09/10/2018 02:35 PM

2*14TB in my case would be just sufficient,as currently have 6*3TB and 1*4TB plus 3*1TB SSD just what puts me off is price, sadly

Then failure rate of Seagate HDD, owned 3*3TB Barracuda and all of them failed, recovering them would be too expensive and I didn't recover them, lost several months of rendering plus my other works

But still nice to see 14TB HDD review and test over here

Hope this helps

Thanks, Jura

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#5583011 Posted on: 09/10/2018 02:52 PM

So roughly 14,5 hours to fill it up at max speed? :p

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