Adding 20 percent storage to its previous high-capacity models, Seagate now offers 12 TB hard drives in a 3.5-inch size. These spinning disks feature transfer rates up to 250 MB/s and use still relatively new helium gas technology usually reserved for enterprise drives to reduce friction throughout the eight-platter internals. The new 12 TB drives come in three Guardian Series flavors: Barracuda Pro for desktop use and IronWolf or IronWolf Pro for use in network-attached storage devices that often feature multiple-drive RAID configurations.
The Barracuda Pro and IronWolf Pro come with a five-year warranty and two years of Seagate Rescue (the company's data recovery service) while the more affordable IronWolf version comes with a standard three-year warranty. The $70 difference between the Pro and non-pro versions could add up for a small studio's multi-drive bay, but the extra warranty and two-year peace of mind with data recovery should something go wrong might make it worthwhile to spring for the IronWolf Pro.
By using helium gas inside these drives, Seagate keeps friction down to a minimum, which is important to keep temperatures down while writing so much data in such a tight space.
The Barracuda Pro will go on sale for $529.99 while the IronWolf and IronWolf Pro will sell for $469.99 and $539.99, respectively. While that might sound expensive for a single drive, these prices actually represent fairly reasonable costs of roughly $40-45 per terabyte.
On monday we will be releasing a video on our new 10gbps server build. We built it right before these came out. Bummer
And why are you regretting it? Because of the amount of data you could have installed ? Or for another technical reason ?
Just because we could have squeezed more TBs into our expensive NAS. No other reason.
Don’t be upset Lee. Seagate has a class action lawsuit against them due to how high their drives failure rates are. Admittedly that was for their 3TB drives specifically, they’re still an awful brand.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pcworld.com/article/3028981/storage/sea...
Same here, Seagate in general have been a nightmare for me. Got given my last Seagate drive a year or so back and that went down on me literally this week. Never ever had a problem with WD, and that is all I ever buy now.
I’ve been keeping eyes on BackBlaze’ results of thousands of drives and their failure rates for a while now and Seagate always fail fast and hard. It’ll take something huge for me to ever trust Seagate again.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-stats-q2-2017/
I know SSDs are like gold, but after all the nightmares of spinning drives, I promised to myself that I'll never use such drives for my photography storage solution.
Well that's one thing as well. I guess there's no pure solution.