Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 6TB Review

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Neoseeker tried the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 6TB

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On a normal day, I tend to have about 110GB of storage on me. That's just counting my cellphone's internal storage, one extra MicroSD card, and the Patriot Stellar USB/OTG attached to my keychain. Nothing fancy by today's standards you might argue; but if we take a step back a couple decades or so, such amount of portable storage capacity would be considered science-fiction. The younger generations might not realise that back in the 80's, 1.44MB "high density" floppy disks were used to carry digital content around. The same applies to the internal storage category where the evolution of hard disk drives over the years is simply amazing. In 1980, Seagate introduced the ST-506, world first 5.25-inch hard disk drive which could store up to 5MB of data at an insanely hefty price-tag of $1500 USD back then. Three decades later, Seagate is at it again with the Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4. This 6TB drive is the first device of this capacity that doesn't rely on Helium-filled enclosure to achieve such numbers, which is the case of its direct competitor, the HGST He6.

The Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 is a 6000GB behemoth of a drive. As the name implies, we got an enterprise-class piece of hardware that offers a 50% capacity increase over the largest drives available to date which are "only" 4TB in size. Seagate did not assign the Enterprise label just for the size, as this drive is said to provide a 25% performance boost over competing units along with best-in-class response times, self-encryption, and Instant Secure Erase technology. Seagate built the Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 to be extremely reliable for 24/7 usage scenarios, it can withstand workloads of up 550TB per year and comes with an MTBF rating of 1.4M hours. These numbers might not mean much to the average user that may have a hard enough time filling the 1TB drives that most laptops and desktops are shipping with lately. For the extreme-enthusiast and professional IT crowd however, this drive just might be a god-send. It offers tremendous value for data center applications, surveillance systems, cloud storage solutions, and other hyperscale computing environments.

The Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 6TB can be yours if you are willing to spend $600 USD per unit. The price-tag might seem quite steep but let's face it, having a couple of these monsters in a RAID 0 setup or in a JBOD NAS enclosure is so tempting! Today however, I will be looking at a single unit implementation only.
 Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 6TB Review @ Neoseeker