Right now it is a great time to go hunting for NVMe SSDs as drives like the Crucial P310 (2280) 4TB are currently up for sale for amazing prices. If however you are after something with much higher capacity and don"t mind lower speed, then Seagate has its BarraCuda 20TB HDD for a price that is hard to, if not impossible, beat. The SKU is now selling for just $245 (purchase link at the bottom of the article) which means it costs around just $10 per TB. However, we are not sure how long the sale or the stocks will last.
Being a 24TB variant, this BarraCuda drive is based on CMR or Conventional Magnetic Recording technology which is typically great for robust use cases like on NAS or (media) home servers and similar such scenarios. While it may not be made for 24x7 operations like a IronWolf Pro or an Exos, the BarraCuda should still be great for occasional long up-times, and especially good for back-ups.
The drive"s power-on hours is rated at 2400 and it packs 512 MB multi-segmented DRAM cache. In terms of data transfer speed, Seagate promises up to 190 MB/s for the BarraCuda 20TB and it is the maximum sustained data transfer rate for the drive.
The technical specifications of the Seagate BarraCuda 24 TB are given below:
- Formatted Capacity: 24 000 000 000 000 bytes (≈21.82 TiB)
- Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s (6.0/3.0/1.5 Gb/s)
- Sector Size: 4096 bytes
- Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm
- Cache (Multisegmented): 512 MB
- Average Latency: 4.16 ms
- Average Seek Time (Read): < 8.5 ms
- Average Seek Time (Write): < 9.5 ms
- Max Sustained Data Rate OD (Outer Diameter) read: up to 190 MB/s
- Power (Read/Write): 6.4 W typical
- Power (Idle): 4.2 W typical
- Power (Standby/Sleep): 0.47 W
- Acoustics (Idle): 2.8 bels (typical)
- Acoustics (Seek): 2.8 bels (typical)
- Nonrecoverable Read Errors: 1 per 1014 bits read
- Load/Unload Cycles: 300,000
- MTBF: 1,200,000 hours
Get it at the link below:
Seagate 24 TB BarraCuda ST24000DM001 SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive: $244.99 (Sold and Shipped by Newegg US)
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