Seagate Launches 14TB Hard Drives

Seagate is offering 14TB models of the Barracuda Pro for desktop computing, IronWolf for your NAS needs, and SkyHawk for recording up to 389 days of surveillance video before you need to consider buying a second 14TB drive.

Solid state drives have long held the local storage performance crown, with the gap between hard drives and flash storage growing even bigger ever since  M.2 PCI Express drives appeared. However, mechanical hard drives still win if your main concern is the amount of storage offered. Today, Seagate just reminded us of the gulf that exists between HDD and SSD in this regard by  launching three different flavors of 14TB hard drives.

You may have noticed a common theme in recent years from the hard drive manufacturers. It’s not just a case of offering hard drives of different capacities anymore, instead we get a choice based on what we intend to use the drive for. Will it be for general use in a  desktop computer? Used as part of a  NAS? Or part of a system dedicated to a single task such as recording video?

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