Seagate unveils 10TB hard drive portfolio

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a a release from Seagate Technology

MANILA, Philippines – Seagate Technology, a leader in storage solutions, unveils a new portfolio of 10TB high capacity drives. Dubbed the Guardian Series™, these purpose-built drives help its users better manage and move large amounts of digital data.

The brand introduces the most complete 10TB portfolio in the industry with new brand names and imagery:

• The 10TB Seagate® BarraCuda® Pro desktop drive
• The 10TB Seagate IronWolf™ for NAS applications
• The 10TB Seagate SkyHawk™ for surveillance

The Guardian Series features industry-leading technology that raises the bar on features, speed and capacity for use across a wide range of markets. This serves personal, creative and design computing, gaming, small and medium-sized businesses, as well as large-scale surveillance systems.

“Consumers and organizations today face a similar challenge – what to do about the massive deluge of data and video they confront every day,” said Matt Rutledge, senior vice president of Client and Consumer Storage at Seagate. “Whether it’s dominating in the latest game, producing compelling multimedia content, mining data to help create new apps and business services, helping to protect people and places around the world against new threats, and more, the Seagate Guardian Series is designed to preserve your most critical data and move it where it’s needed fast so you can make the most of it. By incorporating powerful new features and capabilities, our 10TB products also make it easier for everyone to create, consume and use data.”

New capabilities of the 10TB drives include:

• Multi-tier Caching Technology (MTC Technology™): a caching architecture for maximized performance
• AgileArray™: for optimizing drive performance through error recovery control, dual-plane balancing and power management
• ImagePerfect™: for surveillance, which supports high-resolution cameras 

Seagate’s 10TB product branding represents the next phase of the company’s new corporate brand unveiled at CES in 2015. This event introduced Seagate’s “Living Logo,” which visually captures the idea that data is most valuable as part of our daily lives at home and work. The new Guardian Series links this living data concept directly to Seagate’s foundational technologies in a way that is memorable and easier for customers to understand.

BarraCuda Pro 10TB Desktop Drive

Data has become the lifeblood of online interaction and work productivity. With this, Seagate brought back its popular BarraCuda brand to respond to demands for high capacity storage. BarraCuda Pro combines 10TB of storage capacity with a speed of 7200 RPM, including power-saving features to keep drive operating costs low.

BarraCuda is a high performance hard drive. Its lightweight and robust 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives with a thin 7mm form factor offer a versatile, dependable line for nearly every application and budget.

Further, the FireCuda™ combines flash with the latest hard drive technology for both 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch offerings. The FireCuda ignites both capacity (up to 2TB) and performance solutions (up to 5 times faster than its HDD counterpart) for gaming and creative applications.

Merle McIntosh, SVP Sales and Marketing, Newegg, said: “The Barracuda family has a rich history of delivering reliable drives at an affordable price point for our customers, who are struggling to keep up with the vast amounts of data they’re creating and consuming. Seagate is pushing the boundaries on capacity and a cost-effective 10TB option is a product our customers will appreciate.”

IronWolf 10TB for NAS

Durable and scalable, IronWolf combines big iron with tough, pack-leading performance for NAS applications. This line also provides a wide range of capabilities designed to answer challenging always-on environments. 

NAS-optimized with AgileArray, IronWolf is built with drive balance and is first in its class of drives to have rotational vibration (RV) sensors, which mitigate vibration in multi-drive systems. It also includes RAID optimization for best performance with error recovery control, and advance power management providing power savings in NAS. Further, IronWolf is armed with a multi-user technology that provides a 180TB/year user workload rate. 

“It is critical for businesses with demanding data growth to select the right drive that is optimized for enterprise NAS usage and high capacity data storage,” said Jones Tsai, vice president of Hardware Division at Synology Inc. “Seagate IronWolf works seamlessly with our latest technology developments. With the perfect balance of durability and agility, IronWolf meets the requirements to support running multiple enterprise-level applications developed by Synology on NAS.”

“NAS hardware and software have greatly evolved to cover potentially limitless applications for home and business users. This evolution now calls for a new breed of hard drive that can provide the capacity, performance and flexibility for next-generation QNAP NAS,” said Meiji Chang, GM of QNAP. “IronWolf from Seagate represents a great leap forward for NAS hard drives, and we are amazed at its potential to take QNAP NAS to the next level.”  

SkyHawk 10TB for surveillance

An industry first, Seagate celebrates its 10th year of shipping surveillance drives with its latest 10TB SkyHawk. This is for surveillance systems relying on large storage solutions for network video recording (NVR). SkyHawk drives use rotational vibration sensors to minimize read/write errors, and supports the razor sharp vision of up to 64 cameras as well. Ideal for modern, hi-resolution systems running 24/7, SkyHawk drives also come with a data recovery services option.

“Seagate pioneered surveillance purpose-built drives more than 10 years ago with Hikvision’s R&D team, and today they continue to lead and partner closely with us to develop surveillance storage solutions of the future,” said R&D director Mr. Chenghua Sun at Hikvision. “With the advances in camera technology from 4k to thermal to panoramic recording, Hikvision believes in Seagate’s technology to optimize storage for highest quality recordings and to ensure customer data is safe and secure.”

“Seagate is a powerful storage brand in the surveillance market,” said James Wang, vice president of Dahua Overseas Business Center. “We’re proud to stand by them as a strategic partner and to introduce the next evolution of Seagate surveillance storage with SkyHawk and an incredible 10TB capacity point.”

“Libraries of digital content continue to expand, both in the home and the workplace,” said John Rydning, IDC’s research vice president for hard disk drives. “Seagate’s new 10TB HDD product lineup provides consumers and organizations with a range of capacious, on-premise HDD storage alternatives to the cloud that address a wide variety of storage use cases.”

For more information on the Seagate Guardian Series and other Seagate products, visit www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives. –  Rappler.com