Gadgetory

seagate have released a whole new lineup of hard drives and FSH DS with their Barracuda 5 CUDA and iron wolf series of drives and today I'm going to put them to the test and see if they're hitting the market hard or if they're hitting a gate welcome back to tech city and this is the yes-man Brian coming to you guys today with a look at three different drives first is the drive that I put in my personal rig in both a raid 1 and raid 0 setup these are the new lineup of Barracuda drives they come in different size variations going from 500 gigabytes to 4 terabytes into 7200 rpm drives they also have a two-year warranty though there's also the pro lineup however the boasts an impressive 5 year warranty and as larger size is available up to 10 terabytes though these are a little bit more costly however the 3 terabyte drives that I purchased from you might came in at around 130 AUD each which would be about 95 USD I believe they are even cheaper in the US however coming in at 90 USD flat in raid 0 the performance was very impressive scoring both over 300 megabytes of read and writes per second and the consistency of these read and writes never had any noticeable dips and this was across a huge 50 gigabyte random stress test though what about the boot times loading games in frame times may you ask well it took one of these drives roughly 48 seconds to boot from a cold boot and comparing that to the sshd after three runs that scored 41 seconds and until nvme SSDs I have here in raid 0 they scored a mere 12 seconds gaming load times were also very similar scenario where the Barracuda scored similar to the fire cooter on their first attempts having load times of roughly 20 seconds and then that load times of roughly 21 seconds though the sshd was extremely impressive on the second run it loaded up the initial game in five seconds and the map in almost the same time as the MVM SSDs at one second and when testing game frame times on dota 2 the barracuda and also sshd scored ever so slightly better than the Intel ray drives so this is the test with some parents involved but it does go to show that these drives will not hamper your in any way shape or form the next drive we have up here is my favorite out of the bunch this is the fire CUDA 2 terabyte sshd you can get these in both one or two terabyte flavors and they also have a 2.5 inch variant available for laptops so when I was looking at the price this Drive comes in at roughly a hundred and fifty ozzie dollars or 103 US dollars in the States and comes with a five-year warranty five years five five years five years which is huge for a drive that features eight gigabytes of mlc SSD caching portion and also has 7200 rpm of two terabyte storage onboard this drivers mentioned before performed really well when loading up games after the second load so Seagate claims that this sshd has new learning algorithms that help with performance seem to be quite true though Cole boots was still quite slow even after the third turn of trying however performance weight the Barracudas was really consistent in both read and writes so this drive just like the previous gets the nod of approval and lastly in the line up is their iron wolf Pro and non Pro variants these are drives that come in flavors ranging from one terabyte all the way up to 10 terabytes and now these drugs include a five-year warranty and a rated for 300 terabytes per year of Rights which is incredibly large when doing the tests on these 7200 rpm drugs these drives performs better even than the barracudas and scored over 200 megabytes per second read and writes even in RAID one configuration across again a 50 gigabyte random file stress test and the consistency of these read and writes were again very good an interesting point was that the 4k random reading rates were also quite high for that of a hard drive which would indicate that these drives are designed for constant writes which will not only serve perfectly as an ass solution but will also be great for security solutions where consistent writes are a must over eight wanna race you also get rotational vibration sensors onboard which help eliminate errors from vibration and on that note the drugs are more shock resistant to vibrations than other hard drive I already tested this feature out in the recent QNAP Nash solution reviews that I did you can check out this video up here which I founded the are these sensors managed to work phenomenally well the iron wolf pro also for some weird reason look very slick and simple I really like the look at these Drive and lastly with the item of pro drives you get the ability to connect up to sixteen drives in a raid configuration and also with the non pro version you only get the ability to connect up to eight drives which is still plenty there's also only a three year warranty on the non pro versions of the drives however if you do get the pro variants of the drive there's also an additional two year Seagate data recovery service included and they have included their own health management software too so in conclusion all the drives I had up here on the test bench today performed really well the reading rights were so consistent that I can recommend pretty much all these drives for their intended market I think if you're on a budget the Barracuda offers really good price performance you can put all your games on there put your OS on there and you'll still have a decent experience in terms of load times if you've got a little bit more money and you want a bit more warranty then the fire CUDA pro would be my personal pick you get two terabytes and you get it for a pretty good price and you get a massive five-year warranty then you've got the iron wolf pros which are intended for the prosumer market or the business segment with offering great speeds and also very reliable performance although it does cost a bit more than the other variants I've mentioned here today anyway guys if you enjoyed today's videos and be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comments section below what do you think of Seagate new lineup of hard drives I personally am pretty impressed with them all and I'll catch you guys in the Nullah tech video very soon peace out for now bye