Seagate's new BarraCuda Pro line offers impressive performance for their first foray into Helium-filled 3.5" drives. The high densities led to impressive sequential transfer performance, but random performance was a bit limited by longer seek times, pushing the 7200 RPM unit into 5400 RPM territory with our mixed workloads. Pricing (cost/GB) is competitive given the premium enthusiast capacity, but it remains a bit on the high side when contrasted with similarly performing units of lower capacity. Overall an excellent showing for Seagate's push into Helium-filled hard drives. Definitely worthy of the BarraCuda name!
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