Seagate Announces Helium Filled 10TB Barracuda Pro

Earlier this year we discussed the new Seagate hard drives with 10TB (Terabytes) of capacity that featured a new technology where they were filled with helium to avoid as much as possible the friction of mechanical components and thus prolong life. useful hard drive. These new helium-filled 10TB hard drives were only available to the business and server sectors, now it's the turn of the 'man on foot' with the Seagate BarraCuda Pro.

Barracuda Pro belongs to the new Guardian range

The new 10TB Barracuda Pro hard drive offers the enthusiastic consumer for the first time a drive with such capacity and the best technology a mechanical hard drive can achieve so far.

Being filled with helium inside and completely sealed, the BarraCuda Pro allows to alleviate the friction between the heads and the plates of the hard disk, this has several advantages. It increases the useful life of the hard disk, requires less energy consumption and allows a higher speed when reading and writing. The latter could be confirmed thanks to the review made by the people of Anandtech, which has been one of the first to have one of these new Seagate hard drives.

Seagate Introduces Barracuda Pro, IronWolf and SkyHawk Discs

There will be a total of three models similar to BarraCuda Pro in a new range that Seagate has called Guardian, which try to meet the different demands of the market. For the average consumer, the 'Barracuda Pro', 'IronWolf' prepared for NAS and lastly 'SkyHawk', which is specially prepared for surveillance, will be enough, where the demand is much higher when working 24 hours with constant writing to disk.

Barracuda Pro 10TB is priced at $ 535 while IronWolf and SkyHawk will cost between $ 470 and $ 460 respectively, the entire Guardian range has 7200RPM and uses PMR (overlapping magnetic recording) technology.