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Seagate introduced 1TB platters for 2.5-inch hard drives in January and now the company is injecting this technology into two hard drives for laptops: the 5TB BarraCuda and the 2TB FireCuda. The ...

For over a decade, Seagate's high-end consumer drives were branded as Barracuda's. In 2013 the company unofficially retired the name, choosing instead to refer to its desktop drives as "Desktop HDD." ...

Though there are occasional performance dips (likely while the drive does housekeeping) this SSD turned in some of the best numbers we’ve seen. Affordable and light, it’s a great laptop or PC upgrade.

For a SATA-based SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps SSD, the BarraCuda Fast is a very good performer. It’s also good-looking. But you could get a much faster NVMe-based drive for about the same price. Seagate’s ...