Remember the Barracuda LP? Meet its formal successor. In a bid to generate some interest from upgrading Sierra Club members, Seagate has just introduced the Barracuda Green, described as the world's ...

Seagate is streamlining its Barracuda line of hard drives. To this end, the new Barracuda line will offer a SATA 6GB/second interface, 7200RPM spin speed, and up to 64MB cache. The drives will be ...

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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." ...

Cloud storage provider Backblaze, in its 2014 ‘Hard Drive Annual Failure Rate’ graph, reports that the 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives it used for its storage service had a 43.1% failure rate over 2014.

Solid-state drives (SSDs) may slowly be expanding their market share relative to hard drives, but traditional spinning media still wins as far as price and capacity go. The only problem—and one that's ...

Third generation Serial ATA technology is finally here. Today we are going to take a look at the new Seagate Barracuda XT, the first SATA 6 Gb/s hard drive to hit the TweakTown Test Lab. A few weeks ...