HDDs Reviews

More capacity, but not more performance.

Seagate delivers a meat and potatoes desktop hard drive

The Seagate BarraCuda is a slow but inexpensive hard drive that suffers from its use of SMR technology. It’s good for specific use cases but should be avoided for high-performance applications.

We review the 14TB Seagate IronWolf Pro, an HDD built for NAS that also serves well in other roles given its performance and pricing.

Back to Basics.

Western Digital’s Red Pro NAS line of high-capacity hard drives (HDDs) utilizes NAND flash with its OptiNAND technology to reach 20TB and beyond. It’s CMR technology without the drawbacks of SMR.

The 20TB Seagate SkyHawk AI hard drive uses CMR technology to offer reliable performance for video, imaging, and AI workloads. It’s backed with a strong warranty that includes data recovery services.

Conventional, high-capacity mechanical drives for NAS and enterprise

Seagate's Ultra Touch Portable hard drive sports a textured, two-tone look and performs as we'd expect. But it's the software that really ads value.

LaCie's Mobile Drive is the nicest-looking portable drive available. But unless you want to test drive the included free month of Adobe CC, there are better options.