First, Seagate renamed its Barracuda hard drive family to Desktop HDD.15. Then, it introduced the first model in the new line-up—the Desktop HDD.15 ST4000DM000. Does Seagate's first massive 4 TB desktop disk deliver the performance we want or disappoint?
Technical Specifications And Benchmark System
Technical Specifications
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Manufacturer
Seagate
Model
Desktop HDD.15
Model Number
ST4000DM000
Interface
SATA 6 Gb/s
Form Factor
3.5"
Capacity
4 TB
Spindle Speed
5900 RPM
Number of Platters
4
Cache
64 MB
Operating Temperature
0 to 60 degrees Celsius
Average/Maximum Data Transfer Rate(According to Manufacturer)
146 MB/s / 180 MB/s
Power Consumption at Idle(According to Manufacturer)
Good Read.
Noticed a small insignificant error in the "Drive Surface Temperature" chart. It lists the 4TB HDD.15 as a 7200rpm drive rather than a 5900rpm one.
the thing is this hard drive geared towards speed it's mostly geared towards data storage, which is why it's only 5800rpm, so you wouldn't get this obv if you want fast read and write times, that's what SSD's are for.
To all the people who say performance is not important, I would like to remind them we don't have a 4 terabyte SSD yet, and until then, if I need 4TB I have to use a hard drive. And it better be a fast one or I will be sitting for ever in a loading screen in-game, opening big programs and loading 8GB of sample sounds to RAM when I work with music.
For me this is a big mistake for Seagate. I always bought their drives because they were the fastest, but it seems they are now joining the WD green lineup. I'll probably have to go with hitachi now to have some decent speed.
Would anyone use a 4TB drive as a system drive anyway? Short stoked to 200GB maybe but otherwise......? Reliability has never been a strong point with drives over 1TB IMO.
I just see these big drives as a huge liability really, but folks will hoard their data.