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Get big storage with the Seagate BarraCuda 4TB hard drive. This range leads the market with the highest capacity drives for desktop and mobile devices. These drives are perfect for upgrades and all budgets.
2.5" 4Tb 5400 RPM 128 MB Serial ATA 6Gb/s hard drive (bulk)
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BarraCuda 2.5-inch drives deliver on their promiseRock-solid reliability based on over 20 years of BarraCuda innovation. A flexible mix of capacity and price to fit any budget. Multi-level caching technology ensures excellent performance.
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Proven reliabilityThe BarraCuda line of hard drives is built to last for years.
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General information |
Product name |
Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB (ST4000LM024) |
Brand |
Seagate Technology | |
Model |
ST4000LM024 | |
Main characteristics |
Interface with the computer |
Serial ATA 6Gb/s (SATA Revision 3) |
Hard drive format |
2" 1/2 | |
Capacity |
4 TB | |
Performance |
Rotation speed |
5400 RPM |
Cache size |
128 MB | |
Recording technology |
SMR | |
Design |
Hard drive type |
HDD (Hard Disk Drive) |
Use |
for PC | |
Physical characteristics |
Width |
69.85 mm |
Height |
15 mm | |
Depth |
100.35 mm | |
Weight |
190 g | |
Warranties |
Commercial warranty |
Seller 3 years |
Legal warranty |
See terms & conditions |
Product referenced on 30 Nov 2016
The old 2TB Barracuda drive was 7mm thick and would easily fit in a laptop. This one is 15mm thick (more than double) and won't fit in any laptop. I wonder what the point of making 2 1/2 inch drives is if they don't fit in a laptop.
I received it without any problems and it works.
It's a 15mm drive, so it doesn't fit in the PS4 or a laptop, but I use it as an external HDD, so it's fine.
Also, on Windows, you will see 3.6TB, which is normal because Windows reads in "megabyte/Gibabyte/Tebabyte mode" (1TB = 0.91TiB = 1000GB = 932GB), whereas on Linux (ubuntu, macOS, etc), it says 4TB.
On the other hand, sometimes, it makes my windows pc crash (hardware defect or windows defect?)
It's a good idea to check with time if it holds.
It's a pleasure to have a large capacity hard drive connected to an external media. In fact, for the past year I have had 3 of them.
I have owned a PC for 25 years. I have a large amount of data, especially photos and personal videos, which I have always backed up and each time benefit from the progress in the capacity of the hard drives. With Seagate I have often used their error detection software during the warranty period and for security I only put copies on these new 4 tetra drives.
For those worried about the 15mm height of this 4 tetra hard drive I advise them the ICY BOX IB-256WP which is not expensive and very practical.
Used in RAID10 in a Dell R620, connected to a Dell Perc H710 mini as mass storage, so far I haven't encountered any problems, the data I send on it copies at ~120MB/s (1GB/s network saturation, I plan to upgrade to 10G).
I haven't encountered any major problems yet, except for a drop in IOPS when I'm doing simultaneous installations of multiple virtual machines, which is normal. Just make the accesses as sequential as possible, and no problems are encountered.
Their size was as expected, "impressive". About twice the thickness of a 2.5" laptop drive, so won't fit in a lot of laptops.
One thing to keep in mind is that these seem to be "SMR" (Shingled Magnetic Recording) drives. This means that the sectors overlap slightly. When writing next to a written sector, the disk must rewrite it to avoid data corruption, which will greatly reduce performance (domino effect). We can therefore imagine that from the moment 2TB of data have been written on it, performance will greatly decrease. I have not yet encountered the problem, however, and I don't think I will, as the storage planned is limited to a database and other tests.
After that, my use case won't be the most standard one either. I didn't have a choice of size for the disks to fit in the server, so I chose these, in addition to an 850 Evo RAID10 (small capacity though).
As it was to be used externally and is 15mm high I first looked for a case. The ICY BOX IB-256WP seems to be the only one available for 15mm, so I decided to buy the Seagate BarraCuda 4Tb. The problem is that Windows 10 and not Windows 7 is having problems formatting the drive. The first disk I had to format without any problem on Windows 7 and then put it in usb on the Windows 10 PC. The first disk I had to format without any problem on Windows 7 and then put it on the Windows 10 PC. For this second disk Windows 7 puts a very clear error message: "writing forbidden" On the box there is a security button to forbid writing, that I unchecked and the formatting was done without any problem. With Windows 10 it's always a mess despite the updates that are done almost every day.
I've had a drive for over 6 months that has no problems.
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