Seagate Constellation ES.3 SATA600 ST-NM00 Series

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The hard drive market has become a lot less sexy in the past few years thanks to SSDs. What we used to consider "fast" for a hard drive is relatively slow compared to even the cheapest of today's solid state drives. But there are two areas where hard drives still rule the roost, and that's in terms of overall capacity and cost per gigabyte. Right now you can buy a 4TB hard drive for the same cost as a 256GB SSD, so the two are in separate universes in that regard.......
Enterprise Class Quality, 1.4 Million Hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), Top Performance, Increased Data Safety, 4TB's Capacity, Power Choice Technology, Temperatures/Noise Levels, 5 Years Warranty
Enterprise Class Quality, 1.4 Million Hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), Top Performance, 4TB's Capacity, Power Choice Technology, Temperatures/Noise Levels, 5 Years Warranty

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The hard drive market has become a lot less sexy in the past few years thanks to SSDs. What we used to consider "fast" for a hard drive is relatively slow compared to even the cheapest of today's solid state drives. But there are two areas where hard drives still rule the roost, and that's in terms of overall capacity and cost per gigabyte. Right now you can buy a 4TB hard drive for the same cost as a 256GB SSD, so the two are in separate universes in that regard
Enterprise Class Quality, 1.4 Million Hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), Top Performance, Increased Data Safety, 4TB's Capacity, Power Choice Technology, Temperatures/Noise Levels, 5 Years Warranty
Enterprise Class Quality, 1.4 Million Hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), Top Performance, 4TB's Capacity, Power Choice Technology, Temperatures/Noise Levels, 5 Years Warranty

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Seagate is a world leader in storage solutions and hard disk drives. Founded in 1979, Seagate has a wide range of products from hard disk drives to solid state drives, network storage and external hard drives.Today we are taking a look at two different...

By Play3r on May 25, 2013

The hard drive market has become a lot less sexy in the past few years thanks to SSDs. What we used to consider "fast" for a hard drive is relatively slow compared to even the cheapest of today's solid state drives. But there are two areas where hard drives still rule the roost, and that's in terms of overall capacity and cost per gigabyte. Right now you can buy a 4TB hard drive for the same cost as a 256GB SSD, so the two are in separate universes in that regard. We love SSDs and think just about everyone should run their OS on one, but most aren't large enough to hold all user data over a long period of time, so we still need hard drives for bulk storage duties, and will continue to need them until we can buy similar capacity SSDs at similar...

By HotHardware on December 29, 2014

Seagate lost the performance crown to HGST when they released their latest 7K4000 Ultrastar models but they made a strong come back (stronger than i had expected initially) with their latest Enterprise Capacity 3.5 V.3 (ES.3) drives since these are the...

By NikkTech on July 03, 2014

It actually took us quite a bit more time than we had initially expected to finish this review because after performing the latest firmware update on our LSI MegaRAID 9265-8i SATA/SAS card we witnessed a large performance boost on RAID0 configurations...

By NikkTech on July 03, 2014

Comparing the Constellation ES.3 to a pair of consumer mechanical drives shows the performance advantage of this drive in just about every test. RAID 0 performance scaled nicely, driving throughput of the Constellation drives to a level on par with some...

By Overclockers Club on May 05, 2013

With a mere 3 options for the consumer and 3 for the enterprise, the current 4TB market is small. Where's our “Green” option from Seagate? WD? HGST? Your guess is as good as ours.While the consumer 4TB situation at the moment is depressing, the...

By Techgage on February 18, 2013

Seagate zeigt mit der Vorstellung der ST6000NM0024 aus der "Enterprise Capacity HDD 3.5 v4"-Serie eindrucksvoll, dass der 3,5-Zioll-Formfaktor mit 4 TB keinesfalls ausgereizt ist, sondern 5 bzw. 6 TB durchaus möglich sind. Jedoch konnte dieser Erfolg...

By Hardwareluxx on June 03, 2014

Auch im Zeitalter der Solid State Drive hat die herkömmliche Hard Disk Drive ihren festen Standpunkt auf dem Markt, denn nur die mechanischen Speichermedien können derzeit Kapazitäten von bis zu vier Terrabyte in einem Laufwerk bieten. Auch wenn der...

By Hardwarelabs on December 03, 2013

Mit diesem Artikel präsentieren wir den vierten und vorerst letzten Teil unsere Serie der Festplatten-Roundups (3-TB-Roundup, 2-TB-Roundup, 1-TB-Roundup) im 3,5-Zoll-Format. Erneut haben wir uns eine bunte Mischung diverser HDD-Modelle von HGST...

By Hardwareluxx on August 24, 2013