Seagate is a global leader in data storage products, competing with Western Digital in the second largest disk drive market. Nearly 40 years into the HDD industry, Seagate has grown in technological advancement. In the process of reshuffling the hard disk industry, Seagate acquired Samsung's mechanical hard disk business, which not only improved its technical strength, but also expanded its product coverage.
 
The internal structure of HDDs is very precise, and it requires strong technical and manufacturing capabilities. As the first company to manufacture hard drives for desktop computers, Seagate has the ability to manufacture all the core components needed for hard drives, including heads, media, motors and printed circuit boards. This also enables Seagate to have strong quality control capabilities and effectively ensure the quality and performance of its products.
 
Although Seagate is slightly lower than Western Digital in terms of market share, Seagate is the No. 1 in terms of product development and technical strength. Seagate's Thermally Assisted Magnetic Recording Technology (HAMR) is designed specifically for high-capacity HDDs, and the HAMR doubles the disk density and further increases the capacity of HDDs.
 
As the mainstream of the hard disk market, mechanical hard disks are used in a wide range of scenarios, such as home computers, enterprise computers, network servers, and monitoring systems, all of which require reliable mechanical hard disks to store data, and different devices have different requirements for mechanical hard disks. Seagate's mechanical hard disks are divided into five series according to different usage scenarios: Barracuda, Cool Play, Cool Wolf, Cool Eagle, and Galaxy.
 
Barracuda and Barracuda Pro, as Seagate's home-class hard drives, are slightly better than other brands in terms of capacity and performance. Most of the hard disks of the Barracuda series have a speed of 7200RPM, the file transfer capacity is guaranteed, and the maximum cache of 256M ensures the smooth operation of the hard disk. It should be noted that the Barracuda 6TB and 8TB versions both have a speed of 5400RPM, which needs to be distinguished when purchasing. The 8TB version of the Barracuda series is priced at 1599 yuan, and the 2TB version is the most cost-effective, only 389 yuan.
 
The better-performing Barracuda Pro hard drive uses a 7200RPM speed and a maximum capacity of up to 12TB. Barracuda Pro provides 5-year warranty and 2 years of free data recovery service, compared with the Barracuda series2-year warranty, it is a big increase, but the price is much higher, 8TB version is priced at 2699 yuan, which is 1100 yuan more expensive than the same capacity Barracuda hard disk.
 
In recent years, hybrid hard drives have also gained a certain market popularity. Hybrid hard disk is to add a flash memory chip to the mechanical hard disk, and the hard disk analyzes the files that users often load, and then puts them into the flash memory to run, improving the speed of the hard disk. However, due to the small flash memory capacity of hybrid hard drives, the speed improvement of hard disks is relatively limited, and there is still a large gap between the performance of hybrid hard drives and SSDs.
 
However, hybrid drives are not "chicken" drives, and they perform well on game consoles with relatively simple file systems. Gaming requires high hard drive capacity and speed, and hybrid hard drives are a good choice. For game enthusiasts, Seagate has launched the Coldplay series of hybrid hard drives, and it is recommended to buy a 3.5-inch 7200RPM version for game consoles, with a 1T capacity price of 569 yuan.
 
For NAS network storage and monitoring systems, Seagate has launched Cool Wolf and Cool Eagle mechanical hard disks respectively. IronWolf supports up to 8-bay NAS storage, which is optimized for memory compatibility. As a surveillance-level hard disk, Cool Eagle supports up to 64 camera concurrency, and the storage of monitoring data is very reliable. Both have an average failure interval of 1 million hours, and reliability is guaranteed.
 
As the most reliable hard drive, enterprise-class hard disk has the strongest product strength of the brand and the best after-sales policy. Seagate's latest-generation enterprise-class hard drive, the Galaxy V6, delivers exceptional reliability with an average time between failures of 2.5 million hours. The 5-year after-sales policy of only replacing without repairing is also satisfactory, but the prices of enterprise-level hard disks are more expensive, and the Galaxy V6 8TB version is priced at 3399 yuan.