<p>Seagate has recently announced BarraCuda Pro, a consumer hard drive that will store virtually everything. The company has unveiled a series of hard drives that offer up to 10TB of storage capacity for desktops, NAS applications, and video surveillance systems.</p><p>BarraCuda is a leader in the industry, offering the highest capacities for consumer desktops and mobile computers. The new line of hard drives is a 2TB increase over the previous Seagate drives niched towards the consumer and small business market.</p><p>“With its enduring legacy of PC Compute drives, BarraCuda responds to market demands for high-performance hard drives that don’t sacrifice capacity or affordability,” says Seagate in a statement.</p><p>The new BarraCuda line now includes hard drives that have increased capacities from 500GB to 10TB, spindle speeds from 5,900rpm to 7,200rpm, a DRAM cache from 16GB to 64GB. According to the company, the drive consumes 6.8 watts during seek and just 4.5 watts when idle. This is quite a low-power for such standards.</p><p>The Barracuda Pro is built on seven-platter design for more power consumption and uses Conventional Magnetic Recording. It is one of the most efficient hard drives you can currently find on the market.</p><p>The updated hard drives will provide transfer rates of up to 210MB/s, while the top product – the BarraCuda Pro, offers a data transfer rate of up to 220MB/s. The product also comes with a five-year limited warranty.  As for the price, it doesn’t come cheap. The impressive 10TB Barracuda Pro is priced at $534.99, which is still lower than its enterprise counterpart.</p><p>Another hard drive just announced is the gaming-oriented FireCuda, coming in 2.5-in and 3.5-in. the FireCuda SSHD have a 2TB capacity and are up to five times faster than their HDD counterparts. The 1TB FireCuda will cost $85, and the 2TB model will retail for $110.</p><p>Seagate has also released other 10TB models that are cheaper, but not targeted towards the desktop market. The 10TB IronWolf was developed for NAS applications and is priced at $469.99, while the 10TB SkyHawk can be used for video surveillance and is priced at $459.99. Both products come with a three-year warranty, the Barracuda Pro being the only one featuring a five-year warranty. IronWolf, SkyHawk, and Barracuda Pro will only be accessible with SATA interfaces.</p><p>You can find out more about the Barracuda line <a class="ext-link" title="" href="http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/barracuda/" target="_blank" rel="external">here</a>. Let us know what you think.</p>