Seagate recently re-launched a 3.5-inch hard drive product with a 10TB capacity specification in the Enterprise Capacity series hard drives. Compared with the previous 8TB version, this time, in addition to the increase in capacity specification, it also directly introduced the A3941KLPTR-T helium filling technology, not only The design of the weight of the hard disk is greatly reduced, and the power consumption and the actual operating temperature of the hard disk are also reduced. Therefore, for equipment such as data centers or large servers that use a large number of hard disks, the expenditure on hardware equipment and operating costs can be relatively reduced.

This time, the Enterprise Capacity 10TB 3.5-inch hard drive is still a test sample, so this time I will take a look at the appearance and specifications of the hard drive directly out of the box! In this 10TB hard drive, there is one more disk than the previous 8TB version, with a total of 7 disks and 14 read-write heads, and the single-disk magnetic density has been increased to about 1.428TB. The 10TB version of the Seagate Enterprise Capacity series not only supports Power Balance and PowerChoice technologies, but also newly introduced helium filling technology, which can save more power than the previous air-filled hard drives. The maximum power consumption is 8.5W, which is about 2~3W less power consumption than the previous air-filled 8TB hard drive, and it can also achieve a lower operating temperature. In addition, this 10TB version of the hard drive is also about 130 grams lighter than the previous air-filled 8TB hard drive due to the introduction of helium filling technology. This Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10TB hard drive has an MTBF endurance figure of 2.5 million hours and a 5-year limited warranty.

Below is the official hardware specification sheet for your reference.

The Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10TB hard drive introduced this time with helium filling technology also adopts a special welded sealing design to avoid internal helium leakage.

For different application requirements, Seagate's 10TB hard drive will also launch two transmission interfaces, SATA 6Gb/s and SAS 12Gb/s, and the hard drive tested this time is the SATA interface version.

An insulating sheet is added between the circuit board and the hard disk, and several chips are also provided with thermally conductive patches to enhance the heat dissipation effect.

The main control chip model of the hard disk is TTB8100.

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Although the 10TB version has one more disk and two read/write heads than the previous 8TB version, the actual weight is only about 640 grams, which is 120 grams lighter than the 8TB version.

●Effectiveness test

Because there is only one 10TB hard drive at hand this time, so just connect it to the motherboard to test the read and write performance! This time, I also took the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 8TB hard drive to test together, so that netizens can have a data comparison reference. Below is a list of components used in the actual test for your reference.

○ Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K

○Host Saka: ASUS ROG M8E

○ Hard drive: OCZ VECTOR 150 256GB solid state drive

○ Memory: Kingston HyperX DDR4-3000 4GBx2

○ Power Supply: Gigabyte ODIN 1200W

○ Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit

◆Anvil`s Storage Utilities software performance test

When the test file size is set to 4GB, the read and write performance of the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10TB hard disk for sequential read and write 4MB items is 231.63MB/s and 201.64MB/s respectively; while the read and write performance of 4K read and write items is 0.74MB/ s, the writing performance is 5.07MB/s, and the total score of the test results is 552.27 points.

When the same test is performed with a Seagate Enterprise Capacity 8TB hard drive, the read and write performances of sequential read and write 4MB items are 225.88MB/s and 130.23MB/s respectively; while the read and write performance of 4K read and write items are 0.77MB/s, write The performance is 5.15MB/s, and the total score of the test results is 438.71 points.

◆ATTO Benchmark software performance test

When the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10TB hard drive runs the ATTO Benchmark software test, when the file length exceeds 8KB, the read and write performance reaches about 240MB/s. When testing the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 8TB hard drive, when the file length exceeds 8KB, the read and write performance is about 230MB/s.

◆ATTO Benchmark software performance test

When the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10TB hard drive runs the ATTO Benchmark software test, when the file length exceeds 8KB, the read and write performance reaches about 240MB/s. When testing the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 8TB hard drive, when the file length exceeds 8KB, the read and write performance is about 230MB/s.

◆HD Tune Pro 5.6 software performance test

When testing the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10TB hard drive through HD Tune Pro 5.6 software, the maximum read and write performance was 249.3MB/s and 245.9MB/s respectively.

When using the HD Tune Pro 5.6 software to test the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 8TB hard drive, the maximum read and write performance is 235.1MB/s and 233.3MB/s respectively.

When running the file performance test of HD Tune Pro 5.6 software, the sequential read and write speeds of the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10TB hard drive are about 232MB/s and 230MB/s. The sequential read and write speeds of the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 8TB hard drive are 208MB/s and 216MB/s.

●Operating temperature test

When the hard disk performs the read and write test for 10 minutes, the operating temperature of the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10TB hard disk will be about 40~42℃, while the operating temperature of the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 8TB hard disk will reach about 47~49℃.

●Trial summary

The Enterprise Capacity 10TB hard drive launched by Seagate this time not only increases the capacity specification to 10TB due to the increase in the magnetic density of the disk, but also has a better transmission performance than the previous 8TB version, and after the introduction of helium filling technology, the operating temperature is also significantly A lot of reduction, coupled with lower power consumption, for data centers or servers that will install a large number of hard disks, because of the increase in the capacity of a single hard disk, it is natural to reduce the number of hard disks under the same capacity requirement. The number, coupled with the reduction of operating temperature and power consumption, can greatly reduce the cost of hardware equipment and actual operation. But for ordinary users, the advantages of helium filling and introduction may not be too obvious, and the price is relatively high. If there is a real need for large-capacity storage, maybe wait for the NAS HDD or Desktop HDD series to be launched later. would be more suitable.