Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD V.4 6TB Hard Disk

A single hard disk offering a total storage capacity of 6TB (6000GB) is a new milestone for computing.

The Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD V.4 also comes in smaller versions, including 5TB. The secondary title with the oh-so-catchy name ST600NM0024 differentiates this vanilla 6TB SATA model from variants that come with a 12GB/s SAS interface and built-in disk encryption.

All capacities spin at 7200RPM, and come with 128MB of cache. Power consumption varies depending on the drive capacity and number of platters. With the 6TB drive, Seagate rates it as 6.9w idle, with 11.27w in use.

There's also the option with some models of Advanced Format 4Kn support, which means the physical sectors are 4KB instead of 512 bytes, leading to greater efficiency when dealing with large files.



Another option is built-in drive encryption, according to level 2 FIPS 140-2 validation. This provides a secure erase function, when using the drive in conjunction with Seagate's Seatools Windows software.

Unlike secure erase on SSD, it doesn't wipe the data, but instead changes the encryption key.