10 Facts About Seagate Barracuda

Seagate Barracuda is a series of hard disk drives and later solid state drives produced by Seagate Technology that was first introduced in 1993.

Since 2001, the Barracuda is Seagate's most popular product line as the hard disk drive industry started to move to a 7200 RPM spindle speed.

In 1992 Seagate introduced the first ever 7200-RPM spindle speed hard drive, the Barracuda 1, sold in capacity of 1.

In 1993, Seagate released the first Barracuda drive, with the ST11950.

Third generation Seagate Barracuda drive announced October 18th, 1993, with a expected release in the following year.

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In late 2000, Seagate introduced the Barracuda 180 series with the ST1181677LW and ST1181677LC.

Later Seagate Barracuda replaced the base models with the ST1181677LWV and ST1181677LCV, they had 16 MB of on-board cache versus 4, and were hot-swappable if they had the right cable connection, but were otherwise the same.

However, Seagate Barracuda says that the LED light remaining permanently on had nothing to do with firmware problems.

Seagate Barracuda phased out Maxtor brand in October 2009, reviving it in 2016, except for internal HDDs.

From this generation onwards, Seagate Barracuda phased out previous "green" models, citing the inherent power saving functions featured on the 14th generation removed the need for a separate low-power design.