With a gigantic 6 TByte storage capacity, the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 6000GB is one of the largest hard drives in the world at the time of testing. In the test, we praised the strong transfer rates and fast access times. However, it is quite noisy in operation and costs a small fortune.

With the presentation of the ST6000NM0024 from the "Enterprise Capacity HDD 3.5 v4" series, Seagate impressively shows that the 3.5-inch form factor with 4 TB is by no means exhausted, but that 5 or 6 TB are quite possible. However, this success could not be achieved with the "standard procedure" (higher data density with the same number of disks), but the entire housing had to be rethought...