A family of compact, high performance hard drives designed for high performance laptops, small desktops and HTPC class systems. According to the manufacturer's idea, such products are best suited for being used as the main drive or for pairing with a more powerful SSD drive.


And the assortment of the BarraCuda family includes a whole scattering of models with a volume from 500 GB to 5 TB. All representatives of this family are made in a miniature 2.5” form factor, boasting a thin case from 7 to 15 mm and are primarily designed for installation in modern laptops and ultrabooks. To connect to the motherboard, a classic SATA3 port is used, which is backward compatible with earlier versions of this protocol.

They typically use Tiled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology, which increases storage capacity, paired with MTC's multi-threaded caching system, which optimizes data flows and improves overall performance. In most cases, the amount of buffer memory is fixed at around 128 MB and does not depend in any way on the total amount of hard disk memory. But the speed of rotation of the reading plates depends on the particular drive BarraCuda and is usually either 5,400 or 7,200 rpm.