Seagate BarraCuda 5TB 2.5" 15mm Hard Drive
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| Delivering to | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Major centres: Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban and within 100km of them | 1–3 working days | R180, free from R2 500 |
| More than 100km from a major centre | 2–4 working days | R180, free from R2 500 |
| Express delivery, anywhere | 1–2 working days | R210, R150 from R2 500 |
| Collect from Edenvale | When we tell you it’s ready | Free |
- Courier delivery is R180 on orders under R2 500 and free on orders of R2 500 or more. Choose express or collection at checkout.
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The biggest 2.5" BarraCuda: 5TB in a 15mm-thick drive, with low startup current for USB enclosures.
Quick Specs
- 5TB, 2.5" 15mm, SATA 6Gb/s
- 5400 RPM, 128MB cache
- Up to 140MB/s transfer
- Multi-Tier Caching Technology
- 2 year limited warranty
Check the 15mm height first
This drive is 15mm thick, not the 7mm or 9.5mm that almost every laptop uses, so it will not fit most notebooks. Where it does fit is in 2.5" USB enclosures, some all-in-one PCs, small-form-factor builds and drive bays designed for 15mm drives. Seagate designed the 3TB to 5TB models with low startup current, so they spin up reliably in bus-powered external enclosures. It's a good way to build a large portable backup drive or add bulk storage to a compact system that can't take a 3.5" drive.
Speed and SMR trade-offs
At 5400 RPM and up to 140MB/s, this is a storage drive, not a boot drive. Windows and apps will feel much quicker on an SSD. It uses shingled magnetic recording (SMR), which is fine for photos, video archives and game libraries, but sustained heavy writes can slow down, and it isn't suited to NAS or RAID use, where IronWolf is the right choice. If you need a slim drive for a laptop, the 7mm BarraCuda models top out at 2TB. If you want 5TB ready to plug in, a Seagate portable drive may be simpler.
FEATURES:
- 5TB in a 2.5" footprint, 15mm height
- Low startup current for bus-powered external enclosures
- Multi-Tier Caching Technology for faster write handling
- Up to 140MB/s data rate
- Halogen-free and RoHS compliant
SPECIFICATIONS:
- Model: Seagate BarraCuda 2.5" 5TB (ST5000LM000)
- Capacity: 5TB
- Form factor: 2.5", 15mm
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
- Spindle speed: 5400 RPM
- Cache: 128MB
- Data transfer rate: Up to 140MB/s
- Recording technology: SMR
- Bytes per sector (logical / physical): 512 / 4096
- Load/unload cycles: 600,000
- Nonrecoverable read errors: 1 per 10E14
- Startup current (+5V): 1.2A
- Average read / write power: 1.9W / 2.1W
- Idle power: 1.1W
- Operating temperature: 0°C to 60°C
- Shock (operating 2ms / non-operating 1ms): 300 / 650 Gs
- Acoustics (idle / seek): 2.6 / 2.7 bels
- Dimensions: 15.0 x 69.85 x 100.35mm
- Weight: 190g
- Warranty: 2 Year Limited
WHAT'S IN THE BOX:
- 1x Seagate BarraCuda 5TB 2.5" hard drive
Why Seagate?
Seagate has made hard drives since 1979, and BarraCuda is its mainstream drive range for PCs and laptops, with free DiscWizard software for cloning and backup. It's backed by a 2 year limited warranty.
Key details
| Category | Hard Disk Drives (HDD) |
|---|---|
| Brand | Seagate |
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