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Why I love the 10 TB BarraCuda Pro 3.5 HDD đź’–

Hard Drive Reviews, NT IT Reviews

The BarraCuda Pro  10TB is a hard disk drive that is worth every penny. it’s perfect for hold large amounts of important data and is extremely fast for its hard drive restrictions. it has very fast RPM that allow it to find data quickly along with it’s lightning fast read and write speed. The high amounts of buffer allows for the drive quickly transfer decent amounts of data rapidly. I never have seen a hard drive quite like this in a long time. this drive is perfect business and office as it can hold so much data for such a low price for it can do.

Small Summary of the Hard Drive’s specs:

In-depth specifications for this drive

• Size: 10000Gb / 10Tb
• Transfer Rate: 6000MB/s
• Workload Rate Limit: 300TB
• Warranty: 5 years
• Spin Speed: 7200 RPM
• Read/Write of 220MB/s
• Cache of 256MB
• .021 USD per GB

If a lot of that did not make any sense, then allow me to explain.

The size of the drive is how much data can be stored into the drive before it’s full. The Transfer rate is how fast the drive moves data in and out of the drive. The Workload rate limit is how much the drive can read and write every year before it’s too much. Reading is when drive basically reads the file while writing is when a file of sort is put onto the drive. The spin speed affects how fast the drive can find a file. the read and write speed is how fast a drive can perform such actions. the cache or buffer is temporary storage  for the drive that allow frequently used data to be transferred far faster.

It costs 213.99 USD and comes with free shipping and you can buy it now by clicking on the Amazon logo below.

 

The RYZEN 5 5600

CPU reviews

This is the Ryzen 5 5600 CPU.  it fits with 3rd gen AM4 sockets and was made in 2020. 4 years later does this CPU stand the test of time? Well allow me to explain my experience with the Ryzen 5 5600 in 2025.

First off, getting the product was very easy and the price is very low and because of such we not expecting much. 93 bucks for a CPU is absurdly low in this age of computers, most of the time CPUs can go as high as 300, 400, 500, and god forbid 600. enough rambling lets get to the putting this CPU to use.

Running the benchmark test shows us that this CPU is capable of running pretty high end games for its price. its benchmark ended up very fast. it is faster then the Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G and costs less then a third of its price. overall we are impressed with this CPU.

This CPU has 6 cores and 12 threads and a bunch of other stuff that you can read by clicking here or here to buy the product. click the image to also see the benchmark.

Note: this is a classroom project

my sources:

“AMD RyzenTM 5 5600 Drivers.” AMD, 23 Apr. 2024, www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/drivers.html/processors/ryzen/ryzen-5000-series/amd-ryzen-5-5600.html. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.