THE ENTERPRISE CAPACITY 3.5 V4 6TB SATA III

Most of our HDD samples arrived in bulk form and that was also the case for the Enterprise Capacity 3.5 V4 6TB SATA III (ST6000NM0024) model.

Although Seagate managed to squeeze an extra platter the top of the V4 model is almost identical to that of the V3 model (needless to say that both the form factor and size remain the same).

Once again at the top of the drive we see a large sticker on which Seagate has placed its product number, serial number, electrical requirements, warning/certification logos, connectivity, country of manufacture, installed firmware version and the coded factory roll out date (2014-03-25 in this case).

The most noticeable difference between the V3 and V4 models is the design of the rear since this is pretty much the first time we see the PCB to be on the same exact height as the rest of the enclosure (understandable however since Seagate had to find room for both the extra platter and hardware).

At the rear we see the usual SATA power and data connectors alongside 4 pins probably used for FW updates.

For this review we used one Enterprise Capacity 3.5 V4 6TB SATA III drive for single mode tests and 2/3 for RAID0 tests in order to get a complete picture for more demanding and enterprise users.