The BarraCuda SSD is a 2.5” x 7mm SATA SSD. It comes in a range of capacities from 250GB to 2TB. As stated, the main selling point of the new SSD is a replacement for PC and laptops HDDs. The drive is quoted at speeds of up to 560MB/s read, 540MB/s write and random read and write of 90K IOPS. The drive comes good endurance numbers as well including up to 1,067TB of total bytes written, and a mean time between failures of 1.8 million hours. With the BarraCuda SSD, Seagate is offering a consumer SSD backed by the company’s two plus decades of experience in storage products.