Seagate BarraCuda 2.5-inch HDD Spec and Price in the United States
The 2.5-inch BarraCuda is Seagate's laptop and SFF hard drive: 5400rpm, a 128MB cache, and 7mm height that fits notebook bays and portable enclosures, per the Seagate data sheet. Sequential throughput is 110-140 MB/s depending on capacity — the honest ceiling of 2.5-inch mechanics, well under the SATA III bus limit. It carries a two-year warranty and is the bulk-capacity option for older laptops and console storage expansion.
Prices exclude sales tax.
The last tracked price for the 1TB Seagate BarraCuda 2.5-inch HDD in the United States was $59.00 at Amazon.com, captured 2026-10-12. Across 2 tracked merchants and 2277 days of recorded prices, the 90-day median for the 1TB Seagate BarraCuda 2.5-inch HDD is $79.99 and the lowest recorded price is $15.89. This site began capturing prices on July 30, 2026; for Amazon listings, prices dated earlier come from Keepa's price history.
Captured periodically and may have changed.
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Each point is one day's recorded price, not a list price. Points dated before July 30, 2026, when this site began capturing prices, come from Keepa's Amazon price history. How we track prices
Specifications
- Capacity
- 1TB
- Interface
- SATA
- Sequential read
- 140 MB/s
- Sequential write
- 140 MB/s
- Rotation speed
- 5400 RPM
- Form factor
- 2.5-inch
- Cache
- 128 MB
- Warranty
- 2 years
Capacities
| Configuration | Part number | Current best price |
|---|---|---|
| 1TB | ST1000LM048 | $59.00 Price too old to confirm |
| 2TB | ST2000LM015 | $94.99 Price too old to confirm |
| 4TB | ST4000LM024 | $89.99 Price too old to confirm |
What owners and reviewers say
Summarised from 1 source(s), reviewed September 13, 2026. A source is counted only where it names this model exactly. How we track prices
Commonly praised
- At launch it was the highest-capacity desktop hard drive available, with a large cache.
- Led the field in the real-world media-centre trace and posted the top random large-block write result.
Commonly criticised
- Fell behind hybrid drives in the read-heavy gaming trace, and read speeds were only average.
Sources behind this summary
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Every spec above was pulled from one of these — a field a source didn't state was left off rather than estimated.