Seagate's Desktop HDD 5TB, which is also known as the ST5000DX000, is the first hard drive with a storage capacity of 5TB to hit the market. At the time of writing, this drive is not yet being sold separately, but it is available as part of a NAS from subsidiary LaCie. We removed the drive from the LaCie 5big NAS and ran our standard test suite on the disk.

It took long enough, but a new milestone in hard drive capacity has finally been reached. Back in May 2012, we tested the first 4TB drive...