detailedReviews: detailedReviews 1: content: I've been avoiding Seagate HDD products since the late 90s-early '00s because the QC on them was so bad they'd fail just sitting in a room with a running computer. One good experience with an internal Firecuda SD drive made me think that perhaps something had changed, so I got four of these IronWolf drives to us in my WD PR4100 in RAID 10 as a media drive.
These were the least used drives in my system, with the majority of their use being in short write operations for media files and read operations for streaming music. The most intensely they are ever used is during a full backup every Sunday. Yet sure enough, drive 3 and then 2 go within 24 hours of each other, wrecking the second mirror in my RAID array with drive 0 in the primary mirror signaling failure minutes after that. Fortunately I back this NAS up to the MyCloud Mirror I once thought to replace with it or my stuff would be hosed.
I'm not going to bother trying to set up a new array because the cause of the issue was detected drive faults, not actual RAID software config faults. This is just too typical of what Seagate HDD always were, and since I already happen to have two Western Digital Red Plus 8TB drives brand new just sitting nearby, I'm going to return these Seagates, get two more of the WDs, and profit from WDs legendary reliability and speed. Hell, the WD drives whose content I moved to this NAS are from 2013 and they're still going strong. As for the performance of these Seagates otherwise? Sure, they're about as fast as anything else while they work. But they do everything fast - including die. So I can't recommend. I just wonder how Seagate stays in business with lack of durability in their products like this.
marketplace: google
source: google
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starRating: 1
title: Seagate drives failed within 24 hours
detailedReviews 2: content: Bought 3 of these in 2023. 11 Months with no troubles then one failed SMART tests and developed bad sectors. Transferred the data to the second drive so I could return this under warranty - as the drive filled up, it uncovered bad sectors on that drive too... which then failed SMART after that. Returned the first drive and was issued a credit, used the credit to purchase an Ironwolf 12TB disk... Drive was dead on arrival, wouldn't spin up and wouldn't detect. Tried the drive in every socket of the NAS, made no difference so that's heading back now as well. I've noticed all of the drives, including the DOA drive that just arrived were made in 2023? Maybe a bad year? Either way, three strikes and it's no more for me - far too much hassle. Service from PB Tech has been good, easy enough to return under Warranty, hoping I just got a bad batch.
marketplace: google
source: google
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starRating: 1
title: Two drives failed, DOA replacement
detailedReviews 3: content: These drives are very noisy, and good luck using them in a Synology NAS. It's hit and miss on these in terms of using in a NAS. The box they come in, doesn't show any difference in a bulk of them, (we purchased 8). The errors only show after they're in the NAS and you attempt to create a storage array. 3 out of the 8 would not work at all, and 2 of them make a lot of noise. We're returning all 8 and replacing with Synology brand or WD Red Label. Buyer beware...
marketplace: google
source: google
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starRating: 2
title: Noisy drives, 3 out of 8 failed
detailedReviews 4: content: Bought 2 drives from seller New Egg through Walmart. Arrived packaged on the flimsy side. One of them made HORRIBLE sounds like an old drive about to give up the ghost. It would spin up but wouldn't show up. Tried it on 4 different systems. The other drive worked but was already partitioned- so it was already used :(
Not gonna buy from them ever again!
marketplace: google
source: google
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starRating: 1
title: Flimsy packaging, one drive DOA
detailedReviews 5: content: First of all I must say that the one star rating applies to the HD and NOT to NewEgg.com. All to the contrary, NewEgg deserves five stars for their quick, no hassle, replacement service. Now, about the drive: 1. It failed less than a month after purchase. 2. I used it as a secondary drive and thus not often. 3. It had less than 43 Gb’s of software and data when it failed and while I was using an application on it. 4. The failure was sudden and catastrophic. The computer froze and would not even respond to a cold booth by switch. I had to physically cut power by holding the power switch for three seconds. After re powering the PC it would not boot, not even to a BIOS post. I had to physically remove the drive to be able to reboot but Win 10/64 had sustained some damage and had to go into recuperation mode. 5. Most of the lost data were research type info that, luckily, I had listed elsewhere (In an application I wrote for this purpose) but it still took me a good two weeks to rebuild most of it but not all. So, in conclusion, I have absolutely no confidence in the Seagate Ironwolf 6TB hard drive. I now use it strictly for storage but as an external drive powered off until I need it and the off again. Not recommended for a drive that price.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 1
title: Drive failed catastrophically, data loss
detailedReviews 6: content: I bought this hoping that it would be a good way to go for an 8TB drive. However, after reading or writing to/from it for over 30 minutes, it gets so hot and the performance drops dramatically. For the first 10 - 15 minutes, it will write small files around 150 MB/s, which I find very impressive. After getting very warm, it slows down to about 10 MB/s. I've tested this more than once, and the drive has plenty of circulation. In fact it wasn't even in a case, but on a mount outside of a case, in a room at about 73 degrees and a ceiling fan that moves air pretty well around the entire room. The mount allows air to move completely around the drive, and it has rubber on it to eliminate any external vibration. On top of that, this drive has a little, not a lot, of vibration. Maybe that's what leads to it getting hot. The vibration itself though isn't causing the slow performance, because if it did, the drive wouldn't perform well when it's first powered on. This isn't a buffering issue either, because when you write 400 GB of files, the beneficial effect of buffering is gone after about the first minute. This is supposed to be a 24/7 drive with an incredible amount of write cycles per year, according to Seagate's spec sheet. Maybe, but not with the one I got. I would be afraid to put it in an enclosure because I don't think fans blowing air through the drive bays would be enough for the one I got, and it would heat up the enclosure too much. I wouldn't want a drive above or below it. The way it performs, it's about useless, and it's the worst drive I've ever bought. I've never had a drive be this bad when new.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 1
title: Drive overheats and performance drops
detailedReviews 7: content: I bought 3 of these after my Drobo passed away and moved to Synology. I'm only giving thoughts on the sound. These things won't stop making noise. It's absurd; comical if it didn't end up sorta stressful.
With my Drobo, it sat in the TV agenda. The fan was obnoxious, but never heard the drives.
With the Synology, the drives are constantly making noise. It's non-stop. I thought it was just because such a big backup was happening. (due to having to back everything back up). Nope. they won't stop.
Went over it with Synology and it's definitely the drives and their inherent noise.
I don't know if I can move it to another room due to our home. I wish I knew of a hard drive that was quieter for my situation (Synology 1522+).
It's only been a month, and I deeply regret buying these.
marketplace: google
source: google
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starRating: 1
title: Drives are excessively noisy, non-stop noise
detailedReviews 8: content: I wanted to upgrade a two-bay Synology NAS system with larger drives and decided to try these. I removed one of the old drives and inserted one of the new ones with the goal of rebuilding the RAID1 array with the new drive, and after powering up the system, Diskstation Manager took several minutes to respond when entering both the login and password. Eventually all LEDs turned off and the Diskstation rebooted by itself. After going through that three times (which took about an hour due to the sluggish response time), I gave up and reconnected the original drive. I took the new drive and connected it to a PC, and the drive wasn't recognized by Windows Disk Management even though it was powered up and spinning. The second new drive had no issues. I hope that when the replacement drive arrives, the Ironwolves will give me dependable service -- every manufacturer has a dud occasionally. But I wish I had stuck with WD Red Pro drives for the upgrade.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 2
title: One drive not recognized, sluggish response
detailedReviews 9: content: Purchased this drive in September 2020. It has already failed. From the date if install the drive was emitting a constant "chirp" non stop. I did some research and found that this is a common issue and it is related to the drive being idle. However, the noise is concerning. it had gone for 6 months doing this chirping before finally failing. These drives should last more than 6 months. To be fair Seagate is replacing the drive but their RMA process, or just trying to get the RMA from their website, is a test in patience. Not user friendly at all. Luckily i had the presence of mind to do a backup prior to the failure but don't want to think about what i could have lost. I now have to send my drive back to them with all my data on it and im pretty uncomfortable doing so as i could not access the drive to erase it and im now sending my private information back to a hard drive company without the ability to erase. Bottom line, i will not be purchasing another Seagate unit.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 2
title: Drive failed after 6 months, RMA difficult
detailedReviews 10: content: After being a victim of the WD Red SMR scandal, I swore off WD and bought my first Seagate IronWolf for my Synology DS418. I bought it a year ago and had it as a hot spare in a btrfs/SHR1 config. Needing more space, I removed the smallest drive to prompt a SHR rebuild using the IronWolf 6TB hot spare. 5 minutes into the rebuild, the NAS notifies me of a catastrophic drive failure on the IronWolf. Weekly quick SMART, monthly full SMART, and IronWolf Health Management checks all failed to identify the drive as defective or even problematic. The first time in a year of owning it I try to use it for storage, it goes from "healthy" to completely failed. Thankfully, Seagate support is making me pay shipping to RMA a year-long sleeper DOA drive. Maybe Toshiba is interested in a customer.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 1
title: Drive failed during rebuild, support issues
detailedReviews 11: content: I had purchased two sets of two drives in anticipation of installing them in a Synology NAS. Prime Day had a sale for a 918+ so I jumped on it. The set of drives that I purchased in March passed all of the Synology tests and seem to work fine. The drives that I purchased in June are both posting error code 102 when you run the Ironwolf Health Management test which means excessive shock was detected. I currently have 3 NAS devices exclusively with Seagate drives in them and I've been handling drives for about 30 years, so I'm absolutely sure that I didn't mishandle the drives. There was no additional error information so I don't know what else I can do. I've run extended SMART tests on all drives and they seem fine. I'm not sure what to do to determine if this is a real issue, but if there was damage I'm positive it happened prior to me receiving the drives which is disappointing. The troubling part is that both drives from my second order have the same error code which seems too coincidental. I feel like I'm going to be stuck with 2 broken drives soon. Please advise.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 2
title: Excessive shock detected, potential damage
detailedReviews 12: content: I bought a brand new 18TB NAS drive for my NAS. The first hard drive turned up dead on arrival, Scan were quick to replace it, which was great!
But I'm not sure how I feel about them having to check the drive themselves before contacting you about any kind of replacement or refund. Amazon is no questions asked in this regard, but I guess at least with Scan you can trust what you get is a genuine component, even if it is faulty. But what would happen if it didn't work for me but worked for them?
But all in all, Scan have been good for me as a customer.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 3
title: First drive DOA, packaging concerns
detailedReviews 13: content: Good value with the sale direct from Seagate. 6 TB is a decent size for a home NAS and lacks that software that puts the disk in error state after a certain time frame that a competitor has implemented. Only time will tell the durability of these drives. My last set lasted for 8 years.
marketplace: google
source: google
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starRating: 4
title: Good value, but durability unknown
detailedReviews 14: content: I bought four of these drives to replace 4TB Ironwolf units that populate a Synology 4-bay NAS. They seem faster than what I took out, but they are FAR louder, especially when spinning up, and there are times when the NAS is syncing them where the noise level approaches unbearable. If you have them in a well-insulated chassis, or better yet in another room, then they are a great value. Otherwise, I would probably consider a different brand.
marketplace: google
source: google
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starRating: 3
title: FAR louder than previous drives, unbearable noise
detailedReviews 15: content: I bought 9 of these in 2017 for my SOHO Synology NAS. My wife and I have a small consulting business. We use the NAS for backing up the computers, intranet, email, and other typical server uses including a Plex server. Of the nine drives I have had only one failure. It occurred almost 3 years in, and was covered by Seagate warranty. Because the NAS is set up with two drive failure tolerant Synology Hybrid RAID we did not lose any data. Seagate had a warranty replacement drive back to me in 4 working days. Overall I've been very happy with these. They work well, and they're reliable enough for home use without the cost associated with an enterprise-class drive.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 5
title: One failure in nine, replaced quickly
detailedReviews 16: content: Got 5 of these. 4 in an IcyDock MB561U3S-4SB R1 (and later an IcyDock MB174U3S-4SB), plus one for a spare. Initially, all good. A month in and things started getting weird. 1) Suddenly the sequential write speed on two of the drives went from 100MBs to 12MBs. Read speed stayed at 140MBs. For some reason the drives were reading at USB 3.0 but writing at USB 1.0 speeds. Moved them to a different USB enclosure, same problem. Attached them directly to a SATA controller, same problem. In all cases, if I powered down and back up, sometimes they wrote at high speed, sometimes back to low speed. Which write speed you get seems almost random. Finally found that when they had downgraded to low write speed, the ATA Firmware Word 82, bit 5 = VOLATILE WRITE CACHE SUPPORTED was OFF. For the drives running at high speed it was ON. I have no idea why this would cause a change in the sequential write speed. (Note - This is about the drive firmware, NOT Windows Disk Caching. In all cases Windows was set for no caching, USB = Quick Removal). 2) Then (after a power up) one of the drives showed a RAW partition, where it was NTFS before. Moved it to different PC and started looking at data recovery tools. Before I had done anything except inspect the SMART and ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE data the partition suddenly came back to life. I have 5 new Western Digital Reds on the way and will move everything off the Seagates. I know, "hard drives fail", no matter what brand or model. But maybe I'll have better luck with the WDs.
marketplace: google
source: google
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starRating: 2
title: Write speed drops, partition corruption
detailedReviews 17: content: These drives are noisy. We have an open office environment and they can be heard clunking along virtually everywhere in the office. These may be fine if you have your server is in an enclosed server room, but we do not have that luxury. We have the same model NAS running drives from two other manufacturers, and both of them are far quieter than the IronWolf drives. Ordering and shipping from B&H was great.
marketplace: google
source: google
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starRating: 2
title: Drives are noisy in open office
detailedReviews 18: content: Updated 4/2/21Received new RMA replacement. DOA. Drive will not even power on. Makes startup noise and dies, process repeats forever. SEAGATE HAS NO QUALITY control at this time, AVOID, NOT recommended.Original review:Out of the box drive would not complete writing, it would constantly seek and retry on EVERy write, therefore writing at few kB/s, you could hear the heads constantly moving back and fort, yet SMART was not so smart and showed no issues. Reads surprisingly were fine. How does this pass QE? I tell you how, there is absolutely no QE probably done on those drives in order to save money. Most likely they pick one in thousand and test that, gambling on low failure rate on others. Disappointing form Seagate.
marketplace: google
source: google
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starRating: 1
title: DOA replacement, no quality control
detailedReviews 19: content: NewEgg packaging SUCKS! My Drives arrived in a large box, the drives were individually packed in a plastic bubble sleeve that was not securely closed and the drives were bouncing around loose in the box with ZERO protection! The sleeves were simply laying in the box. The drives were obviously purchased in bulk but were not packaged properly. I have one that reported UNC error immediately, and all are being tested/scrubbed by my NAS to insure that they were not damaged in shipping. I purchased additional drives from another source that were packaged properly. This problem has caused me enough concern to consider carefully what I purchase from NewEgg in the future.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 5
title: NewEgg packaging poor, drives damaged
detailedReviews 20: content: I had this unit for less than one year with light use when it failed. Seagate did replace under warranty but I had to pay for shipping to Seagate and wait. Basically a 3 week turnaround. Seagate we solid drives in the day. Not anymore.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 2
title: Drive failed under warranty, slow RMA
detailedReviews 21: content: The seller's packaging is so thin and soft. Received a damaged harddisk but the seller claimed that I'm the one dropping it and rejected my return request. Currently complaining to KPDN for this case. Don't buy from this seller, I'm so regret buying from them causing me to lose money only.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 1
title: Damaged drive, seller rejected return
detailedReviews 22: content: I really enjoyed this book. It captures the essential challenge people face as they try to make sense of their lives and grow to adulthood.
marketplace: simplyshopping
source: simplyshopping.in
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/simplyshopping.in
starRating: 5
title: Enjoyed this book, captures life's challenges
detailedReviews 23: content: In the past I had always used the Western Digital RED drives, and when I was looking to upgrade my storage in my NAS all these years later I thought I was going to go the same route. Turns out in the last few years the game changed and WD as a company did some really shady things trying to disguise and repackage drives that weren’t as advertised. Looks like these days the Seagate Ironwolfs are the top dog. My one concern when researching these drives were the noise levels. Some reports said that they were pretty noisy. I am happy to report that these 12TB drives are not noisy at all. After doing some research and looking at spec sheets it depends on the actual size drive you get. The Db levels of the 10TB DRIVES FOR EXAMPLE are MUCH louder than these 12TB drives (for some reason). Time will tell how these hold up, but so far am extremely happy for these 12TB Ironwolf drives.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 5
title: Seagate Ironwolfs are top dog now
detailedReviews 24: content: Fast and quiet!
I bought the four pack of the IronWolf 12TB NAS drives and very happy with the performance and sound levels.
Running in a 4-bay Synology enclosure, the drives are barely noticeable regarding noise. I work in the same room and very happy I cannot hear the drive's rotation or head noise.
Fast and reliable. I've had these running now for about 6 months and no issues. Three of them are in raid-5, and the fourth is being used as a hot spare.
I seriously reviewed the competitor drives and decided on these due to cost versus performance vs reliability. Cannot be happier. Perfect for the small NAS that I have. Spin up time is also very fast.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 5
title: Fast and quiet NAS drives, no issues
detailedReviews 25: content: Best Feature:NAS grade hardware (24/7 running)
Value For Money:Affordable per Gig VS others.
Performance:After a month of constant load and testing it seems fine.
I have a same spec/model drive to compare with which I got afew years ago to compare with. So far they have similar specs and speeds to my older drive.
For verification, the scanned QR passed but did not match with the serial number printed on the sticker and double checked with software and still did not match. Ran the SN and it could not be verified. Messaged seller and was informed its a “region problem” but even when trying different seagate sites and using VPNs to set the region it still failed. Seller was not very helpful in helping me with the verification, said technician was not available and continued saying its a region problem.
Decided to do multiple short and long term testing even filling the disk pass 50% and had no errors in the past month so decided to keep it since no problems physically and in performance as it worked similar to my other drives. Would have been better to have the peace of mind that it can be verified with Seagate.
So far everything is working out OK and no problems to report. Tenperatures and drive speeds hmare consistent with my other drives. May purchase another soon at a higher capacity.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 4
title: QR code verification failed, seller unhelpful
detailedReviews 26: content: ...when they work. I've always read that a good 5% of drives come off the production lines broken; my first purchase of one of these drives proved that. Packed and shipped perfectly, but the drive heads seemed "stuck" and the drive didn't spin up at all. PB accepted a RMA request and replaced the drive within 20 minutes of me lodging the claim, and sent me a new one within a few days.
Great service, and the replacement drive runs fantastic. I wasn't expecting to get sustained read\write speeds of 250megs a second, three times faster than the old 1TB platter drives in my system. However because this is a NAS drive it is quite noisy. Nothing alarming, but it is probably designed to be kept in a separate room than your TV or bedroom. Might be the consequence of having so many platters and read heads stuffed in there - a lot of reviews mention the same thing.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 5
title: Replacement drive runs fantastic, but noisy
detailedReviews 27: content: It's probably one of the best options you'll find for reliability (so far) and price per terabyte if you catch it on sale.
It's a little clickety out of the box - it's not the quietest drive I've ever had but it only seems to do it when you're starting a copy job or it's powering up after not being used.
Transfer speeds are good. It's 7200 as opposed to 5400.
It's CMR and not SMR which is nice. Shouldn't be so hard to figure it out from readding the description. If I didn't know it was CMR going into the purchasing process I probably would've skipped buying it but that's not a reflection of the drive or the manufacturer, it's the retailer.
Price is ok for what you get. It's no bargain, but it's ok.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 5
title: Good transfer speeds, not the quietest
detailedReviews 28: content: This replaced a 9yr old dead IronWolf 3Tb drive (ST3000VN000) in my QNAP NAS, really happy with the performance... Read is doubled and latency has improved exponentially (like 10/20 fold).
The no unexpected down side (as per other reviews) is that it is noisier. I run the NAS inside a cupboard but, particularly during RAID Scrubbing the drive sound is audible in the next room. Sound dampening enclosure now on the plan.
I will be buying 3 more to expand capacity and up performance on the whole array.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 4
title: Noisier than expected, but faster performance
detailedReviews 29: content: I’ve consistently chosen Seagate IronWolf drives because they offer the best price-to-performance ratio on the market. This 8TB model is no exception—fast, quiet, and built specifically for NAS environments.
I’m using it in a personal storage server, and it’s been rock-solid so far. Speeds are excellent, and the drive runs cool even under load. For anyone building a NAS or expanding their home server, this drive delivers reliability and value you can count on.
marketplace: google
source: google
sourceLogo: https://i.flash.tech/a/rs:fill:300:400:0/g:sm/plain/s3://flash-creatives/images/merchants/google
starRating: 5
title: Best price-to-performance ratio, rock-solid
detailedReviews 30: content: The price of this drive has dropped $100 over the past 3 years. Tested in a Seagate STBP8000100 NAS box (4 bay) – fast copy times – depending on the file size being copied, up to 6-7MB/s over the network (limited by 10G router, NICs, etc) For this to be fully compatible and supported in a RAID NAS environment, you probably want to buy more than one to make sure that the sector size, disk size, cache size are all the same. If you are using RAID this is especially helpful because if the disks don’t have the same cache sizes and sector sizes the software or hardware raid controllers may have trouble syncing data. Unfortunately, the MTBF of two or more of the same model of drive is usually about the same, so it may be tempting to get drives of different brands or wear levels so that their MTBF is different (so they fail at different times and you have time to replace one). But if you do mismatch models, make sure they have all the same specs (sector size, disk size, cache size). To test out the drive in a system that is faster than a NAS box, I decided to throw this in my personal desktop to get some rough benchmarks over SATA. Zero’ing the drive out over SATA on my desktop I was seeing consistent speeds of 230MB/s Using a Windows software mirror, the drives sync’d at about 150MB/s… that is fast, but if you are syncing even just a 4TB volume, you are still looking at roughly 7 and a half hours of sync time. Windows seems to decide to re-sync the mirrored volume at random times- even during a reboot initiated by the start menu (seemingly safe shutdown). This may have to do with the different disk caches flushing? I can’t recommend using a Windows software mirror. This drive is obviously meant for hardware RAID, and NAS box configurations that use RAID. Copied about a terabyte of files from a 4TB WD Black to this in preparation to setup a mirror. The copy happened at ~115 MB/s and when looking at Windows 10 Task Manager, the WD Black drive was at about 80% utilization (just doing reads) while the IronWolf was at about 40-70% utilization (writing). The Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB Desktop Drive is a similar price, runs at 7200rpm and has a 5 year limited warranty. That drive may better suit anyone who is not running a NAS box. IronWolf Pro could be a good solution for people running larger NAS boxes Desktop rig: Asus sabertooth z390, Intel i9-9990k, 32GB RAM
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starRating: 5
title: Fast copy times, consider RAID compatibility
detailedReviews 31: content: Overall does what it needs to do. I have been running this Drive since I opened it June 8th 2023, today is July 6th, so almost a full month. Its been on running since the day I got it. Drive has about 584.6gb of space left after I moved over 2 4tb Drives to it. I have not had any issues, running an EXT4 filesystem on it, mostly just for Plex, Music and Media/Editing. All my other drives are Western Digital, but iRonWolf has definitely wanting me to give them another try in the future. I got it because it was Cost to TB made more sense. Hopefully the Length and quality of the drive holds up. I back up regularly but would like to clean out some of my older drives, to add new content and media to my library. Works quick enough FOR ME for editing and managing files. My Original Transfer from my 4tb drives did take quite a while not entirely sure of the speeds, but just set it and forget it till I hear the Door Bell on it being done. I would definitely consider getting another one in the future, and would recommend. Price per TB but I tend to stick to NAS Drives as my computer running almost all day everyday.
One thing I believe WD does better is the Packaging of their drives. WD Packaging seems way better than Seagate. I keep the boxes for storage as I like to keep them labeled and organized if I need to find something later in Life. Happy Data Hoarding
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starRating: 5
title: Works well, WD packaging better
detailedReviews 32: content: I have a six bay NAS that required some replacement disks. I tried ordering them from Amazon but for some strange reason they only allowed a maximin purchase of four, so I searched and found 'Scan'. Ordered two disks. Both packages (Amazon and Scan) arrive on the same day. The packaging from 'Scan' was far better than that of Amazon. Given the relative nature of a Hard Disk it is important that the packaging around the disk be adequate to protect the disk.
The disk itself, the outgoing disks were WD red. They lasted about six years in the NAS so they owe me nothing. Time will tell how long the Seagate disks will last, time will tell. However, the Seagate disks do appear to be a little faster than the WD red.
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starRating: 5
title: Scan packaging better than Amazon's
detailedReviews 33: content: Quality quality quality! Does it get any better than this fellas? Don’t think I forgot about you ladies you know what’s up as well! The second I laid my hands on these bad boys I just knew that I was complete, finally. All these years, wondering when the depression was going to go away. It was the moment I open the package. just plain nasty happiness now. Best Buy’s got the steez that I needz!
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starRating: 5
title: Quality quality quality! Complete happiness
detailedReviews 34: content: I had to return first one because it was very loud and I worried it will fail eventually. It kept spinning none stop. I went to the store and got the replacement. This second one was working quite and good. I have used Western Digital and Seagate HDD. I noticed Seagate has better quality and lower failure rate. This Ironwolf HDD is fast and good. Istallation is easy and simple
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starRating: 5
title: Second drive quiet and good, better than WD
detailedReviews 35: content: There’s nothing wrong with this drive model. Perfectly adequate for the job in hand versus the price paid.
They are not the most reliable, but they are cheap. The 4TB model is lightweight and slim versus the 6 year-old 2TB model I’m replacing.
Being a 5400RPM drive, it’s relatively quiet in operation versus a 7200RPM drive. Data transfer speed varies from 200MB/s and gets slower as more data is written. You don’t buy this drive to break speed records.
I have 4 of them in a NAS and they will stay in there for 3-5 years before I replace them again.
If you want ultra reliability, buy Ultrastar instead.
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starRating: 3
title: Adequate for the job, not ultra reliable
detailedReviews 36: content: Other: Overall, I am very impressed with this drive. It doesn’t sacrifice any performance (within the constraints of what platter based drives can achieve) despite its huge space. Overlapping work data onto this drive from other SSDs and HDDs took about 7 hours to write 5+ TB over part of a day. Of course I want to imply that if one intends to use all 14+ TB of this drive, start considering backups and mirrors of one’s data as this is getting to data center levels of capacity and 16 TB is a lot of space. My particular drive arrived in a small box with Jell-O plastic cushioners and barebones, yet was in good shape. SMART and other tests showed all sectors were good. We’ll see about how this drive holds up long term, as platter drives naturally have reputations for being sporadic on their lifespan and behavior from time to time. Operating temperature in a mounting cage in a Caselabs SMA-8 Rev. A with passive cooling / venting was about 35 C continuously, reaching about 41 C while writing. This variance is only due to my room fluctuating in temperature, but the drive’s range specifies from 5-70 C operating so clearly it can handle far worse. Doing large bursts of copying to this drive presented no issue, and I was getting advertised speeds at 33% use of the drive compared to my own diagnostics. Windows and this drive handled a few 600 GB to 2+TB copies like a champ, no issues. In terms of pricing, one may think it easier to buy two 8TB drives, but the cost for this singular drive is not too much higher and it’s nice that the pricing is still in the curve of efficiency. So if you have a ton of work, project data, RAW files, video, B-Roll, etc., and don’t mind this cavernous volume not being an SSD, what is presented here can’t be beat, well until probably next year when Seagate and others push 18+ TB to market.
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starRating: 5
title: Impressed with performance and space
detailedReviews 37: content: Ordered Friday 04/03/22 at 10:04am, arrived by Royal Mail on Saturday 05/02/22 before 12pm – thank you CCL & Royal Mail. Paid a little extra over a global online retailer, being put off them for computer components as I’ve had a retail boxed HDD from them in the past which had some shoddy outer packaging. Also their recent reviews for HDDs showed it’s a bit of a lottery as to how they package their HDDs for shipping. Some customers receiving very poorly packaged drives, dented and broken. My Seagate Iron Wolf 4TB arrived in it’s sealed anti-static bag, inside a thick tubular bubble rap envelope, inside a double thick, snug fitting cardboard box with a grey courier pouch bound tight outer layer. Installed and working perfectly as anticipated. A further 4 weeks later and drive working just fine. I had thought this would be replacing a 4 year old 3TB Western Digital WD30EZRZ (CMR) as my main backup drive in my gaming PC as I was getting errors on that while doing drive image backups. Long story short, the WD drive subsequently proved not to be the culprit (memory/mobo) so I did not really need this new drive. It's quick and quiet enough while still using CMR (not that problematical shingle / SMR) recording method along with other tech alluding to reliability. It has a reasonable 3 year warranty and additional rescue / data recovery service - wouldn't expect to use it but it might show Seagate has some faith in their product. Happy so far.
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starRating: 5
title: Quick delivery, good packaging, works perfectly
detailedReviews 38: content: ~ Using the drive as NAS, as a simple network share connected though my router worked very well for file transfers, streaming music and video. Although this wasn't a dedicated NAS environment, it served its purpose for testing NAS file transfer, performance and throughput. Clearly this method is not as well optimized for attached storage as a managed NAS box would be, which typically run with a dedicated processor, ram and OS. A real world speed test where I transferred an 80.8 GB folder of various files from my NAS test bed to a platter drive on my PC took approximately 37 minutes. Network and NAS configuration will be the greatest contribution to file transfer speeds, aside from file types, and file size. Streaming from my test NAS, music and video played smoothly, and files were ready to go, without any waiting. Unfortunately I only had one drive to test, so I cannot attest to RAID functionality. I did however perform a full drive NTFS format, which took approximately 14 hours to complete. That may give you an estimate of how long a pair or more would take to format and synchronize in dedicated NAS box. I tested this drive in further ways that I would expect some users to see a large format drive and just ignore its designated purpose. I used this in Windows 10 as a storage drive and as a gaming drive, and as a Linux boot drive. As a storage drive in Windows 10, it performed as expected, file retrieval was as fast as you would expect any 7200RPM platter drive to be. It ran quiet, my tower (Fractal R4 w/soundproofing) is about an arm length away on my desk, and it wasn't any louder than the existing drives or 140mm fans running in silent mode. The only caveat here was Win10 would occasionally spin the drive up for no apparent reason while the system was idle, the whirling sound of the spinning up was pronounced, but not annoying. As a gaming drive it worked well with many titles, obviously games wont load as quickly compared to using a SSD, but if you insist on using this drive for games, it should work just fine. I probably wouldn’t recommend using this for gaming with titles that are open world with a lot of disk caching of textures, PUBG for example is more tuned to using a SSD than a platter. Next up I installed Kubuntu OS (a flavor of Ubuntu Linux). Boot time was decent at around 30 seconds from leaving GRUB to fully loading into the Kubuntu desktop space. The ext4 file system had about the same amount of formatted space (I forgot the exact number, but I believe it was about the same as NTFS). Still, having a little less than 5½ TB of usable space on a single drive was nothing short of fantastic. The Linux environment was perfectly stable and quick throughout my testing, I had no slow down or problems at all utilizing this drive in a Linux environment. Crystal diskmark 5 benchmark test results: Win10 pro, i7 5820k, X99, 16GB DDR4. First test performed after initialization: Sequential Read : 239.304 MB/s Sequential Write : 231.320 MB/s Random Read 4K : 3.081 MB/s (752.2 IOPS) Random Write 4K : 3.231 MB/s (788.8 IOPS) (Q= 32, T=1) After 1 month use: Sequential Read : 241.368 MB/s Sequential Write : 231.240 MB/s Random Read 4K : 2.997 MB/s (731.7 IOPS) Random Write 4K : 3.011 MB/s (735.1 IOPS) (Q= 32, T=1) This has been an excellent drive throughout my testing, and would easily recommend to anyone looking for a NAS drive in this capacity. Although I tested this drive in other functionalities, I would recommend using this drive primarily for NAS. This drive performed quickly, stable and was responsive to file transfer demands and streaming across my network. Designed for always on 24/7 operation, this drive should suit your needs for reliable file storage and transfer in a demanding home office or small office environment.
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starRating: 5
title: Excellent drive for NAS, stable and quick
detailedReviews 39: content: Item Review: Overall Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Pros: • Good quality materials or performance • Reasonably priced for what it offers • Easy to use or set up • Reliable functionality over time Cons: • Packaging could be improved • May not meet expectations for advanced users • Limited features compared to premium alternatives Summary: This item generally delivers on its promises. It performs well in everyday use and offers solid value for the price. While there may be minor drawbacks, it’s a worthwhile purchase for most users.
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starRating: 5
title: Good quality, reasonably priced, reliable
detailedReviews 40: content: It was that for my tech refresh. My storage systems (2 synology ds2015xs with a total of 16x4TB disks) are always the to be refreshed and so I started hunting for a seller especially since I was looking to upgrade to 16x8TB disks. My attempts at looking for a reputable seller o Amazon was to say the least not encouraging as I had spent months trying to figure out where to get the disks (I buy most of my tech from Amazon). The very poor reviews I had read from various buyers on Amazon did not give the confidence that I was going to be happy with my purchase either. So I decided to give the independent retailers a try...I choose CCL and another retailer and split the quantity into 2 batches... 9 (8 + 1 spare) to CCL and 9 (8 + 1 spare) to the other retailer.
The disks arrived on time as promised and were properly secured and packaged and for the first time ever, I checked what the warranty status was on the disks. (This was one of the major issues reported by buyers on Amazon) I was over the moon when every single disk I bought from CCL still had the 3 year warranty on it!!!
And when it came to building the array (raid 5, took about a day and a half checking for consistencies), not a single error was reported on completion!!!
To say that I was extremely pleased is an understatement. The whole process from purchase to utilisation was ...as they say in mortal kombat..a "FLAWLESS VICTORY" for me.
I would have given more than 5 stars for this transaction but alas :) 5 is the maximum
I would definitely recommend CCL for purchasing tech equipment.
On a completely unrelated side note, I have been camping on their website waiting for an opportunity to grab an ASUS 3090 RTX GPU...we all know how that is going these days :)
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starRating: 5
title: Flawless victory, warranty intact
detailedReviews 41: content: I replaced the 5400 RPM WD RED drives in my Netgear 204 NAS with 4 of these drives. The increase in noise was immediately noticeable. The WD Red drives were nearly silent in operation, while these emit a lot of spindle noise. Seek noise, which was not noticeable with the WD Red drives is present, but the level is below that of the spindle whine. The increased power drain when reading/writing (8W on the spec sheet) causes the inner drives to climb above 48°C unless the NAS fan is set to its highest setting: "cool". To keep the inner drives at 44° C, the case fan now runs at 2750, occasionally increasing to 3250 RPM when one of the inner drives climbs above 44° C in heavy use. Formerly my WD RED drives ran about 37°C with a 1500 RPM fan speed. NAS performance is slightly improved, transferring large files at about 55 MB/s compared to 50 MB/s before. However it's definitely not worth it, considering the noise and heat. I DO NOT RECOMMEND these drives for a residential NAS. Far too hot and noisy. Loudest drives I have heard since the 1990s. I regret purchasing these drives, and may return them, even if I must pay a restocking fee. I should have stuck with WD RED drives, which have served me so well in the past. Don't make the same mistake I did.
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starRating: 3
title: Too hot and noisy for residential NAS
detailedReviews 42: content: Prior to receiving this drive, the largest I had were a 6TB Toshiba & a 6TB WD. At first the drive seemed a little on the louder end of the spectrum while writing to it. My brother happened to be over during the initial large file transfer and he said his 12TB WD Gold sounds very similar. I suppose this is a phenomenon experienced with high capacity helium filled drives? The noise isn't that intrusive, just louder than what I have come accustomed to. The drive is currently residing in the aforementioned Zyxel NAS326 on my living room entertainment center. I demand very quiet, if not silent operation, and it fits that bill just fine. If you have older external enclosures, docks or potentially even your router..you may issues with a drive of this capacity. I had an Anker/UCTech 6618SUS3 HDD dock, which is quite dated, and would not recognize the drive due to capacity. My initial plan was to use the dock to attach to my router to setup a NAS. I then went and purchased a Vantec NST-400MX-S3R dual bay external enclosure. This time the enclosure worked to recognize the drive for normal functionality, but I ran into issue with my Linksys EA7500 router; I've had that router since 04/16. The only way I could get it to function with this size drive was with an FTP server...which is way less than ideal. It could detect the drive, but stated there was an issue with formatting of the drive. My brother and I tried NTFS, GPT and even Linux's EXT format to no avail. Purchasing the Zyxel NAS326 and connecting to the EA7500 via ethernet was the final solution. I grabbed new HDD dock, the Nexstar TX NST-D328S3-BK for $20. Despite Vantec's site only stating compatibility with up 10TB drives, it works fine with this 14TB model. I anticipate the drive to last me quite some given how it has done thus far.
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starRating: 5
title: Louder than expected, but quiet enough
detailedReviews 43: content: I bought 10 of these 4/2017 and 4 more 1/2018 because they continue to be the least expensive NAS drives. Call me cheap, but I see no sense paying premium price when these are just as reliable as other brands. Some came bundled with the QNAP and others I bought to populate another NAS and to keep some spares on-hand for the eventual drive failure. I've purchased and personally installed/configured hundreds of drives for our datacenter and desktops over the past 20 years and have only had a handful of drives fail. Of these IronWolf drives I've had Zero failures (so far) and I beat the snot out of all my NAS with both virtualization and nightly backup storage, etc. I mean these puppies never get a moment of rest. Zero failure out of 14 drives so far. I'm unsure whether to believe most of the negative reviews for this drive. I mean, look at their brief, vague comments like "They worked great but died in 7 months". Come on, if you can't even describe better than that I can't trust your review. Either users are incompetent, or they're liars, or trying to "downvote" because they forgot to backup their data, maybe they install in an environment the drive was never intended, or they just give off a bad energy vibe which causes any electronic equipment to fail (believe me I have a few of those types in my office, they just walk by a computer and it blue screens like a mobile EMP). My two cents? As long as the price and reliability continues to be like this, Seagate gets my dollars. Also, don't believe the reviews that are obviously false (use your critical thinking skills to weed them out). I'm getting ready to purchase some 8TB versions of these IronWolf drives to replace drives in the RAID arrays on all my NAS devices and I'm confident they'll work. And hey, some tech does die an early death so you just replace and move on.
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starRating: 5
title: Zero failures out of 14 drives
detailedReviews 44: content: You will have to check the hardware that you connect this to very carefully in terms of compatibility. Most modern Hardware will accept 8TB drives without a problem, some manufacturers are posting info on these higher capacity drives on their websites with reference to their suitability. I was fortunate in that a couple of the devices I use, while not stated as being compatible anywhere, actually had no problem with the drive. My Mediasonic PRORAID doesn't at the moment support it although support is promised in a future firmware update. My Kingwin (yeah I know) external dual dock quite happily took the drive and didn't blink an eye returning read and writes of 220 and 210 MB/s over USB 3.0, the dock leaves the drive open to the environment and so any noise emanating from it could be quite clearly heard, not a squeak was heard. I used this to partition the drive into 4 equal partitions and then mounted it in my media server (i7 4700, gtx 970, 16GB, 32 TB in two mirrored external 4x4 arrays).and used it to backup my external tanks, there is a slight discrepancy in size (16TB v 14TB) but the free space on these drives allowed me to backup the data from 4x4TB to the 4x3.5 TB partitions. Set FreeFileSync running and checked in on it the following day. Backup completed faultlessly with the transfer speed being limited by the USB 3.0 connection between the server and the external tanks at 150 MB/s. Very satisfied, no hesitation in recommending this drive, while the cost outlay is large, it can only become less as time goes on... usually!
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starRating: 5
title: No hesitation recommending this drive
detailedReviews 45: content: I had been looking to upgrade the HDD's in my WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra for some time. I don't regret it once. They have been steady and reliable. After the initial issues of copying and backing up the old HDD to these drives, it has been a smooth ride. It took a week for the drives to stabilise and quiet down, but other than that. I have not had any issues, YET! Let's hope I don't have any for years to come.
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starRating: 5
title: Steady and reliable, smooth ride
detailedReviews 46: content: I purchased these drives to us in my NAS. They have CMR technology by default. Only way to go in a NAS. Using with an Asustor Lockerstor Gen2 they even have their own drive health app. Come with a 3 yr warranty. 5400rpm covers most users. Very quiet drives.
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starRating: 5
title: CMR technology, quiet drives, 3 yr warranty
detailedReviews 47: content: Ironwolf drives are my current go-to for NAS drives, and with good reason – they are CMR drives with solid all-round performance, with NCQ and anti-vibration that make them a bit better for NAS use.
My only real criticism is that they're a bit on the noisy, and after a month of use that hasn't quietened down like it did for my 8tb Ironwolf drives - so keep this in mind if you're putting these in a NAS that's somewhere audible like a home office. Fortunately mine is in an under-stairs cupboard so it's not really an issue.
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starRating: 5
title: Noisy, but good all-round performance
detailedReviews 48: content: Not sure if this was supposed to be a refurbished drive, but that's what I received.
It spins up and it is shown as "healthy" in the basic view, but the temperature and SMART data are not accessible from the Synology NAS. Identical other drivers work perfectly.
QR code verification didn't work.
Too risky to use.
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starRating: 1
title: Received refurbished drive, too risky to use
detailedReviews 49: content: A great drive for the cost. Approximately $35 per TB. The drive is a nice quiet one to sit next to while you have lots of data to copy to it. It takes approximately 1/2 day - a full day to copy it full. A 2 TB folder takes approximately 2-3 hours. Timing I guess depends on files, more than totals though as every time you copy a new file/folder it pre-makes the room for it’s storage. If you only had a few large files though, thus 500GB+ each they’ll copy much quicker than if you had say 2000 files in one copy task.
Once your files are on this drive too, I’ve noticed that when you access them they load ready for you very quick. After all it’s supposed to be a drive for NAS units, but works excellent on it’s own. You should have no trouble RAIDing if you like. I’ve always maintained that your data is best backed up as 3 backups - 2 Local - different drives and 1 offsite. If or when one of your drives comes to its knees, you at least know you’ve still got a workable backup to buy a replacement and re-copy your data safely. Hope this helps.
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starRating: 5
title: Nice quiet drive, fast access
detailedReviews 50: content: I've used Seagate drives for many years, and only one had an issue with bad sectors. I purchased two of these to be used as data drives in two SSD-based PCs. The drives are fast, quiet, and they have (hopefully) the IronWolf reliability on which many servers depend. Only slightly more expensive than their desktop counterparts, these drives are definitely worth it to me.
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starRating: 5
title: Fast, quiet, reliable for PC storage
detailedReviews 51: content: It's a game-changer! Its massive storage capacity, reliable performance, and built-in Rescue Data Recovery Services give me total peace of mind. Perfect for my NAS setup, it runs smoothly and quietly, handling heavy workloads like a champ. Highly recommended for anyone needing dependable, high-capacity storage!
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starRating: 5
title: Game-changer, peace of mind, highly recommended
detailedReviews 52: content: Fast, not too loud, and no bad sectors. Last drive I bought from other brand had bad sectors within 2 weeks of use and corrupted most of my media files. I was worried about that happening, but no problems with this Seagate drive. In my experience, every Seagate drive has worked as advertised and no quality problems. Also fits good in NAS but does not fit in my pc case when I wanted to see if it could. This drive works very well for my media server. My only issue is with the price, I think that paying over $200 is far too much, so I would wait for a sale.
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starRating: 5
title: Fast, not too loud, no bad sectors
detailedReviews 53: content: I have spent the past few months putting this drive through the paces compared to it's direct competitors. There have been reports of these drives failing in 12 months or less and I wanted to stress test this NAS HD as much as possible to see how common these failures may be. I'm pleased to report that after a few months of abuse, the drive is working flawlessly. If you have this drive (or drives) in an enclosure, ensure there is adequate cooling as this did tend to run a little warm when being pushed hard. No surprise there though. Overall this a decently fast NAS for a 5900rpm drive however, vs some of it's competitors, it's well behind the 7200rpm spinners. It performed flawlessly in all testing and was 100% reliable with zero bad sectors on thousands of hours of use. Reliability is a top priority on a NAS drive used 24/7. That said, the reported number of drives failing in a short period of time is cause for pause. All I can report affirmatively is that the one drive I have has been perfect. For the price is it worth the gamble? Only you can make that call. Measured results: - CrystalDiskMark 4K: 0.528 (Read) 1.347 (Write) Seq: 186.3 (Read) 185.8 (Write) - NAS transfer speeds on a network capable of running close to 115MB/s wide open on faster drives: Read: 102 MB/s Write: 97 MB/s
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starRating: 3
title: Working flawlessly after months of abuse
detailedReviews 54: content: When I installed this Seagate IronWolf 4TB drive into my existing NAS system it was easy to get up and running. I use it for 3 different sources and even security camera storage. When in a NAS it’s awesome to know it’s reliable not only for 24/7 us, but also has recovery option if you need it. So smooth I you almost forget it’s running. Storing and pulling Data, Movies, Music, Games and it runs perfect across my PC’s and Laptop. Being that it’s storage to review I wanted time to be able to say that it has stayed steady and reliable. I’ll grab music or a Video and run it on either of my equipment as smoothly as if it was from right in that PC and it’s not. The ability to store in one place instead of duplicated across your equipment makes it easier for a one time save of info. I do have a separate storage for my security camera’s and I was curious to see if I files for that video, how would it go. I don’t plan on keeping my security storage in my NAS. When I pull a stored camera clip, it has been doing a seamless job. Having a NASD setup is almost a set and forget system, I rarely touch have to touch it or do anything but let it run and do its job. I have a do own SeaGate products over many years. Not once have I needed a warranty claim. The 3 Year warranty will assure you that you can count on this IronWolf storage. And when it comes to a NAS and storage, reliability is important. You will have the confidence that your information stored is there, ready to use and with the Data Recovery Services, your safe in the event of Flood, Fire or other corruption should happen. We can write quick reviews or use it for a month and report. To be able to say “Recommend Buying” mine running for apx. a month with no problems. Constant backups, my entire music collection and Videos stored, I have had zero problems. Just does its job in the background like it should. I am sure that you’ll enjoy yours and feel like me that it is a product to buy and enjoy that you have a SeaGate IronWolf protecting your files.
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starRating: 5
title: Reliable, seamless job, recommend buying
detailedReviews 55: content: Mine continue to spin it makes HDD get hot. Is it normal? I don't think so because my other HDD stops when data transfer finishes sit stop to spin. I just return it today. I always purchased Seagate because I was satisfied with it but not this one. I am getting another one , will see replacement works or not
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starRating: 1
title: Drive stays spinning, returning it
detailedReviews 56: content: So far this drive has given me no problems. Quickly loaded in data from a backup and intend to use this as a live bulk data drive behind smaller NVMe storage. I have only had it up for 26 days - so there's not too much to say about it. Since IronWolf Health is still proprietary (please make it open-source ASAP) I can only go by the SMART stats of my custom setup. These show mostly good, besides the temperature. The measurement seems accurate (running between 29-35 degrees Celsius) however the max "recommended" temperature seems exceedingly small - 25 degrees Celsius. This is resulting in the over-temperature limit count to be constantly increasing (at 642). The lifetime temp range is 22-36, so it never it the "real" temp limit range boundaries of 0-70. If there's any issues that arise, I'll be sure to amend this. Previous experience with Seagate has been great, having a 7200.10 drive still running strong from its ~2007 release moving between multiple systems w/o any issues showing up.
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starRating: 4
title: Good so far, temperature slightly high
detailedReviews 57: content: This is my 5th IronWolf hard disk drive used for NAS and backup purposes. Very pleased with how quiet this drive performs and with overall write speeds for applications like general storage and incremental backup tasks. Knock on wood….i am yet to have one of these drives fail and stick with Seagate for overall quality and dependability.
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starRating: 5
title: Quiet performance, no drive failures yet
detailedReviews 58: content: I got the Seagate IronWolf ST4000VN006 4TB for my Synology NAS, and while it works fine, the noise it makes is hard to ignore. You can hear the drive spinning, and it almost sounds like it could use some WD-40. It’s not super loud, but enough to make me wonder if it’ll last as long as I hoped. For a NAS drive, I expected it to be quieter. It does the job for now, but I’m keeping an eye (and ear) on it.
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starRating: 3
title: Works fine, but noise is hard to ignore
detailedReviews 59: content: In 2019 I purchased two Seagate Ironwolf 4tb drives for my Drobo NAS. My drives performed well, running non-stop for 5 years until I recently upgraded my NAS to Synology...so did my drives. Purchased two Seagate 8tb Ironwolfs to match the other two 4tb, haven't had any issues or drive failures. Stick with the faster 7200 speeds, huge difference as compared to the 5400. Best Buy also had the best cost, and I shopped around too.
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starRating: 5
title: Faster 7200 speeds, best cost
detailedReviews 60: content: Though the drives have been reliable so far and perform on par with my beloved WD drives in my other server, I'm knocking off an egg for the noise level. IDK, the noise is annoying, but it's not a deal breaker. I would advise not installing these in a library or a bedroom. The 39 to 40c temps are concerning to me as well, but according to Seagate, that is in spec. I guess I'm just used to WD drives and I've become a WD fanboy over the years having zero problems with their products. Hopefully these drives will last a few years and I won't have to deal with Seagate's poor service. I haven't had to deal with Seagate for a bum drive in quite a few years, but back in the day, it was a nightmare to get them to make things right. WD drive rma's are painless and easy. I've rma'd a handful of WD drives for work over the years and had no issues. Fast turn around no questions asked. Hope this helps someone that is on the fence. At the end of the day, if I had to do the whole order over again today, I'd go with the WD plus drives.
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starRating: 4
title: Noise level annoying, temps in spec
detailedReviews 61: content: So 2 HDDs have survived my NVR for 12 months so far. 2 instead are at risk of failure and lasted for 6 months.
“UniFi has detected a large quantity of bad drive sectors. Replace this disk with a supported 4.00 TB HDD as soon as possible before an unexpected failure results in a data loss. UniFi has detected a large quantity of uncorrectable errors. Replace this disk with a supported 4.00 TB HDD as soon as possible before an unexpected failure results in a data loss.”
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starRating: 3
title: Bad sectors and uncorrectable errors detected
detailedReviews 62: content: I own several WD RED 4TB NAS drives and also couple of Seagate NAS drives. However, when receiving this 4TB IronWolf drive, it was a bit surprise to me as it is much thinner (only about two third of thickness) and lighter than the NAS drives which I bought several years ago. Besides, the antistatic bag is not as thick as before. This really make me a bit worry about the manufacture quality after the reduction on materials.
Anyway, the drive is good so far and it fits my new bought QNAP TS-133 NAS Enclosure well. By the way, I have to say the thin disk does make air flow better inside the Qnap TS-133.
Another advantage of this disk is that it runs quietly. I have been doing the bad sector scan for the disk and it is quiet.
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starRating: 5
title: Thinner and lighter, runs quietly
detailedReviews 63: content: This was purchased to replace an older 3 tb Seagate drive that was failing and generating errors in my nas. The replacement drive has solved the issues, the array is without error and no data has been lost at time of writing.
There's not much to add it's a hard drive in a Nas that is part of an array. It is working as intended without faults or errors, precisely as one would expect from a brand new drive.
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starRating: 4
title: Replacement drive solved issues, working perfectly
detailedReviews 64: content: I use HDDs in my machines for downloads, large files, and general long-term storage. This particular HDD is of superior quality, definitely meets my expectations. It’s also noticeably quieter than other HDDs I’ve purchased in the past. I recommend this product!
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starRating: 5
title: Superior quality, noticeably quieter
detailedReviews 65: content: It's hard to do a review for 2nd hand NAS drives after only a week or so - the proof will be over months/years. But so far, so good. They're both in good health and functioning as expected. One has ~2.5 years in the clock, the other ~1.5 years. But they're both covered by the 5 year guarantee so I'm optimistic they'll last a good while yet.
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starRating: 4
title: Second-hand drives working as expected
detailedReviews 66: content: I purchased 2 of these to use in a mirror setup in 2022. They are working wonderful so far. They store family photos and videos. Being spinning disks, the speed is limited, though reasonable. Because they are primarily for archival purposes, they do exactly what I need and run fast enough.
The item installs with SATA cable.
Windows recognizes as 7.26GB.
7,993,335,717,888 bytes.
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starRating: 5
title: Working wonderful, reasonable speed
detailedReviews 67: content: Hard part about reviewing hard drives is that you can't speak to how long they'll last. I purchased two for a Synology NAS enclosure. They installed and set up easily, and are performing to spec. The only issue has been noise from the heads. Louder "clunking" than I normally get from drives these days. While it's not "loud loud", it could be clearly heard across the room. I ended up moving my NAS setup to another room, because it was distracting during quiet scenes while watching media. For their purpose, they are (so far) good drives, and I would buy again for this purpose. I couldn't recommend them in a machine at your desk, or an exposed media server near your TV. (and I cannot answer if they are both loud or just one due to the RAID setup)
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starRating: 4
title: Louder head noise, moved NAS location
detailedReviews 68: content: I received an email to rate this hard drive. It's not possible to evaluate a hard drive after only 7 days of use. They should spin, read & write for years. The four drives I purchased are working as advertised. In five years, that might change, but right now, these hard drives are working just fine.
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starRating: 4
title: Working as advertised after 7 days
detailedReviews 69: content: After buying two hard disks from CEX (WD Red Pro and WD Red Plus), both with some serious issues; one was completely dead, I finally decided to try an IronWolf. My disk has some hours on it — I would like quite a few, to be honest, but the disk is perfect, with all S.M.A.R.T. parameters in great shape, so I have no complaints for now.
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starRating: 5
title: Disk is perfect, SMART parameters great
detailedReviews 70: content: Quiet and effective high capacity drives. Ordered and added to Unraid media server. At a grand total of 3x IronWolf 10TB NAS HDDs from Cex, 2 parity drives and 1 in the array. Can't beat the price per terrabyte, highly recommend these drives second-hand for anyone looking to use in a (DIY) NAS/server. Running them in an Antec P101S, can't hear the drives spin up/down nor when in use streaming media through Plex on Unraid.
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starRating: 5
title: Great price per terabyte, highly recommend
detailedReviews 71: content: I am setting up a Synology NAS with 4 x 4tb Seagate Ironwolf drives. As someone wiser than me recommended, I ordered two of the four drives with another vendor to spread the risk of getting multiple drives from a single bad batch -- as unfortunately happened with this order. At first, both of these drives would not start as shown by the indicator lights not coming on. I turned the NAS off and tried again. When they did start, and I did the initial NAS setup, one did not format, having over 18,000 bad sectors. The other did format, but would not initialize. The SMART table would not display, and I could not even make a single drive volume with it for further testing. I tried swapping these two drives to the bays that the other two drives successfully formatted and initialized in. These problems persisted with the drive after being moved, so I concluded it was not the NAS bays. These NAS class drives are supposed to be more durable than average. This poor reliability is disappointing! I've been a Seagate user for many years. The 1tb Seagate drive in my PC has been going strong for well over 5 years, with almost daily use. I have gotten good, if not 100% reliable use from various Seagate drives in my first NAS. After this poor experience, in the future I will try HGST or WD drives. For now, I will get a replacement pair of these Ironwolf 4tb drives as I want to have the same drive type for the initial setup. I will thoroughly test them before beginning to use the volume as my level of trust for Seagate quality is not high any more. Thankfully, at least Newegg allows me to return them for a full refund, and I will get another pair from a different vendor in case there are more bad drives in Newegg's current stock -- which is of course, not their fault if so.
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starRating: 1
title: Poor reliability, bad sectors, won't buy again
detailedReviews 72: content: For the price to quality and reliability ratio, this is probably the hard drive you should go with for home use.
Could you find a hard drive that technically has higher reliability ratings? Sure. Would it cost you a lot more? Absolutely.
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starRating: 5
title: Good price to quality and reliability ratio
detailedReviews 73: content: Lamp oil, burn up the turmoil
One slip and I'm buried in the subsoil
I sell bombs to keep me afloat
But if I can't make money I'll sink my boat
I have rope and it often sells well
Used for good or bad, I can't tell
But I don't care, cause if I get my pay
I can open up and eat another day
Gotta make money and never look back
Ride on the train and keep it on track
If I fall behind I just pick up the slack
I got dealt a bad hand but it's not a bad pack
I can't have debtors so I can't give credit
The system's fine as long as I head it
Don't lecture me on scripture - I've read it
To loan is to lose - quote me, I've said it
Rubies, the finest gems of them all
They are my life and my port of call
It's nice to be rich but at the end of the day
As long as you have enough, it's ok
The grind never stops - I can't get a fresh start
Timings are tight so I gotta work smart
Night and day are the same to me
To have good sleep is a rarity
Come back - I need a customer to count on
A reliable person I can amount from
I balance the books, but it's often no fable
It's a horror story, and then I feel unstable
If I dip into the red I'll pack up, cause its over
I feel like every day I find a four leafed clover
Cause I always find a way to turn a profit on my wares
Too good to be true, but then again who cares
Gotta make money and never look back
Ride on the train and keep it on track
If I fall behind I just pick up the slack
I got dealt a bad hand but it's not a bad pack
I can't have debtors so I can't give credit
The system's fine as long as I head it
Don't lecture me on scripture - I've read it
To loan is to lose - quote me, I've said it
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starRating: 3
title: Poetic review, not about the drive
detailedReviews 74: content: Good Points: I like that these are designed for NAS environments. Also at 7.5k rotation speed they give higher read/write speeds than some of their competitors. A three year warranty is also a plus.
Improvement Points: Since buying 2 of these drives and immediately needing to replace one due to severe over-heating, I have become aware of the "Backblaze" report into hard drive reliability. Seagate drives come out as significantly less reliable than the other main manufacturers. Whether they have addressed that with the current generation of drives remains to be seen, but as noted, I had a 50% failure rate immediately on purchase. The replacement seems fine but note they have been running now for less than six weeks, so hardly a thorough test so far.
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starRating: 4
title: 50% failure rate on purchase, overheating
detailedReviews 75: content: I purchased the Seagate Ironwolf 4TB to replace a failing WD Red4TB NASware2.0 from 2012. Drive is for a 1819+ NAS system. They have been installed since Dec 2019. The drive has been working perfecting. It did cause me to freak out a little when I first got it and ran S.M.A.R.T and it desplayed "read errors" dispite SMART saying the drive was "Good". Seagate apparently output differently the most other drives. I haven’t owned a Seagate HDD since 2006 so I decide to give them a shot, and the price was better than a WD Red 4TB. Before installing the Drive into the NAS it tested it out in an USB3.1Gen1 dock. Hard drive Speed Compare: All testing was done with an external enclosure using CrystalDiskMark and a direct file copy (about 4GB) to the disk from an internal SSD. (Sorry No Pictures of the test runs): Seagate Ironwolf 4TB (USB3 5Gbps): Seq Read 193 MB/s, Seq Write 190 MB/s, 4GB Transfer to HDD 178 MB/s WD Red 10TB (USB3 5Gbps)(2019 model): Seq Read 207 MB/s, Seq Write 120 MB/s, 4GB Transfer to HDD 186 MB/s WD Red 6TB (USB3 5Gbps)(2016 model): Seq Read 182 MB/s, Seq Write 130 MB/s, 4GB Transfer to HDD 175 MB/s WD Red 3TB (USB3 5Gbps)(2017 model): Seq Read 135 MB/s, Seq Write 128 MB/s, 4GB Transfer to HDD 140 MB/s WD Red 4TB (USB3 5Gbps)(2012 model): Seq Read 147 MB/s, Seq Write 105 MB/s, 4GB Transfer to HDD 144 MB/s
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starRating: 5
title: Good price, tested well in dock
detailedReviews 76: content: You can find all the technical characteristics and performance tests for those drives on the Internet. All of the results are higher than what I need. I use the drives for home NAS and as one can imagine the requirements are completely fulfilled. So far so good.
One huge problem with those drives is the noise. You can hear them across the room and this is not a small room I'm talking about. Those are louder that my very first drive 6.4GB ~20 years ago which makes them the noisiest drives I've ever owned. If this is a problem for you consider buying something else. I checked briefly after I discovered this "feature" of the drives that many brands/models with similar capacity produce a lot of noise. I should have checked that in advance.
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starRating: 4
title: Drives are noisy, check advance
detailedReviews 77: content: Surprisingly fast write speeds up to 200+meg a second. Low noise compared to much older drives and even Seagate barracuda. Had a damaged drive delivered and got an exchange, probably not a Seagate problem.
Using 2 in raid 1 for manual backup using a Terramaster D8 Hybrid. Recommend.
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starRating: 4
title: Surprisingly fast write speeds, recommend
detailedReviews 78: content: Pros: I like that these are designed for NAS environments. Also at 7.5k rotation speed they give higher read/write speeds than some of their competitors. A three year warranty is also a plus.
Cons: Since buying 2 of these drives and immediately needing to replace one due to severe over-heating, I have become aware of the "Backblaze" report into hard drive reliability. Seagate drives come out as significantly less reliable than the other main manufacturers. Whether they have addressed that with the current generation of drives remains to be seen, but as noted, I had a 50% failure rate immediately on purchase. The replacement seems fine but note they have been running now for less than six weeks, so hardly a thorough test so far.
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starRating: 4
title: 50% failure rate, overheating concerns
detailedReviews 79: content: I got 2 of these for my Truenas Plex server and after several of use months they’re fantastic.
They’re noticeably louder than the WD 4TB Red NAS drives I had before, but from my understanding that’s par for the course for larger drives.
Read, write speeds are more than sufficient for a Plex Server using the ZFS filesystem and ZFS Cache.
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starRating: 5
title: Fantastic after several months of use
detailedReviews 80: content: Not totally convinced that this is the NAS version of the drive. Unlike the picture on the BestBuy website which says "NAS" below "Iron Wolf", the one I received doesn't say "NAS" anywhere on it. It just says "Seagate" and "Iron Wolf", but not "NAS". That being said, the drive does seem to work fine in my NAS.
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starRating: 3
title: Not sure if NAS version, works fine
detailedReviews 81: content: This is good drive to use in NAS. It is on bit louder side - both spinning and seeking, so keep in mind when you have it in your living space. I keep mine in basement so no need to worry. Expecting 5 years of light use in low end Synology for pictures/document backups.
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starRating: 5
title: Good drive, bit louder side
detailedReviews 82: content: Fast as a SATA HDD can get. A lot of space, 11.1TB after format as normal. I have owned many Seagate HDDs over the years, they still work. I end up upgrading for the convenance of having less HDDs. I have two of these in a Synology NAS in mirror RAID. Upgraded two 6TB. No trouble and have a piece of mind that my data is safe. These are CMR type HDDs, energy efficient, minimum heat production, transfers data above 150MB/s when in PC and avg 110MBs in NAS over GB ethernet. transfer rates very by PC and type of file being transferred.
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starRating: 5
title: Fast SATA HDD, good in NAS
detailedReviews 83: content: Bought one of these drives for use in a RAID (ZFS) array and the performance has been absolutely solid, unlike certain other drives (*cough* WD Red *cough*).
While I was initially disappointed by how noisy the drive seemed to be, it has quietened down considerably over time so it seems like there may just be a bit of a wearing in period during which it's extra "crunchy", now the drive is barely audible unless I really push it.
Read and write performance are both excellent for a 5400rpm drive, both managing around 110-120mb/sec reliably in my case, though of course a more random workload will slow it down, though the 256mb cache and Native Command Queuing seem to help it cope well all around.
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starRating: 5
title: Solid performance, quietened down over time
detailedReviews 84: content: I have been super happy with my WD Reds, but WD starting sneaking in SMR Red drives, versus CMR. The ONLY reason I purchased these was because of WD's decision to use SMR and force you to buy "WD Red Plus" to get CMR. These Seagate IronWolf 10tb NAS drives are CMR. I purchased 10tb because that is the limit of my older Synology NAS, where I have 2 of these mirrored. My complaint is that these are significantly louder than the WD Reds they replaced. I almost wish I gave-in and gotten WD Red Plus with CMR. But too late for me...I'll deal with it, just be it known, these are louder than WD Reds, but hey, at least these are CMR, which your WD Red might not be. (PS. My Synology NAS is a full 10 feet away, I would despise these if they were sitting on or under my desk in a desktop machine close to me)
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starRating: 3
title: Louder than WD Reds, but CMR
detailedReviews 85: content: This 4TB NAS internal HDD is a box, that I use with another box I own called a NAS.
The 4TB NAS internal HDD does what it says on the label. It is goes inside a NAS and does HDD things.
I'm not a technical person, but I know that if I buy things that use acronyms, it's usually more technical, and this product has two acronyms, so it must be good.
This HDD will be ace, until the MTBF target is met, and then because of the way these things work, I'll have to buy another one. Or two. Because that's also the way it works.
Great service, the person at PBTech who handed me the HDDs processed my eftpos transaction very smoothly. Would buy again.
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starRating: 5
title: Does what it says on the label
detailedReviews 86: content: It's Seagate IronWolf intended for use in an Asustor Drivestor 2. I've used Seagate almost exclusively for 20+ years and never had an unanticipated failure. For home/SME backup so don't need the Pro version, quite happy with the basic version. Yep, working great - but I expected nothing less...
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starRating: 5
title: Working great, expected nothing less
detailedReviews 87: content: I got this to put in my NAS, which could have equally taken an SSD but it's half the price and I'm still a bit unconvinced about the long-term integrity of SSDs after prolonged power loss. This unit was cheaper than the 4Gb Ironwolf Pro but has more cache. The spindle speed is slower at 5400rpm instead of 7200rpm that comes with the Pro so the transfer rate is slower, but only marginally. If speed is your thing instead of $$$ then go for the SSD, just make sure your LAN can match it.
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starRating: 5
title: Good value, slower transfer rate
detailedReviews 88: content: Model: ST6000VN0041-2EL11C Firmware: SC61 The drive does run hot compared to my other NAS drives; however, my other NAS drives are 5400 RPM whereas the IronWolf is 7200 RPM. This is an acceptable reason to run a little hotter than my other drives. Other factors come into play too, like the order position in my NAS for example. Its sandwiched between two drives, second from the top. I do not believe it to be an unreasonable difference. I'm talking about a few degrees hotter than my hottest 5400 RPM and all of the drives run at a different temperature due to the various factors. My Synology DS413j shows an additional health information and test tab labeled, "IronWolf Health". The IronWolf Health test satisfies the quick SMART test, but also shows the test output code on the "IronWolf Health" tab. In this case, "000. Normal". I ran the extended SMART test which was estimated to run for 583 minutes. Synology DSM also shows the IronWolf logo next to the drive instead of the standard hard drive logo. I cannot think of a way to determine if this provides any added value.
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starRating: 4
title: Runs hot, but acceptable for 7200 RPM
detailedReviews 89: content: Purchased 16TB Ironwolf Pro drive. This was brand new (verified from S.M.A.R.T. data - first startup and 0 hours runtime). This were exactly as described, was packed and delivered relatively promptly), was safely packed and excellent communication was provided. I would recommend this store.
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title: Brand new, safely packed, excellent communication
detailedReviews 90: content: This drive was a replacement for an earlier model of Seagate's 2TB NAS drive in a FreeNAS/TrueNAS Scale server. The earlier version had lasted 9 years, so I can't complain! This model is slightly slimmer than the earlier model but integrated into the RAID without issue.
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title: Integrated into RAID without issue
detailedReviews 91: content: Regarding this Ironwolf's 5900 rpm rotation speed I have noticed elsewhere that some users have criticized the drive for not being faster. Yet, they have all praised it as being a good performer while operating quietly. If you think about it i'm sure you will realize that if the drive is quiet, smooth and fast enough for your needs then the rotational speed doesn't matter. In fact, 5900 rpm may well enjoy a longer life than a 7200 rpm drive, who knows? Since the Ironwolf is nice and quiet i wanted to see how this "always-on" type of drive might fare as a DVR replacement drive. Set it to record 3 TV programs at once using Windows Media Center while at the same time using it to stream previously recorded video to 3 other computers over our home network. The streaming was smooth and glitch-free. The recordings which were in progress exhibited a momentary macro-block pixelation glitch when replayed later. These glitches coincided with the onset of streaming requests from the other computers. I see that as more of a momentary throttling of the network by our router than as a direct shortcoming of the Ironwolf drive. Still, that type of glitch does not normally occur when using our usual Pipeline drive or a WD Red which we occasionally employ for recording.
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starRating: 4
title: Quiet, smooth, fast enough for needs
detailedReviews 92: content: The IronWolfs are specified serious hard drives with an intended purpose. If you are NOT looking for server storage or NAS upgrades it may not be for you. While you can purpose just about any HDD to do just about any job I recommend sticking with intended purposes. If you use this as a PC storage solution, it will work great but be severely underutilized. If you use WD greens or blues for NAS/Server/RAID arrays, they will be severely out matched and likely encounter problems at some point. There was a point in time where if it wasn’t Western Digital I did not consider it. These recent years with all of the re-designs to Seagate, their pricing, and the performance and dependability have reprogrammed my thoughts on this. I am one happy, repeat customer, of a great company with great products. From their Firecuda to their IronWolf, when it comes to Seagate I am extremely satisfied. If you’re a first time buyer of a bare drive, it includes drive only. You’ll need to have screws for installation, and to navigate and download updates direct from Seagate. (I figure I’ll mention it because I have seen people say before they didn’t understand why it came as just a drive). SeaTools is a pretty awesome free diagnostic that Seagate offers. Food for thought if you need to see if a problem arises! I hope this helps someone!
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starRating: 5
title: Great company with great products
detailedReviews 93: content: Received the drives as advertised. I managed to get them at $195 when they were on sale, price is back up to $230 now, so nice little discount. These are NAS-use specific hard drives, so they went in my new NAS, no problems. I chose the IronWolf series because they are supposedly more like an enterprise drive in terms of durability, configuration and I guess they are filled with helium gas to reduce friction if I read the right literature.
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title: NAS-use specific, no problems
detailedReviews 94: content: I recently purchased the Seagate IronWolf 12TB NAS Internal Hard Drive, and I couldn’t be happier with the performance, reliability, and value it offers. As someone who manages large volumes of data for work and personal projects, this drive has proven to be an absolute powerhouse.
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starRating: 5
title: Absolute powerhouse, happy with performance
detailedReviews 95: content: I bought this as a replacement for a faulty 8TB Toshiba drive. 2 of my Toshiba drives were faulty in quick succession of each other. The Seagate IronWolf have an extra option for checking the drive in Synology NAS devices. This is why I went for Seagate IronWorlf
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starRating: 5
title: Extra option for checking drive in NAS
detailedReviews 96: content: We run a Synology 2 bay station for our network server and another off site 2 bay station for backup & redundancy. We started getting warnings of disc degradation. After all, these discs are running 24/7/365. Our IT guy recommended these specific NAS drives to replace our aging drives. They just popped in and started copying our files. Now, we’re good for another 5+ years if reliable service. A little noisier than our previous drives, but we also upgraded from 3tb to 8tb. Larger drive. Larger fan needed.
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title: Noisier than previous, but larger drive
detailedReviews 97: content: Seagate has been my go to brand for a very long time, and I've never had any issues. I decided to replace a 3 TB SMR Drive and really wanted something quiet, decided on saving some money by getting a 5400 rpm drive over a 7200 rpm one.
(This drive is only 5400 rpm). I was surprised to find that this 5400 CMR drive performs better than the old 7200 SMR did however. Also pretty quiet, the occasional click, but I do have a beQuiet case, so your experience may vary.
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title: Performs better than old SMR, pretty quiet
detailedReviews 98: content: Frankly, the personal experiences of myself and others in HDD reviews is mostly irrelevant in the scheme of things. You're better off comparing longterm reliability of drives via BackBlaze statistics, which are excellent for this drive. I'm moving from a couple pools of 5-6TB Toshiba X300s to Exos because I don't mind a bit sacrificing some noise for enterprise-class reliability even though these are used in my home. Though Toshiba tech support has been superb and this is insignificant in the scheme of things, the X300s have failed at a higher-than-expected rate. I need larger drives anyway to keep my pools manageable, and the Exos X10, as of this review, are at a pricing sweet spot. I considered HGST and have owned (and loved) Ultrastars in the past; the He10 is a little faster than the X10 in some workloads, but not enough so to justify [in my case] the higher price at time of review.
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starRating: 5
title: Enterprise-class reliability, good pricing
detailedReviews 99: content: I was surprised how quickly the prior 4TB WD Reds filled up. (it all those backups and a lifetime of photos). These didn't appear on the approved drive list for my box, but the 10TBs were. Much to my delight, the 12's went in with no problem. I replaced one at a time. Since I'm using RAID 1, my NAS immediately recognized the new drive and spent the next day and a half synchronizing. When it was done, I put the other new IronWolf in. Same scenario. When the sync was complete everything was as it should be, except bigger and faster! Great deal on these B&H helped too.
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starRating: 5
title: Bigger and faster, great deal
detailedReviews 100: content: I cannot speak to disk speed because I use it only for external backup in a drive sled. I have 3 external mirrors which I keep offline except when mirroring. This is due to having lost 2 external backups within 4 days of each other so now I have 3 and stagger when they are online.
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starRating: 5
title: Offline for external backup, cautious approach
detailedReviews 101: content: I would honestly give this 5 stars but there was a small concern. The drive is perfect for my hetrogeneous situation. (PC, Tablets, Server, etc..) Delivery times are seriously offset by the current world health situation which delayed the initial delivery through the post. The drive arrived and I installed it in a hot plug drive socket and there was a very unusual bad bearing sound. In my 40 some years of dealing with computers I've never heard this from a new drive that looked fine with no apparent damage. The replacement drive came by Puralator and works perfectly. Delays through the post are kinda expected. Very happy with the working drive But time will tell.
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starRating: 4
title: Unusual bad bearing sound, replacement works