
- Formatted cleanly and no errors on extended drive test. - Added to existing array cleanly. - Have been consistently getting 6+ years out of IronWolf drives in 24x7 RAID environment for media server.

This drive is fast, has excellent firmware, and is helium filled. I actually spoke with a firmware developer at WD and he said this is the drive to get (or a larger model).

Works great, had a dead drive, but the three others I got were great. Trouble free replacement on the bad drive. Glad I bought from a reputable source.

Loaded Win 10 first try, no failures.

Good capacity and pretty quite even under load.

Price was good and the drives have performed as anticipated in a mirror configuration.

Just what I wanted.

For Synology NAS users, the Synology brand drives means easier adoption, less headaches and fewer notifications. The extra small pennies/gb price per GB over other enterprise drives with worth it. No need to worry about compatibility with many features of DSM 7.1



Quiet, super fast shipping, 0 hours run time.

It's a NAS Western Digital. Works just as expected.

A good amount of storage for a reasonable price.

- performance at least 50% better than comparable home-application hard drives - excellent (theoretical) MTBF specs, so reliability should be top-line - built for RAID performance - with a good backup system, a striped setup with two Datacenter Gold drives (RAID 0) achieved performance within 75%-80% of the speed of my Samsung SSD EVO 500GB (the OS drive).

I am a life long Western Digital fan, sure they have made some mistakes here and there, CRM vs SMR, but every company does. "Knock on wood" I have in 30 years or so of DIY , never had a western Digital HDD drive die on me, had maxtors and seagates. They are plenty speedy enough to server 4k over the LAN for Jellyfin clients.

Great price.


Easy to install. Works as expected.

Does not throttle under heavy load or copying large file.

Drives are fast. Running two of them in raid 0, Fantastic sustained speeds, and they're quiet. Not a lot of power cycles.