
I like the storage capacity. There is enough room to keep backups of projects for years!


was on sale seems a lot more quieter then my old seagate drive

I upgraded my Synology NAS with these drives. They werent on Synologys compatible list, but I used them anyway. I trust the WD Red brand. Ive been using the Red brand for 10 years with no data loss. Only time will tell if these new drives hold up. They seem zippy. I got a great price from NewEgg, so I would definitely recommend them.

Big Best bang for buck value Quiet. I've read reviews whining about noisy hard drives in NAS boxes. My NAS is currently on my desk. I can hear the drive working but they are not loud.

240+MiB/s sequential write speed while connected to a USB3 dock. Came very well packaged.

High capacity with very quiet operation. Sale price was great too!

Easy to use.

Easy to install

This is a very fast drive with a 7,200 RPM spindle speed. I benchmarked the drive compared to another 3 TB drive from a different manufacturer with a 5,400 RPM spindle speed. Both drives were freshly formatted prior to this testing. The Barracuda's sequential read tested at 191 MB/s, compared to 114 MB/s for the 5,400 RPM drive. The Barracuda's sequential write tested at 99 MB/s , compared to 79 MB/s for the 5,400 RPM drive. In real world testing, I tested copy speed for a 6.36 GB folder with 745 files, both to and from SSD. Each test was performed three times and the results were averaged: Time to copy from SSD to Barracuda was 62 seconds. Time to copy from SSD to 5,400 RPM drive was 69 seconds. Time to copy from Barracuda to SSD was 36 seconds. Time to copy from 5,400 RPM drive to SSD was 60 seconds. Thus, in real-world testing, the Seagate Barracuda drive was 11% faster on writes and a blazing 67% faster on reads than a competitor's 5,400 RPM drive. Seagate has a two-year warranty on the drive.

Reliable Reasonably Inexpensive

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Good performance under stress

20Tb capacity and on sale at a reasonable price. CMR thus suitable for virtually all workloads. Be aware the Exos drives have a higher TBW rating (data transferred per year) so in some applications this MAY matter. In mine it doesn't. Plenty of experience with this series in different capacities, thus far no complaints or issues.

18TB is so big! Well, for now. S.M.A.R.T data is now accessible. Others that I've bought didn't even support the HDD's native self-test routine.

The IronWolf is rated as an NAS drive. I used them in an attached external drive in Raid1 for important video content I couldnt afford to lose. I cant speak to longevity but Im confident they will meet and exceed my expectations.


Works great!

Great product, no problems so far.

- An awesome amount of storage for the money spent - Outstanding performance for a mechanical device