Seagate IronWolf NAS Hard Drives
This 5900 RPM HDD provides fast and reliable performance optimized for NAS, private cloud, and other 24x7 applications. It supports up to 180TB/year workload rate to handle multi-user download / upload, while Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors guarantee stable performance in multi-drive environments. IronWolf fits applications like 1- to 8-bay network attached storage (NAS).
Optimized for NAS with AgileArray. AgileArray enables dual-plane balancing and RAID optimization in multi-bay environments, with the most advanced power management possible.
Actively protect your NAS with IronWolf Health Management focusing on prevention, intervention, and recovery.1
High performance means no lag time or downtime for users during workload traffic for the NAS. Seagate leads the competition with the highest-performing NAS drive portfolio.2
Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors. First in its class of drives to include RV sensors to maintain high performance in multi-drive NAS enclosures.3
Range of capacities up to 14TB. More capacity options means more choices that will fit within the budget. Seagate provides a scalable solution for any NAS use-case scenario.
Do more in multi-user environments. IronWolf provides a workload rate of 180TB/year. Multiple users can confidently upload and download data to the NAS server, knowing IronWolf can handle the workload, whether you are a creative professional or a small business.
Designed for always-on, always-accessible 24×7 performance. Access data on your NAS any time, remotely or on site.
1. Contact your Seagate sales representative for further information.
2. Performance may vary depending on user's hardware configuration and operating system.
3. Included on 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14TB models
Eggxpert Review
Pros: The IronWolf series of Seagate drives are intended for NAS installations. Upon receiving the drive, I popped it into one of my hot swap bays and the drive powered right up. The drive has eight 1.75GB platters spinning at 7200 rpm giving you 14TB, which results in 12.7 TB of usable space. The good news: This drive is fast; very fast in the world of spinner drives, that is. Seagate rates the sustained transfer rate for this drive at 210 MB/s. In synthetic benchmarks (ATTO, HD Tach, DiskMark) I’m seeing 250-260 MB/s. A quick local transfer test of folder containing 12GB files results in a real-world transfer rate of 248 MB/s. All of this is much faster than gigabit speed in typical networks, which will limit you to about 112 MB/s. The drive runs cool and is very quiet. It may even be quieter than my 5400rpm NAS drives. Seagate is currently the capacity leader in the industry and has even upped the ante with the recently released 16TB drives. If you want >12TB storage per drive, Seagate is pretty much the one choice right now… but it’s a good choice.
Cons: I did have some initial concerns with warranty on this drive. Seagate’s website has a warranty checker where you can enter your drive’s serial number and it will return the warranty end date. When I entered the serial number from my drive it came back as expired two months before I even received the drive. After some back and forth emails with Seagate support, it was finally revealed that the warranty was rescinded because the drive I received is a review unit. I’m not taking any eggs off for this. If that’s their policy then so be it. However, was given the impression in my correspondence with Seagate that the warranty clock may start ticking based on the manufacture date instead of the purchase date, although I cannot verify this. Regardless, I highly recommend all purchasers to verify the warranty using Seagate’s website if warranty term is important to you.
Overall Review: Seagate has several models of 14TB drives out there. In case it helps, here are the key differences between the 14TB models. BarraCuda Pro: General desktop storage, 300 TB/year workload rating, MTBF = 1 million hours, 5 year warranty SkyHawk AI: Surveillance and CCTV storage, 550 TB/year workload rating, MTBF = 1.5 million hours, 3 year warranty IronWolf: NAS, 180 TB/year workload rating, MTBF = 1 million hours, 3 year warranty, up to 8 drives per enclosure IronWolf Pro: NAS, 550 TB/year workload rating, MTBF = 1.2 million hours, 5 year warranty, up to 24 drives per enclosure Exos: Enterprise data-center storage, 550 TB/year workload rating, MTBF = 2.5 million hours, 5 year warranty, up to 106 drives per enclosure