Seagate IronWolf Pro 16TB NAS Hard Drive 7200 RPM 256MB Cache CMR SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal HDD ST16000NE000

Pros: I have been using this 14TB Ironwolf drive for over a week now and its been flawless. The drive itself feels normal enough, not overly heavy at only 24 ounces. After formatting to NTFS the available storage space is 12.7TB Windows file copy tests show a transfer speed around 230MB/s Write. And about 240MB/s Read speed. Crystal Diskmark benchmarked the drive at 256MB/s Read, 239MB/s Write. The drive is silent and runs cool to the touch.

Cons: No Cons,

Overall Review: It took me awhile to finish my review. My QNAP TS-231P could not use drives larger than 10TB. I had to order a different NAS, A Synology DS218+ So i could test these drives in their intended environment. 24/7 NAS. I own a 8TB Ironwolf Pro ST8000NE0004 and paired these together in my NAS to test raid performance, while they are not identical drives, they are from the same series and support the same raid functions. some features like AcuTrac and RV Sensors, really offer no advantage on small home/business level environments, Those features are for the enterprise environment. For the last two weeks they have been setup in a hybrid raid in my DS218 running the surveillance station. I have 4 cameras recording 24/7 and it has been flawless. Unfortunately network throughput prevents me from accurately benchmarking them together within the NAS, But together within windows i benchmarked these two together and reaching 420MB/s Read Speed, 340MB/s Write Speed. Overall i am very satisfied and happy with these drives.

Pros: The Seagate IronWorlf Pro 14 TB mechanical hard drive is awesome! Nothing beats the mechanical hard drive when it comes to large storage, redundant arrays in any flavor (read: RAID), or any other needs in which a single piece of hardware is needed to consolidate large amounts of information. Really the only thing separating the very large capacity (as of this writing) mechanical hard drives is the quality of the drive itself and a proven track record or reliability. The 14 TB IronWolf Pro provides this. For the specifics you get what you would expect from a 3.5” mechanical hard drive of this capacity – it spins at 7200 rpm, connects via SATA 3, and offers 256 MB of cache. All of these things are pretty typical for enterprise mechanical hard drives in the multi-terabyte range. Seagate IronWolf mechanical drives (this one included) boast the label of being approved for use in several home and small office reputable NAS vendors. This ensures a nice plug-and-play for expanding a SOHO NAS.

Cons: Having 14 TB crammed into the 3.5” housing may cause some warmer temperatures than other smaller capacity drives. Of course your individual NAS enclosure, rack, or computer case mounting will definitely dictate this as well. No loss of any eggs.

Overall Review: The IronWolf Pro series of drive differ from Seagate’s other mechanical drive offerings in that this drive is marketed toward the always-on NAS market. Anyone should check with their NAS vendor to ensure that this model/size drive is compatible with their current solution before purchasing. Some people have complained about the ‘abnormal screw pattern/layout’ on this drive. Here’s the obvious news flash – this drive, and several other multi-terabyte drives from Seagate and other large manufacturers, have altered the screw positioning for a few years now, and eliminated the center screw in some instances, due to the amount of platters in the 3.5” housing (thus enabling more TB). As more of these drives reach the consuming market place and become more common, and as prices reduce, this “observation” among mechanical hard drive buyers has received more attention. The fact is that this move to different screw patterns has been slowing happening over the past few years.

Pros: Huge capacity of 14 TERABYTES though only 13 usable Designed to be always on 24/7 2 year data recovery service and 5 year warranty All the stuff you expect from a quality hard drive

Cons: Drive clicks a lot when the heads are parked, not a huge issue just a little chirp.

Overall Review: Drive is about as fast as mechanical gets with extra durability as it's designed to run 24/7. Despite being ran all the time the drive runs cool and quiet for the most part except with the chirp but my NAS isn't in the same room as me so it's not that big of a deal Initially i had a lot of trouble getting this drive to work, disk management crashed on me while initializing the drive and i had to remove it and plug it into another computer and use seagates software to initialize it, after that it was plug and play. My drive does not get hot although i only use my nas to backup movies, games and a few folders for work but it's handy to have a lot of storage on a network because using usb drives can be a pain. These drives do indeed use an alternate pattern for screwholes but that's sort of been a thing for awhile now and gaining popularity. It has to do with drive capacity and needing more space where the middle screw is. Luckily there is 2 more screws on the end to use and i have not seen a hard drive cage not have those holes as long as it's made within this decade.

Pros: - Packaging was great. - Surprised how hefty the drive is. - Copied 2 SSDs and 4 hard disk drives onto this drive and the contents hardly registered. - There was hardly any noise during copying or accessing data. - If you need massive amounts of storage in one drive, this is it. - 5 Year warranty.

Cons: - Minor noise when heads are parked, but this is minor. - If you have as many fans as I do, you won't even hear it. I disabled some of my fans during this review.

Overall Review: I never thought I would see the day that a 14 TB drive would be available on the consumer level. This gives you the opportunity to have a huge amount of storage in a small package. I will use this to backup my entire home network. This will also be a boom to folks requiring massive storage in a small form factor. This is a fantastic unit.

Pros: It worked out of the box. 4 TB (really 3.6 TB)

Cons: - Longevity is unknown, when first plugged in, it had a click that went away.

Overall Review: Bought to put into computer with 100's of movies on it (no internet mountain house computer). Had 4 smaller drives in it and ran out of space. Hard drives in general, gone are the days when 97% of the hard drives worked out of the box and for years. Now it seems like they all have 10 to 15% that fail within a year. Most people review after they first get, so that 10 to 15% most likely is higher. I have several hard drives that are 10+ years old, I am sure some are 20 years old. I had a spare 1 TB hard drive that I took out of the box last month (bought 2 years ago), yes you guessed it - was a dud. Just look at the reviews of all computer parts, rolling the dice on everything. What has happened to quality?

Overall Review: Not a whole lot to say honestly. The drives I purchased arrived very quick even with normal shipping. Each drive is performing for me in a NAS server and the drive speed and temp ranges are all within spec.

Pros: Extreme Reliability, good capacity, work great in a raid array in my NAS.

Cons: expensive

Overall Review: I am really happy to recommend these drives, They have not let me down.

Pros: - Fast, Reliable, Large Drives - Data Recovery - Enterprise Class / 7200 RPM

Cons: - None so far

Overall Review: When first deciding if I was going to use Seagate or WD it was a toss-up. There's great reviews and bad for both. I decided on the Synology IronWolf Pros since they're 7200 RPM vs 5200 for WD. I've had three drives running constantly for about two years without a hitch. Added 5 more drives to my NAS. It's only been a short time on the new drives, but its nice that besides S.M.A.R.T., Seagate offers their own diagnostics if your device supports it (Synology NAS does). Also with Pro you get 1 or 2 year data recovery. Some people say large HDDs or Seagate is unreliable. I've found if you purchase the high-end/enterprise drives, mean time between failure rates are high and they've been quite reliable for me. Will update if that changes.