Seagate IronWolf 10TB NAS Hard Drive 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s CMR 3.5" Internal HDD for RAID Network Attached Storage ST10000VN0004 - OEM

Pros: I'll be flat out honest - it's hard to find anything in a hard-drive like this that would make it stand out above the others. It's great for massive storage, and performs as advertised. However, I'm actually only using it in a server with SATA 1 connectors, but I get a solid 131.1MB transfer average across the board (using HDTune) and it's been clicking away doing backups since. Random access time is an impressive 7.5ms, however. The clicking is audible, like most mechanical drives are, but it seems a bit quieter than my other drives. There's nothing I can see that would prevent this from being a great storage upgrade for your PC, or a NAS!

Cons: It seems to get warmer than my other drives, but nothing to be alarmed about.

Overall Review: There's no middle mounting hole. Make sure that's not required for your mounting situation. Also, keep in mind it's 10TB, not TiB. So, it's actually 9.09495TiB. Don't throw a fit when you plug it in and format it, and Windows tells you only got 9.09 "TB" - it's not the manufacturer's fault for the decimal vs binary prefix shenanigans. It is the whole 10,000,000,000,000 bytes as advertised, and not 10,995,116,277,760 bytes one would need to see "10TB" in Windows. It's still the biggest drive around.

Pros: Heavy duty, solid built drive 1M hours MTBF 3 year limited warranty 180TB/year user workload rate Rotational vibration (RV) sensors mitigate vibration in multi-drive systems (perfect for NAS boxes) Enterprise grade drive specifically designed for NAS boxes The Register says the 10TB Iron Wolf drive is helium filled and spins at 7200 rpm

Cons: Warranty isn’t as good as some of Seagate’s other offerings (BarraCuda)

Overall Review: 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

Pros: This seems to be a nice 10tb Hard drive well built, solid. I tested this in an NAS environment as required, setup on my home network connected through my AC 1900 router vie usb 3.0. Transferred a 300gb set of files to the drive and amazingly it only took 15 minutes or less getting a steady 160-180 mb/s rate. The drive looks nice and is a little bigger than standard 3.5 inch drives, but fits in a 3.5 inch space in your desktop PC. It is missing the middle screw holes so for most desktop PC's you will only use the back set of screw holes to secure the drive. Now after testing it in an NAS environment I decided I wanted to run it in my Desktop gaming PC, setup to share on my network as I call it super storage for everyone on my network at home which is my daughters gaming PC, my stepsons all-in-one PC, and my wifes laptop. Everyone has their own Folder to save anything they want to keep this works very well. Now I know this drive is intended for NAS, but works well as a storage or main drive in your desktop PC as long as you set it up in the GPT format. In order to utilize the entire drive properly. All in all this drive is well built, fast, and seems like it will last for some time being made to run 24/7.

Cons: Havent found any cons with the drive yet, runs 24/7 as family storage drive.

Overall Review: We store movies and games and music on here for everyone to access, it runs well and keeps up with the work load. Great hard drive well built.

Pros: Massive 10TB capacity Large 256MB cache Decently fast 3 year warranty 7200 RPM

Cons: Not for desktop use No center screw provisions Lose 1TB formatted capacity

Overall Review: NAS drives typically have some of their error correction capabilities disabled as they're intended for RAID which would compensate. This reduces latency since the drive isn't retrying reading a bad block. Good for RAID, bad for single drive use. If you don't intend to use a RAID, don't buy this drive as you may lose data. Formatted capacity is a little over 9 TB. This drive feels right at home in my Synology DS716+II in RAID 1. Heavy usage doesn't phase them and their throughput is more than gigabit Ethernet can support.

Pros: This drive is made for a NAS setup with 24/7 365 continuous use. I now have 3 other drives at 4T each plus this one which brings the total to 22T for my cloud server. I couldn't be more happy and I have given access to many friends and family to use my cloud server for all their storage needs. Dropbox and other cloud services are a thing of the past for me as I have sole control to how I store and retrieve all my files now. Access times for this drive are pretty fast and while I won't get in to specific numbers, I can tell you that it's pretty impressive and not what I would have expected for such a large drive. I no longer have to worry about scanning over pictures, videos or files to make up space on my server with this drive. I am a little concerned that I will be left with more stuff to go through later because of this and I can't imagine even going through all of the pictures I already have on this drive. I will get a little more organized but at this time I feel almost like there is no limit with this drive. 10T is definitely a little mind blowing.

Cons: I see some reviews saying there is no middle mounting hole but my NAS system does not use this type of mounting. No cons for what I am using it for. The warranty is 3 years but I am not worried about that as I've used Seagate drives in the past with no issues.

Overall Review: I have been running this drive for a little under a month continuously and have had no issues whatsoever. After me and a few friends and family have been throwing almost every file we own, we still have not filled this drive up and it will be a long time before we do. 10T can basically hold upwards of 170,000 hrs of music, 400 days of continuous standard quality video, 3,100,000 photos, or 5000 movies. It is an incredible amount of storage and I am extremely satisfied with the performance of this drive. This drive makes my WD DL4100 NAS so much better do to it only having 4 bays as opposed to a 8 bay system. I plan on getting at least one more 10T drive in the near future to use in raid.

Pros: I placed this drive into an existing computer and went to disk management to configure the drive. While I could have broken this drive down to smaller drives, but I preferred to keep the integrity as one drive. In doing this the formatted (using NTFS) it showed up as having 9.08 TB of free space. I did this to have enough backup space for the years to come on my main desktop computer. I know many people have gone to the notebook and gotten away from the desktop, but I find the desktop very useful for in home use and provide adequate storage and backup for all other mobile devices that are on the home network. Remember if you are going to place this drive into a network attached storage (NAS) make sure you get one that will not reject the formatting of a drive because it is larger than its maximum capacity depending on their scalability. Synology’s site shows that the DS1515 is compatible with the drive. Sometimes with a drive this size we tend to believe that it will never be filled. Reminiscence of days when the 1 GB drive came to the market, 10 TB is the new 1 TB. This has been an excellent drive so far with no issues. I have another one of these drives that has been in service for over two years now and haven't seen any problems with this drive. I will however update this review if any shortcomings are detected. So far this is a good drive.

Cons: None at this time for this drive.

Overall Review: The price of this drive price has dropped since its first introduction and is quite affordable at its present price. It has a It makes me think that you might have to keep a close eye on this drive leading up to the warranty expiration so you can seek a replacement if you notice a deterioration of performance. (I think it should be a bit longer for a drive this size and should have a data loss warranty included). I do recommend this drive if you are installing a NAS, desktop, or a home Server…if it is a desktop or home server add as many additional case fans as you can install for cooling.

Pros: 1. Drive came in a box with nice bubble wrap. 2. 9 TB of space. 3. Fast enough. 4. It has a 3 year warranty. The rule of thumb is, the device is only as good as the warranty. Expect to replace the drive every 3 years at best.

Cons: 1. Space is misadvertised. (See Below).

Overall Review: Test Devices: Synology 1515 (normal, not Plus) DSM 6.0 Update 6 4 Gbit connection (bonded) (custom build) Windows 10 Pro Intel/NVidia (etc, not important) According to Seagate’s site, only drives 8TB and under is compatible with DS1515. However Synology’s site shows that the DS1515 is compatible with the drive … so off I go! The setup is the same as any other drive. Turn off the NAS, plug in the drive. Turn on the NAS, and wait for about 18 hours (forever) for the parity process to complete. After the above, you have a nice shiny 9 TB of space. That’s right, you instantly lose 1 TB. This is due to Seagate’s math issues. To be fair, most hard drive manufactures can’t count properly when it comes to space. Luckily, OSes reports correctly, so what you see is what you get. It runs like any other drive. The DS1515’s bottleneck is it’s hardware, it never taxes the drive. It does, however, run warm. This is common among drives built for NAS. Nothing to be alarmed over. If for some reason, you want to try to use this as a desktop drive… you can … but that’s not it’s purpose …. Crystal Disk Mark stats below: Seq: 236 (read/write is basically the same) 4K: 0.85 (read), 2.36 (write)

Pros: Great performance in Seagate NAS 'high end' bays. Huge improvement over WD 'green' drives Amazing capacity in 3.5 form factor, runs between 32 degrees celsius and 45 degrees after being under full load for half a day. Can squeeze about 400 HD movies into this bad boy. No hiccups in day to day reliability. Perfect capacity for a small business. Exudes ultra reliability.

Cons: Not compatible with entry level Synology diskstation. Noisey, emits an odd static noise when fetching like a scratchy digital beep. Hard to explain. The noise output is a little bit different than what most users would be accustomed to but this drive in a NAS probably will be kept in an isolated area specific for a server. Not a game killer. Pricey if you go RAID with these babies, but caviar is also and usually worth the price.

Overall Review: Check compatibility, I repeat check compatibility on Seagate's website. High compacity for high end bays.