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title: "Seagate IronWolf, 8TB, NAS, Internal Hard Drive, CMR, 3.5 Inch, SATA, 6GB/s, 5,400 RPM, 256MB Cache, for RAID Network Attached Storage, 3 year Rescue Services, FFP (ST8000VNZ04)"
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# 7200 RPM blazing speed 8TB massive storage RAID-optimized AgileArray firmware Seagate IronWolf, 8TB, NAS, Internal Hard Drive, CMR, 3.5 Inch, SATA, 6GB/s, 5,400 RPM, 256MB Cache, for RAID Network Attached Storage, 3 year Rescue Services, FFP (ST8000VNZ04)

**Brand:** seagate
**Price:** 207202 Ft
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Power your NAS with speed and reliability that means business.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Seagate IronWolf, 8TB, NAS, Internal Hard Drive, CMR, 3.5 Inch, SATA, 6GB/s, 5,400 RPM, 256MB Cache, for RAID Network Attached Storage, 3 year Rescue Services, FFP (ST8000VNZ04) by seagate
- **How much does it cost?** 207202 Ft with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hu](https://www.desertcart.hu/products/227441638-seagate-ironwolf-8tb-nas-internal-hard-drive-cmr-3-5)

## Best For

- seagate enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted seagate brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Massive 8TB Capacity:** Store your entire digital universe with room to grow.
- • **Blazing 7200 RPM Speed:** Experience ultra-fast data access and transfer rates up to 260 MB/s.
- • **IronWolf Health Management:** Proactively monitor drive health to avoid downtime and data loss.
- • **RAID-Optimized AgileArray Firmware:** Engineered for multi-bay NAS setups with vibration sensors for rock-solid reliability.
- • **Included 2-Year Rescue Data Recovery:** Sleep easy knowing your data is protected with professional recovery services.

## Overview

The Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Internal Hard Drive is a high-performance, 3.5-inch SATA drive designed specifically for multi-user NAS environments. Featuring a 7200 RPM spindle speed, 256MB cache, and AgileArray firmware optimized for RAID, it delivers fast, reliable data transfer up to 260 MB/s. Integrated vibration sensors and IronWolf Health Management ensure durability and uptime in multi-bay setups. With a hefty 180TB/year workload rating and a 2-year Rescue Data Recovery service included, this drive is built for professionals demanding speed, capacity, and peace of mind.

## Description

Designed for multi-user NAS, this 8TB IronWolf drive has vibration sensors, agilearray firmware for RAID, and 180TB/year workload for reliable, high-capacity storage.

Review: Fast, But Not For Everyone - I was running low on my 2Tb drive and began to look around to replace it with something like a 4Tb option. I searched desertcart for my current go-to brand, Western Digital, and found their Blue range of drives in both 4 and 6Tb variants. Prior to choosing though, I decided to find out whether these drives were CMR (Conventional magnetic Recording) or SMR (Shingle Magnetic Recording) models. Most drives today for the desktop market tend to be of the SMR type, especially at higher capacities. The 2Tb WD Blue drive I have is a CMR drive and has good write performance. BTW, for those that may not be aware, SMR drives suffer from far lower write performance. This means that saving files on such drives is going to be somewhat slower than for a CMR type drive. This, of course, for most desktop users is fine, the trade off is high capacity at good prices. After all, most consumers write data once when placing a file onto their drives and thereafter it's only ever read back, so not a big deal at all. As an archive drive, SMR in particular makes economic sense. Bear in mind that the difference between an SMR and CMR drive, certainly in the case of some WD drives, is a single letter in the model number. So, for example, the 2Tb WD Blue drive I have, model number 20EZRZ is a CMR drive. The 2Tb WD Blue 20EZAZ is a SMR version. It's safe to assume that most desktop class hard drives will be SMR, certainly many of those above 1Tb capacity. Does this matter? For most users as stated above, no. However, I've seen some reviewers using SMR type drives within their network attached storage (NAS) systems. This is not a good idea as using drives in RAID arrays often involves heavy write operations as data has to be written across multiple drives. Rebuilding an array using SMR drives is a big no-no, as build times will be dramatically increased and therefore placing more stress on the drives. This is why I use Western Digital Red drives for my five bay NAS. The WD Red range are designed for NAS environments where 24/7 365 day a year continual running is supported. However, on a slight tangent, be advised that I use the 4Tb WD Red drives and was considering an upgrade to perhaps the 6Tb Red models to expand the capacity of my NAS. Oddly though, according to the NAS compares table listing which drives are SMR and CMR, one model of the aforementioned drive is an SMR type. This is a baffling choice for a drive marketed for NAS operation. Apologies for the preamble on this review of the Seagate IronWolf 8Tb drive, I just wanted to help those perhaps unaware of the potential pitfalls of choosing a drive. So, this is the first Seagate internal drive I've ever purchased. As alluded to earlier, I have always been a WD man in that regard, having over 30 years experience with hard drives and, from my personal experience, finding Seagate to suffer more drive failures than WD, certainly back in the 90's when I saw plenty fail. However, desertcart's deal on the Seagate IronWolf 8Tb, £163 at time of purchase and some £80 cheaper than WD's closest equivalent I could find, was just too good to pass up. The IronWolf brand is Seagate's equivalent to WD's Red, so a more robust drive designed for NAS environments. besides, it had a three year data recovery plan included. Now, this could be a positive or negative depending on your point of view. My prior cynicism of Seagate's reliability made me wonder why Seagate were offering such a data recovery plan. It could be interpreted that Seagate have less confidence in the longevity of their drives compared to WD, I don't know. Anyway, what further appealed to me was that this drive was indeed a CMR model, witch it should be if designed for NAS use. However, the real thing that surprised me was that it also boasted a higher 7,200 rpm spin speed as opposed to the far more common 5,400 rpm alternatives. Those as old as me will recall a time where all standard desktop hard drives were 7,200 rpm. However, over the years as platter data densities increased dramatically and thus transfer rates rose as a result, the lower rotational speed became common place, its added benefits of quieter, cooler and more power efficient operation now able to be realized without significant speed penalties. I replaced my 2Tb WD drive in my case with the new Seagate IronWolf and powered up. After completing the drive initialization prompted by Windows and creating a partition, ending up with around 7,400 Gb available space, I began to notice something I was sure wasn't there before, a low, resonant humming coming from my large tower case. Strangely, moving my head father away from the case to determine if the hum was coming from there, resulted in it being more noticeable. The ever present hum was mildly irritating to someone like me with sensitive hearing. Not a deal breaker for most, I'm certain, and it would depend on what kind of PC case you're mounting this drive in. But given my large case is designed for silence, even having the hard drive sleds using rubber grommets between the mounting screws and the sleds, the hum was annoying. However, for the sake of fairness, I needed to find out if this was the new drive or just something that had been there and I had suddenly become aware of for some reason. I altered the power management option in Windows to turn off the new drive after 10 minutes. I waited and then I knew it was the new drive when the hum faded into blissful silence. I really wanted this high capacity, fast drive sat in my main PC, but not with this ever present low hum. If you play games or have a case that doesn't resonate with the 7,200 rpm drive, then this is a blisteringly fast option (See below for more details). However, I spend much of my time writing and so sadly, the hum proved too distracting for me. I swapped out the new drive for my old 2Tb WD Blue, powered on the computer and blissful silence once more reigned. Prior to doing that though, I ran the Crystal Disk Mark benchmarking tool on it and ... Wow! ... this 7,200 rpm IronWolf drive is the fastest mechanical hard drive I've ever used, even besting my prior champion, the external WD 14Tb Elements drive I have, with a sequential read speed of 260 Mb/ sec with a sequential write of 253 Mb/sec. Truly stellar performance figures, but at a price. Not only the added noise, but I noted, too, the higher operating temperatures. The drive was running at a toasty 47C during my tests as compared with my 5,400 rpm drives at around 32C. So, for those wanting a very fast, high capacity mechanical hard drive, this is the one for you! The problem I had now was what to do with this impressive drive. I decided to employ it in it's natural environment, my NAS. Drive 5 was a stand alone drive used for generalised backup purposes and not part of my RAID 5 array of 4 WD 4Tb Red's. Once the new drive was slotted into bay 5 and began to spin up, the subtle, but noticeable noise of the new drive could be heard. Even within my NAS, this drive could be heard over the other 4 WD Red's that were running. To be clear, this is a very subtle difference and those that run their NAS's in busy rooms or elsewhere will never notice. Even those like me with a small NAS box in one corner of a small room will likely not pick up on the change. Had I put five of these IronWolf 7,200 rpm drives into my NAS though, the overall increase in sound levels would be noticed if sat within a short distance of them. Seek noise is also much more noticeable on this drive compared to the 4Tb WD Red drives. One can hear a sharper, crisper sound as the IronWolf's head actuators move. My WD drives seek action is almost imperceptible. TO be fair though, I believe a heavier, more noticeable seek sound is par for the course for high capacity drives. I set about copying some 1.5Tb of data from my old drive to the new one which took almost 5 hours. I noticed though, how the NAS's internal fan would regularly ramp up to keep the unit cool now it had a warmer running 7,200 rpm drive sat in the bottom bay. This turned my otherwise silent NAS, an unobtrusive box sat in one corner, into a presence that reminded me of a distant hair drier. I shudder to think had I had all five bays populated with these drives, my NAS may have trouble with the heat under sustained load. If it did, it's 120mm rear fan would be running at max continually to try and stay cool. Do you need such a drive for your NAS? Probably not. Most NAS's are fine with 5,400 rpm drives as their transfer rates often exceed 120Mb/sec, possibly more when combined into a RAID array. bear in mind that the 260 Mb/sec read speed of this IronWolf model will totally saturate a 1 Gigabit Ethernet connection. In other words, if you run a NAS over a 1Gigabit Ethernet network, as most people do, you will never realize the speed potential of these drives in that environment. 1 Gigabit Ethernet translates to a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 125 Mb/sec. Many folks get Mega/giga bits and Mega/giga Bytes confused (ISP's are the worst for this). Thus, your 260 Mb/sec IronWolf drive will be crippled to 125 Mb/sec at best, less than half its rated speed, over a standard 1 gig Ethernet network. So, you'll have all that added noise and heat for nothing. I'm sure there is a market for such drives within NAS arrays ... somewhere in the semi-pro/professional space and on NAS devices far more expensive than mine, but for the vast majority here, nope, you don't need one of these in your NAS unless your entire network uses 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet or faster. This Seagate IronWolf 8Tb 7,200 rpm drive is fast, very fast! But it's not for everyone. It's a technical marvel to be sure to squeeze this much performance from a mechanical hard drive and if you aren't sensitive to noise or concerned with heat, then this is a fantastic storage device. As for longevity, I'll update this review should this drive fail within its warranty period ... or even soon after.
Review: Replacing 2 x 4tb with 2 x 8tb in Synology 418Play - Followed the article from Synology around replacing higher capacity drives and it was very simple. It took a long time for the volume to rebuild, but this was expected given it was nearly 90% full (12 TB). I only replaced 2 of the 4 x 4tb, so I do need to replace the other 2 at some point, but it gave me another 4 tb to play with and i'll purchase more when i have the £ to do it. Synology has a tie in with Seagate Ironwolf as they have specific status and testing when you look at the drives in the Synology OS, which is quite cool. Drives themselves are fine, a little noisy but not much different to the other drives (HGST) that were replaced. Been running for over a month without issue. I've marked 4 stars on value for money because they're still a little pricey and will be good to see these come down a bit more to £150 but I understand the logistics and scarcity of parts. Overall very pleased and glad I went with these rather than the WD Reds with all their SMR issues.

## Features

- desertcart Exclusive
- With agilearray-firmware for RAID optimization and 24/7 deployment
- Rotation vibration sensors on higher capacity drives to reduce vibration in multi-bay applications
- Ironwolf Health Management is integrated into compatible wet operating systems that monitor the status
- 180TB/year workload for busy multi-user environments, allowing users to transfer more data from the hard drive and NAS
- Enjoy long-term peace of mind with the included two-year limited warranty and two-yr rescue data recovery services

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B084ZV4DXB |
| Best Sellers Rank | 121,959 in Computers & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories ) 502 in Internal Hard Drives |
| Box Contents | IronWolf HDD 8TB, The actual capacity may vary. |
| Brand | Seagate |
| Brand Name | Seagate |
| Cache Memory Installed Size | 256 |
| Color | NAS HDD |
| Compatible Devices | Desktop |
| Connectivity technology | SATA |
| Customer Package Type | Standard Packaging |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 4,967 Reviews |
| Data Transfer Rate | 6 Gigabits Per Second |
| Digital Storage Capacity | 8 TB |
| Digital storage capacity | 8 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5-inch |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00763649138359 |
| Hard Disk Description | Mechanical Hard Disk |
| Hard Disk Form Factor | 3.5 Inches |
| Hard Disk Interface | Serial ATA |
| Hard Disk Rotational Speed | 7200 RPM |
| Hard disk form factor | 3.5 Inches |
| Hard disk interface | Serial ATA |
| Hard-Drive Size | 8 TB |
| Hardware Connectivity | SATA 6.0 Gb/s |
| Installation Type | Internal Hard Drive |
| Item Dimensions L x W x Thickness | 14.7L x 10.2W x 2.6Th centimetres |
| Item Type Name | IronWolf Internal NAS Hard Drive |
| Item Weight | 735 g |
| Manufacturer | Seagate |
| Media Speed | 210.0 |
| Model Name | ST8000VNZ04/N004 |
| Model Number | ST8000VNZ04/N004 |
| Network Connectivity Technology | SATA |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Product Features | Data Recovery Service |
| Product Warranty | 2 year manufacturer |
| Read Speed | 210 Megabytes Per Second |
| Special feature | Data Recovery Service |
| Specific Uses For Product | Business, Personal |
| UPC | 763649138359 |
| Unit Count | 1.0 count |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Seagate
- **Colour:** NAS HDD
- **Compatible devices:** Desktop
- **Connectivity technology:** SATA
- **Digital storage capacity:** 8 TB
- **Hard disk description:** Mechanical Hard Disk
- **Hard disk form factor:** 3.5 Inches
- **Hard disk interface:** Serial ATA
- **Installation type:** Internal Hard Drive
- **Special feature:** Data Recovery Service

## Images

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## Questions & Answers

**Q: Are thee drives loud?**
A: Yes they are quite noisy compared to other drives I have used - this is in a Synology DS920+ and other enclosures may be quieter but the noise in the DS920+ is significant. However, this is while the NAS is building the RAID, once the general activity level drops I would expect them to be quieter (fingers crossed)

**Q: Does this work ok with qnap nas?**
A: I have been using IronWolf drives in my 4 bay QNAP ts-451 since mid 2017 and have not had any problems so far.

**Q: What's the return policy is it really back to the usa if i order from the uk. would it not just go back to amazon?**
A: Amazon year one.
<Ime came with free data recovery, which I will need to look at the webpage should I need it replaced and data recoverred.

**Q: Does it work with a docking station?**
A: I would expect it to work as it is essentially just a HDD but cannot guarantee as my drives are all in a NAS device. However as they are made for NAS devices if the intended use is as an external HDD for a PC I would personally use a different drive.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fast, But Not For Everyone
*by S***S on 21 October 2022*

I was running low on my 2Tb drive and began to look around to replace it with something like a 4Tb option. I searched Amazon for my current go-to brand, Western Digital, and found their Blue range of drives in both 4 and 6Tb variants. Prior to choosing though, I decided to find out whether these drives were CMR (Conventional magnetic Recording) or SMR (Shingle Magnetic Recording) models. Most drives today for the desktop market tend to be of the SMR type, especially at higher capacities. The 2Tb WD Blue drive I have is a CMR drive and has good write performance. BTW, for those that may not be aware, SMR drives suffer from far lower write performance. This means that saving files on such drives is going to be somewhat slower than for a CMR type drive. This, of course, for most desktop users is fine, the trade off is high capacity at good prices. After all, most consumers write data once when placing a file onto their drives and thereafter it's only ever read back, so not a big deal at all. As an archive drive, SMR in particular makes economic sense. Bear in mind that the difference between an SMR and CMR drive, certainly in the case of some WD drives, is a single letter in the model number. So, for example, the 2Tb WD Blue drive I have, model number 20EZRZ is a CMR drive. The 2Tb WD Blue 20EZAZ is a SMR version. It's safe to assume that most desktop class hard drives will be SMR, certainly many of those above 1Tb capacity. Does this matter? For most users as stated above, no. However, I've seen some reviewers using SMR type drives within their network attached storage (NAS) systems. This is not a good idea as using drives in RAID arrays often involves heavy write operations as data has to be written across multiple drives. Rebuilding an array using SMR drives is a big no-no, as build times will be dramatically increased and therefore placing more stress on the drives. This is why I use Western Digital Red drives for my five bay NAS. The WD Red range are designed for NAS environments where 24/7 365 day a year continual running is supported. However, on a slight tangent, be advised that I use the 4Tb WD Red drives and was considering an upgrade to perhaps the 6Tb Red models to expand the capacity of my NAS. Oddly though, according to the NAS compares table listing which drives are SMR and CMR, one model of the aforementioned drive is an SMR type. This is a baffling choice for a drive marketed for NAS operation. Apologies for the preamble on this review of the Seagate IronWolf 8Tb drive, I just wanted to help those perhaps unaware of the potential pitfalls of choosing a drive. So, this is the first Seagate internal drive I've ever purchased. As alluded to earlier, I have always been a WD man in that regard, having over 30 years experience with hard drives and, from my personal experience, finding Seagate to suffer more drive failures than WD, certainly back in the 90's when I saw plenty fail. However, Amazon's deal on the Seagate IronWolf 8Tb, £163 at time of purchase and some £80 cheaper than WD's closest equivalent I could find, was just too good to pass up. The IronWolf brand is Seagate's equivalent to WD's Red, so a more robust drive designed for NAS environments. besides, it had a three year data recovery plan included. Now, this could be a positive or negative depending on your point of view. My prior cynicism of Seagate's reliability made me wonder why Seagate were offering such a data recovery plan. It could be interpreted that Seagate have less confidence in the longevity of their drives compared to WD, I don't know. Anyway, what further appealed to me was that this drive was indeed a CMR model, witch it should be if designed for NAS use. However, the real thing that surprised me was that it also boasted a higher 7,200 rpm spin speed as opposed to the far more common 5,400 rpm alternatives. Those as old as me will recall a time where all standard desktop hard drives were 7,200 rpm. However, over the years as platter data densities increased dramatically and thus transfer rates rose as a result, the lower rotational speed became common place, its added benefits of quieter, cooler and more power efficient operation now able to be realized without significant speed penalties. I replaced my 2Tb WD drive in my case with the new Seagate IronWolf and powered up. After completing the drive initialization prompted by Windows and creating a partition, ending up with around 7,400 Gb available space, I began to notice something I was sure wasn't there before, a low, resonant humming coming from my large tower case. Strangely, moving my head father away from the case to determine if the hum was coming from there, resulted in it being more noticeable. The ever present hum was mildly irritating to someone like me with sensitive hearing. Not a deal breaker for most, I'm certain, and it would depend on what kind of PC case you're mounting this drive in. But given my large case is designed for silence, even having the hard drive sleds using rubber grommets between the mounting screws and the sleds, the hum was annoying. However, for the sake of fairness, I needed to find out if this was the new drive or just something that had been there and I had suddenly become aware of for some reason. I altered the power management option in Windows to turn off the new drive after 10 minutes. I waited and then I knew it was the new drive when the hum faded into blissful silence. I really wanted this high capacity, fast drive sat in my main PC, but not with this ever present low hum. If you play games or have a case that doesn't resonate with the 7,200 rpm drive, then this is a blisteringly fast option (See below for more details). However, I spend much of my time writing and so sadly, the hum proved too distracting for me. I swapped out the new drive for my old 2Tb WD Blue, powered on the computer and blissful silence once more reigned. Prior to doing that though, I ran the Crystal Disk Mark benchmarking tool on it and ... Wow! ... this 7,200 rpm IronWolf drive is the fastest mechanical hard drive I've ever used, even besting my prior champion, the external WD 14Tb Elements drive I have, with a sequential read speed of 260 Mb/ sec with a sequential write of 253 Mb/sec. Truly stellar performance figures, but at a price. Not only the added noise, but I noted, too, the higher operating temperatures. The drive was running at a toasty 47C during my tests as compared with my 5,400 rpm drives at around 32C. So, for those wanting a very fast, high capacity mechanical hard drive, this is the one for you! The problem I had now was what to do with this impressive drive. I decided to employ it in it's natural environment, my NAS. Drive 5 was a stand alone drive used for generalised backup purposes and not part of my RAID 5 array of 4 WD 4Tb Red's. Once the new drive was slotted into bay 5 and began to spin up, the subtle, but noticeable noise of the new drive could be heard. Even within my NAS, this drive could be heard over the other 4 WD Red's that were running. To be clear, this is a very subtle difference and those that run their NAS's in busy rooms or elsewhere will never notice. Even those like me with a small NAS box in one corner of a small room will likely not pick up on the change. Had I put five of these IronWolf 7,200 rpm drives into my NAS though, the overall increase in sound levels would be noticed if sat within a short distance of them. Seek noise is also much more noticeable on this drive compared to the 4Tb WD Red drives. One can hear a sharper, crisper sound as the IronWolf's head actuators move. My WD drives seek action is almost imperceptible. TO be fair though, I believe a heavier, more noticeable seek sound is par for the course for high capacity drives. I set about copying some 1.5Tb of data from my old drive to the new one which took almost 5 hours. I noticed though, how the NAS's internal fan would regularly ramp up to keep the unit cool now it had a warmer running 7,200 rpm drive sat in the bottom bay. This turned my otherwise silent NAS, an unobtrusive box sat in one corner, into a presence that reminded me of a distant hair drier. I shudder to think had I had all five bays populated with these drives, my NAS may have trouble with the heat under sustained load. If it did, it's 120mm rear fan would be running at max continually to try and stay cool. Do you need such a drive for your NAS? Probably not. Most NAS's are fine with 5,400 rpm drives as their transfer rates often exceed 120Mb/sec, possibly more when combined into a RAID array. bear in mind that the 260 Mb/sec read speed of this IronWolf model will totally saturate a 1 Gigabit Ethernet connection. In other words, if you run a NAS over a 1Gigabit Ethernet network, as most people do, you will never realize the speed potential of these drives in that environment. 1 Gigabit Ethernet translates to a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 125 Mb/sec. Many folks get Mega/giga bits and Mega/giga Bytes confused (ISP's are the worst for this). Thus, your 260 Mb/sec IronWolf drive will be crippled to 125 Mb/sec at best, less than half its rated speed, over a standard 1 gig Ethernet network. So, you'll have all that added noise and heat for nothing. I'm sure there is a market for such drives within NAS arrays ... somewhere in the semi-pro/professional space and on NAS devices far more expensive than mine, but for the vast majority here, nope, you don't need one of these in your NAS unless your entire network uses 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet or faster. This Seagate IronWolf 8Tb 7,200 rpm drive is fast, very fast! But it's not for everyone. It's a technical marvel to be sure to squeeze this much performance from a mechanical hard drive and if you aren't sensitive to noise or concerned with heat, then this is a fantastic storage device. As for longevity, I'll update this review should this drive fail within its warranty period ... or even soon after.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Replacing 2 x 4tb with 2 x 8tb in Synology 418Play
*by M***7 on 11 May 2022*

Followed the article from Synology around replacing higher capacity drives and it was very simple. It took a long time for the volume to rebuild, but this was expected given it was nearly 90% full (12 TB). I only replaced 2 of the 4 x 4tb, so I do need to replace the other 2 at some point, but it gave me another 4 tb to play with and i'll purchase more when i have the £ to do it. Synology has a tie in with Seagate Ironwolf as they have specific status and testing when you look at the drives in the Synology OS, which is quite cool. Drives themselves are fine, a little noisy but not much different to the other drives (HGST) that were replaced. Been running for over a month without issue. I've marked 4 stars on value for money because they're still a little pricey and will be good to see these come down a bit more to £150 but I understand the logistics and scarcity of parts. Overall very pleased and glad I went with these rather than the WD Reds with all their SMR issues.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reliable in day-to-day use.
*by W***N on 13 October 2025*

These are installed in a RAID 1 configuration in a 2-bay Synology NAS; this is used as a network drive for a Plex media server. They are a little noisier in operation than the WD 6TB pair in a similar setting, but are still healthy according to SMART after around 2+ years more-or-less continuous operation at 70% or so of data capacity. I will be replacing them some time in the next 12 months, but this is caution rather than necessity.

## Frequently Bought Together

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