Seagate IronWolf Pro Hard NAS SATA Internal Hard Drive 6Gb/s

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Prevention. Enjoy a seamless, superior NAS experience as IHM monitors your system environment and offers preventative actions to secure your data. The new Seagate IronWolf 12TB capacity is certainly a great addition to the company’s line of NAS, offering impressive performance while promoting total cost of ownership. With this massive 12TB model, the new IronWolf capacity helps organizations who want the smallest physical footprint per TB as possible. To further its compatibility NAS environments, Seagate has optimized IronWolf line with AgileArray and is built with dual-plane balancing and RAID optimization in multi-bay environments. This HDD is also designed to thrive under 24/7 operation, featuring a workload rate of 180TB per year with an MTBF of 1 million hours.

As data requirements continue to rapidly grow, so does the cost of managing storage through devices such as NAS solutions. This puts organizations in a tight spot, as their budgets don’t necessarily correlate with this massive growth, which is why new high-capacity releases like Seagate IronWolf 12TB is so attractive: it helps to lower the total cost of ownership and gives organizations the ability to and stay within and better manage their budgets. The company has also released a Pro version of the drive, reviewed here. There wasn’t a lot to choose from in our 20GB copy tests, with the IronWolf reading and writing a tad slower than the BarraCuda Pro. Of course, it still blows away the vintage Seagate ES.2 1TB, which offers performance more in line with what the average user is accustomed to. IDG As far as CrystalDiskMark 5 is concerned, the IronWolf and BarraCuda Pro might as well be the same drive. AgileArray also features optimized power management that provides a faster response time while also reducing power consumption. Pricing, Warranty & Endurance

Drive balance with Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors - manages multi-bay vibration for long-term consistent performance and reliability We didn’t test the lower-capacity 1TB through 10TB IronWolf drives, but Seagate’s performance claims decrease progressively with each drop in capacity. On the other hand, the company lists only 210MBps for the 12TB model we tested, not the 250MBps we saw. You might see better-than-claimed performance with the other capacities as well, depending on your computer. Seagate When moving on to max latency, the IronWolf was the clear winner in reads, recording just 1,711.6ms. Writes performance, however, were middle of the run with a maximum latency at 22,919.0ms. CIFS showed 2,960.8ms read and 24,777ms write. Drive balance with Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors manages multi-bay vibration for long-term consistent performance and reliability I also read the article twice, there are a bunch of affirmations that I completely disagree with, it's not even a different point of view, it's just a point of view based of presenting a situation and a reality in a given time (example Seagate increased product quality, but prices also shot up). It's always the same thing, prices go up to get the executives bigger bonuses, nothing else. That being said, there are fortunately other competitors in the market.

Results of iSCSI 4k average latency were more or less that same, with the IronWolf just behind its Pro brethren at 392.454ms while reads hit an average of 428.802ms. CIFS connectivity showed similar write performance (433.843ms), though read activity was more than double the latency (820.944ms). Seagate continues to add features to the IronWolf product family by working with partners to offer advanced NAS monitoring services with the IronWolf Health Management application. Several popular NAS companies, like Asustor and Synology, have already released firmware upgrades that support the advanced IronWolf management and reporting features. The IronWolf continued it great RAID6 iSCSI performance in average latency, posting a range of 9.07ms through 394.62ms. The next best drive was the Pro version of the Seagate line, posting 403.45ms.

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It’s always exciting to see Seagate release a new product on the NAS market, as their previous releases have always been well-received, including the 10TB IronWolf model we reviewed almost a year ago. As such, 12TB IronWolf is the company’s highest capacity, performance-driven NAS HDD to date. Designed to excel in always on, always accessible 24/7 storage servers, the new IronWolf allows businesses to get the most out of their storage devices while being optimized for NAS environments with AgileArray, Seagate’s specific set of hardware, firmware and software features that promote the best possible NAS experience. The IronWolf HDD family is also equipped with dual-plane balancing and RAID optimization in multi-bay environments and offers enterprises with highly efficient and advanced power management capabilities. This article sounds like an apology to why Seagate's trust should be restored. If the 8Tb drives failed in a short amount of time, the similar products with bigger space might just do the same thing. Changing the segment name to make us think those products won't fail again is just a frivolous marketing stunt. There are too many problems with Seagate's drives: predictive failures that happen a few weeks later, the platters are bad quality, firmwares that are often buggy, and probably planned obsolescence, are just enough redflags as to why this company is not serious enough to stay in that business' segment. The Seagate IronWolf 12TB is perfect for small offices or home users that want to increase their capacity while maintaining performance they expect from Seagate. The next workload tests the drives under 100% read/write activity, this time at 8K sequential throughput. In CIFS configuration, the Seagate IronWolf measured 135,600 IOPS read and 42,054 IOPS write. Again, throughput performance was noticeably higher when using iSCSI connectivity, posting 147,390 read and 54,700 IOPS write. Seagate designed its AgileArray technology to provide a better user experience. Here's how the company describes the feature set:

Note that we did not spot any statistically relevant difference in the seek times between the BarraCuda Pro and the IronWolf. Capacity caveats

Seagate's AgileArray technology is a suite of features designed to provide a better user experience. Here's how the company describes the features: The features go beyond the specification sheet. For instance, Seagate attaches the spindle to both the top and bottom of the case to improve stability. The drives also support the ATA-8 streaming command set for increased performance with large sequential transfers. The technology allows the IronWolf to handle up to 64 data streams simultaneously. In the following section of this review, we will test 8 Seagate IronWolf 12TB HDDs performance in both iSCSI and CIFS configurations inside a Netgear 628x (RAID6). In standard deviation, Seagate IronWolf posted its best read performance when configured in iSCSI with 464.47ms, while recording its best write performance in CIFS with 1,898.31.