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Pros & Cons
Pros
They are quite a bit noisier than my wd red drives though. Not too loud. Installed into my qnap easily.
Seagate 12tb ironwolf nas 6gb/s ncq 256mb cache 3. Mb/sec over gigabit. Cents per gigabyte is an insane drop from the 7-14 cents that my older drives were at the time. Tb per platter.
Cons
In a cost-saving measure, they refuse to drill all standard holes in the drive chassis. The drive is also noisy when accessing.
Highlights
Quality
I have 2 of these drives in my nas, 3-4 months old, zero problems.
Great drive, excellent for home/office nas server.
I run any new drives i purchase through an extensive write/read test and then check the smart data, to ensure the drive is good... Read More
Two years running constantly and not a single issue.
Price
These are great drives for the money.
Oh and got it for a great black friday price of $349!
Not using it for a nas, got on sale on prime day and its currently serving well as low cost storage in a pc.
And the value for the storage size is just unbeatable, coming in at something like 3 cents per gigabyte is an insane drop from ... Read More
Shipping
Order was promptly fulfilled and product was exactly what we needed.
Packaging/appearance
The packaging is impressive, considering the drive packs eight (!
Competitiveness
921sfor comparison, the below numbers are taken using same measurement approach for my 2.
I saw this one and grabbed it because it was less expensive than the hgst.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I wanted to try something different and hopefully more reliable for this build so i decided to get 8 of these to go into a rackmount qnap nas
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The control boards and cache ics continue to miniaturize while the drive housing has now ballooned out to the full size of the form factor
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Gone are the days of the cast ribs in the housing
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Gone also are the vent holes which makes sense since this is a sealed helium drive
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The heads use pmr to manage 1
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A bunch of drives packed into a nas
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Performancei tested each of the drives before i put them into the nas
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
While i didnt get these drives with performance in mind i did figure that the high areal density and 7200rpm spindle speed would result in some pretty good str
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