Highlights
Quality
All in all, i' am happy with the purchase.
Very pleased with it and would recommend.
I am, however, now crossing my fingers that seagate's quality and reliability as demonstrated by once having a dead-on-arrival ... Read More
I fitted it into my storage system, the system loaded it with the current data and it has has worked faultlessly since.
Packaging/appearance
Good packaging no problems in synology drive
Packaging adequately protective but not usual amazon standard.
The replacement drive (speedily dealt with by amazon) arrived in approved by seagate packaging - basically a bigger box with fo... Read More
As others have commented sometimes the packaging for these is not great.
Competitiveness
Drives in stalled in synology nas and passing all tests, working well.
)the two ironwolf drives were easy to install and configure in my nas bay.
Plugging it into my server, it was detected and its identifier proclaimed it as a 4tb seagate, but nothing would write to it wi... Read More
I installed them in a synology ds418 4-bay nas enclosure, configured using synology hybrid raid with a single drive fault toler... Read More
Overview
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- This product had a total of 8,380 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 26 2021.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Packaging adequately protective but not usual amazon standard
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Uses cmr not the less than satisfactory smr of the wd drives
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
So far no problem hard drive was added to time machine more like cloud
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Unfortunately i didnt get that
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you have never bought a nas drive or any hard drive for that matter you might be wondering if you can get a cheaper brand
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You dont know how these drives are treated and you risk data loss if it fails which they do
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But i now realise that when one raid 1 drive fails the other raid 1 drive has a much higher likelihood of failure because of increased rate of readwrites and constant attempts to restore damaged data
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is what happened to me – one drive raised an alert of impaired health and the other drive failed very quickly afterwards