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Pros & Cons
Pros
These drives are much faster than my old wd green drives. They are louder than your standard 5400rpm deep storage desktop hdd.
These platter drives are considerably less expensive than solid-state drives with comparable capacity, but also a fair bit slower and noisier. Nothing major, but definitely getting some bad blocks.
Cons
Replacement drive only lasted 3 months before crashing. Customer support is terrible. No warranty from amazon or seagate.
Seagate sent a faulty hard drive to a customer. The customer had to ship the drive back to seagate for a warranty replacement. Seagate told the customer to contact usps to get a tracer. Barely 1/3 of the way through the warranty period and now thier s... Read More
Wd red drive i replaced it with is much quieter and runs at a lower temp. It's possible that there was just some * mishandling of the drives during shipment from amazon. Despite being shipped all the way to korea at the time, i'm not inclined to give ... Read More
Of them showed up when plugged in. Try mbr and gpt initialization, no luck. Try run diskpart>, no success. Try run diskpart > and run diskmgmt >.
Highlights
Quality
Daily use and seem to be reliable so far.
About 20 hours to rebuilt the raid array - and all is good.
Slightly quieter is relative though all ironwolf drives have very loud seek noise relative to desktop or laptop drives.
Seagate hardive never fails, no complaints only praises
Price
None the less, no problems and fast (and slightly cheaper than wd).
For price and quality it’s not terrible for the money but i wish they lasted longer.
This drive was slightly cheaper and slightly quieter than the 8tb.
Shipping
The 24tb hard drives arrived promptly, were packaged appropriately, and appear to be working properly in the synology nas system.
This arrived fast, and fit the bill.
28had a hiccup with the delivery and immediately contacted the the seller (all4computers) and got some information about the de... Read More
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Ive bought 10 of these over the years
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Purchase date may 2024price 174
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Ultimately it was sorted out thanks to the seller
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
My last seagate drive lasted 6 years of 247 operation
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As long as you have duplicates of everything you should be able to recover
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The drives are still more expensive than id like but 7200rpm 8tb ironwolf drives should last several hundred thousand hours
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Not 100 sure if the drive is really running cooler
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