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Pros

Long warrantee is a bonus and inspires confidence. I can confirm that my disk is silent in use & is actually quieter than the wd disk it replaced.

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Quality


Serious drive, left on all the time with no issues at all


I have 4 of these drives is a synology ds918+ nas, they have proved to be reliable.


My 2tb western digital red drive started having issues in my synology diskstation after running constantly for the last 11 years.


Raid rebuild was twice as fast on these as my old wd blue drives, and the mean to me between failures is through the roof.

Price


Price per tb and data resilience is what makes them a good option :)

Shipping


Thank you for the excellent delivery and the first-class product.


These drives arrived a lot quicker than i was expecting which was a welcome change from most retailers, so thanks for that.

Packaging/appearance


A super storage device, received it well packaged and new.


I was also afraid that it may be damaged in transit after reading one review - it arrived safely packaged in a decent two layer...  Read More

Competitiveness


I bought this to replace the failed nas drive from another brand recently, of which i have had failures over the last couple of...  Read More


These are 7200rpm and the wd ones were 5400rpm, plus these have more cache.


If i had to buy more drives like this i would buy these over other similar brands and/or models.


I have considered going with seagate exos brand but finally chose iron wolf pro brand as it has the same reliability mtbf 2.

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  • This product had a total of 1,380 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 23 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I had 4x 4tb drives of the same make and model and they were 10x more quiet than these


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    If these disks are in in your home and next to your desk rethink this decision


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Also yes they work in the synology but they say they are not approved


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I bought 2 of the 18tb pro models to replace two 6tb wd drives in my nas wanting to go as big as i could afford so i can add another two later


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    These are 7200rpm and the wd ones were 5400rpm plus these have more cache


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    They are fairly loud if comparing against desktop hard drives


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Not insanely loud but louder than your standard 5400rpm deep storage desktop hdd


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The fact that they are enterprise level nas drives should be all the warning that is needed on that front

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