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.
Price
Bought this because the price was very good for a nas version of 4tb.
Very hard to get this at a good price.
Packaging/appearance
Good packaging no problems in synology drive
Packaging adequately protective but not usual amazon standard.
Came well protected in cardboard packaging designed for purpose.
The replacement drive (speedily dealt with by amazon) arrived in approved by seagate packaging - basically a bigger box with fo... Read More
Competitiveness
Using it in a synology nas working fine
I have a 2tb ironwolf nas running and it's qt 55k hours still with no bad sector's seeing life expect is 43k.
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
Bought to populate a qnap nas that is to sit in our lounge so was important that the drives are quiet, which these are.
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
good, far, quiet, red and two. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 10,074 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 19 2021.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Also it may be that the ds918 enclosure is inherently noisier than the ds215j
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Got this as a replacement for a wd nas drive that was failing reporting defective sectors
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I didnt want another wd so opted for this seagate model
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Bought these instead of wd reds as the reds were out of stock
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Difficult to write a review for a nas hard drive when the main measure of success is its longevity
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Wd red drives now use smr technology which is a modern means of magnetically writing the data to the disc
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Significantly so in fact to the point where avoiding smr drives is actively encouraged unless youre archiving data
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I will edit the review if they fail within an unexpected timeframe but so far they are running quietly with very little heat and vibration and all passed the synology drive tests