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[eBay Plus] Seagate Ironwolf 8TB NAS Drive - $278.10 Delivered @ Computer Alliance eBay
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i would go with WD or HGST any day. Had a lot of bad experiences with Seagate in the past so never touch them anymore.
For my home NAS - I go with the cheapest option but have a plan to mitigate failed drive. All drive will fail.
I had many many bad experiences with disks manufactured by WD/Seagate/Toshiba.
With large enough samples, its guarantee that you'll see a disk fail from each manufacturer within 6 months usage.i went with whats cheapest. my dad has reds i have ironwolfs and we havent had issues
I've been running various sizes of these for the last 5 years and never had an issue.
I will go with the HGST HC320 from amazon for using in NAS. My seagate nas drive failed just in 10 months.
I've been running 2 4tb versions of these in my NAS for 3 years. No issues.
not the same
better than this. Might have a barracuda pro iron wolf pro or exos which are all cmr instead of smr. Also 10tb>8tb
No Iron Wolf drives are SMR.
@ONEMariachi: www.seagate.com/au/en/internal-hard-drives/hdd/ironwolf/
Built with conventional magnetic recording (CMR), IronWolf and IronWolf Pro drives deliver the consistent performance you need.
Personally i would consider cmr more reliable in daily use especially heavy use thsan smr. The smr are very likely to have the speed drop after a long period of use@ONEMariachi: I think you just said ironwolf are smr and better than a cmr drive in daily use. That's what i would like to respond
@johangules: I did absolutely no such thing. I specifically stated the opposite.
No Iron Wolf drives are SMR.
As in Iron Wolf Drives do not use SMR.
Which you inferred they do by your sentence of
Might have a barracuda pro iron wolf pro or exos which are all cmr instead of smr. Also 10tb>8tb
Stating "Instead of SMR" Implies you thought this Iron Wolf deal is SMR. I respondded to taht, to state that no, it does not use SMR.
I'm starting to think English is not your native language by your use of grammar and your misunderstanding here?
better than this. Might have a barracuda pro iron wolf pro or exos which are all cmr instead of smr. Also 10tb>8tb
Not sure why you get downvoted but I agree that the $244 10TB Seagate is a better deal than this in terms of $/TB plus you get USB enclosure.
I get that some people avoid shucking the drive due to warranty, but I had warranty claims approved after I put back the drive in its place.
I only exclusively run these for my system. Haven't had one die on me yet and I've got about 40 odd 8TBs drives.
can this be used on a desktop or do you need to do something with it first?
Can be used for desktop like any other hard drive. Sata power and sata data connection.
is there an advantage to using a NAS drive? Is it more durable?
In most case no, as warranty is usually the same as normal drive. If just for desktop, look for cheapest per tb with same warranty.
Personal experience, both seagate and WD require you send hard drive back for RMA which cost around $10-15. Both have been fairly easy to RMA.
Theoretically NAS drives are rated at higher MTBFs and lower nonrecoverable read error rates. Which on the face of it means a more durable drive, however in a normal consumer, non-24/7 operation situation the difference is only marginal.
These NAS drives have longer warranties, 3 years compared to regular consumer drives at 2 years. As with all warranty claims under ACL, the retailer must handle it for you if you so choose (alternative is to deal with the manufacturer directly).
Never think a "more reliable" drive will keep your data safe, practice good back up policies.
If you use this particular hard drive though, compared to regular consumer hard drives there will be higher power usage and noise as this is 7200rpm compared to consumer drives at 5400rpm. (Unless running multiple drives or 24/7 the power consumption difference is negligible, we're talking difference of single digit watts.)
@Trance N Dance: My older drives, like WD Blue, they spin down when inactive. If I want to access it, it has to spin back up which takes a few seconds before I can read the drive.
Right now i have a WD Red in my desktop. Whenever I access the drive, I have instant access to it. I find this convenient. But that means the drive is always on and always spinning. I assume this requires more endurance since its total operation time will be longer than a standard drive that powers itself off, or goes into standby.
@lostn: I'm pretty sure you can go into advanced power settings and set the hdd to never turn off and stop spinning.
@lostn: I don't think it's going to matter much, I've run hdd's like that for 5+ years with no issues. Power costs are negligible.
@Balljuice: i was more concerned about it powering down and then powering up frequently. If it ran at constant levels maybe it's better for the device. Or maybe I'm just worrying over nothing.
I assumed that drives put in a NAS with constant free access would require more durability than consumer grade desktop drives especially since they cost more than Baracudas, but that's just an assumption.
This or WD Red NAS?