Sorry to be the Devil's Advocate, i will make it short.1) 4th day in backup and drive failed. HDD now becomes Raw. I am now in the midst of recovery but certain i am going to lose 15 years plus of Pictures/Accounting/Mp3 and etc etc. I never had any issue with WD, decided to try Seagate. Of course i am responsible but this is fk... i will never be able to get back my datas in its orignal form,. May even lose everything. scanning this 4TB of harddisk is taking days when i still have a day job to do.2) Package came with normal box and 2 layer of thin bubble wrap. Knowing how courier companies deliver, packing should had been better. 1 week later - i managed to recover much of the files but all in random mixed order. Still very sad..

Ahh.. Good enough for the job will probably be rep

This 8 terabyte Seagate Nas Drive fits well in the Seagate Raid system. However, I don't have the time to get the help to possibly. create multiple volumes on the Seagate Raid then. it's slow..The odd thing about it is the four terabyte nas drives. from Seagate seemed to have a better aspect. to them for lasting longer and running a little bit faster.Seagate does temp drop the ball a little bit every now and then like there three terabyte and 1.5 terabyte drives. I will not be upgrading. 232 gigabyte raid system. for media service. Obviously the smaller c. Seagate hard drives are still improvement over the larger ones in the NASA environment.Now the question lies. who will be given their business? of being a leader in the raid systems or will raid vanish ... MoreThis 8 terabyte Seagate Nas Drive fits well in the Seagate Raid system. However, I don't have the time to get the help to possibly. create multiple volumes on the Seagate Raid then. it's slow..The odd thing about it is the four terabyte nas drives. from Seagate seemed to have a better aspect. to them for lasting longer and running a little bit faster.Seagate does temp drop the ball a little bit every now and then like there three terabyte and 1.5 terabyte drives. I will not be upgrading. 232 gigabyte raid system. for media service. Obviously the smaller c. Seagate hard drives are still improvement over the larger ones in the NASA environment.Now the question lies. who will be given their business? of being a leader in the raid systems or will raid vanish completely with these new 16 to 30 terabyte heat or gas backed storage systems?So far, no failures just. slow downs near hits of failing. but then again, I'm using an eight terabyte As a 4 terabyte system. doesn't make sense for me to upgrade my. Seagate raid, which has lost support for its OS as well as its box..I would recommend talking to people who have other types of raid systems to see if. plugging in Seagate nasses actually have. an advantage.

Average drive.

There’s nothing wrong with this drive model. Perfectly adequate for the job in hand versus the price paid.They are not the most reliable, but they are cheap. The 4TB model is lightweight and slim versus the 6 year-old 2TB model I’m replacing.Being a 5400RPM drive, it’s relatively quiet in operation versus a 7200RPM drive. Data transfer speed varies from 200MB/s and gets slower as more data is written. You don’t buy this drive to break speed records.I have 4 of them in a NAS and they will stay in there for 3-5 years before I replace them again.If you want ultra reliability, buy Ultrastar instead.

IronWolf Solid Choice.

Overall does what it needs to do. I have been running this Drive since I opened it June 8th 2023, today is July 6th, so almost a full month. Its been on running since the day I got it. Drive has about 584.6gb of space left after I moved over 2 4tb Drives to it. I have not had any issues, running an EXT4 filesystem on it, mostly just for Plex, Music and Media/Editing. All my other drives are Western Digital, but iRonWolf has definitely wanting me to give them another try in the future. I got it because it was Cost to TB made more sense. Hopefully the Length and quality of the drive holds up. I back up regularly but would like to clean out some of my older drives, to add new content and media to my library. Works quick enough FOR ME for editing and managing files. My ... MoreOverall does what it needs to do. I have been running this Drive since I opened it June 8th 2023, today is July 6th, so almost a full month. Its been on running since the day I got it. Drive has about 584.6gb of space left after I moved over 2 4tb Drives to it. I have not had any issues, running an EXT4 filesystem on it, mostly just for Plex, Music and Media/Editing. All my other drives are Western Digital, but iRonWolf has definitely wanting me to give them another try in the future. I got it because it was Cost to TB made more sense. Hopefully the Length and quality of the drive holds up. I back up regularly but would like to clean out some of my older drives, to add new content and media to my library. Works quick enough FOR ME for editing and managing files. My Original Transfer from my 4tb drives did take quite a while not entirely sure of the speeds, but just set it and forget it till I hear the Door Bell on it being done. I would definitely consider getting another one in the future, and would recommend. Price per TB but I tend to stick to NAS Drives as my computer running almost all day everyday.One thing I believe WD does better is the Packaging of their drives. WD Packaging seems way better than Seagate. I keep the boxes for storage as I like to keep them labeled and organized if I need to find something later in Life. Happy Data Hoarding

Nice drive. CMR not SMR. Little on the loud side.

It's probably one of the best options you'll find for reliability (so far) and price per terabyte if you catch it on sale.It's a little clickety out of the box - it's not the quietest drive I've ever had but it only seems to do it when you're starting a copy job or it's powering up after not being used.Transfer speeds are good. It's 7200 as opposed to 5400.It's CMR and not SMR which is nice. Shouldn't be so hard to figure it out from readding the description. If I didn't know it was CMR going into the purchasing process I probably would've skipped buying it but that's not a reflection of the drive or the manufacturer, it's the retailer.Price is ok for what you get. It's no bargain, but it's ok.

Perfect Storage Solution With 2 Small Issues

This is an incredible storage solution for anyone looking to hold, transfer, store old projects or footage, client's work, whatever you need it for. 12TB is a TON of space to work with and you won't be needing anything else for a while.I use this HDD for storing all my client's footage and projects. There are only two issues I have with this drive:When transferring items it's kind of noisy, and can take a while if transferring a lot of data. Hence the 4 star rating.I had to transfer about 3 TBs of footage, (this is an old picture in the review) it took nearly 2 days. Realistically, this could be due to the dock, or other factors I'm not taking into account, but the point still stands, if you're going to dump a ton of files onto it make sure you have the free ... MoreThis is an incredible storage solution for anyone looking to hold, transfer, store old projects or footage, client's work, whatever you need it for. 12TB is a TON of space to work with and you won't be needing anything else for a while.I use this HDD for storing all my client's footage and projects. There are only two issues I have with this drive:When transferring items it's kind of noisy, and can take a while if transferring a lot of data. Hence the 4 star rating.I had to transfer about 3 TBs of footage, (this is an old picture in the review) it took nearly 2 days. Realistically, this could be due to the dock, or other factors I'm not taking into account, but the point still stands, if you're going to dump a ton of files onto it make sure you have the free time to do it. Also, hope you don't mind all the clicking and beeping you will hear from it if it isn't in an enclosed case.Other than those complaints, I have no other issues with it. It's a lot of space, for a good price, and you get a lengthy warranty and file protection plan with it.Overall, very happy with my purchase, and will most likely buy another when this one fills up.

Somr things never change - even after decades

I've been avoiding Seagate HDD products since the late 90s-early '00s because the QC on them was so bad they'd fail just sitting in a room with a running computer. One good experience with an internal Firecuda SD drive made me think that perhaps something had changed, so I got four of these IronWolf drives to us in my WD PR4100 in RAID 10 as a media drive.These were the least used drives in my system, with the majority of their use being in short write operations for media files and read operations for streaming music. The most intensely they are ever used is during a full backup every Sunday. Yet sure enough, drive 3 and then 2 go within 24 hours of each other, wrecking the second mirror in my RAID array with drive 0 in the primary mirror signaling failure ... MoreI've been avoiding Seagate HDD products since the late 90s-early '00s because the QC on them was so bad they'd fail just sitting in a room with a running computer. One good experience with an internal Firecuda SD drive made me think that perhaps something had changed, so I got four of these IronWolf drives to us in my WD PR4100 in RAID 10 as a media drive.These were the least used drives in my system, with the majority of their use being in short write operations for media files and read operations for streaming music. The most intensely they are ever used is during a full backup every Sunday. Yet sure enough, drive 3 and then 2 go within 24 hours of each other, wrecking the second mirror in my RAID array with drive 0 in the primary mirror signaling failure minutes after that. Fortunately I back this NAS up to the MyCloud Mirror I once thought to replace with it or my stuff would be hosed.I'm not going to bother trying to set up a new array because the cause of the issue was detected drive faults, not actual RAID software config faults. This is just too typical of what Seagate HDD always were, and since I already happen to have two Western Digital Red Plus 8TB drives brand new just sitting nearby, I'm going to return these Seagates, get two more of the WDs, and profit from WDs legendary reliability and speed. Hell, the WD drives whose content I moved to this NAS are from 2013 and they're still going strong. As for the performance of these Seagates otherwise? Sure, they're about as fast as anything else while they work. But they do everything fast - including die. So I can't recommend. I just wonder how Seagate stays in business with lack of durability in their products like this.

Very happy with these drives!

Fast and quiet!I bought the four pack of the IronWolf 12TB NAS drives and very happy with the performance and sound levels.Running in a 4-bay Synology enclosure, the drives are barely noticeable regarding noise. I work in the same room and very happy I cannot hear the drive's rotation or head noise.Fast and reliable. I've had these running now for about 6 months and no issues. Three of them are in raid-5, and the fourth is being used as a hot spare.I seriously reviewed the competitor drives and decided on these due to cost versus performance vs reliability. Cannot be happier. Perfect for the small NAS that I have. Spin up time is also very fast.

Years upon years in Synology NAS devices, zero failures

I have a fleet of these in half a dozen always-on Synology NAS devices, the first going online 4 years ago. My latest, a tiny 923+, accepted these without complaint. They may outlast my NAS devices, in which case it would be better to move them to competitor devices to remain supported, as the drives in my NAS devices cost much more than the devices themselves. Silly Synology & their nagware. You'd think they were bought out by a financial firm like SonicWall or hired in a CEO with only an accounting degree, ala Boeing. Yes, I've heard their flimsy excuses. They really must think the rest of us can't.