The new Enterprise NAS HDD is precision designed for 4- to16-bay NAS rackmount and tower solutions within medium to large business environments where there are concurrent users accessing the solution at any given time. Enterprise NAS HDD is the only 6TB NAS- and RAID-optimized drive that can deliver enterprise reliability features yet sustain a standard NAS application workload of write streams in conjunction with random reads. This simple yet strong enterprise NAS drive delivers the right amount of enterprise strength at a price that is reasonable for medium-sized businesses. You can feel confident that you are paying for only what you need in an enterprise NAS drive.
The new Enterprise NAS HDD is precision designed for 4- to16-bay NAS rackmount and tower solutions within medium to large business environments where there are concurrent users accessing the solution at any given time. Enterprise NAS HDD is the only 6TB NAS- and RAID-optimized drive that can deliver enterprise reliability features yet sustain a standard NAS application workload of write streams in conjunction with random reads. This simple yet strong enterprise NAS drive delivers the right amount of enterprise strength at a price that is reasonable for medium-sized businesses. You can feel confident that you are paying for only what you need in an enterprise NAS drive.
The new Enterprise NAS HDD is precision designed for 4- to16-bay NAS rackmount and tower solutions within medium to large business environments where there are concurrent users accessing the solution at any given time. Enterprise NAS HDD is the only 6TB NAS- and RAID-optimized drive that can deliver enterprise reliability features yet sustain a standard NAS application workload of write streams in conjunction with random reads. This simple yet strong enterprise NAS drive delivers the right amount of enterprise strength at a price that is reasonable for medium-sized businesses. You can feel confident that you are paying for only what you need in an enterprise NAS drive.
The new Enterprise NAS HDD is precision designed for 4- to16-bay NAS rackmount and tower solutions within medium to large business environments where there are concurrent users accessing the solution at any given time. Enterprise NAS HDD is the only 6TB NAS- and RAID-optimized drive that can deliver enterprise reliability features yet sustain a standard NAS application workload of write streams in conjunction with random reads. This simple yet strong enterprise NAS drive delivers the right amount of enterprise strength at a price that is reasonable for medium-sized businesses. You can feel confident that you are paying for only what you need in an enterprise NAS drive.
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Seagate ST1000VN001 1TB SATA Hard Srive
Seagate ST1000VN000 1TB SATA Hard Drive
Seagate ST2000VN000 2000GB SATA Hard Drive
Seagate ST4000VN000 4000GB Enterprise SATA Hard Drive
30-day returns
Seagate ST3000VN000 3TB SATA Hard Disk Drive
30-day returns
Seagate ST3000VN000 3TB SATA Hard Disk Drive
Seagate ST2000VN001 2000GB SATA Hard Drive
Seagate ST2000VN001 2TB SATA Hard Drive
Seagate ST2000VN0011 2TB SATA Hard Drive
Seagate ST4000VN003 4TB SATA Hard Drive
originally posted on walmart.com
This hdd will format to about 18.4tb of total useable space. Filling may take some time but it can hold ALOT of information. keep in mind that the drive does get hot when writing to the disc. Just keep a dedicated fan on it when in use for long periods of time. During day to day use it performs as expected with an average transfer rate of 140-175mbps. Make sure to put it into a good hdd enclosure or ventilated PC tower.This is a great large drive %26 definitely worth buying.
originally posted on neweggbusiness.com
[Update 3] The replacement drives Seagate sent have been working fine after several months - Bumped the rating up. [Update 2] I RMA'd my dead drive and Seagate sent a replacement. No hassles, thankfully. Things got off to a rocky start with these drives, hopefully Seagate will make things right with other customers who experience failures or other issues and have improved newer versions of the drive. +1 egg. [Update] I ordered two of these and now one is dead after about 14 months. I filed a support ticket with Seagate and they basically told me that I'm out of luck since I can't run their Windows-based diagnostic utility (I run Linux). I sent them output from smartctl showing SAT command failures but they refused to work with that. I don't expect them to support ... More[Update 3] The replacement drives Seagate sent have been working fine after several months - Bumped the rating up. [Update 2] I RMA'd my dead drive and Seagate sent a replacement. No hassles, thankfully. Things got off to a rocky start with these drives, hopefully Seagate will make things right with other customers who experience failures or other issues and have improved newer versions of the drive. +1 egg. [Update] I ordered two of these and now one is dead after about 14 months. I filed a support ticket with Seagate and they basically told me that I'm out of luck since I can't run their Windows-based diagnostic utility (I run Linux). I sent them output from smartctl showing SAT command failures but they refused to work with that. I don't expect them to support everything but it would be nice if they showed at least some competency with standard, open-source tools that a lot of enterprises use. For mounting into a 5.25" bay, iStarUSA RP-HDD35V2 brackets worked: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215435&ignorebbr=1 For noise and firmware: My drives came with SC60 firmware and according to the internet SC61 is the newest revision that helps solve the noise issue. Fortunately there is a Linux tool (seaflashlin) for 32 and 64-bit systems, but unfortunately I had to obtain the SC61 firmware from a third-party website since Seagate's website didn't have it listed for my two drives' serial numbers (The FW I found claims to be compatible with Iron Wolf and NAS drives with FW version SC60). Hopefully I'll see an explicitly supported FW version from Seagate, but until then SC61 *seems* to work and makes the noise tolerable. I added +1 egg to my original rating since with the special mounting brackets and FW update this drive seems to work, albeit with a fair bit of effort on the customer's part (it's not totally defective at least).
originally posted on neweggbusiness.com
I hope this review is helpful to anyone looking at this line of drives and worried about some of the posted reviews related to experience/reliability. I have several hundred of the Seagate EXOS series drives from 1Tib to 14Tib deployed on production systems which I own, rent or administer - in all types of environments from climate controlled datacenter deployments to hot and dirty network closets in industrial environments. These products shine in Mission Critical NAS/SAN Storage, High availability Transactional Databases, Corporate Video Surveillance Storage Systems, Web Server Clusters and Email Server Clusters. I also deploy them in high powered workstations where endurance is necessary and/or desired. All of this endurance/reliability does not mean these drives ... MoreI hope this review is helpful to anyone looking at this line of drives and worried about some of the posted reviews related to experience/reliability. I have several hundred of the Seagate EXOS series drives from 1Tib to 14Tib deployed on production systems which I own, rent or administer - in all types of environments from climate controlled datacenter deployments to hot and dirty network closets in industrial environments. These products shine in Mission Critical NAS/SAN Storage, High availability Transactional Databases, Corporate Video Surveillance Storage Systems, Web Server Clusters and Email Server Clusters. I also deploy them in high powered workstations where endurance is necessary and/or desired. All of this endurance/reliability does not mean these drives are not at ease in the average home computer because they work great in an 'everyday' application if you don't mind the cost of entry. The workstation where I am writing this review has a pair of 1Tib Segate Enterprise drives in RAID 1 which have been happily spinning along for 5+ years. The bottom line is this: if your data or the data of your clients is important, these discs are an exceptional choice for reliability and high ROI (return on investment). I see reviews complaining about disc failures related to the EXOS/Enterprise line, I can confidently pass on that I have experienced no such problem with this line of drives. I have NEVER had an EXOS/Enterprise drive come DOA. This doesn't mean that DOA drives don't show up, I have simply never experienced this issue. Again, these drives are targeted for ENTERPRISE level storage systems - they can and do fail like any equipment. That being said, Seagate has NEVER failed to Warranty a failed disc (within the warranty period) from the systems within my responsibility. The difference here might be - ENTERPRISE users keep backup drives on site and in stock for immediate replacement when eventual failures occur so this generally does not become a game ending issue and warranty processing wait times are non-critical. As a service to people looking at this line of drives I checked the average age of my running drives and 65% of the deployed stock has been installed in production environments for 5+ years (approximately 250 drives). I have not had an EXOS disc failure in 235 days (as of this review). I generally purchase some of my discs directly from NEWEGG when the prices are right. Never a warranty issue related to direct purchase from a Seagate authorized reseller. MY CONCLUSION/OPINION: This is an exceptional line of ENTERPRISE level products with a good warranty and superb return on investment.
Seagate ST1000VN001 1TB SATA Hard Srive
Seagate ST1000VN000 1TB SATA Hard Drive
Seagate ST2000VN000 2000GB SATA Hard Drive
Seagate ST4000VN000 4000GB Enterprise SATA Hard Drive
30-day returns
Seagate ST3000VN000 3TB SATA Hard Disk Drive
30-day returns
This hdd will format to about 18.4tb of total useable space. Filling may take some time but it can hold ALOT of information. keep in mind that the drive does get hot when writing to the disc. Just keep a dedicated fan on it when in use for long periods of time. During day to day use it performs as expected with an average transfer rate of 140-175mbps. Make sure to put it into a good hdd enclosure or ventilated PC tower.This is a great large drive %26 definitely worth buying.
[Update 3] The replacement drives Seagate sent have been working fine after several months - Bumped the rating up. [Update 2] I RMA'd my dead drive and Seagate sent a replacement. No hassles, thankfully. Things got off to a rocky start with these drives, hopefully Seagate will make things right with other customers who experience failures or other issues and have improved newer versions of the drive. +1 egg. [Update] I ordered two of these and now one is dead after about 14 months. I filed a support ticket with Seagate and they basically told me that I'm out of luck since I can't run their Windows-based diagnostic utility (I run Linux). I sent them output from smartctl showing SAT command failures but they refused to work with that. I don't expect them to support ... More[Update 3] The replacement drives Seagate sent have been working fine after several months - Bumped the rating up. [Update 2] I RMA'd my dead drive and Seagate sent a replacement. No hassles, thankfully. Things got off to a rocky start with these drives, hopefully Seagate will make things right with other customers who experience failures or other issues and have improved newer versions of the drive. +1 egg. [Update] I ordered two of these and now one is dead after about 14 months. I filed a support ticket with Seagate and they basically told me that I'm out of luck since I can't run their Windows-based diagnostic utility (I run Linux). I sent them output from smartctl showing SAT command failures but they refused to work with that. I don't expect them to support everything but it would be nice if they showed at least some competency with standard, open-source tools that a lot of enterprises use. For mounting into a 5.25" bay, iStarUSA RP-HDD35V2 brackets worked: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215435&ignorebbr=1 For noise and firmware: My drives came with SC60 firmware and according to the internet SC61 is the newest revision that helps solve the noise issue. Fortunately there is a Linux tool (seaflashlin) for 32 and 64-bit systems, but unfortunately I had to obtain the SC61 firmware from a third-party website since Seagate's website didn't have it listed for my two drives' serial numbers (The FW I found claims to be compatible with Iron Wolf and NAS drives with FW version SC60). Hopefully I'll see an explicitly supported FW version from Seagate, but until then SC61 *seems* to work and makes the noise tolerable. I added +1 egg to my original rating since with the special mounting brackets and FW update this drive seems to work, albeit with a fair bit of effort on the customer's part (it's not totally defective at least).
I hope this review is helpful to anyone looking at this line of drives and worried about some of the posted reviews related to experience/reliability. I have several hundred of the Seagate EXOS series drives from 1Tib to 14Tib deployed on production systems which I own, rent or administer - in all types of environments from climate controlled datacenter deployments to hot and dirty network closets in industrial environments. These products shine in Mission Critical NAS/SAN Storage, High availability Transactional Databases, Corporate Video Surveillance Storage Systems, Web Server Clusters and Email Server Clusters. I also deploy them in high powered workstations where endurance is necessary and/or desired. All of this endurance/reliability does not mean these drives ... MoreI hope this review is helpful to anyone looking at this line of drives and worried about some of the posted reviews related to experience/reliability. I have several hundred of the Seagate EXOS series drives from 1Tib to 14Tib deployed on production systems which I own, rent or administer - in all types of environments from climate controlled datacenter deployments to hot and dirty network closets in industrial environments. These products shine in Mission Critical NAS/SAN Storage, High availability Transactional Databases, Corporate Video Surveillance Storage Systems, Web Server Clusters and Email Server Clusters. I also deploy them in high powered workstations where endurance is necessary and/or desired. All of this endurance/reliability does not mean these drives are not at ease in the average home computer because they work great in an 'everyday' application if you don't mind the cost of entry. The workstation where I am writing this review has a pair of 1Tib Segate Enterprise drives in RAID 1 which have been happily spinning along for 5+ years. The bottom line is this: if your data or the data of your clients is important, these discs are an exceptional choice for reliability and high ROI (return on investment). I see reviews complaining about disc failures related to the EXOS/Enterprise line, I can confidently pass on that I have experienced no such problem with this line of drives. I have NEVER had an EXOS/Enterprise drive come DOA. This doesn't mean that DOA drives don't show up, I have simply never experienced this issue. Again, these drives are targeted for ENTERPRISE level storage systems - they can and do fail like any equipment. That being said, Seagate has NEVER failed to Warranty a failed disc (within the warranty period) from the systems within my responsibility. The difference here might be - ENTERPRISE users keep backup drives on site and in stock for immediate replacement when eventual failures occur so this generally does not become a game ending issue and warranty processing wait times are non-critical. As a service to people looking at this line of drives I checked the average age of my running drives and 65% of the deployed stock has been installed in production environments for 5+ years (approximately 250 drives). I have not had an EXOS disc failure in 235 days (as of this review). I generally purchase some of my discs directly from NEWEGG when the prices are right. Never a warranty issue related to direct purchase from a Seagate authorized reseller. MY CONCLUSION/OPINION: This is an exceptional line of ENTERPRISE level products with a good warranty and superb return on investment.
I purchased four of these drives to upgrade an existing Synology NAS box. I was previously using 4 x 16Tb Seagate EXOS drives and decided to upgrade to the 20Tb versions. The new drives worked perfectly and the 918+ NAS unit rebuilt the entire array in about 2 days which, given the size, was very impressive. These drives, despite their greater capacity, seem to run cooler than the 16Tb units they replaced. In addition, the new drives spin-up faster from power-save and operate more quietly. An excellent upgrade. The drives supplied were official UK stock and their labels show Seagate UK's address, so these are not grey market units.
Brought this when it was on offer for just over £300 pushing it above all others for £/TB.I was dubious about spending that much on a single hard drive as there are a lot of refurbished and re-stickered drives in circulation however, once this came and i checked it over it was new.It came packaged in its anti static bag, surrounded by a foam sleeve, inside a carboard box so top notch packaging.Read / Write speeds are as advertised.Noise levels - This is installed in a Gen 10 Microserver under my desk and honestly i can hear it emitting a faint hum when idle but it doesn't bother me. Best way i can describe it is walking into a room in your house and you can faintly hear something, your unsure where the sound is coming from, so you start trying to focus your ... MoreBrought this when it was on offer for just over £300 pushing it above all others for £/TB.I was dubious about spending that much on a single hard drive as there are a lot of refurbished and re-stickered drives in circulation however, once this came and i checked it over it was new.It came packaged in its anti static bag, surrounded by a foam sleeve, inside a carboard box so top notch packaging.Read / Write speeds are as advertised.Noise levels - This is installed in a Gen 10 Microserver under my desk and honestly i can hear it emitting a faint hum when idle but it doesn't bother me. Best way i can describe it is walking into a room in your house and you can faintly hear something, your unsure where the sound is coming from, so you start trying to focus your ears to work out where the noise is. Its like the old Sky HD boxes when they are recording something.In a strange way i like the sound when its under load, you can hear the heads moving, clicking and just generally complaining about being woken up. If it was like that all the time i would probably get annoyed.But remember, these drives are enterprise and meant to be tucked away in a server room. They are not marketed for us pro-consumers.
I'm on my 8th drive and *knock on wood* no issues or failures. I've purchased from X16, X18, and now X20 series. They've been flawless. I'm using mine in NAS setups and they see a consistent workload pretty much 24-7. These are designed for data centers so no concerns. They are noisy for hard drives. If noise is a concern the Iron Wolf series is quieter. But Seagate claims twice the mean time between failures for Exos so it's worth it in my opinion. The internet seems to hold the Exos line in high esteem so I felt the was the best option for me.Read write performance varies based on workload but in my setup doing file transfers I've seen single disk speeds of 265MB/s read and 170MB/s write. That's about the limit of my setup so I can't speak to what your results ... MoreI'm on my 8th drive and *knock on wood* no issues or failures. I've purchased from X16, X18, and now X20 series. They've been flawless. I'm using mine in NAS setups and they see a consistent workload pretty much 24-7. These are designed for data centers so no concerns. They are noisy for hard drives. If noise is a concern the Iron Wolf series is quieter. But Seagate claims twice the mean time between failures for Exos so it's worth it in my opinion. The internet seems to hold the Exos line in high esteem so I felt the was the best option for me.Read write performance varies based on workload but in my setup doing file transfers I've seen single disk speeds of 265MB/s read and 170MB/s write. That's about the limit of my setup so I can't speak to what your results will be. The onboard cache seems to be plenty. I know other disks are moving to larger caches but I'm not sure if it's needed for a single actuator drive.I've got 150hrs+ on this drive so we're probably out of the risk zone of dead in a day or two problems with HDDs. I have thousands of hours on the X18s and X16s. And much of that is write cycles. I highly recommend Exos for any kind of storage use case. For instance this unit I placed in a 3.5in external enclosure for portable storage. And it still came in less than what some 20TB external drives sell for. Plug for the NOVUS usb enclosure. It's a great box for these or any other 3.5in HDD.
I've only done an initial simple test to ensure it's working correctly. I know others have said it's noisy. Mine isn't. Yes, there is an audible clicking when the drive first powers on; that has never ever ever been a concern of mine since I'm not using the computer when a drive initializes. It got a little warm after writing 150GB to it. I did 3 separate writes at 50GB each using 2GB files, using Win7. They were spaced out in time so the drive would run for a while. I didn't run test software. After writing 50GB the write speed was recorded at 216MB/s. This is easily the fastest drive I have. Since Windows 7 shows an average, I can't say that it was writing @ 216MB/s after 50GB was written, I can only say the average write time for writing 50GB at the beginning of ... MoreI've only done an initial simple test to ensure it's working correctly. I know others have said it's noisy. Mine isn't. Yes, there is an audible clicking when the drive first powers on; that has never ever ever been a concern of mine since I'm not using the computer when a drive initializes. It got a little warm after writing 150GB to it. I did 3 separate writes at 50GB each using 2GB files, using Win7. They were spaced out in time so the drive would run for a while. I didn't run test software. After writing 50GB the write speed was recorded at 216MB/s. This is easily the fastest drive I have. Since Windows 7 shows an average, I can't say that it was writing @ 216MB/s after 50GB was written, I can only say the average write time for writing 50GB at the beginning of the disk is 216MB/s using large files. For a 50GB write I imagine the effects of buffering are still showing in the average (not much), but this is a real world scenario, which testing a drive using other software doesn't really give very well. It gives numbers for you to evaluate the drive in relation to other drives, but real world is writing files from one place to another and then using that data, so of COURSE buffering comes into play for actual drive usage. The heat is minimal for an 8TB drive spinning at 7200RPM, and it's comparable to the WD NAS 8TB drive that spins at 5400 RPM and doesn't give nearly the performance. Maybe a touch warmer. I can't speak to reliability since I've only run it for about 1 hr. When finding this on sale, it's worth every penny in my book.
I absolutely love these drives. however several were DOA because Walmart literally just threw all the drives in a box with little to no protection. They used a single air bubble to hold 7 drives in place and prevent shifting side to side. This popped in shipping. My guess is because they didn’t put anything on the top of the drives. So they could bounce around completely in the box. Idk why these drives weren’t kept in their original shipping containers. But I’m sure even the drives that survived, will have premature deaths
Looking to purchase 4 new ones. Unfortunately, when I saw this, I ordered two orders for NewEgg, both came in non-OEM packaging bubble wrap, in a sealed bag. Verified the Serial on the Seagate website and was short a year of the 5 years stated. not sure if they were new or used and I returned all 4 HDD. I am not saying NewEgg is the issue always had good experiences other than I no risking the unknown in my NASs
I decided to populate my newest 24-slot Synology NAS setup with a mix of these babies and their smaller kindred rather than pay exorbitant prices for the OEM drives... and I've been extremely happy with the result. A simple patch to the system supported drive database (search GitHub for Synology_HDD_db) stops DSM (currently 7.2.1.) from complaining about them and they've run flawlessly as fully supported drives for months. (Note: some DSM updates may require a repeat application of the regularly updated patch, so installing it as a scheduled repeating task may be desirable.)
