Seagate IronWolf 12TB, Interne Harde Schijf, voor NAS RAID, NAS, 3.5", SATA 6 GB/s, 7200 RPM, 265 MB cache, FFP, Data Rescue Service (ST12000VNZ008)

The Seagate Ironwolf is a network storage specific hard drive. It is a very rugged and robust hard drive that was designed for high duty cycles. The build quality is a better than the hard drives used for desktop computers. An NAS (network attached storage) punishes the hard drive. The drives in a NAS are constantly spinning as multiple users are accessing their data. A desktop hard drive will fit the NAS but it will not last long under heavy use. If you have a NAS, buy the right hard drive. I have two of these Seagate drives in my Terramaster NAS. They are running in Raid 0 mode. The drives are silent and have never given me any trouble. I can recommend them to any NAS user with low to medium demands. Those with many users and devices can step up to a Seagate Ironwolf Pro for added durability, and substantially more cost. Hard drives come in many different grades. You can use these hard drives in your desktop PC. They will work great for that purpose. These are good choices if you have valuable data and you want increased reliability. I do not like using solid state drives for storing important data. I prefer mechanical drives for storage purposes. You will usually get a warning when the hard drive starts to fail. That gives you time to run a backup and take appropriate measures. With solid state drives, good luck. Highly recommended.

EDIT: I just got three of the 8tb Ironwolf for my NAS. Two in raid 1 (mirror), and the NAS will RSYNC to the third drive as a 'backup' of the other two. Fast, quiet, and if they are anything like the 3tb and 4tb ones I've used, they should be just fine. I just don't see a reason to stripe more smaller drives for my home data use; 8tb is plenty, 3 copies is plenty fine and I plan to add an external USB to RSYNC copy as a 'bugout' drive so I don't lose my data if I gotta go in a hurry. Still researching that one. But yea Seagate has been a good choice for me over the last 4 or so years. (EDIT- this was for the 3tb version- Amazon lumps several models together) This is how to make a good, budget NAS hard drive. I used to avoid Seagate drives and used other brands. The word 'stiction' was made up in part by Seagate drives that had spindle/bearing issues years ago. But those other brands began to let me down, with the most recent being that other company selling SMR drives as 'NAS' drives. Sorry, but those are not a good choice for a NAS, do an Internet search if you are not sure why. Well, it's quiet, runs on average 3 to 4 c cooler than those other brands in the same case. Impressed so far. I had bought 4 of these to replace some aging drives in my NAS, and 2 6tb ones.

I've been using Seagate NAS drives before the IronWolf branding in my 6 bay Netgear ReadyNAS. As a result, 3 of my drives are Seagate NAS and the other 3 are Seagate IronWolf. The model numbers are the same, but the firmwares are different. The capacities are the same. So, essentially, they're the same drives. The 3 older drives are over 6 years old, at this point. There was a 4th, but it failed about 2 years ago and was replaced with an IronWolf. The other two IronWolfs were to expand the NAS storage. Since then, no signs of pending failures, even on the 3 older drives with over 54k running hours. They managed to outlive Netgear's ReadyNAS product line! They perform well enough and show no real signs of issues, so I have no plans to change anything in my NAS. I would have no problem considering sticking with these drives for replacements, or even upgrading if the time came for it.

I paid next to nothing for this during a cyber sale, I wouldn't pay retail for this if you're a general consumer or professional. 1tb is, simply, not enough if you're going to pay the ironwolf premium. It's a great drive don't get me wrong, but it's not worth retail. Wonderful performance, stout build, and low noise. I needed a 1tb drive for a dedicated vm environment, saw this ironwolf and snatched it up. Me and several of my other friends swear by these NAS drives, we use ironwolves and WD Red pros pretty much exclusively with 0 issues to report thus far.

I have been running this drive 24/7 since June of 2022. The drive still works. It's fast enough for my purposes (home NAS).

I have been using 4 of these in a RAID6 array since about 2014. I had to order this one as a replacement at the end of August 2019. And they have been running nearly 24/7 since then. So, they do seem very reliable! I have not had any other issues with these other than that. But honestly, the drives will eventually die when being used 24/7. If they are still covered under the warranty when it happens, Seagate should not give any issues with a replacement. I have had to do that once for a 4TB drive, and the replacement was quick. The Seagate NAS/Ironwolf drives are great options for NAS storage!

Setting up a new NAS unit can be difficult with the supply shortages of 21'. Luckily this supplier allowed me to purchase the 6 drives I needed for my new RS1221+. Got them the week of Christmas, loaded them in, ohoh. One drive not good. Emailed the supplier and they sent out a replacement immediately! And they emailed a prepaid UPS ground label for the RMA return. Wow, I am impressed. Got the replacement and all is well. Shout out to Scott and his team for excellent customer service just before Christmas. You guys rock.

I switched from western digital 2tb red drives that seem to no longer work in a raid configuration. I needed 2 tb drives for a raid 1 configuration. Western Digital drives needs to be 6 tb to be able to be put in a raid configuration making them extremely expensive when you don't need 6 tb. I found that the seagate 2 tb NAS drives have CMR technology allowing them to work in a raid configuration where as Western Digital 2 tb red do not use CMR thus they will fail a redundancy check and the raid configuration will fail. The seagate drives are priced very resonable and have been working 100% for the past 6 months with no issue. FYI...they are on a sata raid card.