Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive (ST8000VN002)

Good Quality as per Specifications...

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quality ia very bad..

Regular price 23500 Lightning deal 25000 No thanks!

Works great, moves files at up to max for a 7200 rpm drive. I tested this drive, that is an enclosure connected by eSata to a sata port on my MB. Video file transfer speed 220 to 228 MB/sec for 40 gig transfer from M2 and from SSD. Normal data files, like contents of an installed game, 192 to 198 MB/sec. average from SSD for 10 and 20 gig transfers. I have always been a WD user, (I have 20 with 2 failures, both black series), these new drives are less expensive and function equally, in fact better than the WD greens and some of the reds. I still have some "enterprise" series WD's but will be looking at the Seagate of that class. Time will tell as I am relatively new to internal Seagate drives. I do have 2 or 3, 4terrabyte Seagates and a couple of USB external seagates ( an 8 and a 4) that work without problems.

Pros: - High Capacity. - Quiet compared with other 7200 rpm NAS Drives (HGST). - Seagate Tools provides an excellent suite of testing and drive monitoring software to test drives before Installation. - Read and Write Speed are very Good for a HDD. - 256MB Cache which is 2X the Cache on WD RED or HGST NAS Drives. - 3 Year Warranty. - Drives are HEAVY with a lot of Thermal Mass compared to other NAS Drives. - Low vibration. - Drives run Cool (compared to other similar capacity NAS Drives). - No Drive Failures in 10 months of 24/7 use. Cons: - Cost per Terrabyte is still higher than for IronWolf 4TB NAS Drives. I have 15 of these Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS drives operating in RAID and non-RAID configurations. Some of the drives have been operationg for 10 months of 24/7 Data Server and Media Server conditions. So far, I have had no failures. I test each drive before installing it in the servers by doing a full format of the disc, doing short and long self tests in Seagate Tools, updating the firmware to the latest versions available, and generally running the drives through the entire gamut of tests in the Seagate Tools menu. The testing suite takes more than 48 hours to complete but, I would rather spend the time up front to ensure the drives are not going to fail from infant mortality and there are no bad portions of the drives before spending more than 24 hours to load data unto the drive and have it fail. So far, I am very satisfied with these Seagate IronWolf Drives compared to NAS Drives from HGST and WD. The HGST drives are noisy and I am concerned that there will be head crashes. After having the same problem with 8 of these drives, I realized that it was just a characteristic of the HGST drives. I still don't like it. The WD Red 8TB NAS drives are slower to read and write and are loud compared to the IronWolf drives. I also prefer the Seagate Tools maintenance suite over the one for WD. I watch for the sales on the IronWolf NAS drives and save 20% on the price. This adds up when ordering multiple drives. Other Comments: I have started buying the IronWolf 10TB drives. The outer case must be made from Magnesium or the drive spindles and platters must be made from some ultra-light material and different design. The 10TB drives are quite a bit lighter than the 8TB drives with the same outer dimensions. The 10TB drives are also quiet and low vibration. So far, after 3 months, the 10TB drives are performing good also. I recommend the Seagate IronWolf NAS Drives. Disclaimer: I have no relationship with Seagate or any other drive manufacturer. Every one of the drives I own have been purchased with my own money I have no incentive to give a good review other than the fact that I like the product and it performs to my expectations.

Well you could want them to work for a long time but so far these have been working fine in my NAS box. They were the best combination of size/price for a 2 bay NAS device since your only choice for RAID is mirroring. If you've purchased a 4 bay or higher NAS box consider 4G drives unless you need the capacity that 8G drivers will offer.

Bon disque mecanique

Gracias a una oferta de Amazon pude adquirir este disco duro de grandes prestaciones a un precio inferior al del Seagate Archive, modelo del que también adquirí un disco hace un par de años. El Iron Wolf es mucho más rápido a la hora de transferir archivos y, pese a su mayor velocidad de giro, no hace nada de ruido. Tampoco presenta los chasquidos característicos del Seagate Archive. Por ahora creo que ha sido una compra excelente aunque no empezó con buenos augurios porque el transportista perdió un primer disco. Afortunadamente, Amazon me reintegró el importe por lo que pude comprar un segundo disco que esta vez sí llegó en la fecha pactada.