Seagate IronWolf, 8 TB, NAS, Internal Hard Drive, CMR, 3.5 Inch, SATA, 6GB/s, 5,400 RPM, 256MB Cache, for RAID Network Attached Storage, 3 year Rescue Services (ST8000VN004)

First arrived with damaged actuators, made a lot of clicking a soon as I plugged it in. Sent it back same day and received a replacement two days later. The new one makes next to no noise and read/write transfer between two of them levels out around 180MB/s, but can surge above 200 at times.

I got 6 of the 8 GB versions. I avoided the 10GB becasue it has had historical issues with write caching (perhaps fixed now by firmware update) plu cost per TB was best with the 8GB models. Anyway, back to the review - all 6 seemed to work as expected - they are quiet and fast (for spinners) although one or two seem to get a little warmer than others - possibly because of differing airflows. With a striped mirror (RAID0+1) I get around 700MB/s read and around 450MB/s write real-life use- not too shabby at all. Random speeds drop off a lot obviously. The RAID gives me something like 0.75 GB of write cache (6 disks / 2 * 256MB Cache) which is not to be sniffed at and will significantly improve small random writes. Great disk so far but asks me again in 3 or 4 years if I'm still happy.

Never happy about the noise levels of these disks, hence 4 not 5 stars, but in every other respect they have proved reliable, originally in a QNAP NAS, now in a couple of old Zyxel back-up NASs. However, with regard to the latter, I had to rewrite the 'init' script of the firmware to accommodate the very slow boot times of these and other Seagate disks.

After purchasing this drive, I never had the time to use until recently. But on trying to initialise it, all I get is an I/O error message. I’ve tried it in several bays on my PC, with various cables, and in different bays on my NAS tower. I’ve also tried it in a friends and my work PC. Still the same error. Not really what I’d expect from Seagate. I’ll have to see if I can still get it replaced and see if the new one works. UPDATE Returned to seller for warranty replacement (cost £28 to send to Florida), only to be informed by the seller after they’d received it that the replacement will be a refurbed drive, not a new one. I did not pay for a refurbed drive, so asked for a refund instead. Their answer was “no”. I’d advise avoiding Tech Dealz (SN Recorded) as they are based in Florida, so returns are expensive. Had to get Amazon to sort this out for me, as the seller was refusing to.

Purchased two of the 8TB Ironwolf drives to replace the existing 2TB Ironwolf drives in a Synology DS718+ NAS. I've had the NAS a couple of years and the 2TB drives have functioned without issue but I needed more space. Easy to upgrade the NAS - as some have mentioned, disks are not silent. I can hear occassional rumbles, but not excessively noisy. Drives are showing as 7.3TB each in the NAS, but this is nothing unusual to see lower than advertised storage space.

Currently have 4x4TB seagate drives in my Synology DS916+ and wanted to increase the storage capacity. Fitted 2 of these 8TBs and after a few hours of syncing up, they are working fine. Will probably buy 2 more for the full 4x8TB.

Works well in my asustor NAS no issues

Good replacement for Toshiba N300 8Tb drive failed in NAS

Zero Complaints.

El hdd llegó bien empacado, llegó al día siguiente de la compra, lo conseguí a muy buen precio. Funciona correctamente, llevo usándolo tres semanas y todo muy bien. Es un disco nuevo. Es una gran ventaja comprar el disco con el vendedor amazaon y que también lo envía.

he tenido 3 NAS y realmente Seagate Ironwolf son la mejor opción para el almacenamiento de tus datos. he montado 5 de 8TB en el DS1522. no es en lo absoluto silencioso como los de menor capacidad. (al ser de 8TB van a 7200 RPM) y su sonido es muy normal. nada perturbador, podría decir que ni se siente pero si estas pendiente podrás sentir el sonido. (es inferior al de los ventiladores de la unidad). Muy superior a otras marcas muy famosas que no mencionaré para no herir susceptibilidades, pero que en varias oportunidades tanto en lo personal como en lo laboral han fallado de manera crítica. si es verdad que el fabricante ha respondido de alguna manera pero igual han sido dolores de cabeza. Desde que cambié a Seagate es otra cosa. muy recomendado y la mejor inversion para tu NAS

Acquistati per l'archivio, li uso esterni al pc con due case ed il backup lo faccio manualmente, ho sostituito il sistema NAS che utilizzavo precedentemente, per una questione più che altro di longevità. Anche nel NAS ho sempre utilizzato seagate, li trovo ottimi, la velocità di trasferimento e più che sufficiente e sono silenziosi, consigliati senza ombra di dubbio. Spedizione più veloce del previsto ed imballaggio ottimo!

I'been using Iron Wolf disks in my NAS for a number of years. I'm upgrading my existing unRAID server from 10 4TB Iron Wolf Disks to 10 8TB disks. The disks are reliable, perform well and are not noisy.