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These 12TB drives are 4K sectors with emulated 512bit sectors. You can get better random performance from reformatting to 4K sectors but my raid was already in 512bit sectors so I left these as is. What blew me away with this was I was able to transfer 4 different SD cards (Video footage) at the same time and it took them all at close to 90mbps each... which was the max of my SD cards.
Purpose built for NAS enclosures, IronWolf delivers less wear and tear, little to no noise/vibration, no lags or down time, increased file-sharing performance, and much moreReliable Storage (5/5): The Seagate IronWolf drives have consistently delivered reliability and peace of mind for my data storage needs. Despite the larger capacity, Seagate actually managed to create a drive that draws less power than the smaller 8TB brother which is quite impressive. More storage at lower power consumption while still running with a 7200RPM spindle speed, that’s something no one can argue against. Noise wise you won’t hear the drive either once it has been built into your setup. During heavy random operations, you can hear the moving parts, that’s a given, but during sequential operations it’s silent and you won’t notice it at all. And those are the kind of operations that the drive is built for and will be used for. http://www.eteknix.com/seagate-ironwolf ... review/10/ My other drives all would have slowed down but for some reason these seem to keep up?! Maybe being a 12TB is has a few read/write arms... I have no friggin idea how they work but its damn good.
Apologies for the preamble on this review of the Seagate IronWolf 8Tb drive, I just wanted to help those perhaps unaware of the potential pitfalls of choosing a drive. What could the explanation be? Less disk platters could reduce the power consumption but it's hard understand that the 10 TB would also have less disk platters. There are currently no merchants offering this product (with the selected filter options) in the chosen region I replaced my 2Tb WD drive in my case with the new Seagate IronWolf and powered up. After completing the drive initialization prompted by Windows and creating a partition, ending up with around 7,400 Gb available space, I began to notice something I was sure wasn't there before, a low, resonant humming coming from my large tower case. Strangely, moving my head father away from the case to determine if the hum was coming from there, resulted in it being more noticeable. The ever present hum was mildly irritating to someone like me with sensitive hearing. Not a deal breaker for most, I'm certain, and it would depend on what kind of PC case you're mounting this drive in. But given my large case is designed for silence, even having the hard drive sleds using rubber grommets between the mounting screws and the sleds, the hum was annoying.This change of mind return policy is in addition to, and does not affect your rights under the Australian Consumer Law including any rights you may have in respect of faulty items. Bear in mind that the difference between an SMR and CMR drive, certainly in the case of some WD drives, is a single letter in the model number. So, for example, the 2Tb WD Blue drive I have, model number 20EZRZ is a CMR drive. The 2Tb WD Blue 20EZAZ is a SMR version. It's safe to assume that most desktop class hard drives will be SMR, certainly many of those above 1Tb capacity. I set about copying some 1.5Tb of data from my old drive to the new one which took almost 5 hours. I noticed though, how the NAS's internal fan would regularly ramp up to keep the unit cool now it had a warmer running 7,200 rpm drive sat in the bottom bay. This turned my otherwise silent NAS, an unobtrusive box sat in one corner, into a presence that reminded me of a distant hair drier. I shudder to think had I had all five bays populated with these drives, my NAS may have trouble with the heat under sustained load. If it did, it's 120mm rear fan would be running at max continually to try and stay cool. Does anybody know what the difference is between the two different Seagate Ironwolf Pro 8 TB disk models?
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