IronWolf Health Management (IHM) improves overall system reliability by displaying actionable prevention, intervention, and recovery options. When IronWolf or IronWolf Pro hard drives are integrated into compatible NAS systems, the overall system reliability increases due to constant monitoring and user alerts. The larger the drive, the higher the data transfer rate in general; Seagate quotes a 7.8% increase going from 12TB to 18TB, small but not-so-negligible. The numbers we recorded in our benchmark are unambiguous; this is a very, very fast hard disk drive when used as external storage. hours MTBF represents an improved total cost of ownership (TCO) over desktop drives with reduced maintenance costs. Seagate understands your unique data storage challenges, and crafted the IronWolf and IronWolf Pro 16 TB network attached storage (NAS) hard drives to help you achieve your goals.

The drive comes with a five-year warranty with a three-year subscription to Seagate’s Rescue Data Recovery Plan. Once registered, you will be able to benefit from what Seagate calls “a global team of world-class data recovery experts in case of unexpected data loss” with a claimed successful data recovery rate of 90%. Note that the service is not available in all countries.In the following section of this review, we will show the 16TB Seagate IronWolf’s performance in both iSCSI and CIFS configurations and will compare them to other IronWolf models. Seagate supplied StorageReview with 8 samples of their new NAS HDDs, which we configured in RAID6. All the drives were tested in our NETGEAR ReadyNas 628X. Our next test shifts focus from a pure 8k sequential 100% read/write scenario to a mixed 8k 70/30 workload. This will demonstrate how performance scales in a setting from 2T/2Q up to 16T/16Q. In CIFS, the 16TB IronWolf Pro started at 582 IOPS while ending at a leading 1,415 IOPS in the terminal queue depths. In iSCSI, we saw a range of 395 IOPS to 571 IOPS. When it comes to performance, the IronWolf Pro 18TB is rated for an up to 260MB/s sustained transfer rate as well as an average latency of 4.16ms. As for power consumption, the drive is rated for up to 8W average operating power as well as 5.2W idle power. The features Prevention. Enjoy a seamless, superior NAS experience as IHM monitors your system environment and offers preventative actions to secure your data.

The Seagate IronWolf family is the most basic range of NAS drives from the brand, ranging between 1TB and 8TB in capacity. These drives can be used in NAS enclosures with up to eight drive bays and make use of the same SMR writing tech used in IronWolf Pro. Specs Hard disk drives still make up the most of the storage market both in the enterprise and in the consumer markets in terms of capacity. However, they’re stalling with CMR reaching a plateau and SMR, proving to be a poisoned chalice and not a technology that will get NAS owners enthused. Our Enterprise Synthetic Workload Analysis includes four profiles based on real-world tasks. These profiles have been developed to make it easier to compare to our past benchmarks, as well as widely-published values such as max 4K read and write speed and 8K 70/30, which is commonly used for enterprise drives. Range of capacities up to 18TB. More capacity options means more choices that will fit within the budget. Seagate provides a scalable solution for any NAS use-case scenario. Seagate technically has four separate families for its best NAS drives. There’s Seagate IronWolf and IronWolf Pro, which I will be explaining right here. But there’s also Exos and SkyHawk for serious enterprise-grade storage and surveillance, respectively.IronWolf Pro is designed for everything business NAS. Get used to tough, ready, and scalable 24 x7 performance that can handle multidrive environments across a wide range of capacities. The IronWolf Pro is available in a wide range of other capacities, including 14TB,12TB, 10TB, 8TB, 6TB, 4TB, and 2TB. This allows the IronWolf Pro to fit into pretty much any organization’s or creative professional’s budget, which adds a ton of flexibility. In addition to its 5-year limited warranty, the IronWolf Pro line comes with a 2-year subscription to the company’s Rescue Data Recovery plan, a service that provides data recovery from mechanical, accidental, or natural disaster incidents. Seagate IronWolf Pro 16TB NAS HDD Specifications Standard Model Number

Looking at our throughput test which measures 4k random performance, the 16TB IronWolf Pro fell behind in iSCSI performance with 853 IOPS write and 527 IOPS read, as it was out performed by the 14TB model. In CIFS, the 16TB IronWolf Pro posted 683 IOPS write and an impressive 4,774 IOPS read. Like the models before it, the IronWolf Pro 16TB is NAS-optimized with AgileArray, a technology that enables dual-plane balancing and RAID optimization in multi-bay environments as well as RV sensors to maintain high performance in multi-drive NAS enclosures. It also allows for advanced power management. In addition, the 16TB Pro is the embedded IronWolf Health Management software application, which provides monitoring, intervention, and data recovery options to further help keep user data safe and secure. High performance means no lag time or downtime for users during workload traffic for the NAS. Seagate leads the competition with the highest-performing NAS drive portfolio. It can become a little confusing when shopping around for NAS hard drives, even if you’ve decided on a manufacturer. Take Seagate, for example. the company offers IronWolf, IronWolf Pro, and Exos hard drives for servers. Taking Exos out of the equation, what’s the difference between IronWolf and IronWolf Pro? This guide will show you exactly that. Seagate IronWolf or IronWolf Pro?The standard deviation latency results, the 16TB IronWolf Pro 720.78ms (CIFS) and 584.24ms (iSCSI) in the terminal queue depths. Range of capacities up to 16TB. More capacity options means more choices that will fit within the budget. Seagate provides a scalable solution for any NAS use-case scenario.

Optimized for NAS with AgileArray. AgileArray enables dual-plane balancing and RAID optimization in multi-bay environments, with the most advanced power management possible. hours MTBF, 5-year limited warranty represents an improved total cost of ownership (TCO) over desktop drives with reduced maintenance costs. In standard deviation, the 16TB IronWolf Pro showed reads and writes of 619.791ms and 1335.448ms in iSCSI, respectively, and 53.92ms and 1746.24ms in CIFS. Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors. First in its class of drives to include RV sensors to maintain high performance in multi-drive NAS enclosures. The IronWolf Pro is an NAS family of HDDs designed for 24×7 performance in a multi-drive environment. For this review, we will be looking at the new 16TB model, which expands on the 14GB Pro from earlier this year. This makes for a whopping 384TB inside an 24-bay NAS, allowing users to store a huge amount of data without having to add any expansion units. This is certainly great for creative professionals, SOHO users and all types of growing businesses that work with large datasets, as it offers them a more cost-effective way to scale as data requirements grow. The Seagate IronWolf line features the usual 6Gb/s SATA interface, 7200rpm spindle speed and 1.2 million hours MTBF.The latest capacity of the Seagate IronWolf Pro line is a solid addition to the company’s Guardian Series. This NAS-specific drive gives users the highest capacity possible at relatively inexpensive price tag, while results from our performance charts reaffirm that the line is a good choice for SOHO, SME markets and creative professionals. Though it has many of the same features as the non-Pro line, the IronWolf Pro offers some expanded specs including its support of up to a 24-bay storage device (compared to 8 bays for the non-Pro version) and 1.2 million hours MTBF (compared to 1 million MTBF for the non-Pro version). It is still too early to confirm the official release of the Seagate Ironwolf ST16000NE000 and ST16000VN001 16TB NAS Drives, as alot of focus is on the Seagate Ironwolf 110 NAS SSDs right now. Though given the strength of partner marketing with popular NAS brands right now and those very same respective brands announcing new hardware next week for release in September/October, I think we will see full availability of these drives by the end of August (maybe even a pinch sooner in bigger quantities). Let us be frank, none of us (me here on the blog and you there reading this) is surprised that a 16TB NAS Hard Drive was going to be released, or that it would be Seagate doing it.