Seagate IronWolf, 8TB, Enterprise Internal NAS HDD - CMR 3.5 Inch, SATA 6GB/s, 5,400 RPM, 256 MB Cache for RAID NAS, Rescue Services - Frustration Free Packaging (ST8000VN002)

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Does anybody know what the difference is between the two different Seagate Ironwolf Pro 8 TB disk models? P3R wrote:Does anybody know what the difference is between the two different Seagate Ironwolf Pro 8 TB disk models? Despite the larger capacity, Seagate actually managed to create a drive that draws less power than the smaller 8TB brother which is quite impressive.

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. This indicates the use of helium in the 10 TB so most likely also in ST8000NE0004 while ST8000NE0021 is probably conventional, with air. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. However, I was not able to find what is the exact difference between these two versions, does anybody know this? anyway here is a promo video ( no i did not get paid for this, i wish ) which points out the ironwolf features.Anyway I noticed that the drives have been running at 50C for the last few days which seems exceptionally hot. A non-RAID configuration (including RAID 0, which isn't really RAID) with a backup on a separate media protects your data far better than any RAID-volume without backup. What other technology used in the ST8000NE0004 (and the 10 TB disk) explains the power usage difference?

Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. P3R wrote:Yes I had already googled those reviews myself but as they unfortunately gave no useful insight on the subject, I started this thread.When using hard disks with SMR in a RAID array, make sure that the RAID controller (or NAS system) is compatible with SMR hard disks so that the partially blocked recording behavior with SMR is not mistakenly interpreted as a "hardware defect". Finally thanks to power consumption optimization the IronWolf 10TB uses much less power compared to the NAS HDD 8TB (6.