We should mention that this definition of workload isn’t unique to Seagate, it’s the same for Western Digital drives, and their workload amounts aren’t different for the Red Pro 20TB. Alongside its IronWolf Pro, Seagate also makes a 20TB EXOS design that we’ll be covering shortly, aimed at the same slice of the Enterprise market that the UltraStar DC HC560 was created.

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. There is one aspect to the IronWolf Pro 20TB that concerns us, and it’s the 300TB per year workload definition.

We're focusing on the 12TB IronWolf, but the 10TB model tags along for the review. Both share the same performance specifications. The four high-capacity 7,200-RPM models provide 210 MB/s of throughput. The remaining four drives deliver 180 MB/s of throughput due to their 5,400-RPM spindle speeds. Features The standard deviation latency results, the 16TB IronWolf Pro 720.78ms (CIFS) and 584.24ms (iSCSI) in the terminal queue depths.

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 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. Why in the UK the HC560 is cheaper than the WD Gold is curious, and the Red Pro is the most expensive in the UK of all drives. I also read the article twice, there are a bunch of affirmations that I completely disagree with, it's not even a different point of view, it's just a point of view based of presenting a situation and a reality in a given time (example Seagate increased product quality, but prices also shot up). It's always the same thing, prices go up to get the executives bigger bonuses, nothing else. That being said, there are fortunately other competitors in the market. When we first saw these numbers, they sounded reasonable because the workload value isn’t like a TBW number on an SSD, as the 300TB is for each year of operation up to five years.This article sounds like an apology to why Seagate's trust should be restored. If the 8Tb drives failed in a short amount of time, the similar products with bigger space might just do the same thing. Changing the segment name to make us think those products won't fail again is just a frivolous marketing stunt. There are too many problems with Seagate's drives: predictive failures that happen a few weeks later, the platters are bad quality, firmwares that are often buggy, and probably planned obsolescence, are just enough redflags as to why this company is not serious enough to stay in that business' segment. Oddly, while idle, the 20TB pulls a little more power than the 18TB, 5.5W from 5.2W, but critically when it is running, it uses less power. Down from 8W on the 18TB to 7.7W on the 20TB, its standby power level is also less.

CrystalDiskMark: 286.8MBps (read); 279.3MBps (write) Atto: 277.89MBps (read, 256MB); 274.68MBps (write, 256MB) IronWolf Health Management in compatible NAS systems continuously helps to safeguard the health of your data 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. 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.It comes with 256MB of cache, a five-year warranty and three years of Rescue Data Recovery Services. MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) is 1.2 million hours, and the yearly workload is 300TB. Prevention. Enjoy a seamless, superior NAS experience as IHM monitors your system environment and offers preventative actions to secure your data. In max latency, the 16TB IronWolf Pro posted a range of 1,424.4ms to 11,171.2ms in CIFS, while iSCSI showed 3,229.25ms through 7,665.47ms in the terminal queue depths.

With 4k max latency, the 16TB IronWolf Pro showed 4,896ms and 16,962ms in iSCSI reads and writes, respectively (again behind the 14TB model). In CIFS, the 16TB Pro hit 11,062ms read (last) and 16,273ms (2nd) write.Desktops, Monitors, Pen drives, Hard drives, Memory cards, Computer accessories, Graphic cards, CPU, Power supplies, Motherboards, Cooling devices, TV cards & Computing Components 15 Days Returnable AgileArray also features optimized power management that provides a faster response time while also reducing power consumption. Pricing, Warranty & Endurance