In May 2017, we published a review of the IronWolf and IronWolf pro 10TB hard disk drives, they were impressive and ended up with our TOP 10 awards, which is no small feat. The agility, features and data recovery services along with performance made them stand out. Cometh the hour, cometh drive – Seagate IRONWOLF ...
Seagate has launched a diamond in the rough, focusing on enterprise with great performance, and reliability the NAS Enterprise drives will have a huge impact within the SMB-Enterprise storage arena. Kudos to Seagate for filling the void.
The performance differential is more evident in the 6TB category where the HGST Deskstar NAS is >25% faster than the WD Red. The seek time for Deskstar NAS was 9.5ms vs 12.2ms for WD Red. The Deskstar NAS continues to outperform WD Red even on burst speeds which measures the performance of the onboard cache.