Reliability Seagate 10TB IronWolf HDD

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jfromeo

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Good morning.

I am planning to build a 8-bay home server and I was looking to populate it with the brand new consumer HDD Seagate just released some weeks ago with capacities up to 10TB.

http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/ironwolf/files/ironwolf-ds1904-3-1607us.pdf

How is the experience with those HDD? Or is it too early to answer the reliability question? Is there any feature on those that it should be avoided in a NAS escenario?

I do not get why those drives are much cheaper than the enterprise ones. Is it only for the warranty period?

Thanks in advance.
 

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keybored

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How is the experience with those HDD? Or is it too early to answer the reliability question? Is there any feature on those that it should be avoided in a NAS escenario?
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You won't find any reliability data on them because Seagate just launched them a few weeks back.
IronWolf drives are marketed as NAS drives, so you're OK with using them in a NAS with up to 8 drives (according to the datasheet). The 10TB version is Helium-filled.
 

abstractalgebra

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For any 8 drive solution and especially for large 8TB Drives due to long rebuild times for most use cases you want at least to be fault tolerant of 2 failures. for example, RAID-Z2 or RAID-6, ...

I would guess following the HGST reports the 10 TB Helium drives would a notable reliability edge over the 8TB versions. Depending on your use case this may not matter or be worth the price premium.