October 30, 20169 yr has anybody or does anybody use seagate ironwolf series drives? i just purchased my unraid license and planning to buy 2tb or 3tb drives have been looking at wd reds and ironwolfs. the reds seem to be a bit more power friendly, but the ironwolfs are 5900rpn vs 5400rpm and have a little better transferspeeds.
October 30, 20169 yr Either will work fine. Personally I'm a big fan of the Reds, but wouldn't hesitate to use the Seagates either. I don't think the speed difference is at all significant => both are plenty fast enough to saturate a Gb network with anything you're streaming from the server.
November 4, 20169 yr Ive got 4 ironwolfs for my build today, couldnt find a definative answer as the drives are pretty new. They seem to be priced lower than reds just hope i dont experiance anything like my last seagate drives, i had 4 die on me but that was 10 years ago.
November 4, 20169 yr I built my uncle a 6700k desktop rig the other day and installed a seagate 8tb enterprise capacity v5. But only because he specifically requested it. For me personally I haven't had really good luck with seagates drives. My servers are full of wd & hgst drives. Hopefully this seagate enterprise drive will last for him,...
November 13, 20169 yr My 8TB parity disk is an IronWolf, though it's a 7200rpm drive. Works fine, bit noisier and warmer than the 8TB Archive drives.
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