jagsta21 Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment
Yaka Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment
TUMS Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 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,... Quote Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 My 8TB parity disk is an IronWolf, though it's a 7200rpm drive. Works fine, bit noisier and warmer than the 8TB Archive drives. Quote Link to comment
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