Seagate IronWolf 2TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 5900 RPM 64MB Cache for RAID Network Attached Storage

So far so good. The drives are reasonably quiet, a bit quieter than my WD Red drives, but they do run a couple of degrees warmer than the Reds at idle and under load. Both sets of drives are in the exact same type of QNAP enclosure and the enclosures are sitting right next to each other, so ambient conditions are about the same. I am a fan of Seagate drives and was eager to test out the new Ironwolf drives, as all of my other NAS-specific drives are Western Digital and HGST.Only negative, which I will not penalize the drive itself for, was the horrible packaging job. These drives were sold by and shipped from Amazon directly, and considering the huge array of electronic equipment Amazon sells, they should know better. Drives were laying in the bottom of a fairly large cardboard box with a couple airbags loosely strewn on top. The things likely got banged around a fair bit during shipping. There were no shockproof endocarps in a box specifically designed for a hard drive (my Western Digitals and every other Seagate I have received had those), and not sure why Seagate/Amazon would think it's OK to transport drives like this. I have read reviews on this issue before with drives being shipped in thinly padded envelopes, and thought nah, that could never happen to me! Very disappointed. Fortunately, I didn't see any signs of damage and the drives are performing as intended, so we'll see and hope there are no future issues.See attached photos. Also included one of a *correctly* packaged Western Digital drive.

QUICK SUMMARY: Nice replacement for an older model 2GB Seagate IronWolf in my Windows 2012 Server.BACKGROUND: My four-bay Windows Storage Server 2012 came with four 2TB Seagate IronWolf drives. Earlier this year, I started having weird, fluctuating, slow data transfers between my laptop and my server. Thanks to CrystalDisk freeware, I realized one of the 2TB drives had a 'Caution' state -- bad sectors. I didn't realize that the bad sectors would have such a profound affect on server performance.The new 2TB IronWolf drive here is one model newer than what is in my server, but it installed and works just fine, restoring the performance to my server. Adding it was a snap. I inserted it into an external dock, added it to the storage pool, then retired the bad drive which forced all the good data off the bad drive onto the new drive (I didn't have enough storage capacity to do this differently). It took about 24 hours to retire the old drive. Once that was retired, I removed it from the bad and inserted this drive -- which now had all the data on it -- into the same bay slot. Rebooted the server and all was fine.CONCLUSION: I'm a Western Digital fan, but this was a suitable replacement for an all-Seagate Windows server.

Installed 5 of these (2 TB each) into a 5-bay Mobius RAID drive enclosure and they seem to work great. I have them in RAID 5 - performance seems great, no noise at all. They are very quiet - so quiet I never hear them at all. If the LEDs didn't flash on the enclosure when the drives are in use, I would never know anything was happening. I don't understand any of the negative reviews - I guess those people were just unlucky. The real test though will be how long they last. With RAID 5 I can only lose one at a time and still recover - if I lose two or more at once, I'm totally screwed. So far I've only been using them to store backups and movies and it seems to handle activities both very well. I'm very happy with my purchase - I got them on sale for just $71 each. Normally I don't spend the extra money for NAS or Enterprise class drives but the drive enclosure said to only use those types of drives so I did - and so far it has worked out great.

Use these as replacement drives in my NAS (Network Attached Storage). What a difference they make in access speed and peace of mind. The drives that came with my server were not intended to be left on continually. When the original drives failed I was about to purchase another NAS until I did some research and found out that most of the NAS Servers do not use enterprise drives they use desktop drives to keep the cost down. The NAS Enclosure was still good so this was the best option. The two drives cost lest than a complete NAS and I now have drives that were design for server use and not home use.I have another NAS that was twice the cost of the one that failed and it uses the same desktop drives that was in the other NAS. I am know saving my coins to purchase two more of these drives as replacement before that NAS fail.