Customer Ratings & Reviews

Overall does what it needs to do. I have been running this Drive since I opened it June 8th 2023, today is July 6th, so almost a full month. Its been on running since the day I got it. Drive has about 584.6gb of space left after I moved over 2 4tb Drives to it. I have not had any issues, running an EXT4 filesystem on it, mostly just for Plex, Music and Media/Editing. All my other drives are Western Digital, but iRonWolf has definitely wanting me to give them another try in the future. I got it because it was Cost to TB made more sense. Hopefully the Length and quality of the drive holds up. I back up regularly but would like to clean out some of my older drives, to add new content and media to my library. Works quick enough FOR ME for editing and managing files. My Original Transfer from my 4tb drives did take quite a while not entirely sure of the speeds, but just set it and forget it till I hear the Door Bell on it being done. I would definitely consider getting another one in the future, and would recommend. Price per TB but I tend to stick to NAS Drives as my computer running almost all day everyday. One thing I believe WD does better is the Packaging of their drives. WD Packaging seems way better than Seagate. I keep the boxes for storage as I like to keep them labeled and organized if I need to find something later in Life. Happy Data Hoarding

My old 1-2 tb drivers were full needed more storage. This drive is solid, decent write and read speed and really quiet too.

I’m using it with a Synology NAS and it works great! I’m content with its speed and isn’t too noisy.

Quality quality quality! Does it get any better than this fellas? Don’t think I forgot about you ladies you know what’s up as well! The second I laid my hands on these bad boys I just knew that I was complete, finally. All these years, wondering when the depression was going to go away. It was the moment I open the package. just plain nasty happiness now. Best Buy’s got the steez that I needz!

Excellent drives for my Asustor NAS. Quiet operation and a great warranty from Seagate.

Using these drive in a Synology NAS they work great!

Lots of choices to be had in the hard drive market but cutting corners on on your choice/purchase of one shouldn't be one of them. The Seagate IronWolf NAS hard drive series are almost as good as it gets and has earned a top spot in performance and reliability. I have 12 of these drives in a RAID 10 external NAS enclosure used for shared data and backups. That works out to a usable 46TB of storage. Five of them were purchased at Best Buy. No drive failures yet but with RAID 10 if one (or more) do fail, you simply replace the bad drive with a new one and after powering the device up, the drive gets automatically rebuilt. Doesn't get any more easy than that. All that said, these drives are a bargain considering their longevity/MTBF. I wouldn't hesitate recommending these drives to anybody. The Seagate IronWolf NAS Pro (even better specs/performance - costs more) is also a great choice if you have deeper pockets.

The drive works as advertised works very well do not expect it to be quiet but who cares about that if you have a Synology system like a ds223j you will see all the information from the drive Seagate and Synology are together in sharing information way deeper than just smart data I had a Western digital 4 TB black and a Western digital 8 TB red plus drive whatever Enterprise stuff I have shr enabled personality to give me a mirror but you can use it to have two mismatched drives and still work it will just cut back to the lowest drive so I lost 4 TB off the 8th that's why I got the Seagate to give me eight and eight across the board which it had no problem reinitializing after a while if it just beeping a blue light flashing realizing hey the drive was replaced eventually then it came up I went on the web browser and it was perfectly fine the rebuild I have no problems it's very fast between Western digital and Seagate I might switch out to another Seagate drive just for the heck of it the nice thing about Synology shr if you're using it is you can actually level up OneDrive at a time basically taking steps of that way you can go from an eight to 16 to etc etc however you want to do it just realized the rebuilding takes a long time

I’ve consistently chosen Seagate IronWolf drives because they offer the best price-to-performance ratio on the market. This 8TB model is no exception—fast, quiet, and built specifically for NAS environments. I’m using it in a personal storage server, and it’s been rock-solid so far. Speeds are excellent, and the drive runs cool even under load. For anyone building a NAS or expanding their home server, this drive delivers reliability and value you can count on.

It's probably one of the best options you'll find for reliability (so far) and price per terabyte if you catch it on sale. It's a little clickety out of the box - it's not the quietest drive I've ever had but it only seems to do it when you're starting a copy job or it's powering up after not being used. Transfer speeds are good. It's 7200 as opposed to 5400. It's CMR and not SMR which is nice. Shouldn't be so hard to figure it out from readding the description. If I didn't know it was CMR going into the purchasing process I probably would've skipped buying it but that's not a reflection of the drive or the manufacturer, it's the retailer. Price is ok for what you get. It's no bargain, but it's ok.

For the price to quality and reliability ratio, this is probably the hard drive you should go with for home use. Could you find a hard drive that technically has higher reliability ratings? Sure. Would it cost you a lot more? Absolutely.

In 2019 I purchased two Seagate Ironwolf 4tb drives for my Drobo NAS. My drives performed well, running non-stop for 5 years until I recently upgraded my NAS to Synology...so did my drives. Purchased two Seagate 8tb Ironwolfs to match the other two 4tb, haven't had any issues or drive failures. Stick with the faster 7200 speeds, huge difference as compared to the 5400. Best Buy also had the best cost, and I shopped around too.

I bought this HDD new. I use it as an archival storage. It runs quiet and cool. I've used it with both Windows 10-11 and Linux Mint Debian. No problems. There are some great technical reviews online about this drive. I'll just say this. I think in many ways HDD's are superior to SSD's for long term storage. Even if the the Write/Read head on a HDD goes bad, the data can still be retrieved intact from that drive. On a SSD, if that drive goes back, it's a lot more problematical to get your data back in the form that it was stored. I'm no expert so I'm open to being corrected.

I got 2 of these for my Truenas Plex server and after several of use months they’re fantastic. They’re noticeably louder than the WD 4TB Red NAS drives I had before, but from my understanding that’s par for the course for larger drives. Read, write speeds are more than sufficient for a Plex Server using the ZFS filesystem and ZFS Cache.

I had to return first one because it was very loud and I worried it will fail eventually. It kept spinning none stop. I went to the store and got the replacement. This second one was working quite and good. I have used Western Digital and Seagate HDD. I noticed Seagate has better quality and lower failure rate. This Ironwolf HDD is fast and good. Istallation is easy and simple

We run a Synology 2 bay station for our network server and another off site 2 bay station for backup & redundancy. We started getting warnings of disc degradation. After all, these discs are running 24/7/365. Our IT guy recommended these specific NAS drives to replace our aging drives. They just popped in and started copying our files. Now, we’re good for another 5+ years if reliable service. A little noisier than our previous drives, but we also upgraded from 3tb to 8tb. Larger drive. Larger fan needed.

I've used Seagate drives for many years, and only one had an issue with bad sectors. I purchased two of these to be used as data drives in two SSD-based PCs. The drives are fast, quiet, and they have (hopefully) the IronWolf reliability on which many servers depend. Only slightly more expensive than their desktop counterparts, these drives are definitely worth it to me.

Great hard drive 6 months no issue in synology NAS

Have purchased this exact drive multiple times over the years and it has never failed me. Definitely the best bang for the buck out there in terms of speed, size, noise, reliability, and brand recognition.

Perfect for building a NAS. These drives are big in storage and cheap. For the quality. I use them for a home media server and they are more than fast enough for 4k cloud streaming.