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

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!

Using these drive in a Synology NAS they work great!

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.

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.

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.

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

This is the best drive for active NAS storage. Not to expensive and works well for constant read and write.

Good quiet drives for my NAS system I switched mfg's from WD since ransomware attacks WD just went through. Some of the product has been compromised and their not offering any additional clarification other than what you read in the news. Seagate has been making very dependable drives and Ill be replacing my others as needed.

My best buy yet! I got them for super cheap. I have a reliable Raid System now. I got a great deal and they work great and are pretty fast! Easy to Install.

Ive used Iron Wolf drives for about 5 years and ive never encountered an issue with one! Great for NAS setups

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.

These hard drives are reliable and long lasting. Im using two in a synology NAS, and they work great for that. Currently have a setup with Jellyfin

I purchased 2 of these to use in a mirror setup in 2022. They are working wonderful so far. They store family photos and videos. Being spinning disks, the speed is limited, though reasonable. Because they are primarily for archival purposes, they do exactly what I need and run fast enough. The item installs with SATA cable. Windows recognizes as 7.26GB. 7,993,335,717,888 bytes.

Easy to install. Works well overall, some delays at first wake up when drive is sleeping. Makes a bit of noise, but speed is consistent and fast. Large capacity and works well with other drives.

Was easy to install into my old system that I turned into a NAS for local storage.

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.

I have been using three 8TB in my home server running in RAID 5. I have had them running 24/7 for two years and no issues so far. I highly recommend Ironwolf NAS drives!

I've had a long history with Seagate drives over the last 15+ years that have kept me too cautious. While the failure rate of larger capacity drives are way lower compared to their infamous 3tb series, thes Ironwolfs are incredibly fast and sustainable. If you're concerned about lifespan (read-write cycles of the drive over a lifetime) check out Backblaze's block (cloud backup company) as they publish some interesting statistics based on their own research and industry-wide studies.