Seagate IronWolf Pro 10TB NAS HDD Review

Final Thoughts

Pricing

At the time of writing, the Seagate IronWolf Pro 10TB can be yours for $479.99 at Amazon US and £451.91 at Amazon UK. A fair price for an amazing drive.

Conclusion

Seagate has truly shown us great things with their Guardian series. I’ve reviewed two other drives in the series previously, which both did great, so I had high hopes for this IronWolf Pro drive too. And I wasn’t disappointed one bit. The drive performs great, especially when it comes to the write performance.

A mechanical drive will naturally get a little slower as it fills up, simply because the mechanical parts have to move further from the start position. That’s basic physics. That said, we got a great performance throughout all our tests, even if not the best read scores at all times. In return, we saw a really great random write performance that is miles ahead of anything else that I’ve tested in this category earlier. This goes to show, that you need to pick the right drive for the job it has to perform and that’s one of the reasons that we test so many different drives here at eTeknix; to help you make up your mind on which is the right drive for you.

The IronWolf Pro comes with the AgileArray technology and that is a big part of why the drive performs so great. It also features rotational vibration mitigation through RV sensors to maintain high performance in multi-bay enclosures up to 16 bays. That is a lot of capacity when we’re already dealing with 10TB drives. It’s just a few years ago that 2TB was the maximum drive size and now we’re dealing with five times that – and better speeds too. What a time to be alive in!

The IronWolf Pro series also comes with two years included Rescue Data Recovery which is a great extra safety to have for your data, just in case the worst-case scenario should happen and a drive fails either due to an accident or mechanical failure. Seagate has an impressive recovery rate of data in this regard and that’s a vital bonus for many businesses.

Overall, simply a great drive that has it all. Capacity, performance, and endurance as well as disaster recovery. I wouldn’t hesitate to use this drive in any of my storage setups.

Pros

• Good performance
• Huge capacity
• Supports up to 16 drive-bay setups
• 300TB/year workload rating and 1.2 million hours MTBF
• 5-year warranty and 2-year Rescue Data Recovery with every drive

Cons

• None

“If you need a lot of capacity, performance, and can afford it, get the IronWolf Pro 10TB drive. It’s that simple!”

Thank you Seagate for providing us with this sample