Seagate IronWolf 16TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – CMR 3.5 Inch SATA 6GB/S 7200 RPM 256MB Cache for Raid Network Attached Storage, with Rescue Service (ST16000VN001)

Bought 4 of these drives for a NAS I put in at home, these drives are top quality. Drives worked perfectly, fit the trays well and seated in just fine. Drives are relatively quiet for HDDs and are even more so in an enclosure. Speed, data transfer, formatting, all work great. Great value and quality construction, I have and will continue to recommend this product.

Excellent product

I've had this hard drive for a little over 6 months and its never worked. I personally believe that this is absolutely ridiculous with how expensive this particular hard drive is When I first got it I spent weeks trying to figure it out in my off time. It was weird why my NAS wouldn't event recognize this hard drive when it could recognize all the other hard drives/ram I put in it Later when I did have some free time I bought another product to connect this HD with a computer . I thought I needed to possibly reformat/change settings on this hard drive on a PC connection then it might finally play nice in the server To my surprise this expensive HDD didn't even show up on my computer at all and made the most unuusual/aggressive sounds that I don't even hear owning 3 other HDD. When I tried with 2 other computers it was the same deal. The HD wouldn't even be recognized even when it was powered up So that's when I knew that I didn't have a formatting problem that led to some HD not even working/ being recognized. This was straight up dead on delivery Then I also just read that some "new" HDD from brands like Seagate are being sold with decade old components, found many people who bought new HDD from Amazon but were actually used! etc. (If you are even thinking about buying a HD from Amazon please read this tech radar article and be warned)

I've gone through three 8 TB Iron Wolf HDDs, and they last for many years, very heavy rebuild after rebuild after rebuild. Those 8 TB are open to air, and the 16 TB are helium sealed, which is less friction and cooler. I have a NAS populated with 8 TB's, and am replacing with 14 TB's in a RAID 5. I have actual backups, plural. I have read that when all HDDs are 14 TB, I can expand the capacity of my RAID 5, which is one of those, I will believe it when I see it.

In total I've ordered 5 and of these 1 was DOA. 2 I ordered 6 months ago are running strong. 1 I ordered recently was DOA so I returned it and ordered 2 more, both which work. The packaging was different each order and one required a signature but the other 4 didn't. This raises questions about whether it's the same group shipping them each time and whether I'm getting a brand new product or not. However, it works so I'm happy.

Solid packaging, device legitimately unused according to SMART/health data. One little red flag here is that US warranty checks with Seagate itself fail (sends you to the retailer), hinting that this might be an import or coming through non-retail channels, which may or may not be an issue for buyers.

Great product from a great seller. Highly recommend!!

First one sent was defective (the first in about last 30 I bought). Not a problem, defects occur. What was great is that amazon got a replacement to me in only two days! Outstanding service amazon!

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After reading other reviews I confess I was a little concerned, but I purchased two and they both work perfectly on my Synology 920+. The Seagate IronWolf are a bit noisy; I don't know if there are quieter NAS HDDs.

Unfortunately the unit was faulty but the company sorted it out with no hassle.

Frive was dead on arrival, they sent a replacement which does work fine but it's annoying to deal with.

3 months in use and Working great in my NAS