Seagate IronWolf Pro, 6 TB, NAS Internal Hard Drive, CMR 3.5 Inch, SATA 6 Gb/s 7,200 RPM, 256 MB Cache, for RAID Network Attached Storage, 3 years Rescue Services, FFP (ST6000NE000)

I've had the drive in my Ugreen NAS a month now without issue. The warranty was showing as 6 months initially,but the seller promptly provided an invoice, and seagate amended it to 5 years.

It is worth emphasising that these drives are specifically designed for installation in a NAS or storage server. The vibration sensors enable them to work better when there are multiple spinning drives in use all alongside each other, 24x7. The chance of in-life failure is small and the Pro version of Ironwolf means that you have a higher workload rate limit and a five-year warranty plus three-years of data recovery service. You should be using them with some kind of data redundancy such as RAID 5 or better. Don't forget the 3-2-1 rule for backup: at least 3 copies of the data, on two different physical devices, one of which is off-site. If you get a working hard drive, it's excellent. I'd give it five stars, really. After about a month, I have two of these 16TB Ironwolf Pro drives running in my NAS and will probably buy another if/when my storage requirements need it. With a working drive, plugging it into the NAS and making use of it should take less than five minutes. As with all makes of NAS drives, noise levels are noticeable when the NAS is busy, but they are almost silent when just spinning. Apparently (unlike some of the existing single-starred commentaries for this product), one cannot make remarks about the quality of enclosure of the delicate product for its apparently very bumpy voyage down the big river to me, or about the level of effort and time that it takes to deal with the practical and financial consequences, twice. My overall marking reflects the chances of me buying another one the same way.

They work well in my ugreen dxp2800.

This review is for the IronWolf Pro 12TB HDD. Before I was to place so much faith in any HDD over 8TB I dutifully researched what to be cautious of; which basically boiled down to what I planned to use the HDD for, and the length warranty that the manufacturer was prepared to back their product with. At present Seagate do offer a 16TB option (while other manufacturers offer up to 18TB), so I felt that the 12TB technology would be mature and thus reliable enough to grant me peace of mind, as well as the price being peachy enough (£315). The price to storage space these days is such that profit margins are thin, which is why manufacturers have coagulated to form the Goliaths that the market is mostly served by today. Of particular concern there is a storage technique known as SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) which is incompatible with NAS, and unless you're penny pinching then it is less hassle to go with the more familiar CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording). Seagate recognised this and released a table to allow customers to identify which of their HDDs use SMR/CMR, which can be found on Seagate’s own website under the title “Which Drive Has What?”. For my own needs this 12TB HDD will only ever be pushed hard from the outset, as once after transferring data it will be kept in cold storage; as a backup of a backup (remember, unless you back-up your backed up data, you don't have backup). For yourself you might be pushing it hard on a daily or weekly basis, but for myself I will likely keep it beyond the five year warranty period due to infrequent use. I opted for the “Pro” model as it offered a five year warranty over the two year for the normal option, and the price difference wasn’t that great. To confirm this I contacted Seagate support directly from their website on a free phone number, where they were very helpful. To be on the safe side I struck up a written line of communication via email as well, of which came in handy later on after I was unable to register the HDD for warranty cover once in possession of it. The advice I was given was that it would be best to opt for a Pro model as that model would have been sitting in a warehouse for less time, and these HDDs have a Date Of Manufacture, of which the Warranty commences from. The HDD that I received already had been sitting idle for one year, but I was assured that I could have the Warranty commence form the time of purchase instead. Contacting Seagate through the existing written line of communication I noticed that they had a habit of pulling away from the thread with new emails, and were initially reluctant to grant the full five year Warranty as my HDD was not from an “official seller”, even though it was purchased from the Seagate store on Amazon ! So I decided to press the matter by challenging them on this fact: that it was NOT the customer’s responsibility to manage Seagate’s logistics i.e. if I purchase from Seagate’s Amazon store then it was THEIR responsibility to only sell from official sellers (but there we go again with the issue of thin profit margins I suppose). It didn’t take long for Seagate to capitulate under the weight of the facts against them, and to their credit they granted me a full five year warranty form the date of which my receipt stated I had purchased the HDD. However, even though I was told that the registration would be visible on their website after twenty four hours, it was not. Again, chasing this up I was informed that as the HDD was not meant to be sold in my region, apparently, then it would not be technically possible to display this on their website, and that the email itself was a guarantor of the Warranty. I make this information known to those before purchasing, and to shame Seagate for their purposefully obtuse logistics system which puts their customers in this position. If anything untoward occurs during the time of use, I will revisit this review…

Fitted NAS Works as required No issues

The drives I got all worked and were all new, but 5 of them were registered in asia, so instead of the 5 year warranty, they only got about 2, neither seagate support, nor amazon support could fix it on their end, so now im going to have to return them and hope I dont get any of the dodgey drives that are floating about, or that they once again are from the wrong region, and I get the feeling this could be like a game of whack a mole, where I have to keep returning until I get both a new fully working drive and one with the correct warranty (the dodgey drive part is based on the reviews from this pages reviews for this drive) If the replacement drives are all new and have the correct warranties, ill change this to a 4 star, if I get a bad batch the next time, ill probably lower it to one, more so if its with multiple drives. [EDIT] I got a second batch, only one of the warranties are any good, after which i ordered 4 more... all of the 4 that came after only have 2 year warranties, warranties that seagate cant fix to the 5 they should have, at this point they have broken me, I give up, im just going to accept the new drives and if/when any of them break, im going to change them out to a WD Gold. it doesnt feel worth it to keep trying.

I bought this 6Tb IronWolf Pro NAS drive as backup server for my main servers. I’m using AOMEI backup software (also bought from Amazon) which has an excellent data compression option, so 6Tb is enough. The drive is fast and works perfectly in my spare NAS bay. It is online 24/7 for weekly scheduled incremental backups. This was my preferred choice because it uses CMR technology and is intended for the Enterprise environment. But like some other reviewers I found it very noisy. I could hear the loud hum from the drive two doors down the corridor from my office, and couldn’t tolerate it in the same room. The previous drive in this NAS bay was silent. But I found the answer. There was a tiny gap between the drive and the internal drive housing, and I could wiggle the drive slightly from side to side. So I inserted four tiny, very thin pieces of silicon rubber sheet into each side of the gap – and the noise stopped. I can now be alongside the NAS and remain more or less sane! Great news.

Good genuine hard drive. What more is there to say?

Teknoloji şans işidir derler ya kesinlikle doğru. Daha önce sadece depolama amaçlı kullandığım başka marka bir diskim tam 2. yılın sonunda veri kurtarma yapılma imkanı olmaksızın bozulduğundan bu ürünü aldım. İstediğim sadece anılarımı ve çalışmalarımı kaybetmemek. Şükürler olsun ki yedekli çalışan biriyim. Bu ürünü 10 aydır kullanıyorum. Hiç bir sorun henüz yaşamadım. Benim için hızdan önce veri güvenliği önemli ama veri aktarım hızı açısından da önbelleksiz SSD disklere yaklaşan bir hızı var. Dilerim veri güvenliği açısından da ilk 10 aylık geçen süre ile iddia edilen veri güvenliğini sağlar. Satıcı, kargolama ve paketleme konularında hiç bir olumsuz durum yoktu. Ben memnun kaldım ve bence yorum yazmaya yeterli süre kullandım. Tavsiye ederim.

It works as it should! No problems! You get around 3,7 Tb of storage like expected

De momento genial para mí servidor nas de casa. Rápido y fiable. El envío tardo unos días porque viene de tienda alemana, pero bien.

Un beau disque de 14 To pour Nas, performant en 7200 tr/mn, et normalement silencieux Je dis normalement, car suite à un colis mal préparé par le vendeur, pas assez de protections et qui ont été en plus défaillante, le disque les ayant explosées, le disque est arrivé avec 2 grosses bosses sur le Capot, et un bruit de tête à l'intérieur lorsque l'on déplace le disque. Je voudrais signaler le sérieux du vendeur Montcalm et d'Amazon, qui m'ont remboursé rapidement le produit Une avarie de transport cela peut arriver Malheureusement le vendeur est à stock zero sur ce produit Je vais attendre afin de pouvoir lui repasser une commande pour son professionnalisme Mais autrement se sont de super disques pour des NAS, j'en suis normalement très content, c'était mon quatrième On dit jamais 3 sans 4 ... donc on va patienter un peu Mais vendeur sérieux et de confiance Depuis mon message précédent, j'ai racheté le même en 8To, car les autres pas disponible Arrivé super emballé dans du plastibulles - Parfait - Il tourne dans le NAS

One drive came out of the paper envelope lifeless and another was giving knocking and strange sounds.. Nightmare :(