Higher per gigabyte ratio than smaller capacity drives
Mixed CIFS performance
Competitors and Related Products
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Through firmware optimization, Seagate manages to offer us three different 10TB drives in the Guardian Series where each one is tuned specially to deliver the type of workloads the drive is best-suited for. In addition, Seagate is able to fine-tune each...
The demise of the mechanical hard drive has been predicted for years now, and many hardcore enthusiasts will tell you they just use solid state drives in their system – for the operating system certainly, but even now for file storage. Unfortunately,...
There's something about 12TB hard drives reading and writing at 250MBps that we just can't get enough of. This go-round, we review Seagate's IronWolf--the slightly slower, slightly lower-rent cousin to the mighty 12GB Seagate BarraCuda Pro we recently...
There's something about 12TB hard drives reading and writing at 250MBps that we just can't get enough of. This go-round, we review Seagate's IronWolf--the slightly slower, slightly lower-rent cousin to the mighty 12GB Seagate BarraCuda Pro we recently...
The 12TB IronWolf wins the capacity race over the competition and the move to an entry-level 7,200-RPM design will shake up the NAS market. The quality of the higher-capacity IronWolf drives is the real story. Seagate is trying to win you over by...
The Seagate IronWolf and Western Digital Red fight for the same group of customers. Those are mainly people who use small-to-medium size NAS with one to eight bays. That market spans several types of users, from the digital hoarder at home to a small...
Does it blow your mind how much data we are generating nowadays? While our Microsoft Word documents may be getting larger, or you have an ever-growing collection of photos thanks to high quality smartphone cameras, the elephant in the room is the amount...
Hard drives of 10 TB are very expensive, with prices that start at an average of about 372 pounds / 430 euros, but the test results are excellent. All drives in the test are fast, and in part thanks to the used helium they are primarily quiet in idle –...
With the new 10-terabyte hard drives Seagate has introduced a very interesting generation. Aggregators Seagate IronWolf 10TB and BarraCuda Pro 10TB showed a convincing performance and a record capacity for modern 3,5 “HDD, non-corporate / server...
10TB of storage capacity is indeed epic. As we move into a new generation of ultra-large hard drives that takes capacity up another magnitude, I think the Seagate IronWolf ST10000VN0004 is a winner in more than one way. You might think spinning those...
After testing the IronWolf 10TB HDD it's quite clear that Seagate aims to change the naming of their products to something more “aggressive” and consumer friendly (perhaps also to attract more gamers?) since at least in terms of performance we're...
Mit 12 TByte Speicherplatz ist die Seagate IronWolf (ST12000VN0007) die derzeit größte Festplatte im Testfeld. Doch nicht nur beim Speicher spielt die heliumgefüllte HDD ganz oben mit. Auch die Schreib- und Leseraten sowie die kurzen Zugriffszeiten...