Seagate IronWolf ST4000VN008 - Hard Drive - 4 TB - Internal - 3.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - 5900 RPM - Buffer: 64 MB

I used to always use Western Digital Red NAS drives, but they have been using SMR technology on their low and mid-range NAS drives. You only get the superior CMR technology on their high-end 'Pro' drives now, and they also cost a small fortune. Seagate are using CMR technology on their standard Iron Wolf NAS drives and they also cost less, especially if you shop around. My last 10x NAS hard drive purchases have all been Seagate Iron Wolf drives and I am extremely happy with them.

Ordered Friday 04/03/22 at 10:04am, arrived by Royal Mail on Saturday 05/02/22 before 12pm – thank you CCL & Royal Mail. Paid a little extra over a global online retailer, being put off them for computer components as I’ve had a retail boxed HDD from them in the past which had some shoddy outer packaging. Also their recent reviews for HDDs showed it’s a bit of a lottery as to how they package their HDDs for shipping. Some customers receiving very poorly packaged drives, dented and broken. My Seagate Iron Wolf 4TB arrived in it’s sealed anti-static bag, inside a thick tubular bubble rap envelope, inside a double thick, snug fitting cardboard box with a grey courier pouch bound tight outer layer. Installed and working perfectly as anticipated. A further 4 weeks later ... MoreOrdered Friday 04/03/22 at 10:04am, arrived by Royal Mail on Saturday 05/02/22 before 12pm – thank you CCL & Royal Mail. Paid a little extra over a global online retailer, being put off them for computer components as I’ve had a retail boxed HDD from them in the past which had some shoddy outer packaging. Also their recent reviews for HDDs showed it’s a bit of a lottery as to how they package their HDDs for shipping. Some customers receiving very poorly packaged drives, dented and broken. My Seagate Iron Wolf 4TB arrived in it’s sealed anti-static bag, inside a thick tubular bubble rap envelope, inside a double thick, snug fitting cardboard box with a grey courier pouch bound tight outer layer. Installed and working perfectly as anticipated. A further 4 weeks later and drive working just fine. I had thought this would be replacing a 4 year old 3TB Western Digital WD30EZRZ (CMR) as my main backup drive in my gaming PC as I was getting errors on that while doing drive image backups. Long story short, the WD drive subsequently proved not to be the culprit (memory/mobo) so I did not really need this new drive. It's quick and quiet enough while still using CMR (not that problematical shingle / SMR) recording method along with other tech alluding to reliability. It has a reasonable 3 year warranty and additional rescue / data recovery service - wouldn't expect to use it but it might show Seagate has some faith in their product. Happy so far.

Coming back to Scan after 12 years.

It's 12 years since I last used Scan. I love building computers but, well, Parkinson's. I bought a prebuilt PC from quietpc 2014. I needed more disk space, and Amazon is not the place to go if the reviews are true about fake product and careless shipping.Scan really are great. I know what I'm buying because your website is clear. The package was worth the shipping cost, the bubble wrap cushioned the HDD so no worries there.It's a NAS drive but I want the quality and the 5900 rpm to match the 4TByte one I already have. As said, I have Parkinson's so the 3 quid for installation insurance is great. All I had to do was fit it in a tray and slot it in; I managed 4 screws but only 2 rubber bushes, it's in the case and seems happy enough, quiet and cool ... MoreIt's 12 years since I last used Scan. I love building computers but, well, Parkinson's. I bought a prebuilt PC from quietpc 2014. I needed more disk space, and Amazon is not the place to go if the reviews are true about fake product and careless shipping.Scan really are great. I know what I'm buying because your website is clear. The package was worth the shipping cost, the bubble wrap cushioned the HDD so no worries there.It's a NAS drive but I want the quality and the 5900 rpm to match the 4TByte one I already have. As said, I have Parkinson's so the 3 quid for installation insurance is great. All I had to do was fit it in a tray and slot it in; I managed 4 screws but only 2 rubber bushes, it's in the case and seems happy enough, quiet and cool (34C).Incidentally, I've still got 5 of the 250G/500G HDDs I bought over a decade ago. They get fired up every now and then. Scan sold quality stuff back then and still do.

Feels Standard to me, but works.

I buy drives due to the way I use them.I used to run file servers and found myself walking away from a lot of them due to the existence of docking stations.The way I run backups is simply using a HDD connected to a docking station. The docking station then is connected to a USB HUB. One HUB for each computer I own.I then change the USB cable from HUB to HUB to make sure I can get to each system. I have five systems in this room.These drives are cheap and allow me to store what I need on them. Since I label them and turn off the docking station afterwards, these drives are nowhere near close to failure.I bought the NAS internal drives because since I am handling them outside of an internal system, I require something that won't die from the slightest ... MoreI buy drives due to the way I use them.I used to run file servers and found myself walking away from a lot of them due to the existence of docking stations.The way I run backups is simply using a HDD connected to a docking station. The docking station then is connected to a USB HUB. One HUB for each computer I own.I then change the USB cable from HUB to HUB to make sure I can get to each system. I have five systems in this room.These drives are cheap and allow me to store what I need on them. Since I label them and turn off the docking station afterwards, these drives are nowhere near close to failure.I bought the NAS internal drives because since I am handling them outside of an internal system, I require something that won't die from the slightest thing.These drives have been safe and good to me. I buy them mainly to store completed projects I have done in Video Editing. In short, its all about backup and archival purposes and nothing more.

Inexpensive and durable

I bought 10 of these 4/2017 and 4 more 1/2018 because they continue to be the least expensive NAS drives. Call me cheap, but I see no sense paying premium price when these are just as reliable as other brands. Some came bundled with the QNAP and others I bought to populate another NAS and to keep some spares on-hand for the eventual drive failure. I've purchased and personally installed/configured hundreds of drives for our datacenter and desktops over the past 20 years and have only had a handful of drives fail. Of these IronWolf drives I've had Zero failures (so far) and I beat the snot out of all my NAS with both virtualization and nightly backup storage, etc. I mean these puppies never get a moment of rest. Zero failure out of 14 drives so far. I'm unsure ... MoreI bought 10 of these 4/2017 and 4 more 1/2018 because they continue to be the least expensive NAS drives. Call me cheap, but I see no sense paying premium price when these are just as reliable as other brands. Some came bundled with the QNAP and others I bought to populate another NAS and to keep some spares on-hand for the eventual drive failure. I've purchased and personally installed/configured hundreds of drives for our datacenter and desktops over the past 20 years and have only had a handful of drives fail. Of these IronWolf drives I've had Zero failures (so far) and I beat the snot out of all my NAS with both virtualization and nightly backup storage, etc. I mean these puppies never get a moment of rest. Zero failure out of 14 drives so far. I'm unsure whether to believe most of the negative reviews for this drive. I mean, look at their brief, vague comments like "They worked great but died in 7 months". Come on, if you can't even describe better than that I can't trust your review. Either users are incompetent, or they're liars, or trying to "downvote" because they forgot to backup their data, maybe they install in an environment the drive was never intended, or they just give off a bad energy vibe which causes any electronic equipment to fail (believe me I have a few of those types in my office, they just walk by a computer and it blue screens like a mobile EMP). My two cents? As long as the price and reliability continues to be like this, Seagate gets my dollars. Also, don't believe the reviews that are obviously false (use your critical thinking skills to weed them out). I'm getting ready to purchase some 8TB versions of these IronWolf drives to replace drives in the RAID arrays on all my NAS devices and I'm confident they'll work. And hey, some tech does die an early death so you just replace and move on.

Not the fastest option but good value

I have spent the past few months putting this drive through the paces compared to it's direct competitors. There have been reports of these drives failing in 12 months or less and I wanted to stress test this NAS HD as much as possible to see how common these failures may be. I'm pleased to report that after a few months of abuse, the drive is working flawlessly. If you have this drive (or drives) in an enclosure, ensure there is adequate cooling as this did tend to run a little warm when being pushed hard. No surprise there though. Overall this a decently fast NAS for a 5900rpm drive however, vs some of it's competitors, it's well behind the 7200rpm spinners. It performed flawlessly in all testing and was 100% reliable with zero bad sectors on thousands of hours of ... MoreI have spent the past few months putting this drive through the paces compared to it's direct competitors. There have been reports of these drives failing in 12 months or less and I wanted to stress test this NAS HD as much as possible to see how common these failures may be. I'm pleased to report that after a few months of abuse, the drive is working flawlessly. If you have this drive (or drives) in an enclosure, ensure there is adequate cooling as this did tend to run a little warm when being pushed hard. No surprise there though. Overall this a decently fast NAS for a 5900rpm drive however, vs some of it's competitors, it's well behind the 7200rpm spinners. It performed flawlessly in all testing and was 100% reliable with zero bad sectors on thousands of hours of use. Reliability is a top priority on a NAS drive used 24/7. That said, the reported number of drives failing in a short period of time is cause for pause. All I can report affirmatively is that the one drive I have has been perfect. For the price is it worth the gamble? Only you can make that call. Measured results: - CrystalDiskMark 4K: 0.528 (Read) 1.347 (Write) Seq: 186.3 (Read) 185.8 (Write) - NAS transfer speeds on a network capable of running close to 115MB/s wide open on faster drives: Read: 102 MB/s Write: 97 MB/s

Reliability+price=WIN

My third Seagate 4TB drive. Good price, great reliability. It seems like the price goes pretty high once you get past this tier. But my other seagates have been is use nearly 3 years so far. I only had 2 HD bays in the bottom of the case. There are 3 places to install ssd drives... Anywho, I ended up installing in above the ancient DVD burner drive. Fits just fine there.

Reliable, cool and decent price

Purchased 4 for a TrueNAS build as a backup for a Synology Device. Drives worked perfectly out of the box. Nightly smart reports have shown no issues at all.The drives are very quiet, even during read/write, generate very little heat, have very little vibration and have been great thus far.This is my first time using Seagate for NAS style drives, so my comparison are against WD Red PRO, WD Red Plus and HGST branded NAS drives. As far as a comparison, against the mentioned drives, these tend to run slightly warmer, but in exchange are slightly faster. Beyond that, they are performing just as well as the others.I intend to purchase another batch in the near future to add another ZFS array for backing up a virtualization host.

SeaGate Reliability and a 3YR Warranty.

When I installed this Seagate IronWolf 4TB drive into my existing NAS system it was easy to get up and running. I use it for 3 different sources and even security camera storage. When in a NAS it’s awesome to know it’s reliable not only for 24/7 us, but also has recovery option if you need it. So smooth I you almost forget it’s running. Storing and pulling Data, Movies, Music, Games and it runs perfect across my PC’s and Laptop. Being that it’s storage to review I wanted time to be able to say that it has stayed steady and reliable. I’ll grab music or a Video and run it on either of my equipment as smoothly as if it was from right in that PC and it’s not. The ability to store in one place instead of duplicated across your equipment makes it easier for a one time ... MoreWhen I installed this Seagate IronWolf 4TB drive into my existing NAS system it was easy to get up and running. I use it for 3 different sources and even security camera storage. When in a NAS it’s awesome to know it’s reliable not only for 24/7 us, but also has recovery option if you need it. So smooth I you almost forget it’s running. Storing and pulling Data, Movies, Music, Games and it runs perfect across my PC’s and Laptop. Being that it’s storage to review I wanted time to be able to say that it has stayed steady and reliable. I’ll grab music or a Video and run it on either of my equipment as smoothly as if it was from right in that PC and it’s not. The ability to store in one place instead of duplicated across your equipment makes it easier for a one time save of info. I do have a separate storage for my security camera’s and I was curious to see if I files for that video, how would it go. I don’t plan on keeping my security storage in my NAS. When I pull a stored camera clip, it has been doing a seamless job. Having a NASD setup is almost a set and forget system, I rarely touch have to touch it or do anything but let it run and do its job. I have a do own SeaGate products over many years. Not once have I needed a warranty claim. The 3 Year warranty will assure you that you can count on this IronWolf storage. And when it comes to a NAS and storage, reliability is important. You will have the confidence that your information stored is there, ready to use and with the Data Recovery Services, your safe in the event of Flood, Fire or other corruption should happen. We can write quick reviews or use it for a month and report. To be able to say “Recommend Buying” mine running for apx. a month with no problems. Constant backups, my entire music collection and Videos stored, I have had zero problems. Just does its job in the background like it should. I am sure that you’ll enjoy yours and feel like me that it is a product to buy and enjoy that you have a SeaGate IronWolf protecting your files.

Solid Device

Although this is sold as a NAS drive, it can also be used in a computer. You wouldn't want it as a boot drive. Use an SSD for that. But if you have a home server, home theatre PC or any application with high reads and writes this drive is also ideal as it is designed for 24/7 365 operation. The Iron Wolf drives are more reliable, have a longer warranty and include free data recovery from Seagate. That alone is worth spending the extra money asprofessional data recovery services can cost thousands. When used in a NAS, the firmware monitors the health of the drive and reports to the NAS software if it is about to fail. You won't get that warning on a PC. You will have to check the S.M.A.R.T data yourself like any other drive.The drive arrived in retail packaging, ... MoreAlthough this is sold as a NAS drive, it can also be used in a computer. You wouldn't want it as a boot drive. Use an SSD for that. But if you have a home server, home theatre PC or any application with high reads and writes this drive is also ideal as it is designed for 24/7 365 operation. The Iron Wolf drives are more reliable, have a longer warranty and include free data recovery from Seagate. That alone is worth spending the extra money asprofessional data recovery services can cost thousands. When used in a NAS, the firmware monitors the health of the drive and reports to the NAS software if it is about to fail. You won't get that warning on a PC. You will have to check the S.M.A.R.T data yourself like any other drive.The drive arrived in retail packaging, well protected and with same day delivery from a delivery service. It was cheaper at Best Buy than Amazon and I know that the warranty will be valid. Warranty is always a concern with Amazon as the drive you purchase may have been intended for sale in another country and the warranty may not be honored. I've been burned by that in the past.