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Seagate 8TB IronWolf 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal NAS HDD (OEM)
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Had Parts laying around after building my son a new gaming computer and after finding out an old friend who had been retired for a number of years did not have a computer, I decided to buy this drive as a "data" drive and build a computer for him. The drive is fast and reliable and because the "C" drive is an M2 drive the computer will be adequate for most tasks even though it only has an AMD Athlon 3000G Picasso 3.5GHz Dual-Core AM4 Boxed Processor installed. The motherboard has the capability to use a more advanced Ryzen processor and of course a dedicated graphics card but because a decent graphics card is almost impossible to get right now I decided to go with the Athlon which has onboard graphics. So in the future, if things change, the computer will be able to ... MoreHad Parts laying around after building my son a new gaming computer and after finding out an old friend who had been retired for a number of years did not have a computer, I decided to buy this drive as a "data" drive and build a computer for him. The drive is fast and reliable and because the "C" drive is an M2 drive the computer will be adequate for most tasks even though it only has an AMD Athlon 3000G Picasso 3.5GHz Dual-Core AM4 Boxed Processor installed. The motherboard has the capability to use a more advanced Ryzen processor and of course a dedicated graphics card but because a decent graphics card is almost impossible to get right now I decided to go with the Athlon which has onboard graphics. So in the future, if things change, the computer will be able to be upgraded. I have found in the past that the Seagate Ironwolf drives are reliable, I have bought several 10 TB drives, and this 8 TB comes in at a little better price point than the 10 TB but it is also important to realize that you should look at your present and future data needs before you buy a "data drive" because you need about 10 percent of this drive empty or when you go to Explorer in Windows and select "This PC" the drive bar will show up "red", so getting back to the calculations of how large a drive do you need, an 8TB drive will format to about 7.2TB and if you need about 10 percent empty before the dreaded "red bar", so you will only have about 6.5TB of useable space. These are only rough estimates. The main thing to take away is that I have been building computers many years and I am always running out of storage room on my hard drives. Your mileage may vary.
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This TV has a great picture, its very bright, with an excellent contrast ratio, and beautiful colour.The only gripe I have is something common with pretty much all led backlit LCD tv's, that is dirty screen. The thing is though... it doesnt HAVE to be there, it can be made so hardly anything is visible, if the company took the time to do it. So its kind of pot luck.... you may get a screen with nothing noticeable... or you may get a screen with shadow lines noticeable in moving pictures and sports..... however to be fair, you dont ever see it when there is plenty going on or not looking at a screen of snow, grass, sky etc. (single colours and shades are when you tend to see it)For me, this is why it misses out on 5 stars, because the picture itself, the features ... MoreThis TV has a great picture, its very bright, with an excellent contrast ratio, and beautiful colour.The only gripe I have is something common with pretty much all led backlit LCD tv's, that is dirty screen. The thing is though... it doesnt HAVE to be there, it can be made so hardly anything is visible, if the company took the time to do it. So its kind of pot luck.... you may get a screen with nothing noticeable... or you may get a screen with shadow lines noticeable in moving pictures and sports..... however to be fair, you dont ever see it when there is plenty going on or not looking at a screen of snow, grass, sky etc. (single colours and shades are when you tend to see it)For me, this is why it misses out on 5 stars, because the picture itself, the features such as usb etc (although it plays less video formats via usb hdd than earlier samsung models... mkv for one, will not play through this tv usb).contrast is great, the menu is snappy, colours are great and has a lovely wide gamut for hdr.Asthetically its very nice, and viewing angles are much improved.Im happy with my purchase... yet for almost $2000, that dirty screen..... shouldnt be there.... because frankly... it doesnt need to be.
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I bought 2 of these drives to replace 2 4 year old 3TB drives which I run in RAID. So far I have had no issues and have ran a few tests.1. The new 8TB drives seem to be faster by a small margin.2. The new drives operate at about 5-10°F hotter than my old drives.3. The drives had significantly less storage than claimed. After formating about 7.2GB instead of the advertised 8GB.The original drives never had a hiccup and these drives so far are following in the same path. Installed them and they just work, to me that's the way any product should be. Would recommend!!
Seagate 8TB IronWolf 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal NAS HDD (OEM)
Had Parts laying around after building my son a new gaming computer and after finding out an old friend who had been retired for a number of years did not have a computer, I decided to buy this drive as a "data" drive and build a computer for him. The drive is fast and reliable and because the "C" drive is an M2 drive the computer will be adequate for most tasks even though it only has an AMD Athlon 3000G Picasso 3.5GHz Dual-Core AM4 Boxed Processor installed. The motherboard has the capability to use a more advanced Ryzen processor and of course a dedicated graphics card but because a decent graphics card is almost impossible to get right now I decided to go with the Athlon which has onboard graphics. So in the future, if things change, the computer will be able to ... MoreHad Parts laying around after building my son a new gaming computer and after finding out an old friend who had been retired for a number of years did not have a computer, I decided to buy this drive as a "data" drive and build a computer for him. The drive is fast and reliable and because the "C" drive is an M2 drive the computer will be adequate for most tasks even though it only has an AMD Athlon 3000G Picasso 3.5GHz Dual-Core AM4 Boxed Processor installed. The motherboard has the capability to use a more advanced Ryzen processor and of course a dedicated graphics card but because a decent graphics card is almost impossible to get right now I decided to go with the Athlon which has onboard graphics. So in the future, if things change, the computer will be able to be upgraded. I have found in the past that the Seagate Ironwolf drives are reliable, I have bought several 10 TB drives, and this 8 TB comes in at a little better price point than the 10 TB but it is also important to realize that you should look at your present and future data needs before you buy a "data drive" because you need about 10 percent of this drive empty or when you go to Explorer in Windows and select "This PC" the drive bar will show up "red", so getting back to the calculations of how large a drive do you need, an 8TB drive will format to about 7.2TB and if you need about 10 percent empty before the dreaded "red bar", so you will only have about 6.5TB of useable space. These are only rough estimates. The main thing to take away is that I have been building computers many years and I am always running out of storage room on my hard drives. Your mileage may vary.
This TV has a great picture, its very bright, with an excellent contrast ratio, and beautiful colour.The only gripe I have is something common with pretty much all led backlit LCD tv's, that is dirty screen. The thing is though... it doesnt HAVE to be there, it can be made so hardly anything is visible, if the company took the time to do it. So its kind of pot luck.... you may get a screen with nothing noticeable... or you may get a screen with shadow lines noticeable in moving pictures and sports..... however to be fair, you dont ever see it when there is plenty going on or not looking at a screen of snow, grass, sky etc. (single colours and shades are when you tend to see it)For me, this is why it misses out on 5 stars, because the picture itself, the features ... MoreThis TV has a great picture, its very bright, with an excellent contrast ratio, and beautiful colour.The only gripe I have is something common with pretty much all led backlit LCD tv's, that is dirty screen. The thing is though... it doesnt HAVE to be there, it can be made so hardly anything is visible, if the company took the time to do it. So its kind of pot luck.... you may get a screen with nothing noticeable... or you may get a screen with shadow lines noticeable in moving pictures and sports..... however to be fair, you dont ever see it when there is plenty going on or not looking at a screen of snow, grass, sky etc. (single colours and shades are when you tend to see it)For me, this is why it misses out on 5 stars, because the picture itself, the features such as usb etc (although it plays less video formats via usb hdd than earlier samsung models... mkv for one, will not play through this tv usb).contrast is great, the menu is snappy, colours are great and has a lovely wide gamut for hdr.Asthetically its very nice, and viewing angles are much improved.Im happy with my purchase... yet for almost $2000, that dirty screen..... shouldnt be there.... because frankly... it doesnt need to be.
I bought 2 of these drives to replace 2 4 year old 3TB drives which I run in RAID. So far I have had no issues and have ran a few tests.1. The new 8TB drives seem to be faster by a small margin.2. The new drives operate at about 5-10°F hotter than my old drives.3. The drives had significantly less storage than claimed. After formating about 7.2GB instead of the advertised 8GB.The original drives never had a hiccup and these drives so far are following in the same path. Installed them and they just work, to me that's the way any product should be. Would recommend!!
We run a Synology 2 bay station for our network server and another off site 2 bay station for backup & redundancy. We started getting warnings of disc degradation. After all, these discs are running 24/7/365. Our IT guy recommended these specific NAS drives to replace our aging drives. They just popped in and started copying our files. Now, we’re good for another 5+ years if reliable service. A little noisier than our previous drives, but we also upgraded from 3tb to 8tb. Larger drive. Larger fan needed.
Lots of choices to be had in the hard drive market but cutting corners on on your choice/purchase of one shouldn't be one of them. The Seagate IronWolf NAS hard drive series are almost as good as it gets and has earned a top spot in performance and reliability. I have 12 of these drives in a RAID 10 external NAS enclosure used for shared data and backups. That works out to a usable 46TB of storage. Five of them were purchased at Best Buy. No drive failures yet but with RAID 10 if one (or more) do fail, you simply replace the bad drive with a new one and after powering the device up, the drive gets automatically rebuilt. Doesn't get any more easy than that. All that said, these drives are a bargain considering their longevity/MTBF. I wouldn't hesitate recommending ... MoreLots of choices to be had in the hard drive market but cutting corners on on your choice/purchase of one shouldn't be one of them. The Seagate IronWolf NAS hard drive series are almost as good as it gets and has earned a top spot in performance and reliability. I have 12 of these drives in a RAID 10 external NAS enclosure used for shared data and backups. That works out to a usable 46TB of storage. Five of them were purchased at Best Buy. No drive failures yet but with RAID 10 if one (or more) do fail, you simply replace the bad drive with a new one and after powering the device up, the drive gets automatically rebuilt. Doesn't get any more easy than that. All that said, these drives are a bargain considering their longevity/MTBF. I wouldn't hesitate recommending these drives to anybody. The Seagate IronWolf NAS Pro (even better specs/performance - costs more) is also a great choice if you have deeper pockets.
This 8 terabyte Seagate Nas Drive fits well in the Seagate Raid system. However, I don't have the time to get the help to possibly. create multiple volumes on the Seagate Raid then. it's slow..The odd thing about it is the four terabyte nas drives. from Seagate seemed to have a better aspect. to them for lasting longer and running a little bit faster.Seagate does temp drop the ball a little bit every now and then like there three terabyte and 1.5 terabyte drives. I will not be upgrading. 232 gigabyte raid system. for media service. Obviously the smaller c. Seagate hard drives are still improvement over the larger ones in the NASA environment.Now the question lies. who will be given their business? of being a leader in the raid systems or will raid vanish ... MoreThis 8 terabyte Seagate Nas Drive fits well in the Seagate Raid system. However, I don't have the time to get the help to possibly. create multiple volumes on the Seagate Raid then. it's slow..The odd thing about it is the four terabyte nas drives. from Seagate seemed to have a better aspect. to them for lasting longer and running a little bit faster.Seagate does temp drop the ball a little bit every now and then like there three terabyte and 1.5 terabyte drives. I will not be upgrading. 232 gigabyte raid system. for media service. Obviously the smaller c. Seagate hard drives are still improvement over the larger ones in the NASA environment.Now the question lies. who will be given their business? of being a leader in the raid systems or will raid vanish completely with these new 16 to 30 terabyte heat or gas backed storage systems?So far, no failures just. slow downs near hits of failing. but then again, I'm using an eight terabyte As a 4 terabyte system. doesn't make sense for me to upgrade my. Seagate raid, which has lost support for its OS as well as its box..I would recommend talking to people who have other types of raid systems to see if. plugging in Seagate nasses actually have. an advantage.
Good quiet drives for my NAS systemI switched mfg's from WD since ransomware attacks WD just went through. Some of the product has been compromised and their not offering any additional clarification other than what you read in the news. Seagate has been making very dependable drives and Ill be replacing my others as needed.
Overall does what it needs to do. I have been running this Drive since I opened it June 8th 2023, today is July 6th, so almost a full month. Its been on running since the day I got it. Drive has about 584.6gb of space left after I moved over 2 4tb Drives to it. I have not had any issues, running an EXT4 filesystem on it, mostly just for Plex, Music and Media/Editing. All my other drives are Western Digital, but iRonWolf has definitely wanting me to give them another try in the future. I got it because it was Cost to TB made more sense. Hopefully the Length and quality of the drive holds up. I back up regularly but would like to clean out some of my older drives, to add new content and media to my library. Works quick enough FOR ME for editing and managing files. My ... MoreOverall does what it needs to do. I have been running this Drive since I opened it June 8th 2023, today is July 6th, so almost a full month. Its been on running since the day I got it. Drive has about 584.6gb of space left after I moved over 2 4tb Drives to it. I have not had any issues, running an EXT4 filesystem on it, mostly just for Plex, Music and Media/Editing. All my other drives are Western Digital, but iRonWolf has definitely wanting me to give them another try in the future. I got it because it was Cost to TB made more sense. Hopefully the Length and quality of the drive holds up. I back up regularly but would like to clean out some of my older drives, to add new content and media to my library. Works quick enough FOR ME for editing and managing files. My Original Transfer from my 4tb drives did take quite a while not entirely sure of the speeds, but just set it and forget it till I hear the Door Bell on it being done. I would definitely consider getting another one in the future, and would recommend. Price per TB but I tend to stick to NAS Drives as my computer running almost all day everyday.One thing I believe WD does better is the Packaging of their drives. WD Packaging seems way better than Seagate. I keep the boxes for storage as I like to keep them labeled and organized if I need to find something later in Life. Happy Data Hoarding
It's probably one of the best options you'll find for reliability (so far) and price per terabyte if you catch it on sale.It's a little clickety out of the box - it's not the quietest drive I've ever had but it only seems to do it when you're starting a copy job or it's powering up after not being used.Transfer speeds are good. It's 7200 as opposed to 5400.It's CMR and not SMR which is nice. Shouldn't be so hard to figure it out from readding the description. If I didn't know it was CMR going into the purchasing process I probably would've skipped buying it but that's not a reflection of the drive or the manufacturer, it's the retailer.Price is ok for what you get. It's no bargain, but it's ok.
I've been avoiding Seagate HDD products since the late 90s-early '00s because the QC on them was so bad they'd fail just sitting in a room with a running computer. One good experience with an internal Firecuda SD drive made me think that perhaps something had changed, so I got four of these IronWolf drives to us in my WD PR4100 in RAID 10 as a media drive.These were the least used drives in my system, with the majority of their use being in short write operations for media files and read operations for streaming music. The most intensely they are ever used is during a full backup every Sunday. Yet sure enough, drive 3 and then 2 go within 24 hours of each other, wrecking the second mirror in my RAID array with drive 0 in the primary mirror signaling failure ... MoreI've been avoiding Seagate HDD products since the late 90s-early '00s because the QC on them was so bad they'd fail just sitting in a room with a running computer. One good experience with an internal Firecuda SD drive made me think that perhaps something had changed, so I got four of these IronWolf drives to us in my WD PR4100 in RAID 10 as a media drive.These were the least used drives in my system, with the majority of their use being in short write operations for media files and read operations for streaming music. The most intensely they are ever used is during a full backup every Sunday. Yet sure enough, drive 3 and then 2 go within 24 hours of each other, wrecking the second mirror in my RAID array with drive 0 in the primary mirror signaling failure minutes after that. Fortunately I back this NAS up to the MyCloud Mirror I once thought to replace with it or my stuff would be hosed.I'm not going to bother trying to set up a new array because the cause of the issue was detected drive faults, not actual RAID software config faults. This is just too typical of what Seagate HDD always were, and since I already happen to have two Western Digital Red Plus 8TB drives brand new just sitting nearby, I'm going to return these Seagates, get two more of the WDs, and profit from WDs legendary reliability and speed. Hell, the WD drives whose content I moved to this NAS are from 2013 and they're still going strong. As for the performance of these Seagates otherwise? Sure, they're about as fast as anything else while they work. But they do everything fast - including die. So I can't recommend. I just wonder how Seagate stays in business with lack of durability in their products like this.
Designed for use in 1-8 bay NAS environments within home, SOHO, and SMB environments, the 8TB IronWolf 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal NAS HDD from Seagate is built to withstand 24x7 operations, or 8760 hours per year. This 8TB drive has been equipped with a SATA III 6 Gb/s interface, a rotational speed of 7200 rpm, a 3.5" form factor, and a 256MB cache, providing users with an ample storage capacity and data transfer speeds of up to 180 MB/s. This IronWolf hard drive also has an MTBF rating of 1 million hours, 600,000 load/unload cycles, 1 in 1015 non-recoverable read errors per bits read, and a workload rate of up to 180TB per year.
Designed for use in 1-8 bay NAS environments within home, SOHO, and SMB environments, the 8TB IronWolf 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal NAS HDD from Seagate is built to withstand 24x7 operations, or 8760 hours per year. This 8TB drive has been equipped with a SATA III 6 Gb/s interface, a rotational speed of 7200 rpm, a 3.5" form factor, and a 256MB cache, providing users with an ample storage capacity and data transfer speeds of up to 180 MB/s. This IronWolf hard drive also has an MTBF rating of 1 million hours, 600,000 load/unload cycles, 1 in 1015 non-recoverable read errors per bits read, and a workload rate of up to 180TB per year.
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Seagate IronWolf 8TB Internal SATA NAS Hard Drive With RES
Designed for use in 1-8 bay NAS environments within home, SOHO, and SMB environments, the 8TB IronWolf 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal NAS HDD from Seagate is built to withstand 24x7 operations, or 8760 hours per year. This 8TB drive has been equipped with a SATA III 6 Gb/s interface, a rotational speed of 7200 rpm, a 3.5" form factor, and a 256MB cache, providing users with an ample storage capacity and data transfer speeds of up to 180 MB/s. This IronWolf hard drive also has an MTBF rating of 1 million hours, 600,000 load/unload cycles, 1 in 1015 non-recoverable read errors per bits read, and a workload rate of up to 180TB per year.
Designed for use in 1-8 bay NAS environments within home, SOHO, and SMB environments, the 8TB IronWolf 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal NAS HDD from Seagate is built to withstand 24x7 operations, or 8760 hours per year. This 8TB drive has been equipped with a SATA III 6 Gb/s interface, a rotational speed of 7200 rpm, a 3.5" form factor, and a 256MB cache, providing users with an ample storage capacity and data transfer speeds of up to 180 MB/s. This IronWolf hard drive also has an MTBF rating of 1 million hours, 600,000 load/unload cycles, 1 in 1015 non-recoverable read errors per bits read, and a workload rate of up to 180TB per year.
