Seagate 6TB IronWolf Pro 3.5 inch 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive for 1-16 Bay NAS Systems (256MB Cache, 300TB/Year Workload Rate, up to 214MB/s) - Silver

The unit does what it is meant to. The delivery - handed to the customer, balderdash.The unit was handed to someone living on a different street, and no not left aty address to explain where the delivery was made too.

I know this is a NAS drive, but I wanted to use it on desktop with heavy hdd usage (video editing). Unfortunately the drive arrived dead, kept beeping upon booting and couldn't be recognised. Have just returned it to Amazon third party supplier. Installation was tricky on Zalman Z3 plus case. I managed to find spare hard disk support rails from 3 years back. But left one didn't fit the hdd as this doesn't have 3 standard holes like other drives. It only has two holes at the ends, which makes it difficult to properly install & support in the hdd cage. I somehow managed to install it, but didn't work as it was never recognized and kept beeping. Changed power connectors & sata cables that were working with other seagate drive (barracuda). Am now looking for a replacement.Update: 7.May.2019: I was searching for a decent alternative and couldn't find one. So decided to order the same hdd from Amazon directly, by selecting the packaged option which was expensive compared to the OEM option. But I think that was worth it. Amazon sent it nicely packaged, and this time the installation went absolutely fine. HDD was recognised without an issue, and no beeping :). It has been working fine for over a couple of months now. No complaints. It is in the machine which is in our bedroom. If I leave the desktop switched on during night, odd read/write is audible. But not loud enough to cause trouble. Read/write speed is adequate for my video editing. I just need to set up a back-up with similar capacity drive so that I don't accidentally lose my content. Perhaps will buy another one & set it up as a mirror.

Installed in 2 Bay NAS Unit (one is a copy of the other configuration) in August 2021, now it's January and still going Fine, one of my original drives failed, so I took the opportunity to upgrade to these disks whilst i was at it. Should last many years hopefully, satisfied customer so far...

If Hard Drive manufacturers would stop with the 1TB = 1,000gb con, I'd be a lot happier, as those 24gbs add up. You get about 7.2TB for your 8TB money, but Seagate aren't the only ones, so that's just a general rant.The drive spins nice and quietly at a comparatively sedate 5,400rpm, which isn't leading edge even for HDD, but it probably contributes to its longevity, and with the data travelling over a 1gbps network at best, it's not really going to be stressed out delivering data.Why four stars? Seagate have only provided four mounting-holes on the side of the chassis, which just happens NOT to include the important middle(ish) ones that most caddies use to stablise the drive. As such, they're supported by only two screws in my new Synology NASs, which doesn't do much for my confidence. Fortunately, they won't be getting thrown about much after I've finished setting them up under my desk, so I think I'll live, and hopefully they will too.

Took longer than expected but seems to be doing the job so far.Initially thought it had failed but that turned out to be the NAS being unclear and actually this device is ok.

I ordered the Seagate 8 TB IronWolf 3.5 Inch 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive from Box Ltd.The parcel arrived well packaged in a well protected in a tough plastic air bubble wrapper designed for hard drives, not standard bubble wrap.The drive took standard sata cables and is running on a old desktop 2nd gen i5 processor, which I will be using as a storage server (my cheap 'on demand' NAS), but the drive does look a bit thicker than my other drives, but it is 8Tb.The drive is fast (7200 prm) and quite and is working well; but this is just 2nd day of use.My only gripe is the courier delivered the parcel to the wrong address, but I was given information to track down the parcel from Box Ltd.

Very robust and easy to install on existing NAS. Repair of the NAS was straight forward.

Excellent drives sustained writes of around 214 Mb/s I bought 4 of these drives to replace 4 4 Tb drives the data transfer was held up by the far slower 4 Tb WD RED 5200 RPM drives all had at least 3 TB transferred across in a single sitting. They did get hot so I would recommend a drive bay cooling fan but seem fast and reliable.I would recommend these above Barracuda 5200 RPM drives but I can't say weather the Barracuda Pro Drives are better as I have not tried them.Overall good purchase so far but as with all Hard Drives Time will tell as RELIABILITY over time is key especially on large HDD's