Seagate IronWolf 10Tb NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6GB/S 7200 RPM 256MB Cache for Raid Network Attached Storage (ST10000VN0004)

I'm upgrading my ReadyNAS from 6Tb Tb to 10. I attempted to use a different brand, but it lacked the center screw hole in each side required by the drive carriage. Seagate showed that in the product photos. The other brand did not show the drive sides at all. I popped this in, replacing one of the existing drives and let the NAS take over. The drive is very quiet, formatted and loaded data from the other in good time. Would, and will, buy it again as part of a phased upgrade.

This review is about 5 Seagate Barracudo Pro (Amazon Description: Seagate IronWolf NAS 7200RPM Internal SATA Hard Drive 10TB 6Gb/s 3.5-Inch).These drives are supposed to last a long time. I bought 5 of them 11/2017 to create a storage array in a Synology NAS. My NAS started reporting bad sectors on the first drive July 31, 2018. The second one August 9, 2018 and the third Dec 15, 2018 (the date of this review).Seagate replaced the first two with no questions asked and I'm sure they will do the same for this third one. The warranties are valid for 3 years so I guess I'm covered until July, 2020. Unfortunately that's not far away and history is not on the side of these drives lasting a long time.I will be investigating whether Seagate will replace this set of drives entirely as there might be something inherently wrong with the product. I'm very disappointed with the reliability of these drives.UPDATE: June, 2019 - My FOURTH original drive (out of the 5) has just developed bad sectors. So far, Seagate refuses to do anything except returns on an individual basis. I'm going to sell these drives and go with SSD's. I never really thought there was a difference in drive manufacturer's other than a bit of unfortunate bad luck but I'll never buy Seagate drives again.

I have had a few of these. Generally they run fast, and are extremely reliable. I had one which failed, but, not instantly. It gave me lots of warning and so I never lost data. I would buy again.

I have purchased 3 of these 10Tb drives over the past 3 years to fill up a NAS. They're barely more audible than the NAS's little cooling fan, and have so far not given me any issues.I had 2 set up in a mirror raid configuration and had them at 85% capacity for about a year before I bought a third and reconfigured to a smart raid system to bring me up to 20Tb capacity. Took 3 full days floor the NAS to move the data around across the 3 drives, but it did so without any errors or finding any bad sectors on the drives. I'll purchase a 4th one when I hit 70% capacity.

I ordered two of these to expand my NAS. I had to install one at a time to allow my Synology to rebuild my volume. Each drive replacement takes about 4 days. Well, the first drive started developing bad sectors after about day 7 on the job and then crashed. I was lucky to have redundancy. Anyway, I swapped it out with the other one and ordered a replacement. I just installed the replacement and hoping they hold strong. I like Seagate and am assuming the failed drive was somehow subject to shock before it got to me. I'm giving only 4 stars bc of the failure. If another one fails, I'll come back and update my review to reflect!27 Sept Update: So far so good. I just checked the two 10TB Seagate IronWolf drives and both are running smoothly with no bad sectors. They do run about 7 degrees (F) hotter than my 6 other, non He drives but don't know if that's normal or not. About sound-They seem quiet to me, similar to my other 10+ Seagate HDD's!Dec 24 2016 update: the two drives are running 24x7 and without any problems.Jun 13 2017 update: the two drives are running 24x7 and without any problems. I'm about to order a couple more IronWolf drives...

I recommend this for anyone who is involved with video production and raid hard drive! Lightning fast, transfer time, and very easy to install, and swap out when needed!

This drive started making a constant clicking noise on third day of use. It's steady and rhythmic when idle. When I access the drive it stops but starts again when it is idle. I have backed everything up and will wait to see if it dies. I usually use Western Digital but decided to give Seagate a try. Never had any problems with WD. Have had two Seagate drives die in the past. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me....sent it back.That clicking is just a constant reminder something is not right. It's 2018 and the technology should not sound like a washing machine three feet away from my ears.

I feel like the higher the raw data, the more percentage is unavailable out of the box. Fresh in my NAS as direct drive, 8.85 GB available. That said, it's still the most cost effective and highly dense storage you can get at the moment (until the 12s and 14s drop a bit more in price).I've noticed that 4k at a bitrate similar to Blurays is much, much better than the lower rates you get over streaming. These large drives make storing such content feasible - and well worth it, in my opinion.