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Reddit mentions of Seagate IronWolf Pro 8 TB NAS RAID Internal Hard Drive - 7,200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 3.5-inch (ST8000NE0004)
Sentiment score: 3
Reddit mentions: 4
We found 4 Reddit mentions of Seagate IronWolf Pro 8 TB NAS RAID Internal Hard Drive - 7,200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 3.5-inch (ST8000NE0004). Here are the top ones.
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Designed for everything business NAS, IronWolfPro offers tough, ready, and scalable 24×7 performance and can handle multi-drive environmentsFastest hard drive, delivers 7200RPM spin speed along with sustained data rates up to 250MB/s and burst data rates of 6Gb/s5-year limited manufacturer warranty and 300TB/year workload limitCompatible with 1- to 24-bay network attached storage (NAS) servers, creative pro NAS, media servers, and personal cloud storage devicesIronWolf Health Management focuses on prevention, intervention, and recovery
Specs:
| Height | 1.028 Inches |
| Length | 5.787 Inches |
| Number of items | 0 |
| Size | 8TB |
| Weight | 1.433 Pounds |
| Width | 4.01 Inches |
Let's compare Apples to Apples (Red Pro to Iron Wolf Pro)
Hard Disk | US price | In my country (India)
---|---|----
WD Red 8TB NAS Hard Drive (WD80EFZX) | $259.00 | ₹32,499.00 ($499.95)
WD Red Pro 8TB NAS Hard Drive (WD8001FFWX) | $309.79 | ₹30,587.94 ($470.75)
Seagate 8TB IronWolf Pro (ST8000NE0004) | $315.54 | ₹34.990 ($538.27)
Looks like it's actually cheaper for you to buy the WD Red Pros than the non-Pros in India? Seagate was offering $50 off per drive, which makes them cheaper than WD Red Pros but pretty much no one here needs Pro drives. That's where they missed the buck, in my opinion.
They looked and made decisions on the data rather than the community. Granted, we all took their poll and generated that data for them, but they should have weighed the topics more heavily where we all talk and enjoy plain and simple Reds. Had this sale been for the regular IronWolf, I'm sure there would have been significant amounts of praise; I definitely would have bought some.
Granted, some people would have complained that it's still not close to the price of a "shucked WD Red" but really, $50 off an IronWolf 8TB drive would put it ~$62 under the regular WD Red 8TB drive. For a ~$12 difference I'll still buy Reds but for a difference of ~$62 or more? I'll purchase Seagate.
So the maths.
Backblaze DIY $10,398.57 = .0511 $/GB = 5.11c/GB
Magstor - $5500 for the device. $200 for 30TB (compressed) = .00667 $/GB = .66c/GB
If my maths is correct, he breaks even after 107TB of data.
For additional info:
Seagate Ironwolf 8TB - $281 = .0351 $/GB = 3.5c/GB
WD red 10TB = .03 $/GB = 3c/GB
(assuming he just has a shitload of docks)
I commented on a post after /u/Seagate_Surfer gave a Redditor some drives for their haiku. They liked my rhymes (the 2nd rhyme is a couple comments down), and sent me 3 x 8TB IronWolf Pro drives!
As you can see in the photos, I've got them in RAID 5 (but it'll be fine with off-site backups). Now I have the space to consolidate my 3 x 2 TB array (RAID 5) and my external 3 TB HDD onto one internal array! 5 TB existing + 16 TB = 21 glorious TBs.
Thunderbolt-attached storage is essentially a buzzword used to sell you what is, at best, $900 of SSD in a $2k package; or $560 of enterprise HDD in a $850 package.
USB 3.1 Gen 1 (aka USB3, aka USB3.1, the 5 Gbps one) is, although slower than SATA 3, already faster than most people will notice for 80% of uses. USB 3.1 Gen 2 (the 10 Gbps one) is already faster than SATA 3 and can saturate lower-tier NVMe drives.
Are you looking for an external HDD or an external SSD?