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May 4, 2021 6:21 AM

Seagate IronWolf 6TB NAS Hard Drive [7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s CMR 3.5" Internal] $140 + FS

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Newegg [newegg.com] has the Seagate IronWolf 6TB NAS Hard Drive for $139.99.
  • Workload rate of 180TB/year.
  • Optimized for NAS with AgileArray, enables dual-plane balancing and RAID optimization in multi-bay environments.
  • Actively protect your NAS with IronWolf Health Management.
  • Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors.
  • Always-on, always-accessible 24x7 performance.
  • 1M hours MTBF, 3-year limited warranty.
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Newegg [newegg.com] has the Seagate IronWolf 6TB NAS Hard Drive for $139.99.
  • Workload rate of 180TB/year.
  • Optimized for NAS with AgileArray, enables dual-plane balancing and RAID optimization in multi-bay environments.
  • Actively protect your NAS with IronWolf Health Management.
  • Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors.
  • Always-on, always-accessible 24x7 performance.
  • 1M hours MTBF, 3-year limited warranty.

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May 4, 2021 12:46 PM
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WingsOfFMay 4, 2021 12:46 PM
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Bad price for a discontinued drive. Seagate has replaced the 6TB with a 5400rpm drive likely due to high rates of failure with 7200rpm. The drives seem to pick up bad sectors like crazy with some kind of mechanical instability issue. Good news is if and when it fails within warranty, it is replaced with a Ironwolf Pro 6TB because they don't have these in stock in anymore.
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May 5, 2021 4:40 PM
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DonkeyFinestMay 5, 2021 4:40 PM
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Quote from WingsOfF View quoted comment :
Bad price for a discontinued drive. Seagate has replaced the 6TB with a 5400rpm drive likely due to high rates of failure with 7200rpm. The drives seem to pick up bad sectors like crazy with some kind of mechanical instability issue. Good news is if and when it fails within warranty, it is replaced with a Ironwolf 6TB because they don't have these in stock in anymore.
So they replace Ironwolf with Ironwolf? Or were you trying to say something else?
May 5, 2021 6:32 PM
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WingsOfFMay 5, 2021 6:32 PM
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Quote from JerseyJay19 View quoted comment :
So they replace Ironwolf with Ironwolf? Or were you trying to say something else?
Ah, meant to say replace with Ironwolf Pro.
May 5, 2021 9:02 PM
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DonkeyFinestMay 5, 2021 9:02 PM
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Quote from WingsOfF View quoted comment :
Ah, meant to say replace with Ironwolf Pro.
Ah. Thanks for clarifying.
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DonkeyFinestMay 5, 2021 9:05 PM
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https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ba...s-q2-2020/

They charted average HDD lifespan/failure rates by brand.
I went by these when I chose my last HDD purchase.
May 5, 2021 10:09 PM
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WingsOfFMay 5, 2021 10:09 PM
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Quote from JerseyJay19 View quoted comment :
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ba...s-q2-2020/

They charted average HDD lifespan/failure rates by brand.
I went by these when I chose my last HDD purchase.
That list is better than nothing but not very useful for predicting reliability for the drive you buy except by luck.

Because the quality and durability within a brand isn't consistent. There are lemons in every brand and good ones in every brand. It is not consistent even within the same model line with different capacities. Because the platter density, speed, manufacturing tolerances, etc., vary within the same line and has implications on the reliability.

The only way I have found increasing the odds of success (no guarantees) is never to buy a model in its first year of introduction, search forums for mentions of any specific issues with the same model and capacity (not the retail reviews which simply say it died). And stick to the slowest speed and platter density that will serve the purpose.

Minimize the disruption any drive can cause with an exhaustive test before deployment, constant monitoring of a drive for problems manually or via NAS tools, etc., redundancy or backup, etc.
Jun 6, 2021 5:05 AM
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YangL7403Jun 6, 2021 5:05 AM
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had two, both failed

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