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8TB Seagate IronWolf 3.5" SATA NAS Internal Hard Drive

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Amazon has 8TB Seagate IronWolf 3.5" SATA NAS Internal Hard Drive (Frustration Free Packaging, ST8000VNZ04/N004) for $179.99. Shipping is free.

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Product Features:
  • 8TB Storage Capacity
  • 3.5" Form Factor
  • SATA III 6 Gb/s Interface
  • 256MB Cache
  • 7200 RPM
  • Up to 210 MB/s Data Transfer Rate
  • 1 Million Hours MTBF
  • Workload Rate: 180TB per Year
  • 8760 Power-On Hours per Year
  • 600,000 Load/Unload Cycles

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Amazon has 8TB Seagate IronWolf 3.5" SATA NAS Internal Hard Drive (Frustration Free Packaging, ST8000VNZ04/N004) for $179.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member ifoundu for finding this deal.

Product Features:
  • 8TB Storage Capacity
  • 3.5" Form Factor
  • SATA III 6 Gb/s Interface
  • 256MB Cache
  • 7200 RPM
  • Up to 210 MB/s Data Transfer Rate
  • 1 Million Hours MTBF
  • Workload Rate: 180TB per Year
  • 8760 Power-On Hours per Year
  • 600,000 Load/Unload Cycles

Editor's Notes

Written by Corwin | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this offer is $20 lower (10% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $199.99.
    • Please read the Forum Thread for more deal discussion.
  • About this product:
    • Rating of 4.7 from over 14,600 Amazon customer reviews.
  • About this store:
No longer available:
  • Newegg has 8TB Seagate IronWolf 3.5" SATA NAS Internal Hard Drive (ST8000VN004) for $179.99. Shipping is free.

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MrShruggles
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These aren't NAS class.
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This one is only 5600 rpm
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Mar 10, 2022 12:46 AM
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tu_thewatchguyMar 10, 2022 12:46 AM
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Quote from doktorek View quoted comment :
This one is only 5600 rpm
Isn't the lower rpm gonna make the WD more durable and quieter in 24/7 operations?
Mar 10, 2022 12:46 AM
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UtahJMar 10, 2022 12:46 AM
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Quote from tshrimp View quoted comment :
Good information. Loud drives can be annoying. What NAS do you have? I am sporting an Asustor AS6604 with 2 8TB 7200RPM Toshiba 300s, and can't hear them that often. Wonder how much the actual NAS buffers the noise of some of these faster drives. I also wonder if rubber grommets could help out if any of the noise is from vibrations.
A Synology DS416Play. I have the drives mounted with rubber grommets, added some felt pieces to the sides of the drives, and have the NAS sitting on an isolation pad. I'm amazed
at the noise difference the drives made. Live and learn I guess.
Mar 10, 2022 1:14 AM
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T_P85DMar 10, 2022 1:14 AM
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Too bad no deals on the pros…
Mar 10, 2022 1:35 AM
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snowfocus8Mar 10, 2022 1:35 AM
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Quote from harry0723 View quoted comment :
Are two 8TB drives sufficient for a raid set up with Synology DS 220+?
Have 4 of these in an Asustor and they've been churning flawlessly for over a year. It's my file server for Movies and music as well as auto backups. It pushes to Backblaze monthly updates for offsite archive. So it's not super heavy usage but definitely not idle either.
Mar 10, 2022 2:31 AM
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1BadBoyMar 10, 2022 2:31 AM
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Quote from Nacho1545 View quoted comment :
Exos drives are priced well… $230 for 14Tb.
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Last edited by 1BadBoy March 9, 2022 at 06:35 PM.
Mar 10, 2022 3:02 AM
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KLondike5-1212Mar 10, 2022 3:02 AM
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Just bought four WD Blue 8TB today for $139 each. Better price and I'm not throwing the dice with Seagate. I've lost a lot of data over the years to crashed Seagate drives. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&psc=1
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Mar 10, 2022 3:40 AM
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MrShrugglesMar 10, 2022 3:40 AM
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank

Quote from FlyerFocus View quoted comment :
Just bought four WD Blue 8TB today for $139 each. Better price and I'm not throwing the dice with Seagate. I've lost a lot of data over the years to crashed Seagate drives. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&psc=1 [amazon.com]
These aren't NAS class.
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Mar 10, 2022 3:43 AM
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tshrimpMar 10, 2022 3:43 AM
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Quote from tu_thewatchguy View quoted comment :
Isn't the lower rpm gonna make the WD more durable and quieter in 24/7 operations?
Most NAS hard drives will slow down if too much heat from the higher RPMs. More built in protection than what you would see on a desktop drive.

Edit: Example

https://www.toshiba-storage.com/p...ives-n300/

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HIGH DURABILITY AND HEAT PREVENTION
Use of high-endurance components is one of the reasons that the N300 series offers better durability than other conventional hard disk drives. At the same time, automatic adjustment of seek speed to reduce heat during high-temperature operation further improves endurance in demanding situations.
Last edited by tshrimp March 9, 2022 at 07:46 PM.
Mar 10, 2022 6:15 AM
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KLondike5-1212Mar 10, 2022 6:15 AM
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Quote from MrShruggles View quoted comment :
These aren't NAS class.

Not running them on a NAS. Running them on an Ubuntu server. My WD PR4100 is running red drives.
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Mar 10, 2022 1:55 PM
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maddogvaq33Mar 10, 2022 1:55 PM
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What sort of luck is everyone having with Seagate drives? Long ago they were the best drives available, but then they changed hands and changed manufacturing sites and they were only good for doorstops.

Sadly, even Toshiba and Western Digital have had higher failure rates in the past few years. I am waiting until SSDs drop to around $75-$80 per TB and I will replace all of my HDDs with SSDs. I already swapped out my laptop internal drive and have several 480 GB PNY external SSDs.

I spent 10 years as a Navy Airborne Electronic Warfare Officer and I assembled my first external hard drive back in 1988 (34 years ago!) for use with my Atari ST - it cost a total of about $275 for case, power supply, controller card and 25 MB Seagate HDD. A 1TB has 40,000 times that storage.

Flashback - in 1975 while I was flying against Vietnam one of our Electronic Warfare Officers bought an LED watch and an 8-digit, 4-function LED calculator. He paid $350 for EACH of them. Time flies.
Mar 10, 2022 4:37 PM
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goldbond1Mar 10, 2022 4:37 PM
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Quote from maddogvaq33 View quoted comment :
What sort of luck is everyone having with Seagate drives? Long ago they were the best drives available, but then they changed hands and changed manufacturing sites and they were only good for doorstops.

Sadly, even Toshiba and Western Digital have had higher failure rates in the past few years. I am waiting until SSDs drop to around $75-$80 per TB and I will replace all of my HDDs with SSDs. I already swapped out my laptop internal drive and have several 480 GB PNY external SSDs.

I spent 10 years as a Navy Airborne Electronic Warfare Officer and I assembled my first external hard drive back in 1988 (34 years ago!) for use with my Atari ST - it cost a total of about $275 for case, power supply, controller card and 25 MB Seagate HDD. A 1TB has 40,000 times that storage.

Flashback - in 1975 while I was flying against Vietnam one of our Electronic Warfare Officers bought an LED watch and an 8-digit, 4-function LED calculator. He paid $350 for EACH of them. Time flies.
I have had 2x Ironwolf 14 tb in Unraid server and QNAP prior to for almost a year no issue. Couple of points you likely know:
1. Unraid has fantastic monitoring of temp and reporting. I have had situations with temp at times due to location of server. This is critical to life expectancy obviously and should be factored by anyone.
2. Unraid has the ability to keep regularly accessed content in cache like many other NAS products I am sure, reducing wear and tear/speeding up access.
3. Related to 2. Setup of your NAS is critical. Are you using these drives for surveillance as an example? Do you have 20 people trying to watch 4k content on PLEX at the same time? This adds extra wear on drive.
4. If yours are external, how much are they banging around in the cockpit? Big Grin

Again, I am likely stating the obvious to you and many others. But, this applies to any drives used by NAS.
Last edited by goldbond1 March 10, 2022 at 08:40 AM.
Mar 10, 2022 8:01 PM
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oopszMar 10, 2022 8:01 PM
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Hold out for 160 or lower. In the past few months the 8tb Toshiba N300 has been $159 and the red plus has been $149.

https://slickdeals.net/f/15652504-wd-red-plus-8tb-nas-hard-disk-drive-7200-rpm-class-sata-6gb-s-cmr-256mb-cache-3-5-inch-149-99-fs?src=SiteSearch
Mar 11, 2022 1:30 AM
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aegrotatioMar 11, 2022 1:30 AM
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Quote from Danimal86 View quoted comment :
Seems like the best deals are found early november.

If you have an old computer laying around you could setup UnRaid on it. Great thing about it is you can mix/match hard drive sizes.
Synology devices will handle mix/match hard drive sizes very well, too.
Mar 11, 2022 2:00 AM
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ZooMeHoo2Mar 11, 2022 2:00 AM
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Quote from FlyerFocus View quoted comment :
Just bought four WD Blue 8TB today for $139 each. Better price and I'm not throwing the dice with Seagate. I've lost a lot of data over the years to crashed Seagate drives. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&psc=1
I did the same. I hear MrShruggles comment that the WD Blues arn't NAS drives but perhaps like you I use them on my Unraid box for occasional Plex streaming and mostly media storage and backups. Pretty light load. I guess it comes down to use case but your link is a good share to give people options. I don't believe my scenario demands the quality / price point of NAS quality drives but I'm open to learn why that may be wrong!

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Mar 11, 2022 2:05 AM
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jimbeauMar 11, 2022 2:05 AM
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Would this work for the Dell 8940? Can one or two of these be added to that machine?

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