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I just swapped out a WD Red Pro for a Seagate Ironwolf Pro - xfer rates were pretty dang similar. I'm expecting this Seagate won't make the wonky maintenance noises after 24 hours that my WD did that annoyed me to death. If it does, I have to waste $$ on a NAS. lol
Seagate was cheaper, and has a better warranty as it offers free data recovery. Risk of failure higher? I have no idea. My POS 8TB SMR Barracuda has 40K hours on it with no issues and the last thing I had fail was actually a Plextor SSD, so I keep good backups and figure if something fails it'll be either within the warranty or hopefully never.
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Seagate was cheaper, and has a better warranty as it offers free data recovery. Risk of failure higher? I have no idea. My POS 8TB SMR Barracuda has 40K hours on it with no issues and the last thing I had fail was actually a Plextor SSD, so I keep good backups and figure if something fails it'll be either within the warranty or hopefully never.
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