It can become a little confusing when shopping around for NAS hard drives, even if you’ve decided on a manufacturer. Take Seagate, for example. the company offers IronWolf, IronWolf Pro, and Exos hard drives for servers. Taking Exos out of the equation, what’s the difference between IronWolf and IronWolf Pro? This guide will show you exactly that. Seagate IronWolf or IronWolf Pro? So what makes IronWolf Pro worth the extra cost? It largely comes down to much higher capacities, going up to a whopping 20TB. Each drive has 256MB of cache and a motor that can spin the platters at 7,200 RPM, resulting in faster data transfer speeds. IronWolf Health Management, helps protect data with prevention, intervention, and recovery recommendations to secure peak system health. Three years of complimentary Rescue Data Recovery Services are included with all IronWolf drives, so users don't incur high recovery costs. In-house secure facilities, with an industry-leading 95% success rate, enable data recovery after accidental data corruption or drive damage.

Seagate technically has four separate families for its best NAS drives. There’s Seagate IronWolf and IronWolf Pro, which I will be explaining right here. But there’s also Exos and SkyHawk for serious enterprise-grade storage and surveillance, respectively. Built Tough IronWolf Pro drives are rated for 550 TB/Y workload, allowing commercial and enterprise NAS users to seamlessly store, share and collaborate on large amounts of networked data. The IronWolf series NAS hard drives feature Seagate's AgileArray technology . This brings improved disk balance, RAID optimization and reduced power consumption. Advanced troubleshooting ensures that your hard drive complies with NAS system requirements to reliably protect all stored data. Reducing the vibration effects typically associated with multi-disk solutions improves reliability. This is made possible by integrated sensors for measuring rotational vibrations (RV).

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Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors Built-in RV sensors for vibration tolerance and consistent performance in multi-bay systems. After selecting a NAS station that will house all your NAS hard drives, you'll be faced with your next big decision—which hard drives are right for you? Class-Leading Reliability and Dependability IronWolf Pro drives are rated for 2.5M hours MTBF and include a 5-year limited warranty for hassle-free data storage and best-in-class total cost of ownership (TCO). IronWolf Health Management in compatible NAS systems continuously helps to safeguard the health of your data IronWolf Health Management (IHM) IronWolf Pro drives include 3 years of complimentary Rescue Data Recovery Services - in-house secure facilities, with an industry-leading recovery rate of 95% - so you do not have to incur high recovery costs in the event of accidental data corruption or drive damage.

RAID performance optimized - maximizes responsiveness and uptime with NAS-aware Error Recovery Control Seagate designed its AgileArray technology to provide a better user experience. Here's how the company describes the feature set:Up to 22TB Broad range of capacity options to deliver scalable and cost-efficient storage solutions. All-CMR Portfolio All IronWolf Pro drives utilise conventional magnetic recording (CMR) technology for consistent, best-in-class NAS performance.