Top-rated products in the Hard drives category
Here's a ranking of the top rated products in this category. To give you a quick overview, we've also added some key information about the products.
1. Seagate IronWolf
IronWolf is designed for everything related to NAS. The always-ready IronWolf drives feature AgileArray technology for optimal system flexibility and reliability. With multi-user technology and high workload rates, IronWolf can scale alongside your business. AgileArray provides NAS optimization for the best possible NAS experience, focusing on drive balance, RAID optimization, and power consumption. The two-plane balancing and sensors that measure rotational vibrations reduce vibrations in NAS enclosures with multiple drive bays for consistent performance and high reliability. RAID optimization enhances performance and reliability through error recovery control to boost data integrity. Advanced power management lowers energy consumption and delivers power when the NAS needs it most. With multi-user technology, you have more options with your NAS. With user workloads of up to 180 TB/year on IronWolf, multiple users can easily upload or download data to and from a NAS server. Whether you belong to a creative profession or work in a small business, IronWolf is on your side. With expandable and reliable storage, you and your creative business can always meet deadlines. IronWolf is a great addition to your NAS, offering remote access 24/7, backups, and file sharing from anywhere for seamless idea exchange. IronWolf meets the challenges of growing agencies regarding the scalability of NAS solutions and increasing storage demands.
2. Seagate BarraCuda
The BarraCuda offers high storage capacity for desktop and mobile computers. All hard drives in the BarraCuda product family are equipped with Multi-Tier Caching (MTC). With MTC, your PC can reach new performance heights, allowing you to load applications and files faster than ever. Thanks to intelligent NAND flash layers, DRAM, and media cache technologies, BarraCuda provides improved read and write performance by optimizing data flow.
3. WD Red Plus
High-performance hard drives designed for performance, reliability, and energy efficiency in small to medium NAS environments. WD Red Plus drives are ideal for power user workloads and NAS environments in small to medium-sized businesses. They provide the necessary speed and capacity to efficiently store, protect, and share growing amounts of data in mid-sized RAID-optimized NAS systems.
The exclusive Western Digital NASware technology optimizes drive parameters for NAS system workloads to enhance performance and reliability.
Your NAS system runs around the clock. Therefore, highly reliable storage is essential. WD Red Plus drives are designed for continuous operation, giving users the assurance that they can reliably access their data.
Western Digital collaborates with various NAS system manufacturers to conduct extensive testing and ensure compatibility with most NAS enclosures.
WD Red Plus drives consume less power than previous models and run cooler, reducing operating costs and minimizing heat in hard-to-cool NAS enclosures.
Although they consume less power, the drives have a significant bandwidth to meet the mixed performance demands of multi-drive NAS systems.
Drives without proper mass balancing can cause excessive vibrations and noise in multi-drive systems, which can shorten the lifespan of the drives and lead to performance degradation over time.
4. WD Red
The WD Red is designed for use in storage systems with 1 to 8 drive bays. It features exceptional NASware 3.0 firmware, outstanding reliability, and intelligent design that minimizes vibration and reduces waste heat.
The drive features NASware 3.0 firmware technology, which is optimized in WD Red for systems with 1 to 8 drives. The firmware provides seamless integration, robust data protection and optimal performance for systems operating in NAS and RAID environments. It reduces common hard disk problems in NAS system, including compatibility, integration, upgradeability, reliability, and total cost of ownership issues encountered with a hard disk drive designed for desktop computers, thereby increasing the performance of NAS storage.
Desktop drives are usually not designed for RAID environments and have controls that prevent the RAID controller from intervening in the event of a failure. With built-in intelligent error handling control, NASware 3.0 prevents drives from being disconnected from the RAID due to excessive error handling. This feature provides more availability and less downtime for rebuilding the RAID.
5. Seagate IronWolf Pro
IronWolf Pro is designed for business NAS and provides a workload rate of 300 TB per year. It offers scalable 24/7 performance for multi-bay NAS environments, catering to creative professionals and small businesses.
6. WD Blue
The higher standard in storage
Expand your PC with WD Blue drives, available in various storage capacities specifically designed for desktop and all-in-one PCs.
Boost PC performance
Give your PC a new boost by combining a WD Blue hard drive with an SSD. This way, you achieve maximum access speed while enjoying up to 6 TB of storage capacity.
Planning for the future
Enhanced technologies have increased storage demands. Digital cameras that record Ultra HD videos at a resolution of 4K and 30 frames per second require a lot of storage space. With a 6 TB hard drive, managing these data volumes is a breeze.
Trust WD
The legendary reliable WD Blue drives are designed, built, and tested for a long hard drive life.
Easy data backup, quick upgrade
The software "Acronis True Image WD Edition," available as a free download, can clone drives and back up your operating system, applications, settings, and data.
Technology to protect your data
NoTouch ramp load technology parks the read/write head in a safe position away from the drive's surface to protect your data.
Technical specifications
- Capacity: 4 TB
- Form factor: 3.5-inch
- Connection: SATA
- Interface: SATA
- Transfer speed: up to 185 MB/s
- Disk speed (RPM): 5400 RPM
- Recording technology: CMR
- Cache size: 256 MB
- Dimensions (L x W x H): 147 mm x 101.6 mm x 26.1 mm
- Weight: 570 g
- Model number: WD40EZAX
- Operating temperature: 0 °C to 60 °C
- Non-operating temperature: -40 °C to 70 °C
- Certifications: BSMI, ICES-003/NMB-003, CE, FCC, KC, Maghreb, RCM, UKCA, VCCI, CB-Scheme, TUV, UL.
7. WD Blue 7200rpm
The Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB hard drive offers performance, reliability, large storage capacity, and the new 6 Gb/s Serial ATA interface. A larger cache means faster performance. A 64 MB cache combined with the 6 Gb/s Serial ATA interface makes this drive a perfect solution for the latest generation of PCs. Western Digital hard drives are designed to have the lowest power consumption of any high-performance desktop drives, which lowers the operating temperature for greater reliability. These highly reliable hard drives feature technologically advanced acoustics. With WhisperDrive and SoftSeek technologies, Western Digital has reduced the noise level to a point that is practically inaudible to the human ear at home or in the office.
8. WD Black
WD2003FZEX 2TB SATA III/600 64MB cache Caviar Black
Whether you're a digital graphic designer, video editor, photographer, or gamer: with the high-performance storage from WD Black, you can enjoy a better PC experience for resource-intensive tasks. With up to 128 MB DRAM cache in higher capacity models, the WD Black drive is optimized for high performance, allowing you to focus on the things you love most.
For Creative Professionals
When it comes to storing your creativity and entire digital portfolio, you can rely on the WD Black high-performance storage as the ideal solution. Use the WD Black drive to store large multimedia files such as photos, videos, games, and applications. With a WD Black drive, you get the best combination of speed, capacity, and a larger cache.
For Gamers
The WD Black drive is the ideal storage solution for your gaming system: it offers high capacity for storing downloadable game content, a larger cache, and ensures maximum system performance when combined with an SSD. The WD Black drive also features StableTrac technology (in models with 2 TB and larger) for more accurate data access in the presence of vibrations caused by additional gaming hardware.
Increased Reliability
The WD Black drive is equipped with StableTrac technology (in models with 2 TB and larger), which secures the motor shaft inside to enhance reliability and reduce the impact of vibrations caused by other components. By stabilizing the platters inside, the WD Black drive can ensure more precise access during read and write operations in a specific sector, thus optimizing performance and reliability.
Increased DRAM Cache
The WD Black drive delivers...
9. Toshiba P300
The internal 3.5" hard drive P300 from Toshiba offers strong performance for professionals. The dual-stage actuator ensures smooth, fast system performance. Your data and media are also protected by ramp loading and a shock sensor.
10. Seagate FireCuda
FireCuda hard drives harness the full potential of your computer with enormous storage capacity, speeds of 7,200 RPM, a large 256 MB cache, and proven reliability for modern challenges. With a workload rate of 300 TB/year for sustained full load, you can now secure your ultimate gaming library. The FireCuda HDD offers options for massive storage capacity of up to 8 TB, allowing you to accommodate your game collection without compromise. The 7,200 RPM rotational speed and a SATA 6 Gb/s interface for a maximum sustained transfer rate of 255 MB/s make the FireCuda HDD the ideal gaming hard drive. Experience faster application execution and file transfers thanks to the huge 256 MB cache. The FireCuda HDD provides easy installation with a standardized 3.5-inch form factor and a SATA III interface with 6 Gb/s. By combining your FireCuda HDD with an SSD, you achieve the ultimate gaming setup. Use the SSD as a boot drive and take advantage of the enormous storage capacity of the FireCuda HDD for your game, music, video collection, and more.
