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 BarraCuda
Seagate Harddisk BarraCuda 2TB 3.5", storage Application area: desktop PC, total storage capacity: 2 TB, storage interface: SATA III (6Gb/s), hard disk form factor: 3.5".
2. Seagate IronWolf
IronWolf and IronWolf Pro are designed for everything related to the NAS system. IronWolf's always-on hard drives feature AgileArray technology for optimal system flexibility and reliability. With multi-user technology and high workload rates, IronWolf can scale with your business.
Active protection of your NAS with IronWolf Health Management in Synology DiskStations:
Workload aware monitoring with high security through notifications. Hard disk health notifications with Synology DiskStation Manager 6.1 (DSM). Intelligent analysis with environmental and operational recommendations. The DSM-compatible IronWolf hard disk is automatically detected. No additional software or setup required.
3. WD Red
The WD WD40EFAX from the WD Red series is specially designed for NAS systems. It has been extensively tested for 24/7 continuous operation. Thanks to the special firmware NASware and 3D Active Balance Plus technology, the WD40EFAX enables seamless integration, high data security and optimum performance for NAS and RAID environments. The WD40EFAX is designed for particularly low noise emission and low power consumption and features the SATA 600 standard.
4. WD Red Plus
The WD Red Plus offers concentrated performance for small and medium business NAS environments and increased workloads in home and small offices. It is optimized for archiving, sharing content, and building RAID arrays in systems using ZFS and other file systems. Designed and tested for NAS systems with up to 8 drive bays, the hard drives provide the flexibility, versatility and security needed when storing and sharing your valuable personal and business files.With a NAS and WD Red Plus hard drives, you can stream, back up, organize and effortlessly share your digital content with other devices on your home or business network. NASware 3.0 technology increases the compatibility of your hard drives with other devices. Larger businesses with up to 24 drive bays can rely on the outstanding performance of WD Red Pro hard drives.Designed for optimal NAS compatibility - WD Red Plus hard drives with NASware technology make hard drive selection easy. The unique algorithm is optimized for NAS systems and produces the right balance of performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. In short, WD Red Plus is the hard drive with the highest compatibility for NAS enclosures. That's backed up by numbers, too. WD Red Plus hard drives are the result of extensive compatibility testing with NAS partners and extensive integration of their technologies.3D Active Balance Plus - Advanced two-level mass balance technology significantly improves overall drive performance and reliability. Hard drives without proper mass balancing can cause excessive vibration and noise in a multi-drive system, reducing drive life and causing performance to drop over time.A continuous duty environment - Your NAS system runs around the clock. Therefore, a highly reliable storage is essential. With an MTBF of more than 1 million hours, WD Red Plus is designed for continuous operation.Unlike desktop drives, these hard drives are tested for compatibility with NAS systems to ensure optimal performance.Continuous operation of a NAS or RAID is extremely demanding. Desktop hard drives are typically not designed and tested for these conditions - unlike WD Red Plus.WD Red Plus NAS hard drives are specifically designed with RAID troubleshooting protocols that help reduce failures in the NAS system.Desktop drives are designed for single drive operation and therefore typically offer little or no protection against noise and vibration found in systems with multiple drives. WD Red Plus hard drives are optimized for use in NAS environments with multiple drive bays.
5. WD Blue 7200rpm
The Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB hard disk 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 in combination with the 6 Gbit/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 hard drive, lowering the operating temperature for greater reliability.
These very reliable panes have technologically advanced acoustics. With WhisperDrive and SoftSeek technologies, Western Digital has reduced noise levels to levels that are virtually imperceptible to the human ear at home or in the office.
6. WD Red Pro
WD Red Pro hard drives are designed specifically for medium or large business customers and are available for NAS systems with up to 24 drive bays. Designed for high-intensity workloads in 24x7 environments, the WD Red Pro family is ideal for archiving and content sharing as well as building RAID arrays in advanced operating systems such as ZFS and other file systems. These drives increase efficiency by allowing your workers to quickly share files and reliably back up folders in your NAS solution.
Designed for optimal NAS compatibility - WD Red Pro hard drives with NASware technology make hard drive selection easy Our unique algorithm is optimized for NAS systems and ensures the right balance of performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. In short, WD Red Pro is the hard drive with the highest compatibility for NAS enclosures. That's backed by numbers. WD Red Pro hard drives are the result of extensive compatibility testing and extensive integration of technologies from our NAS partners.
Shock protection for drive bays in large NAS systems - WD Red Pro hard drives feature a multi-axis shock sensor that detects even minor impacts and dynamic head height adjustment that automatically compensates for shock during each read/write operation to protect your data. The combination of these technologies provides even greater protection for hard drives in large 24-bay NAS environments and increases the reliability of the drives.
3D Active Balance Plus - Advanced dual-level mass balancing technology significantly improves overall drive performance and reliability. Hard drives without proper mass balancing can cause excessive vibration and noise in a multi-drive system, reducing drive life and degrading performance over time.
Troubleshooting protection - Because WD Red Pro hard drives are designed specifically for RAID and NAS environments, they feature special troubleshooting mechanisms that are part of NASware 3.0 technology. This can significantly reduce hard drive failures in RAID systems.
Extensive disk testing - A NAS environment with up to 24 drive bays places a significant amount of stress on a hard drive in terms of increased vibration and heat generation. That's why every WD Red Pro hard drive undergoes extensive running-in tests with changing temperatures to ensure even greater reliability in operation.
Longer warranty coverage - WD Red Pro hard drives come with a 5-year warranty for added peace of mind.
7. WD Black
Bulk version (without cables and screws)
HRC, VCT, StableTrac, CPT, Dynamic Caching Technology
8. Seagate Exos X18
Seagate Exos enterprise-class hard drives are designed for the most demanding workloads and are the perfect high-reliability drives for servers, storage systems and business-oriented NAS applications. Exos X family drives provide maximum storage capacity and the most efficient rack utilization. As the flagship of the Seagate X-class, Exos X18 drives are among the highest capacity drives in the fleet.Exos X drives offer very high disk performance with advanced write caching, making them ideal for OLTP, Hadoop, Ceph and HPC applications. Experience the industry's greatest IOPS/Watt by optimizing your storage with Seagate's PowerBalance feature.Seagate enterprise hard drives lower your cooling and energy costs per gigabyte by delivering high capacity with low power consumption and small form factor. With Seagate's PowerChoice technology already built in, you'll be able to further reduce your power costs and customize your systems to meet your needs. This results in up to 35% lower power consumption and is especially useful for businesses with many hard drives.
9. WD Blue
Expand your PC with WD Blue drives available in a variety of storage capacities specifically for desktop and all-in-one PCs.
Available as a free download, Acronis True Image WD Edition software can clone drives and back up your operating system, applications, settings and data.
NoTouch ramp loading technology parks the read/write head to protect your data in a secure location outside the hard drive surface.
10. Seagate Ironwolf Pro
The IronWolf Pro is designed for reliable performance in environments with persistently demanding workloads. It is designed for high performance in commercial and enterprise multi-bay NAS storage solutions with multiple users and applications.
Optimised for NAS: thanks to AgileArray AgileArray enables bi-level balancing and time-limited error correction for best-in-class RAID performance in multi-bay systems.
Continuous operation, continuous availability IronWolf Pro hard drives are designed for continuous operation, so users can access their data anytime, anywhere.
Full portfolio with CMR: All IronWolf Pro hard drives use Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) for consistent, best-in-class NAS performance. Up to 20TB A wide range of high capacities enables scalable and cost-effective storage solutions.
Robust: IronWolf Pro hard drives offer a workload rating of 550TB/year. This allows businesses and enterprises to seamlessly store, share and collaborate on large amounts of networked data on NAS systems.
Unrivalled reliability and longevity: IronWolf hard drives offer an MTBF of up to 2.5 million hours and a 5-year limited warranty for worry-free data storage and a premium total cost of ownership (TCO).
Torsional vibration sensors: Integrated torsional vibration sensors combined with dynamic adjustment of the read/write head distance to the magnetic disk to correct for external vibrations for sustained high performance and reliability in multi-bay systems.
IronWolf Health Management (IHM): Active protection through prevention, intervention and data recovery recommendations for optimal system integrity.
Data Recovery Peace of Mind: Three years of Rescue Data Recovery Services are included with IronWolf Pro drives to help users avoid high recovery costs. For in-house facilities, accidental data or drive damage is safely recovered by us with a 95% success rate.
