Best selling Hard drives
Here's a ranking of the best products in this category. To give you a quick overview, we've also added some key information about the products.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Toshiba MG10 Series
The MG10 series features Toshiba's fourth-generation helium-sealed design with 10 hard drives to increase CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) density to 2TB per drive and achieve a total capacity of up to 20TB. The industry-standard 3.5-inch form factor offers 7200 RPM performance and integrates easily into cloud storage infrastructures, mission-critical servers and storage, and file and object storage solutions. The massive 20TB CMR capacity is delivered through Toshiba's innovative Flux Control Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology. These advances help the MG10 Series deliver optimal storage capacity and application compatibility with unsurpassed data reliability. Available with a 6.0Gbps SATA interface, MG10 Series models integrate easily into standard 3.5-inch drive bays to reduce the footprint and operational load of cloud storage infrastructures, file and object storage systems, and mission-critical servers and storage systems.
4. Seagate Exos 7E10
The Seagate Enterprise hard drive Exos 7E10 reliably stores data without performance loss. These secure hard drives, with high capacity and performance, are optimized for demanding bulk data applications in enterprises.
5. WD Red Pro
WD Red Pro hard drives are designed for high-intensity workloads in commercial and enterprise NAS environments with continuous operation and multiple users. WD Red Pro drives deliver the performance, scalability, and reliability that businesses need to store, share, and collaborate on large amounts of data in RAID-optimized, multi-bay NAS systems.
6. 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 caching technologies, BarraCuda provides enhanced read and write performance by optimizing data flow.
7. Seagate IronWolf Pro High WRL
The IronWolf Pro is designed for reliable performance in environments with consistently 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 two-level balancing and time-limited error correction for first-class RAID performance in multi-bay systems. Continuous operation, continuous availability IronWolf Pro hard drives are designed for continuous operation so that users can access their data anytime, anywhere. Full portfolio with CMR: All IronWolf Pro drives utilise Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) for consistent, best-in-class NAS performance. Up to 20 TB A wide range of high capacities enables scalable and cost-effective storage solutions. Robust: IronWolf Pro hard drives offer a workload rating of 550 TB/year. This allows businesses and enterprises to seamlessly store, share and utilise 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.
8. WD Purple
WD Purple drives are designed to meet the challenges of 24/7 video surveillance. These drives are specifically engineered for monitoring and can withstand significant temperature fluctuations and device vibrations in NVR environments. An average desktop drive is only built for short intervals, not for the harsh 24/7 operational environment of a high-resolution surveillance system. With WD Purple drives, you get reliable surveillance-class storage that has been tested for compatibility with a variety of security systems. The exclusive AllFrame technology helps reduce frame loss and improve overall video playback.
9. Toshiba MG08 Series
With the industry-leading 9 hard disk drive design first introduced by Toshiba, the MG08 series offers 16TB of CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) capacity and 7,200 rpm speed. The industry-standard 3.5-inch form factor easily integrates with cloud-sized storage infrastructure, business-critical servers and storage, and file and object storage solutions. Toshiba's precision laser welding technology is used to safely seal the helium in the 9-plate mechanism. The enormous storage capacity of 16 TB is provided with proven CMR recording technology for optimal application compatibility and data reliability. The MG08 series models, equipped with a 6 Gbps SATA or 12 Gbps SAS interface, fit conveniently into a standard 3.5-inch drive bay, reducing the footprint and operational drawbacks of a cloud-sized storage infrastructure and mission-critical servers and storage systems.
10. Synology Plus Series HAT3300-4T
Powerful hard drives with concentrated power for private users and SMEs. The Synology Plus series hard drives deliver robust performance and are specifically designed to meet the demands for reliability, endurance, and performance for continuous operation in Synology's SME storage systems. Rigorously tested and equipped with optimized, easily executable firmware updates via Synology DiskStation Manager, the HDDs remain up to date with the latest technology, ensuring long-lasting, smooth operation.
Designed for durability. The HDDs in the Synology Plus series have a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 1 million hours and a workload rating of 180 TB per year – up to three times that of conventional desktop hard drives. Over 300,000 hours of compatibility and stress testing ensure smooth operation even in multi-user environments.
Convenient firmware updates. Users are automatically notified of available firmware updates for the Synology Plus series HDDs and can effortlessly update the drives in the DiskStation Manager (DSM) on their Synology storage system. No external tools are required, and the drives do not need to be removed for the update.
Reliable recording technology. Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) provides consistent performance.
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