Seagate IronWolf
16 TB, 3.5", CMR
Question about Seagate IronWolf
Hi all, If anybody knows a reliable way to figure out if the currently shipping drives use PMR or SMR, please post an answer. I think it's worth mentioning that apparently all HDD vendors might be shipping SMR drives without disclosing it. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/309389-western-digital-seagate-reportedly-shipping-slow-smr-drives-without-informing-customers Perhaps Digitec team would be interested to do a research of this topic? I'm sure there are a lot of us (customers) who would appreciate it! All the best, Greg
Helpful answer
There is no official way because the companies do not want to be all transparent. You have to find statements of the 3 companies.
Because of the WD Red SMR "scandal", heise (de) did some more research and asked Toshiba and Seagate. They said that their NAS HDD's do not use SMT. read here, in the section "update": https://www.heise.de/newsticker...
That means of the dedicated NAS Hard Drives there are only these Disks using SMR:
WD Red WD20EFAX
WD Red WD40EFAX
WD Red WD60EFAX
me too, I've ordered a WD 4TB and have returned it now (it was within 30 days after purchase).
There is now an official page disclosing by model whether CMR / SMR is used https://www.seagate.com/de...
Hi,
Seagate has specifically released a comment stating that none of their IronWolf and IronWolf Pro drives use SMR.
Their BarraCuda drives, however, do. Seagate recommends to use the proper drive for the right application.
See here for a list of known drives:
https://www.ixsystems.com/community...
No IronWolf / IronWolf Pro use SMR according to this article:
https://arstechnica.com/informatio...
I was on the fence between 6Tb drives (WD Red vs IronWolf) but this settles it - I'm ordering some IronWolf's, since it appears the WD Red EFRX is only available in 3Tb or 4Tb (at least here at Digitec).