Seagate IronWolf, 4TB, NAS, Internal Hard Drive, CMR 3.5 Inch, SATA, 6GB/s, 5,900 RPM, 64MB Cache, for RAID Network Attached Storage, 3 year Rescue Services, FFP (ST4000VNZ08)

Product Information

In this part, I will make a chart to show you Seagate Ironwolf vs WD Red in the aspect of specifications: Yes as noted in the post, the Barracudas are desktop hard drives and are not designed for use in enclosures. That’s why they don’t have rotational vibration sensors which are required to detect and offset vibration. Easily monitor drive health with the integrated IronWolf health management system and enjoy long-term reliability with an MTBF of 1 million hours. The Seagate IronWolf drive is connected to the test rig as above through the motherboard’s SATA III 6Gbps connector. Tests conducted include synthetic benchmark via CrystalDiskMark and real world usage via the transfer of a 4 GB file between the PLEXTOR SSD and Seagate IronWolf HDD. Synthetic Benchmark

This is quite interesting because the IronWolf is a NAS-focused drive and the Barracuda is an internal hard drive for PCs. Both are available in 2.5″ and 3.5″ sizes and a wide range of capacities.

Low Power Consumption

Seagate's Exos series is the company's enterprise range of hard drives. They're designed with helium inside for enhanced performance and reliability. The improved caching is great for big data applications, including Chia farming. Yes, but they (Barracudas) are sold as external USB drives. So far so good, but the problem occurs, when you have several of them on the same platform/desk and the platform is giving the vibration to the other drives. For an advanced format disk or SSD, you can choose to align partitions to 1 MB to improve the performance. What do you mean “enclosure not supported” for Barricuda? It’s a drive, what prevents you from putting it in an enclosure? Easily monitor NAS drive health with the integrated IronWolf health management system and enjoy long-term reliability with a 1.2 million hour MTBF.

However be aware that the Barracuda doesn’t have rotational vibration sensors. Also worth noting is the similar Nonrecoverable Read Errors Rate of both drives. Noise Levels

Performance

If you have gotten the IronWolf or IronWolf Pro, you may want to transfer your system to the new hard drive. To migrate the system and files from an original hard drive to IronWolf or IronWolf Pro without data loss, the clone tool is required. So, the professional SSD cloning software – MiniTool ShadowMaker is strongly recommended. IronWolf is designed for a variety of Network Attached Storage (NAS). Get robust, ready-to-use, and scalable 24/7 performance for multi-bay NAS environments with a wide range of capacity options. IronWolf Pro Engineered for reduced wear and tear, virtually no noise/vibration, no lag or downtime, improved file sharing performance, lower power consumption, and additional data protection – even in the event of a power outage.

We are getting the expected real life read and write speed from the IronWolf drive. The sequential read and write speeds are matching with the product specifications. For a 5,900 rpm drive, the transfer speed is quite fast.If you ever decide to install the IronWolf as your PC’s secondary storage, it should work relatively fine. However, do take note that BarraCuda drives are more suitable for PC environment because it is more optimised for everyday computing, lower price and faster read/write speed. Now, do you have a better understanding of IronWolf vs IronWolf Pro? If you have different opinions on IronWolf vs IronWolf Pro, please don’t hesitate to share them with us. Seagate doesn’t say how loud the Barracuda’s get but as they are desktop hard drives you would expect them to be louder than the IronWolf drives. VueVille VerdictOne of the common hard drive comparison requests I get from my readers is for the Seagate IronWolf vs. the Seagate Barracuda. Unrecoverable Read Errors: Its unit is usually bits and it refers to every time how many bits of data are read from the hard disk, there may be an error that cannot be corrected. It is one of the most important parameters for evaluating the stability of the hard disk. MTBF: It is short for Mean Time Between Failure and refers to the average working time between two adjacent failures. MTBF can reflect the relative reliability of a series of products and disk array products generally have an MTBF of no less than 50,000 hours. If you want the best of what Seagate has to offer in terms of NAS storage, have a look at the IronWolf Pro series. All the Pro drives spin at 7,200 RPM and can handle 250MB/s of sustained data transfer, with bursts of around 6Gb/s. Step 6: MiniTool ShadowMaker is starting cloning the system disk to your hard drive. After cloning, you will get the following information window.