Seagate IronWolf 4TB NAS HDD Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2017-10-23

The 4TB version of the IronWolf NAS series is able to deliver quite a bit of performance and considering that we are discussing about a 5900RPM model, it is even more impressive. This fact recommends it for both NAS usage but also as an internal drive where we can store backups or work on large projects which would not regularly fit on the SSD. The extra technologies such as AgileArray feature dual-plane balancing for getting an overall consistent performance, but also power management optimizations and higher reliability versus the regular desktop drives.

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Test Setup and Extra Info

The test bench was composed from the following hardware:

 

CPU: Intel I5 4690K Retail @ 4.6GHz

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX

Motherboard: BIOSTAR Z97X Gaming

RAM: GeIL Black Dragon 4x4GB DDR2133 (@1600)

Video: KFA2 1060 6GB

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 240GB + OCZ Vertex 460

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

 

The drive has arrived unformatted:

 

 

In order to conduct our tests, we went ahead and formatted the drive to NTFS:

 

 

With AIDA64 Engineer software tool, we can extract more information regarding the internal drive:

 

 

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