After selecting a NAS station that will house all your NAS hard drives, you'll be faced with your next big decision—which hard drives are right for you? IronWolf Health Management in compatible NAS systems continuously helps to safeguard the health of your data Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors Built-in RV sensors for vibration tolerance and consistent performance in multi-bay systems.

Prevention. Enjoy a seamless, superior NAS experience as IHM monitors your system environment and offers preventative actions to secure your data. Recovery. In the event of failure, rely on a secure environment for data recovery with Seagate® Rescue Data Recovery Service (2-year service included with IronWolf Pro). It can become a little confusing when shopping around for NAS hard drives, even if you’ve decided on a manufacturer. Take Seagate, for example. the company offers IronWolf, IronWolf Pro, and Exos hard drives for servers. Taking Exos out of the equation, what’s the difference between IronWolf and IronWolf Pro? This guide will show you exactly that. Seagate IronWolf or IronWolf Pro? Seagate continues to add features to the IronWolf product family by working with partners to offer advanced NAS monitoring services with the IronWolf Health Management application. Several popular NAS companies, like Asustor and Synology, have already released firmware upgrades that support the advanced IronWolf management and reporting features.Always on, always accessible, all-CMR portfolio engineered to deliver 24×7 performance, reliability, and dependability in multi-bay, multi-user commercial and enterprise RAID storage solutions. Built Tough IronWolf Pro drives are rated for 550 TB/Y workload, allowing commercial and enterprise NAS users to seamlessly store, share and collaborate on large amounts of networked data. Optimized for NAS with AgileArray™ AgileArray enables Dual-Plane Balancing and Time-Limited Error Recovery to deliver best-in-class RAID performance in multi-bay systems.

Seagate technically has four separate families for its best NAS drives. There’s Seagate IronWolf and IronWolf Pro, which I will be explaining right here. But there’s also Exos and SkyHawk for serious enterprise-grade storage and surveillance, respectively. The Seagate IronWolf family is the most basic range of NAS drives from the brand, ranging between 1TB and 8TB in capacity. These drives can be used in NAS enclosures with up to eight drive bays and make use of the same SMR writing tech used in IronWolf Pro. Specs RAID performance optimized - maximizes responsiveness and uptime with NAS-aware Error Recovery Control IronWolf Health Management, helps protect data with prevention, intervention, and recovery recommendations to secure peak system health. Three years of complimentary Rescue Data Recovery Services are included with all IronWolf drives, so users don't incur high recovery costs. In-house secure facilities, with an industry-leading 95% success rate, enable data recovery after accidental data corruption or drive damage.Seagate designed its AgileArray technology to provide a better user experience. Here's how the company describes the feature set:

Note: Please note that this 26.11mm hard drive model is slightly higher than most other 3.5 "HDDs. If necessary, measure whether the hard disk can fit into your PC, NAS or external hard drive enclosure. Seagate is a real industry giant in the hard drive market, where you can barely get past if you want to build a high-memory PC system. The range of models covers all segments - from small (2.5 inches) to large (3.5 inches), from green IT (at lower speeds) to high-speed (at 7,200 rpm), from home users into the professional environment. The IronWolf Pro ST8000NE001 is a 3.5-inch , 8-terabyte hard drive designed by Seagate for long-lasting continuous use in NAS servers or home server systems. Always On, Always Accessible IronWolf Pro drives are designed for 24x7 usage, allowing users to access their data any time, anywhere. Up to 22TB Broad range of capacity options to deliver scalable and cost-efficient storage solutions.

IronWolf Health Management (IHM) IronWolf Pro drives include 3 years of complimentary Rescue Data Recovery Services - in-house secure facilities, with an industry-leading recovery rate of 95% - so you do not have to incur high recovery costs in the event of accidental data corruption or drive damage. Drive balance with Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors - manages multi-bay vibration for long-term consistent performance and reliability Instead of having files and data stored locally on your computer, they're stored in a hard drive connected to a network—which is made accessible to any permitted user within that network. It's an elegant solution for folks who need access to files on multiple devices or if several people in the same building want to store data in a centralized location. So what makes IronWolf Pro worth the extra cost? It largely comes down to much higher capacities, going up to a whopping 20TB. Each drive has 256MB of cache and a motor that can spin the platters at 7,200 RPM, resulting in faster data transfer speeds.