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In standard deviation, the 16TB IronWolf Pro showed reads and writes of 619.791ms and 1335.448ms in iSCSI, respectively, and 53.92ms and 1746.24ms in CIFS. The two drives currently cost roughly the same, which is not surprising given that they have similar hardware. Of course, the price per GB is quite high, paid as a premium to get CMR at this high of a capacity. Our Enterprise Synthetic Workload Analysis includes four profiles based on real-world tasks. These profiles have been developed to make it easier to compare to our past benchmarks, as well as widely-published values such as max 4K read and write speed and 8K 70/30, which is commonly used for enterprise drives.
In max latency, the 16TB IronWolf Pro posted a range of 1,424.4ms to 11,171.2ms in CIFS, while iSCSI showed 3,229.25ms through 7,665.47ms in the terminal queue depths. It is still too early to confirm the official release of the Seagate Ironwolf ST16000NE000 and ST16000VN001 16TB NAS Drives, as alot of focus is on the Seagate Ironwolf 110 NAS SSDs right now. Though given the strength of partner marketing with popular NAS brands right now and those very same respective brands announcing new hardware next week for release in September/October, I think we will see full availability of these drives by the end of August (maybe even a pinch sooner in bigger quantities). Let us be frank, none of us (me here on the blog and you there reading this) is surprised that a 16TB NAS Hard Drive was going to be released, or that it would be Seagate doing it. Achieving this sort of capacity often requires novel recording technologies, like energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) through either heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) or microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR). The idea in both cases is to ease the process of writing data to the magnetic surface by employing some form of energy to enable the magnetization of ultra-tiny bits on the platter, with HAMR using lasers and MAMR using microwaves.hours MTBF represents an improved total cost of ownership (TCO) over desktop drives with reduced maintenance costs.
But I think the fact the 16TB drive arrives so soon after the 12TB Ironwolf and with WD Red still seeming too invested in 10TB ( talk of a 12TB imminent though), can only mean that we will see 16TB Seagate EXOs, Skyhawk and Barracuda very soon indeed. With 4k max latency, the 16TB IronWolf Pro showed 4,896ms and 16,962ms in iSCSI reads and writes, respectively (again behind the 14TB model). In CIFS, the 16TB Pro hit 11,062ms read (last) and 16,273ms (2nd) write. Actively protect your NAS with IronWolf Health Management focusing on prevention, intervention, and recovery.
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IronWolf Pro is designed for everything business NAS. Get used to tough, ready, and scalable 24 x7 performance that can handle multidrive environments across a wide range of capacities.
The larger the drive, the higher the data transfer rate in general; Seagate quotes a 7.8% increase going from 12TB to 18TB, small but not-so-negligible. The numbers we recorded in our benchmark are unambiguous; this is a very, very fast hard disk drive when used as external storage.
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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
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