Seagate IronWolf, 8 TB, NAS, Internal Hard Drive, CMR, 3.5 Inch, SATA, 6GB/s, 5,400 RPM, 256MB Cache, for RAID Network Attached Storage, 3 year Rescue Services (ST8000VN004)

Works well in my asustor NAS no issues

Purchased two of the 8TB Ironwolf drives to replace the existing 2TB Ironwolf drives in a Synology DS718+ NAS. I've had the NAS a couple of years and the 2TB drives have functioned without issue but I needed more space.Easy to upgrade the NAS - as some have mentioned, disks are not silent. I can hear occassional rumbles, but not excessively noisy.Drives are showing as 7.3TB each in the NAS, but this is nothing unusual to see lower than advertised storage space.

I was disappointed the disk arrived in poor packaging. The drive was enclosed in an anti-static bag with a very thing plastic foam protection around it. Any small drops or knocks could have damaged the disk, although visibly there were no defects to the packaging or disk.After installing the drive into my NAS I formatted the disk and ran a SMART test, the drive started to relocate sectors. It instantly failed the test and after researching this SMART attribute, the drive can be assumed defective and impending failure.Although it could be possible that it was defective from manufacture, be weary when buying disks as logistics can very well damage these delicate components.

I got 6 of the 8 GB versions. I avoided the 10GB becasue it has had historical issues with write caching (perhaps fixed now by firmware update) plu cost per TB was best with the 8GB models. Anyway, back to the review - all 6 seemed to work as expected - they are quiet and fast (for spinners) although one or two seem to get a little warmer than others - possibly because of differing airflows.With a striped mirror (RAID0+1) I get around 700MB/s read and around 450MB/s write real-life use- not too shabby at all. Random speeds drop off a lot obviously.The RAID gives me something like 0.75 GB of write cache (6 disks / 2 * 256MB Cache) which is not to be sniffed at and will significantly improve small random writes.Great disk so far but asks me again in 3 or 4 years if I'm still happy.

Drive model number matches that on the Synology compatibility list - but the sub part number does not. I've given up trying to find a drive that installs without error - and gone with Synologies own drives.. Hopefully the support and firmware will be worth the extra dollar.

Good replacement for Toshiba N300 8Tb drive failed in NAS

Working fine and are quiet but… the fixing holes on the top of the drives are in the wrong position for the mounting brackets in my enclosure. WD reds they replaced fitted perfectly. I know what to buy next year!

Great hard drives. 0 issues with the product except they are LOUD! Make sure they're in a separate room and not on your desk.