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That’s a worse workload than the cheapest unbranded SSD available. But it is even less impressive when you realise that Seagate defines the workload as “Annualized Workload Rate = (Lifetime Writes + Lifetime Reads) * (8760 / Lifetime Power On Hours)” But working the maths a little, taking 300TB and multiplying that by the five years of warranty yields an operational guaranteed limit of 1500TB. Divide that by the capacity, and the total bytes transferred is only 75TB per TB of capacity. AgileArray also features optimized power management that provides a faster response time while also reducing power consumption. Pricing, Warranty & Endurance Peng Zhen, vice president at Inspur Group, said, “The era of smart computing is coming, and at Inspur we are striving to create a converged, open, and agile AI industry ecosystem so that we can provide customers with integrated solutions. Inspur and Seagate are working together in multiple fields, including cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, all to drive enterprise digital transformation. For Seagate’s 16TB helium-based Exos X16 enterprise drive, we have completed a series of joint tests, which indicate it delivers high performance with support for varying workloads, allowing us to increase system capacity and reduce deployment complexity, whilst considerably lowering total cost of ownership. In the future, we will continue to partner with Seagate to drive industries to transform further, and empower customers to embrace the upcoming era of artificial intelligence.”
It comes with 256MB of cache, a five-year warranty and three years of Rescue Data Recovery Services. MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) is 1.2 million hours, and the yearly workload is 300TB. There is one aspect to the IronWolf Pro 20TB that concerns us, and it’s the 300TB per year workload definition.CrystalDiskMark: 286.8MBps (read); 279.3MBps (write) Atto: 277.89MBps (read, 256MB); 274.68MBps (write, 256MB)
The features go beyond the specification sheet. For instance, Seagate attaches the spindle to both the top and bottom of the case to improve stability. The drives also support the ATA-8 streaming command set for increased performance with large sequential transfers. The technology allows the IronWolf to handle up to 64 data streams simultaneously. But, the WD Red Pro 20TB that’s in direct competition with the Seagate IronWolf Pro 20TB is much cheaper, at least at the MSRP level. 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. Should the drive fail after exceeding these workload limits, Seagate can reject warranty replacement accordingly. Drive balance with Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors manages multi-bay vibration for long-term consistent performance and reliabilityLooking at our throughput test which measures 4k random performance, the 16TB IronWolf Pro fell behind in iSCSI performance with 853 IOPS write and 527 IOPS read, as it was out performed by the 14TB model. In CIFS, the 16TB IronWolf Pro posted 683 IOPS write and an impressive 4,774 IOPS read. If you are reading this review and are already bored with the numbers, we apologise in advance. Because this drive is all about the numbers, the good, bad and ugly.
When we first saw these numbers, they sounded reasonable because the workload value isn’t like a TBW number on an SSD, as the 300TB is for each year of operation up to five years. Desktops, Monitors, Pen drives, Hard drives, Memory cards, Computer accessories, Graphic cards, CPU, Power supplies, Motherboards, Cooling devices, TV cards & Computing Components 15 Days Returnable In the following section of this review, we will show the 16TB Seagate IronWolf’s performance in both iSCSI and CIFS configurations and will compare them to other IronWolf models. Seagate supplied StorageReview with 8 samples of their new NAS HDDs, which we configured in RAID6. All the drives were tested in our NETGEAR ReadyNas 628X.Car Parts and Accessories, Bike Parts and Accessories, Helmets and other Protective Gear, Vehicle Electronics 30 Days Returnable
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