anandtech Seagate Updates IronWolf NAS Drives Lineup with 18TB Pro HDD and New 4TB SSDs

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Seagate is introducing new flagships in their IronWolf lineup today on two fronts - the SMB/SME-focused IronWolf Pro, and the SATA SSDs line. On the HDD front, we have 18TB hard drives based on conventional magnetic recording (CMR) technology, while the SATA SSD line sees two new SKU sets - the IronWolf 125 and the IronWolf Pro 125 (joining the current IronWolf 110 and the NVMe-based IronWolf 510).

Given the premium nature of the 18TB capacity point, Seagate is launching the capacity only in the IronWolf Pro line (the vanilla IronWolf models top out at 16TB). The ST18000NE000 18TB Pro model is compatible with NAS units of up to 24 bays, and has a workload rating of 300TB/yr. It is a 7200 rpm 9-platter helium-filled drive, with a DRAM cache of 256MB (which seems to be half of what is offered by Western Digital in their Gold line of enterprise hard drives - the other 18TB choice in the retail market). The drive comes with a 5-year warranty and is rated for 24x7 operation, with a MTTF of 1.2M hours.

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I've been a long time user of the Iron Wolf drives in NAS servers and happy to see some of the TB Written values for the new SSD's as well.  Not sure how many people will have a use for SATA SSD's from that line up though, so much more interested in the HDD's personally.

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Love the IronWolf line. Used them in all my NAS enclosures. I recently replaced them all with Seagates X14 Exos Drives but that had nothing to do with the IronWolfs, I just got a great price on the Exos drives.

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I'm jealous of your Exos drives, but the IronWolf's are more than enough for me right now in my home NAS.

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They are nice drives and I actually found them a hint quieter than the IronWolfs...which is handy when the NAS is currently in your living environment and not an office.