Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive ST8000VN0022

Wtf!?!???Non standard mounting holes??How did this pass engineering and qa??Yes, i am scared

Quite, fast at around 220mb read and write.

Great drive and delivery, i bought this to use in a synology nas base station. Easy install and worked perfectly.

Seagate for data storage anytime. Thank you.

Tl;dr barracuda's fail fast, ironwolf lives on.I've bought a lot of drives over the years. Seagate has been a budget brand for a while but the balance of quality to value is in a good place usually compared to the cost of other brands that are only slightly better. If i had the money i'd go hgst all the way alas i find myself ordering more budget drives. I've recently had several barracuda drives i bought on the cheap die on me in a way that had me convinced it wasn't the drives. Instead they throw i/o device errors left and right and disappear at random and have 100% active time in question manager but no activity, and long response times that slow the whole system down. So of course i try literally 16 different solutions to try and get things working smoothly again only to finally realize they're just dying. Upon inspection i notice all said drives are the exact same dm line (barracuda's) which more or less wanted me to join the seagate class action suit. Then i noticed all my good drives are the vn (ironwolf) and i realize there's a reason they're advertised as nas drives and have a slightly higher expense it's because of those added features for being in such an environment. The extra cost isn't much and considering how old my ironwolf drives are and the newer barracuda's already failed i'm confident in buying another 3 or 4 just to get a fresh array rolling. I just wish i understood back then that a few extra bucks goes a long way in reducing headache in the future.

Received the drives and tried to install them. But the screw holes that are in them dont line up with my mounting brackets, i had to rig something up to get it to work. As well, these run very hot. A bit concerned on the life i'm going to get out of these.

Great fast, read write around 200 mb/sec

When in use this drive is fine, but while idle, which is 99% of the time, the rythmic clunking noise is terrible.Seeing as it is just used as a backup of videos/photos i now keep it unplugged unless i have new files to backup.

We now own 5 of these drives for our drobo - easy to install and work great - fast and lots of storage

Good performance and reliable. For a backup system reliability is everything. I needed even more storage, so i bought two 8tb drives from outletpc and they are performing flawlessly too.