Best selling Hard drives
Here's a ranking of the best products in this category. To give you a quick overview, we've also added some key information about the products.
1. Seagate IronWolf
Seagate Hard Disk IronWolf SATA 3.5 8 TB.
2. WD Red Plus
High-performance hard drives designed for performance, reliability, and energy efficiency in small to medium NAS environments.
WD Red Plus hard drives are ideal for power user workloads and NAS environments in small to medium-sized businesses. They provide the necessary speed and capacity to store, protect, and share growing amounts of data in mid-sized RAID-optimized NAS systems in an energy-efficient manner.
Optimized for NAS with NASware
The exclusive Western Digital NASware technology optimizes the hard drive parameters for NAS system workloads to enhance performance and reliability.
Designed for continuous operation
Your NAS system runs around the clock. Therefore, highly reliable storage is essential. WD Red Plus hard drives are designed for always-on systems, giving users the confidence that they can reliably access their data.
Tested for reliable compatibility
Western Digital collaborates with various NAS system manufacturers to conduct extensive testing and ensure compatibility with most NAS enclosures.
Optimized for lower total cost of ownership
WD Red Plus hard drives consume less power than previous models and operate cooler, reducing operating costs and minimizing heat in hard-to-cool NAS enclosures.
Less power consumption, strong performance
Despite consuming less power, the hard drives have a tremendous bandwidth to meet the mixed performance demands of multi-drive NAS systems.
Balanced for increased reliability
Hard drives without proper mass balancing can cause excessive vibrations and noise in multi-drive systems, which can reduce the lifespan of the drives and lead to performance degradation over time.
3. WD Red Plus
High-performance hard drives designed for performance, reliability, and energy efficiency in small to medium NAS environments. WD Red Plus drives are ideal for power user workloads and NAS environments in small to medium-sized businesses. They provide the necessary speed and capacity to efficiently store, protect, and share growing amounts of data in mid-sized RAID-optimized NAS systems.
The exclusive Western Digital NASware technology optimizes drive parameters for NAS system workloads to enhance performance and reliability.
Your NAS system runs around the clock. Therefore, highly reliable storage is essential. WD Red Plus drives are designed for continuous operation, giving users the assurance that they can reliably access their data.
Western Digital collaborates with various NAS system manufacturers to conduct extensive testing and ensure compatibility with most NAS enclosures.
WD Red Plus drives consume less power than previous models and run cooler, reducing operating costs and minimizing heat in hard-to-cool NAS enclosures.
Although they consume less power, the drives have a significant bandwidth to meet the mixed performance demands of multi-drive NAS systems.
Drives without proper mass balancing can cause excessive vibrations and noise in multi-drive systems, which can shorten the lifespan of the drives and lead to performance degradation over time.
4. Seagate Barracuda
The Seagate Desktop Barracuda 16TB HDD is a powerful and reliable storage solution designed for demanding applications and large data volumes. With a storage capacity of 16 terabytes, this hard drive provides ample space for extensive data archives, multimedia content, and backup solutions. The HDD operates at a maximum speed of 7200 RPM, enabling fast data transfer and efficient access to stored information. The SATA interface ensures easy integration into various desktop systems and allows for a high transfer rate of up to 6 Gbit/s. With a 512 MB cache, performance is further optimized by quickly providing frequently accessed data. This hard drive is ideal for users who require high storage capacity and reliability, whether for gaming, creative projects, or as part of a NAS system.
- High storage capacity of 16 terabytes for extensive data archives
- Maximum speed of 7200 RPM for fast data transfers
- SATA interface for easy integration into desktop systems
- 512 MB cache to optimize performance and enable quick data access.
5. Seagate IronWolf Pro High WRL
Seagate understands your unique data storage challenges and has developed the IronWolf Pro NAS hard drives to help you achieve your goals. Designed for multi-user environments and high workload rates, these NAS drives are supported by Agile Array technology for optimal reliability and system scalability.
6. Toshiba MG10 Series
The MG10 series features Toshiba's fourth-generation helium-sealed design with 10 hard drives to increase CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) density to 2TB per drive and achieve a total capacity of up to 20TB. The industry-standard 3.5-inch form factor offers 7200 RPM performance and integrates easily into cloud storage infrastructures, mission-critical servers and storage, and file and object storage solutions. The massive 20TB CMR capacity is delivered through Toshiba's innovative Flux Control Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology. These advances help the MG10 Series deliver optimal storage capacity and application compatibility with unsurpassed data reliability. Available with a 6.0Gbps SATA interface, MG10 Series models integrate easily into standard 3.5-inch drive bays to reduce the footprint and operational load of cloud storage infrastructures, file and object storage systems, and mission-critical servers and storage systems.
7. WD Red Pro
WD Red Pro hard drives are designed for high-intensity workloads in commercial and enterprise NAS environments with continuous operation and multiple users. WD Red Pro drives deliver the performance, scalability, and reliability that businesses need to store, share, and collaborate on large amounts of data in RAID-optimized, multi-bay NAS systems.
8. Seagate IronWolf Pro High WRL
The IronWolf Pro is designed for reliable performance in environments with consistently demanding workloads. It is designed for high performance in commercial and enterprise multi-bay NAS storage solutions with multiple users and applications. Optimised for NAS: thanks to AgileArray AgileArray enables two-level balancing and time-limited error correction for first-class RAID performance in multi-bay systems. Continuous operation, continuous availability IronWolf Pro hard drives are designed for continuous operation so that users can access their data anytime, anywhere. Full portfolio with CMR: All IronWolf Pro drives utilise Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) for consistent, best-in-class NAS performance. Up to 20 TB A wide range of high capacities enables scalable and cost-effective storage solutions. Robust: IronWolf Pro hard drives offer a workload rating of 550 TB/year. This allows businesses and enterprises to seamlessly store, share and utilise large amounts of networked data on NAS systems. Unrivalled reliability and longevity: IronWolf hard drives offer an MTBF of up to 2.5 million hours.
9. Synology Plus Series HAT3300-4T
Powerful hard drives with concentrated power for private users and SMEs. The Synology Plus series hard drives deliver robust performance and are specifically designed to meet the demands for reliability, endurance, and performance for continuous operation in Synology's SME storage systems. Rigorously tested and equipped with optimized, easily executable firmware updates via Synology DiskStation Manager, the HDDs remain up to date with the latest technology, ensuring long-lasting, smooth operation.
Designed for durability. The HDDs in the Synology Plus series have a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 1 million hours and a workload rating of 180 TB per year – up to three times that of conventional desktop hard drives. Over 300,000 hours of compatibility and stress testing ensure smooth operation even in multi-user environments.
Convenient firmware updates. Users are automatically notified of available firmware updates for the Synology Plus series HDDs and can effortlessly update the drives in the DiskStation Manager (DSM) on their Synology storage system. No external tools are required, and the drives do not need to be removed for the update.
Reliable recording technology. Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) provides consistent performance.
10. WD Red Pro
The WD Red Pro hard drives have been specially developed for medium-sized or large business customers and are available for NAS systems with up to 24 drive bays. Designed for high-intensity workloads in 24x7 environments, the WD Red Pro family is ideal for archiving and sharing content as well as building RAID arrays in advanced operating systems such as ZFS and other file systems. These hard drives increase efficiency by enabling your employees to quickly share files and reliably back up folders in your NAS solution. Designed for optimal NAS compatibility - WD Red Pro drives with NASware technology simplify drive selection. This unique algorithm is optimised for NAS systems and provides the right balance of performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. In short: WD Red Pro is the hard drive with the highest compatibility for NAS enclosures.
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