Seagate Hard Drive 5tb Review With 2 Year Lab Recovery Service

The Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD is a duty-specific drive available in capacities up to 6TB designed to meet the storage needs of small and midrange NAS environments ranging from smaller tower form factors to 16-bay rack units. The wide scope addresses a common demand in the enterprise NAS market by blending NAS-specific firmware and features with industry-topping capacity and the performance that a 7K spindle speed offers. Seagate has also washed something interesting with the Enterprise NAS drives: they can be paired with optional data recovery service through Seagate, which when paired with the 5-year warranty, can provide an additional layer of comfort for SMBs.

The Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD is a duty-specific drive available in capacities up to 6TB designed to run across the storage needs of minor and midrange NAS environments ranging from smaller tower form factors to sixteen-bay rack units. The broad scope addresses a common need in the enterprise NAS market by blending NAS-specific firmware and features with industry-topping chapters and the performance that a 7K spindle speed offers. Seagate has also done something interesting with the Enterprise NAS drives: they can exist paired with optional data recovery service through Seagate, which when paired with the five-year warranty, tin can provide an additional layer of comfort for SMBs.

As is the example for near NAS drives, Seagate's new Enterprise drive is designed to provide sustained performance and 24×seven accessibility. The NAS HDD has a 7200-RPM spindle (to focus on raw, sustained throughput performance), 128MB cache for higher random performance activity, and features advanced power management, allowing information technology to support multiple power profiles for low power consumption. Seagate has also upped the capacity to an industry leading (alongside the WD Red) 6TB and has included their RAID Rebuild engineering science, which helps to alleviate the e'er fourth dimension-consuming complete RAID rebuilds.

Seagate has included their +Rescue Information Recovery Service coverage as an optional service for rack-mount or tower NASs populated with their Seagate Enterprise NAS HDDs. With this plan Seagate offers data recovery services due to things like viruses, software issues, and other problems that contribute to information loss. In improver, its mechanical or electrical breakdown feature covers all mechanical drive failures, which begins immediately after the original manufacturer's warranty expires on the bulldoze. Accidental damage is also covered, adding further protection against sudden and accidental damage of files. Seagate believes that this comprehensive in-house offering sets them apart from the rest of the market when it comes to the peace of mind about SMBs are looking for with engineering science purchases. It's likely that, while they're offering it to NAS system vendors and integrators as an additional option to sell, they will probably also offer the packet with their own branded NAS line, which further emphasizes the infamous "single pharynx to choke," if anything goes wrong with the NAS, the drives themselves or data loss occurs.

The Seagate Enterprise NAS HDDs are available in a wide range of capacities: 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, 5TB, 6TB. We will be looking at the 6TB unit of measurement and testing it inside a Synology DiskStation DS1815+.

Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD Specifications

• Capacities:
  • 6TB (ST6000VN0001)
  • 5TB (ST5000VN0001)
  • 4TB (ST4000VN0001)
  • 3TB (ST3000VN0001)
  • 2TB (ST2000VN0001)
• Interface: 6Gb/s
• Humidity Sensor: Yes
• Super Parity
• Depression Halogen
• AcuTrac Applied science
• Power Balance Engineering
• Hot-Plug Support
• Enshroud, Multisegmented (MB): 128
• Reliability/Data Integrity
• Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF, hours): 1.2M
• Reliability Rating @ Full 24×7 Operation (AFR): 0.63%
• Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read: one sector per 10E15
• Ability-On Hours per Year: 8760 (24×7)
• Sector Size (Bytes per Logical Sector): 512/4096
• Limited Warranty (years): 5
• Performance
  • Spindle Speed (RPM): 7200
  • Interface Access Speed (Gb/s): half-dozen.0, 3.0, 1.v
  • Max. Sustained Transfer Rate OD (MB/s): 216
  • Average Latency (ms): 4.16
• Interface Ports: Single
• Rotation Vibration @ 1500 Hz (rad/s²): 12.five
• Power Consumption
• Idle Power, Average (Due west):
  • 6.9 (6TB)
  • 6.9 (5TB)
  • 6.0 (4TB)
  • half-dozen.0 (3TB)
  • 4.five (2TB)
• Typical Operating, Random Read (W)
  • xi.27 (6TB)
  • 11.27 (5TB)
  • 9.42 (4TB)
  • 9.42 (3TB)
  • 8.08 (2TB)
• Power Supply Requirements: +12V and +5V
• Ecology:
  • Temperature, Operating (°C): v to lx
  • Vibration, Nonoperating: 10Hz to 500Hz (Grms): 5.0
  • Shock, Operating, 2ms (Read/Write) (Gs): lxx/forty
  • Shock, Nonoperating, 1ms and 2ms (Gs)
    • 250 (6TB)
    • 300 (5TB)
    • 300 (4TB)
    • 300 (3TB)
    • 300 (2TB)
• Physical
  • Height (in/mm, max): 1.028/26.1
  • Width (in/mm, max): 4.010/101.85
  • Depth (in/mm, max): 5.878/147.0
  • Weight (thousand/lb)
    • 1.720/780 (6TB)
    • one.720/780 (5TB)
    • 1.400/635 (4TB)
    • 1.400/635 (3TB)
    • 1.344/605 (2TB)
• Carton Unit Quantity: 20
• Cartons per Pallet: twoscore
• Cartons per Layer: 8

Pattern and Build

The Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD sports the usual standard hard bulldoze design of a silver height cover and blackness metal trunk. That front end of the drive features a product characterization with the Seagate colors (black, teal, and white) with a very make clean and slick looking design. The label simply supplies the product name, visitor logo, and a QR code that navigates to the product website.

The sides of the Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD characteristic a full of four screw holes, which allows us to mount the drive. Like we take mentioned in previous reviews, however, some NAS drives feature tool-less installation in the bays for seamless integration. On the rear of the bulldoze, there are power and SATA connectors.

Once the five small screws have been removed, y'all can open up the bulldoze and remove the circuit board from the torso of the Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD. The circuit lath is equipped with an LSI controller fleck and 128MB of cache from the Nanya DRAM.

Enterprise Constructed Workload Assay

Our enterprise hard drive benchmark procedure preconditions each drive into steady-land with the same workload the device volition exist tested with under a heavy load of 16 threads with an outstanding queue of 16 per thread, and and so tested in set up intervals in multiple thread/queue depth profiles to testify performance under light and heavy usage. Since hard drives achieve their rated operation level very quickly, nosotros only graph out the chief sections of each test.

Preconditioning and Primary Steady-State Tests:

• Throughput (Read+Write IOPS Aggregate)
• Average Latency (Read+Write Latency Averaged Together)
• Max Latency (Peak Read or Write Latency)
• Latency Standard Deviation (Read+Write Standard Difference Averaged Together)

Our Enterprise Synthetic Workload Analysis includes four profiles based on existent-world tasks. These profiles have been developed to arrive easier to compare to our past benchmarks likewise as widely-published values such as max 4k read and write speed and 8k lxx/30, which is commonly used for enterprise drives.

• 4k
  • 100% Read or 100% Write
  • 100% 4k
• 8k 70/xxx
  • lxx% Read, xxx% Write
  • 100% 8k
• 128k (Sequential)
  • 100% Read or 100% Write
  • 100% 128k

In the following section of this review, we will prove the performance of both iSCSI and CIFS configurations of the Seagate Enterprise NAS 6TB. Seagate supplied StorageReview with viii samples of their new HDDs, which we configured in RAID10 in a Synology DiskStation DS1815+.

We will be including the post-obit drives as comparables in the aforementioned DS1815+ configuration:

• WD Crimson (6TB, 5,400RPM)
• Seagate NAS (4TB, five,900RPM)
• WD Red Pro (6TB, v,400RPM)

In our first test measuring 4K random functioning (CIFS) with the Seagate Enterprise NAS bulldoze, information technology showed the best read activity by a meaning margin with 614IOPS while having the 2nd strongest write activeness at two,242IOPS. The summit performer in the write column was the WD Cerise Pro.

With our iSCSI block-level examination, the Seagate Enterprise took summit spot in both write and read activity with 1,709IOPS and iii,267IOPS respectively, which were very impressive numbers and greatly improved on the consumer Seagate NAS bulldoze. The next best drive was the WD Blood-red Pro, which boasted 1,523 IOPS write and three,267IOPS read.

When looking at average latency criterion (CIFS) xvi Thread 16 Queue 100% read and write, results were very similar to that of the throughput criterion. The Seagate Enterprise NAS showed the strongest average read latency (416.572ms) while the WD Red Pro once again had the best write latency (107.418ms), though the new Seagate drive wasn't far backside (114.138ms).

Switching to the iSCSI cake-level examination, the Seagate Enterprise NAS boasted not bad latency again, with only 78.328ms read and 149.808ms write, both of which were noticeably amend than that of the WD Red Pro.

In our max latency tests (CIFS), the Seagate Enterprise posted 2,450ms read (1st) and 1,227.2ms write (2d), with the height write latency going to the WD Reddish Pro (914.009ms).

When looking at the same test using iSCSI, the Seagate Enterprise NAS posted a max latency of 1,271.5ms write and 931.454ms read, which was good for 1st and 3rd place on the leaderboard. The top performer in reads was both WD Reds.

Calculating each of the bulldoze's standard divergence for the 4k latency show us how consistent the latency results were within each of the categories during our to a higher place benchmarks. Here, the Seagate Enterprise NAS continued its trend in great consistency with 140.864ms in write activity and 510.282ms read activity, which was 2d and 1st respectively. The top write performer was the WD Red Pro.

Switching to the iSCSI block-level test, results were mirrored with the Seagate Enterprise NAS taking 1st in reads (56.658ms) and 2nd in writes (200.748ms).

Our next test (CIFS) shifts focus from a pure 4K random read or write scenario to a mixed 8K 70/30 workload where we volition show how operation scales in a setting from 2T/2Q upwardly to 16T/16Q. The Seagate Enterprise started out the strongest and was the strongest performer for elapsing of this criterion, up until the very cease where information technology tied posted the exact same score equally WD Ruddy Pro at 16T/16Q with 708IOPS.

When looking at the iSCSI block-level test, the Seagate Enterprise was the clear winner from the become-become, where it eventually finished at 2,184IOPS (again showing a vast comeback on the other Seagate drive). The WD Red Pro finished 2nd with 1,912IOPS.

In our average latency examination (CIFS) for mixed 8K seventy/30 workload, the Seagate Enterprise continued its great performance with 360.63ms by 16T/16Q, though it was narrowly beaten out by the WD Red Pro who had 360.47ms.

Equally was the example with the throughput benchmark, when switching to our iSCSI block-level test (average latency), the Seagate Enterprise was the clear winner over again posting an average latency of only 117.15ms by 16Q/16T.

Our max latency test (CIFS) showed the Seagate Enterprise as the most consistent drive throughout the criterion, though the WD Ruby (5,427.18ms) drive edged out the Seagate (5888.86) by the finish.

Switching to our iSCSI block-level exam, the Seagate Enterprise finished off with a maximum latency of 1,428.75ms, good for 2nd place behind the WD Red Pro (one,243.4ms).

The standard deviation rankings for latency during our 8k 70/30 benchmark CIFS file-level test, testify the Seagate Enterprise taking peak honors by a large margin with but 372.29ms recorded.

In our iSCSI block-level examination of the same benchmark, the Seagate Enterprise NAS ranked first here equally well, with 151.6ms by sixteen Threads sixteen Queue, narrowly defeating the WD Red Pro (155.7ms).

While the starting time function of the workload comparing focused on random workload performance, our second half measures small-scale and big-block sequential transfer speeds. In our CIFS file-level test of the 8k 100% read/write benchmark, all of the drives performed very similar, though the peak read and write performers were the Seagate NAS and WD Scarlet Pro respectively.

Switching to the iSCSI block-level exam, the Seagate Enterprise was back on summit ranking at the top of the leaderboard for both read (9,324IOPS) and write (26,056IOPS).

Our last examination is the 128k benchmark, which is a large cake sequential test that shows the highest sequential transfer speed. Hither (CIFS), all of the drives posted very similar results one time once again. The Seagate Enterprise had 445,765IOPS write and 462,870IOPS read.

In our iSCSI block-level test, however, the Seagate Enterprise dipped a bit in the write column (316,510IOPS) simply was the top performer in read activity at 193,920IOPS.

Conclusion

The Seagate Enterprise NAS difficult drives are designed to satisfy a variety of NAS environments, from smaller tower form factors to 16-bay rack units, blending NAS-specific firmware and features with a huge capacity betoken and the benefits of a 7K spindle speed. Seagate has too added optional data insurance by pairing the company's Rescue Information Recovery Service program (Seagate indicates that most data is recovered either in-lab or remote admission within 15 business organization days or less with almost a 90% success rate) with the an manufacture-leading v-year warranty on the drive. This certainly volition give businesses the much needed peace-of-mind that the data in their server environs is safe and in proficient hands. In improver to offer the Enterprise NAS HDD in a plethora of capacities (2TB, 3TB, 4TB, 5TB, and 6TB) to satisfy a ton of unlike use cases and budgets, Seagate has included their unique RAID Rebuild applied science, which helps to alleviate the fourth dimension it takes to complete RAID rebuilds.

As far as its performance goes, the Seagate Enterprise NAS was by in large the best performing of the tested NAS drives. To reach these results, we put the Seagate Enterprise drive (also as three other top performing NAS drives: Seagate NAS, WD Ruby, and WD Red Pro) through a gauntlet of our tests, populating an eight-bay Synology DS1815+. The Seagate Enterprise was the peak performer in both our CIFS file-level and iSCSI block-level tests, particularly in the read cavalcade; the merely exception existence our max latency (iSCSI) test, in which it finished 3rd. Results of our mixed 8K seventy/30 workload benchmarks told a like story, where the Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD was consistently the acme performer (headlined by its operation in iSCSI throughput), though information technology finished second in our max latency tests. Results were largely mirrored in our large-block sequential transfer tests.

Overall, the 6TB Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD offers a huge jump in performance compared to its predecessor/companion (the regular Seagate NAS HDD) besides every bit any other drive of its grade. Its industry leading 6TB capacity as well allows a NAS equally pocket-size as a 4-bay to pinnacle out at a whopping 24TB raw, giving smaller businesses a lot of flexibility when information technology comes time to grow, without forcing the purchase of a NAS with more bays. Seagate has added a keen drive to its duty-specific portfolio of HDDs and thus comes highly recommended.

Pros

• Best-in-course overall performance
• Bachelor in a wide range of capacities including 6TB
• 5-year warranty and Rescue Data Recovery Service programme (optional)

Cons

• Slips backside the Seagate NAS HDD in our CIFS 8k sequential criterion

Bottom Line

With its focus on reliability, capacity, and swell performance, the Seagate Enterprise NAD HDD is the all-time overall NAS HDD available, especially for multi-tenant NAS environments ranging from SMB to enterprise in scale.

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