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  • 2022-10-14 10:29:59

Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB NAS hard drive out of the box measured large capacity and high warranty conditions are the first choice

With the improvement of the camera and video performance of mobile phones, taking pictures and videos has become the daily routine of many people. However, the amount of data accumulated by taking pictures and videos is quite amazing. How to save and backup these data requires storage devices with larger capacity products. What Chen Ba wants to test out of the box this time is the IronWolf Pro 18TB, the highest-capacity 18TB NAS dedicated hard drive launched by Seagate for the consumer market. It adopts CMR traditional magnetic recording and AgileArray array optimization functions to improve performance and stability. both goals.

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Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB.

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The model is ST18000NE000, with a single-disc capacity of 2TB, 9-disc configuration, and AO3434 helium packaging technology, with a working load rate limit (WRL) set at 300 TB/year.

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Seagate's Rescue Data Rescue Service for Ironwolf Pro is also printed on the hard drive surface label.

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Purchase and register an Ironwolf Pro drive and enjoy a 2-year Rescue data recovery plan (3 years for products shipped after January 2020).

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The back of the Ironwolf Pro 18TB hard drive.

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In addition, for stability during operation, Seagate has set a Rotational Vibration (RV) sensor on the left and right sides of the machine, which can detect the operating vibration of the hard disk in a multi-slot environment where multiple hard disks are operating at the same time. , to maintain the stability of the data.

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The setting location of the RV sensor on the Seagate website.

In addition, in the service life part of NAS hard drives, the Ironwolf Pro 18TB has a MTBF (Mean Time To Failure) setting of 1.2 million hours, a year-round operation reliability (AFR) of 0.73%, and a 5-year warranty.

●Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB performance test

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In the actual reading and writing performance part, Chen Ba first connected the general computer to test the reading and writing performance. The test platform is as follows:

◆Processor: Intel Core i9-10900K

◆Motherboard: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XII EXTREME

◆Display card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 FE

◆Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Royal DDR4-3600 C16 8G*2

◆System SSD: Kingston KC2500 1TB

◆Power supply: ASUS ROG THOR 850W

◆Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 2004

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In Windows 10 Disk Management, the Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB shows a capacity of 16763.98 GB.

The disk information displayed in Crystal Diskinfo is as follows:

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Supports SMART and NCQ commands.

The Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB was tested with default settings using CrystalDiskMark and the results are as follows:

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The sequential read performance is 281.66 MB/s and the write performance is 276.5 MB/s.

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To simulate the actual situation, the conditions of reading 70% and writing 30% are tested. The sequential reading result is 279.93 MB/s, and the writing result is 280.36 MB/s.

In addition, the results of the ATTO DiskBenchMark test are as follows:

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The peak reading and writing can be achieved in 8KB blocks, which is about 260 MB/s.

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In addition, in the IO access speed section, the highest performance is 83 to 85 KIO/s.

Then in the random access rate part, it is tested through HD Tune Pro. The test results are as follows:

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Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB in HD Tune Pro read performance test.

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The Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB achieved a random access time of 14.6 ms on the HD Tune Pro random read test.

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Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB in HD Tune Pro Write Performance Test.

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The Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB achieved a random access time of 16.22 ms in the HD Tune Pro random write test.

In the local test part, the read and write speed of about 260 MB/s is not much different from the Iron Wolf series previously tested, mainly in the single-disk capacity and endurance performance.

●Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB with NAS computer test

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Test with AS6604T launched by ASUSTOR.

Since it is a dedicated hard drive for NAS, it is still necessary to actually install the hard drive into the NAS for testing. This time, Chen Ba borrowed the AS6604T 4Bay NAS launched by ASUSTOR for testing, and used 4 Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB to form a RAID 5 array. The total Tested on 49.1 TB cohorts.

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4 Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB form a RAID 5 array, set with Btrfs file system, the total capacity is 49.1 TB, and the required data synchronization time is about 22 hours.

ASUSTOR AS6604T also supports Seagate's IHM (IronWolf Health Management) management function, which can directly view the status of the hard disk in the internal storage administrator interface, and perform various preventive settings or recovery operations to improve system reliability. .

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It can be seen that after supporting the IHM function, the icon on the front of the hard disk will look like IronWolf.

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After clicking on the hard disk information, you will see the "IronWolf Health Status" column.

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In the "Hard Disk Doctor" column on the upper left of the menu, the "IronWolf Health Management" function will appear after clicking on it. You can scan the hard disk status and schedule scan settings. If you have registered Seagate IronWolf Pro hard disks Rescue data recovery program, you can also see the data rescue service period of the hard drive here.

During the establishment of the RAID 5 array, Chen Ba also recorded the working temperature of the Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB. When it was not running, the disk temperature was about 40°C. During data access, the disk temperature may rise to around 50 to 53°C.

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Hard disk temperature during normal standby.

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Operating hard drive temperature.

●Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB test summary

As far as the test results are concerned, the access speed of the Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB stand-alone machine is maintained at about 260 MB/s. This part is a little faster than its own IronWolf series or a friend's Red Pro series, but it is also close to a single-drive arm machine. The upper limit of the hard disk drive (the faster it will use dual drive arms like its own EXOS 2X14), if it is faster, it is necessary to switch to the SSD style. For the current consumer-grade pure mechanical hard drive, the IronWolf Pro 18TB is in performance. indeed in a leading position.

In addition, as for the stability part that NAS pays attention to, the IronWolf Pro 18TB still adopts the traditional magnetic recording (CMR) type, which should give people a lot of peace of mind, plus the three-year Rescue service and five-year warranty, as well as mainstream support. Consumer-grade NAS brands (such as Synology, QNAP, ASUSTOR) are highly compatible. For many medium-sized office groups that require large-capacity storage or collaboration, IronWolf Pro 18TB is currently the largest capacity choice.