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. 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.
2. Seagate IronWolf
Seagate Hard Disk IronWolf SATA 3.5 8 TB.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Toshiba MG10F Series
As Big Data drives the demand for more distributed storage in the cloud and on-premises, enterprise server and storage systems must be built with trusted solutions. Toshiba's Enterprise Capacity Hard Drive – MG Series offers formatted capacities of up to 22 TB with interface options such as SATA and SAS, enabling 24/7 operation with a workload of 550 TB/year. The MG Series is ideal for enterprise storage arrays as well as industrial server and storage systems. It provides the capacity and advanced technologies to meet the specific requirements of data centers and cloud scaling infrastructures.
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 SkyHawk
SkyHawk hard drives for video applications are intelligent and secure drives designed for NVR applications. The SkyHawk AI is specifically developed for AI-based video analysis, supporting up to 64 HD cameras and 32 additional AI streams, and is available in capacities of up to 20 TB. Thanks to ImagePerfect AI, there are no frame losses, and the enterprise-grade workload rate of 550 TB/year ensures high reliability. Workloads that occur around the clock, seven days a week, can utilize up to 8 TB with drives for DVR and NVR systems. The SkyHawk video hard drives are equipped with enhanced ImagePerfect and SkyHawk Health Management to help you tackle your toughest challenges. When these drives are integrated into compatible NVR systems, the overall system reliability improves thanks to SkyHawk Health Management (SHM). Additionally, the SkyHawk drives come with a three-year plan for Rescue Data Recovery Services for data recovery.
9. Seagate Exos X18
Seagate's Exos enterprise-class hard drives are designed for the most demanding workloads, providing highly reliable drives for servers, storage systems, and business-oriented NAS applications. Drives from the Exos X family enable maximum storage capacity and the most efficient rack utilization. As the flagship of Seagate's X-class, the Exos X18 drives are among the highest-capacity hard drives in the fleet. Exos X drives deliver very high hard drive performance with enhanced write caching, making them ideal for OLTP, Hadoop, Ceph, and HPC applications. Experience the industry's best IOPS/Watt by optimizing your storage with Seagate's PowerBalance feature. Seagate's enterprise hard drives reduce your cooling and energy costs per gigabyte, as they offer high capacity with low power consumption and a small form factor. With Seagate's integrated PowerChoice technology, you can further lower your power costs and tailor your systems to meet your specific needs. This results in up to 35% lower power consumption, which is especially beneficial for companies with many hard drives.
10. Seagate BarraCuda
The BarraCuda offers high storage capacity for desktop and mobile computers. All hard drives in the BarraCuda product family are equipped with Multi-Tier Caching (MTC). With MTC, your PC can reach new performance heights, allowing you to load applications and files faster than ever. Thanks to intelligent NAND flash layers, DRAM, and media caching technologies, BarraCuda provides enhanced read and write performance by optimizing data flow.
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