Today we’re reviewing an item that has gotten very little love on the site, something we all have and use but frankly take for granted all the time. The hard drive has been somewhat forgotten as most people mention how its an out of date technology and that NAND is the future, well that still isn’t true and probably won’t be for another few years especially in the high capacity side.

Today we will be taking a look one of Seagate’s Ironwolf drives which are NAS drives used ideally for network attached storage systems, and aim for very fast sequential performance with models from 2TB, 4TB, 6TB, 8TB and 10TB capacities with all of them rotating at 7,200 RPM which is much faster than the competitor WD Red drives which are only 5,400RPM and 3.5 inch format. The 6 TB, 8 TB, and 10 TB models have 256 MB cache memory, while the 2 TB and 4 TB models have 128 Mb of cache RAM.