Seagate Technology, the world leader in storage and data management solutions, has updated its IronWolf® and IronWolf Pro lines of drives for small and home office NAS systems. New is an 18TB hard drive and two SATA SSD models. With unmatched speed, capacity and reliability, drives provide scalability and sustained performance for NAS solutions.
Small and mid-sized businesses are the primary growth driver of the global economy,” said Jeff Fotchman, Seagate Technology senior vice president of marketing. – These companies clearly understand how valuable data is to their business, especially given the need to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. As businesses of all sizes become increasingly reliant on technology, realizing the potential of the data companies have accumulated will be key to continued business growth and innovation. The new IronWolf and IronWolf Pro line of drives will enable small and medium-sized businesses to build the robust data management infrastructure needed in the planning environment of the future.”.
The new 18TB IronWolf Pro hard drive is designed and optimized specifically for NAS systems with built-in AgileArray firmware. Uses traditional CMR magnetic recording technology, which provides consistently high RAID performance and allows many users to work with it at the same time. With a large workload limit WRL of 300 TB/year, the device extends NAS data access, streaming and backup capabilities. With a sustained data rate of 250MB/s, it is the fastest drive in the IronWolf family and the highest capacity. IronWolf Pro hard drives support IronWolf Health Management software on compatible NAS systems and come with a five-year limited warranty.
The new SSDs with SATA interface, IronWolf Pro 125 and IronWolf 125, are optimized for NAS systems and designed for 24×7 multi-user access. The drive’s scalability and performance meet the needs of small and mid-size businesses, creative professionals and home offices. IronWolf Pro 125 is designed specifically for multi-user and active use with a wear rating of up to 1 rewrite per day.
The drive features a power-loss data protection feature and comes with a five-year limited warranty and a three-year subscription to Seagate Rescue Data Recovery Services. IronWolf 125 has a wear rate of 0.7 write cycles per day. Drive also comes with five-year limited warranty. IronWolf Health Management software available on compatible NAS systems for both SSDs. This includes products from Seagate’s key partners Synology, Qnap and Asustor. The software gives users of NAS systems the ability to easily monitor their performance and functionality.
“As an innovative company, Seagate has upgraded the IronWolf and IronWolf Pro product lines to deliver uncompromised durability and unmatched performance for QNAP’s versatile NAS and external storage systems,” said Meiji Chang, general manager of QNAP Systems. – We have an ongoing relationship with Seagate so QNAP customers can always count on the superior usability and reliability of our products.
We are very pleased with Seagate’s 18TB IronWolf Pro hard drive and the IronWolf Pro 125 and IronWolf 125 SATA SSDs,” said Pin-Hao Huang, product manager at Asustor. – New drives increase capacity while maintaining the high performance for which Seagate is renowned.
Price and availability
IronWolf 125 SSD is available in 250GB Dollars 5,229.99 , 500GB Dollars 8,229.99 , 1TB Dollars 14,079.99 , 2TB Dollars 25,389.99 and 4TB Dollars 51,829.99 capacities. IronWolf Pro 125, on the other hand, is available in 240GB Dollars 8,559.99 , 480GB Dollars 11,609.99 , 960GB Dollars 21,109.99 , 1.92TB Dollars 36,899.99 and 3.84TB Dollars 69,699.99 capacity options.
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